Socio Cultural Dimensions Of Emerging Infectious Diseases In Africa

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa,Akin Abayomi,Samuel J. Ujewe,Nchangwi Syntia Munung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030174743

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Socio-cultural Dimensions of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Africa by Godfrey B. Tangwa,Akin Abayomi,Samuel J. Ujewe,Nchangwi Syntia Munung Pdf

This volume examines the most important socio-cultural, political, economic, and policy issues related to emerging infectious diseases in Africa. The volume covers the work of the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET); it looks at the challenges of science education and communication in Africa, the global health and governance of pandemics and epidemics, and more. It looks beyond such threats as Ebola, SARS, and Zika to consider the ways communities have sought to contain these and other deadly pathogens. The chapters provide a better understanding of a global health problem from an African perspective, which help clarify to readers why some responses have worked while others have not. Overall, the volume captures the state of the art, science, preparedness, and evolution of a topic important to the health of Africa and the world. It has a broad appeal across disciplines, from medical science and biomedical research, through research ethics, regulation and governance, science and health communication, social sciences, and is also of interest to general readers.

Author : Dean T. Jamison,Hellen Gelband,Susan Horton,Prabhat Jha,Charles N. Mock,Rachel Nugent
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464805288

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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9) by Dean T. Jamison,Hellen Gelband,Susan Horton,Prabhat Jha,Charles N. Mock,Rachel Nugent Pdf

As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory chapters (1-3) in this volume take as their starting point the elements of the Essential Packages presented in the overview chapters of each volume. First, the chapter on intersectoral policy priorities for health includes fiscal and intersectoral policies and assembles a subset of the population policies and applies strict criteria for a low-income setting in order to propose a "highest-priority" essential package. Second, the chapter on packages of care and delivery platforms for universal health coverage (UHC) includes health sector interventions, primarily clinical and public health services, and uses the same approach to propose a highest priority package of interventions and policies that meet similar criteria, provides cost estimates, and describes a pathway to UHC.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309450065

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The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats Pdf

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and response. The regional outbreak that progressed to a significant public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in a matter of months killed 11,310 and infected more than 28,616. While this outbreak bears some unique distinctions to past outbreaks, many characteristics remain the same and contributed to tragic loss of human life and unnecessary expenditure of capital: insufficient knowledge of the disease, its reservoirs, and its transmission; delayed prevention efforts and treatment; poor control of the disease in hospital settings; and inadequate community and international responses. Recognizing the opportunity to learn from the countless lessons of this epidemic, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop in March 2015 to discuss the challenges to successful outbreak responses at the scientific, clinical, and global health levels. Workshop participants explored the epidemic from multiple perspectives, identified important questions about Ebola that remained unanswered, and sought to apply this understanding to the broad challenges posed by Ebola and other emerging pathogens, to prevent the international community from being taken by surprise once again in the face of these threats. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Saif Hameed,Zeeshan Fatima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811606915

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Integrated Omics Approaches to Infectious Diseases by Saif Hameed,Zeeshan Fatima Pdf

This book examines applications of multi-omics approaches for understanding disease etiology, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions. It also analyzes the genetics, immunological and metabolic mechanisms underlying the infections. The book also explores genomics, transcriptomics, translational-omics, and metabolomics approaches to understand the pathogenesis and identify potential drug targets. It reviews the role of epigenetic reprogramming in shaping the host-pathogen interactions and presents bioinformatics application in the identification of drug targets. Further, it examines the potential applications of RNA sequencing and non-coding RNA profiling to identify the pathogenesis. Lastly, it offers the current challenges, technological advances, and prospects of using multi-omics technologies in infectious biology.

Author : John S. Mackenzie,Martyn Jeggo,Peter Daszak,Juergen A. Richt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642358463

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One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases by John S. Mackenzie,Martyn Jeggo,Peter Daszak,Juergen A. Richt Pdf

One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. Achieving harmonized approaches for disease detection and prevention is difficult because traditional boundaries of medical and veterinary practice must be crossed. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case—then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like William Osler and Rudolph Virchow crossed the boundaries between animal and human health. More recently Calvin Schwabe revised the concept of One Medicine. This was critical for the advancement of the field of epidemiology, especially as applied to zoonotic diseases. The future of One Health is at a crossroads with a need to more clearly define its boundaries and demonstrate its benefits. Interestingly the greatest acceptance of One Health is seen in the developing world where it is having significant impacts on control of infectious diseases.

Author : Elizabeth Rasekoala
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781529226829

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Race and Sociocultural Inclusion in Science Communication by Elizabeth Rasekoala Pdf

Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are in danger of generating much concern without effecting change and systematic transformations. This radical volume addresses these circular discourses and reveals the gaps in the field. Putting the spotlight on the marginalised voices of so-called 'racialised minorities', and those from Global South regions, it interrogates the global footprint of the science communication enterprise. Moving beyond tokenistic and extractive approaches, this book creates a space for academics and practitioners to challenge issues around race and sociocultural inclusion, providing mutual learning, paradigm-shifting perspectives, and innovative ways forward for the science communication advancement agenda.

Author : Francis Egbokhare,Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031174292

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Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Francis Egbokhare,Adeshina Afolayan Pdf

This volume interrogates global health and especially the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role that science has played in mitigating the human experiences of pandemics and health over the centuries. Science, and the scientific method, has always been at the forefront of the human attempt at undermining the virulent consequences of sicknesses and diseases. However, the scientific image of humans in the world is founded on the presumption of possessing the complete understanding about humans and their physiological and psychological frameworks. This volume challenges this scientific assumption. Global health denotes the complex and cumulative health profile of humanity that involves not only the framework of scientific researches and practices that investigates and seeks to improve the health of all people on the globe, but also the range of humanistic issues - economic, cultural, social, ideological - that constitute the sources of inequities and threat to the achievement of a positive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions.

