{"product_id":"contemporary-healthcare-issues-in-sub-saharan-africa-social-economic-and-cultural-perspectives-9781793633699","title":"Contemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide workable recommendations for strengthening healthcare delivery on the continent. Contributors address topical issues such as drug quality, malaria control, health insurance, geriatric care, and the environment-health nexus. The contributors also study intimate partner violence and maternal-child health, food safety, prevalence of childhood tuberculosis, and cardiovascular diseases. This book provides in-depth analyses of current issues in Sub-Saharan Africa that blend theory and practice. The diverse group of contributors includes experts in clinical medicine, pharmacy, economics, anthropology, public health, and the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephan Conermann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Ankomah Asante and Makafui Isaac Dzudzor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Medicine Quality in West Africa: Impact of Trans-Border Trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku and Christie Bose Ola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Tackling Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Medicinal Plant Approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeculiar Feenna Onyekere, Nwafor Felix Ifeanyi, and Chioma Obianuju Peculiar-Onyekere \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4:Malaria Control in Ghana: Past, Present and Future Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAma Pokuaa Fenny and Patricia Ohenewaa Akuffo-Henaku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Intimate Partner Violence as a Silent Killer: Analyzing Domestic Violence as a Health Hazard in Uganda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProscovia Namuli\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Caring for the Aged: Africa’s Next Health Challenge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmmanuel Ashiedu Codjoe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Cultural Negotiation and Invention of Healthcare Strategies among Cattle Nomads of Oyo North, Nigeria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAderemi Suleiman Ajala and Kayode Akinsete\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Safe food systems for better health outcomes: Emerging food safety issues, challenges and solutions in sub-Saharan Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarther W. Ngigi and Dominic Mureithi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health in Africa \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloria Afful-Mensah, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, and Robert Kaba Alhassan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Paediatric tuberculosis in Ghana: understanding the sociocultural context to increase case detection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloria Ivy Mensah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Maternal nutrition and the risk of cardiovascular diseases in offspring: translating research into practice in sub-Saharan Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Richard Blay\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042666545495,"sku":"9781793633699","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-healthcare-issues-in-sub-saharan-africa-social-economic-and-cultural-perspectives-9781793633699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}