Epidemiological change and chronic disease in sub-saharan Africa : social and historical perspectives /

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Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called 'non-communicable' and chronic conditions. His...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vaughan, Megan, 1954- (Editor ), Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui (Editor ), Mika, Marissa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2021.
Temas:
Epidemiology > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Public health > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Épidémiologie > Afrique subsaharienne.
Santé publique > Afrique subsaharienne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Epidemiology
Public health
Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Temporalities: Beyond Transition
  • 1 The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside Down: Britain's Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa
  • 2 Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950-80s)
  • 3 Maternal Health, Epidemiology and Transition Theory in Africa
  • 4 Pathologies of Modernisation: Epidemiological Imaginaries and the Smoking Epidemic in Postcolonial Africa
  • 5 Sugar and Diabetes in Postwar South Africa
  • Numbers and Categories
  • 6 Validity of Measures for Chronic Disease in African Settings
  • 7 Estimating and Monitoring the Burden of Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Ghana
  • Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems: 'New Diseases' in Context
  • 8 The Para-Communicable: Living Between Infectious and Non-Communicable Conditions
  • 9 Transitioning Societies: Non-Communicable Disease and 'The First 1000 Days' in South Africa
  • 10 In Tandem: Breastfeeding Knowledge and Thinking from Southern Africa
  • 11 Narrowed Passages, Increased Pressures: Adult Hypertension and Paediatric HIV in Botswana
  • 12 Malignant Stories: The Chronicity of Cancer and the Pursuit of Care in Kenya
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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