Contemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives
Herausgeber: Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward; Odeku, Oluwatoyin A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide recommendations for strengthening healthcare on the continent. Experts in clinical medicine, economics, public health, and the social sciences provide in-depth analyses of current issues that blend theory and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781793633699
• ISBN-10: 179363369X
• Artikelnr.: 61191532

Autorenporträt

Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward (PhD) is associate professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana. Odeku,Oluwatoyin A. (PhD) is professor of pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology and the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Stephan Conermann
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and
Cultural Perspectives
Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku
Chapter 1: A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural
Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Felix Ankomah Asante and Makafui Isaac Dzudzor
Chapter 2: Medicine Quality in West Africa: Impact of Trans-Border Trade
Oluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku and Christie Bose Ola
Chapter 3: Tackling Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Medicinal Plant
Approach
Peculiar Feenna Onyekere, Nwafor Felix Ifeanyi, and Chioma Obianuju
Peculiar-Onyekere
Chapter 4:Malaria Control in Ghana: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Ama Pokuaa Fenny and Patricia Ohenewaa Akuffo-Henaku
Chapter 5: Intimate Partner Violence as a Silent Killer: Analyzing Domestic
Violence as a Health Hazard in Uganda
Proscovia Namuli
Chapter 6: Caring for the Aged: Africa's Next Health Challenge
Emmanuel Ashiedu Codjoe
Chapter 7: Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority and provision of
quality health care services: Some reflections on the provider payment
reforms within the National Health Insurance Scheme
Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei
Chapter 8: Cultural Negotiation and Invention of Healthcare Strategies
among Cattle Nomads of Oyo North, Nigeria
Aderemi Suleiman Ajala and Kayode Akinsete
Chapter 9: Safe food systems for better health outcomes: Emerging food
safety issues, challenges and solutions in sub-Saharan Africa
Marther W. Ngigi and Dominic Mureithi
Chapter 10: Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health in Africa
Gloria Afful-Mensah, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, and Robert Kaba Alhassan
Chapter 11: Paediatric tuberculosis in Ghana: understanding the
sociocultural context to increase case detection
Gloria Ivy Mensah
Chapter 12: Maternal nutrition and the risk of cardiovascular diseases in
offspring: translating research into practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Richard Blay