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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II: The Modern Era
Mario J. Azevedo
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Hardback. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTB; MBP; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
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.
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
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
African Histories and Modernities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319325637
SKU
V9783319325637
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About Mario J. Azevedo
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 ... Read more
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