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

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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Other Authors: Vaughan, Megan (Editor), Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui (Editor), Mika, Marissa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2021, 2021
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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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520 |a 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. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important insights from a number of African perspectives and locations to present an incisive critique of 'epidemiological transition' theory and suggest alternative understandings of the epidemiological change on the continent. Arranged in three parts, 'Temporalities: Beyond Transition', 'Numbers and Categories' and 'Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems', the chapters cover a broad range of subjects and themes, including the trajectory of maternal mortality in East Africa, the African smoking epidemic, the history of sugar consumption in South Africa, causality between infectious and non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Belize, the complex relationships between adult hypertension and paediatric HIV in Botswana, and stories of cancer patients and their families as they pursue treatment and care in Kenya. In all, the volume provides insights drawn from historical perspectives and from the African social and clinical experience to offer new perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa that go beyond theories of 'transition'. It will be of value to students and researchers in Global Health, Medical Anthropology and Public Health, and to readers with an interest in African Studies