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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254772303321

Autore

Azevedo Mario J

Titolo

Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II : The Modern Era / / by Mario J. Azevedo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-32564-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 288 p. 10 illus.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

960

Soggetti

Africa—History

Social history

Public policy

Imperialism

Africa—Politics and government

African History

Social History

Public Policy

Imperialism and Colonialism

African Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978. .