Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

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Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- (Editor ), Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Colección:Perspectives on global health.
Temas:
Public health > Africa > Congresses.
Medical policy > Africa > Congresses.
Public health > International cooperation > Congresses.
Public health.
Medical policy.
International cooperation.
Social history.
Public Health
Health Policy
International Cooperation
Social Conditions
Santé publique > Afrique > Congrès.
Politique sanitaire > Afrique > Congrès.
Santé publique > Coopération internationale > Congrès.
Santé publique.
Politique sanitaire.
Coopération internationale.
Histoire sociale.
public health.
social history.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Social history
International cooperation
Medical policy
Public health
Public health > International cooperation
Social conditions
Medizinische Versorgung
Gesundheitswesen
Africa > Social conditions > Congresses.
Africa.
Africa
Afrique > Conditions sociales > Congrès.
Afrique.
Afrika
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James L.A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick
  • The long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa / William H. Schneider
  • The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62 / James L.A. Webb, Jr
  • A genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa / Guillaume Lachenal
  • The true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74 / Jennifer Tappan
  • People, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp
  • Defenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt / Anne Marie Moulin
  • "Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present / Myron Echenberg
  • Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process / Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey
  • Heroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts / Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama.

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