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Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges provides an in-depth examination into the rise of western digestive diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For those interested in the causes of the major diseases of the 'West', the patterns in Africa have always reflected on the emergence of western diseases and elucidated the pattern of these conditions and their clinical course. Coverage includes the present epidemiology of GI diseases in SSA, the trends that are occurring, and the context of other emerging diseases. Appropriate for researchers, gastroenterologists and internists, this book brings together the latest research in a single, complete volume.
List of contents
1. Alcohol and smoking: impact of behavioral risk factors2. Urbanisation, upward mobility, demographics, environmental changes and availabity of natural resources in sub-saharan africa (ssa)3. Review of traditional digestive diseases common in ssa4. Epidemiology of digestive diseases in ssa: trends that are occurring5. Emerging non-intestinal diseases arising in ssa6. Changes in nutritional status of africans: recommendations for sub-saharan africa7. Cancer of the esophagus in sub-saharan africa8. Dodenal ulcer and diet in sub-saharan africa9. Helicobacter pylori in sub-saharan africa10. Pancreatitis in sub-saharan africa11. H.i.v. And the digestive system12. Characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in sub-saharan africa13. Abominal tuberculosis in sub-saharan africa14. Colorectal cancer in sub-saharan africa15. Aspects of viral hepatitis in sub-saharan africa in the 21st century16. Hepatocellular carcinoma in africa17. Biliary disease in sub-saharan africa18. Amoebiasis in sub-saharan africa: problems and possible solutions19. Intestinal schistosomiasis in sub-saharan africa20. Cholera in sub-saharan africa21. Conclusions: problems and possible solutions
About the author
Prince of Wales Hospital, Gastrointestinal and Liver Unit, Emeritus Professor University of Witwatersrand
