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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2021, 2021
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- 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
- 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