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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II - The Modern Era

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This book focuses on Africa's challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978. 

List of contents

.Chapter 1 The State of Health System(s) in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.-.Chapter 2 Africa's Health Systems Performance on the MDGs.-.Chapter 3 Leadership and Health in Africa.-.Chapter 4 Population in Transition: North Africa's Health and Health Care System(s).-.Chapter 5 Health in Africa and the Role of International Organizations.           

About the author

Mario J. Azevedo is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Jackson State University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Dean of the School of Health Sciences, and Interim Dean of the College of Public Service at Jackson State University. Azevedo has published a number of articles and books on African History and Health. His most recent book, Health and the State of Health Care in Mississippi, was published in 2015.

Summary

This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978. 

Product details

Authors Mario J Azevedo, Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2017
 
EAN 9783319325637
ISBN 978-3-31-932563-7
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 162 mm x 215 mm x 23 mm
Weight 495 g
Illustrations XXI, 288 p. 10 illus.
Series Springer Palgrave Macmillan
African Histories and Modernities
African Histories and Modernities
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

B, History, Social History, Africa, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Public Administration, Public Policy, African History, African Politics, imperialism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Africa—Politics and government, Africa—History

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