Author : Ayşe Emel Önal
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781837681617

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Healthcare Access - New Threats, New Approaches by Ayşe Emel Önal Pdf

Access to health care is the ability to receive health services for the prevention, detection, and treatment of disorders that affect health. For health care to be accessible, it must be affordable and able to protect and improve health. There are myriad reasons that may make access to health services difficult or even impossible. These include economic problems, conflicts, climate change, internal and external migrations, beliefs, and so on. This book examines many of these barriers to health care and proposes solutions for overcoming them.

Author : Padraig R. Carmody,James T. Murphy,Richard Grant,Francis Y. Owusu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119833642

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The Urban Question in Africa by Padraig R. Carmody,James T. Murphy,Richard Grant,Francis Y. Owusu Pdf

Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanizing region. The predominantly rural continent is currently undergoing an “urban revolution” unlike any other, generally taking place without industrialization and often characterized by polarization, poverty, and fragmentation. While many cities have experienced construction booms and real estate speculation, others are marked by expanding informal economies and imploding infrastructures. The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition examines the imbalanced and contested nature of the ongoing urban transition of Africa. Edited and authored by leading experts on the subject, this unique volume develops an original theory conceptualizing cities as sociotechnical systems constituted by production, consumption, and infrastructure regimes. Throughout the book, in-depth chapters address the impacts of current meta-trends—global geopolitical shifts, economic changes, the climate crisis, and others—on Africa's cities and the broader development of the continent. Presents a novel framework based on extensive fieldwork in multiple countries and regions of the continent Examines geopolitical and socioeconomic topics such as manufacturing in African cities, the green economy in Africa, and the impact of China on urban Africa Discusses the prospects for generative urbanism to produce and sustain long-term development in Africa Features high-quality maps, illustrations, and photographs The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography, urban planning, and African studies, academic researchers, geographers, urban planners, and policymakers.

Author : Scott McWilliams,Marcia Allison,Marina Joubert,Ingrid Lofgren,Brianne Suldovsky
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889768110

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Helping Scientists to Communicate Well for All Considered: Strategic Science Communication in an Age of Environmental and Health Crises by Scott McWilliams,Marcia Allison,Marina Joubert,Ingrid Lofgren,Brianne Suldovsky Pdf

Author : Humphrey Ngala Ndi,Henry Ngenyam Bang,Zebulon Suifon Takwa,Anna Tasha Mbur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031412493

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Health Diplomacy in Africa by Humphrey Ngala Ndi,Henry Ngenyam Bang,Zebulon Suifon Takwa,Anna Tasha Mbur Pdf

The purpose of this book is to project diplomacy as an unavoidable instrument for monitoring, prevention and control of health and disaster risks among African countries. The book advocates health cooperation in Africa at a time when pandemics are recurrent. Outside of the WHO, many countries, even within regional groupings have not actively pursued health cooperation. We intend this book to provide the basis for advocating the inclusion of health diplomacy in the curricula of the training of the African diplomat with the hope to stimulate gradual policy shifts in foreign ministries, regional groupings, and the African Union.

Author : Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000425444

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Global Justice and Resource Curse by Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere Pdf

Most political philosophy/political theory literature on global justice pits statism and cosmopolitanism against one another; this book combines the two theories to resolve the complexity of global justice.

Author : Carlos Nunes Silva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030911126

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Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Carlos Nunes Silva Pdf

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents. It examines the responses of local government, as well as the responses local government developed in articulation with other tiers of government and with civil society organizations, and explores the social, economic and policy impacts of the pandemic. The book offers an innovative contribution on the role of local government during the pandemic and discusses lessons for the future. The COVID-19 pandemic had a global impact on public health, in the well-being of citizens, in the economy, on civic life, in the provision of public services, and in the governance of cities and other human settlements, although in an uneven form across countries, cities and local communities. Cities and local governments have been acting decisively to apply the policy measures defined at national level to the specific local conditions. COVID-19 has exposed the inadequacy of the crisis response infrastructures and policies at both national and local levels in these countries as well as in many others across the world. But it also exposed much broader and deeper weaknesses that result from how societies are organized, namely the insecure life a substantial proportion of citizens have, as a result of economic and social policies followed in previous decades, which accentuated the impacts of the lockdown measures on employment, income, housing, among a myriad of other social dimensions. Besides the analysis of how governments, and local government, responded to the public health issues raised by the spread of the virus, the book deals also with the diversity of responses local governments have adopted and implemented in the countries, regions, cities and metropolitan areas. The analysis of these policy responses indicates that previously unthinkable policies can surprisingly be implemented at both national and local levels.

Author : Nicholas D. Spence,Fatih Sekercioglu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000644203

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Indigenous Health and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nicholas D. Spence,Fatih Sekercioglu Pdf

This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world. Bringing together innovative research and policy insights from a range of disciplines, this book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples across the world, with coverage of North America, Central America, Africa, and Oceania. Further, it explores the actions taken by governments and Indigenous communities in addressing the challenges posed by this public health crisis. The book emphasises the social determinants of health and well-being, reflecting on issues such as self-governance, human rights law, housing, socioeconomic conditions, access to health care, culture, environmental deprivation, and resource extraction. Chapters also highlight the resilience and agency of Indigenous Peoples in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the legacy of colonialism, patterns of systemic discrimination, and social exclusion. Providing concrete pathways for improving the conditions of Indigenous Peoples in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is essential reading for researchers across indigenous studies, public health, and social policy.

Author : Eugene T Richardson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262362634

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Epidemic Illusions by Eugene T Richardson Pdf

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492. Deploying a range of rhetorical tools and drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, Richardson concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions—one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production.