03059nam 22006135 450 991025477230332120200930192323.03-319-32564-710.1007/978-3-319-32564-4(CKB)3710000001051072(DE-He213)978-3-319-32564-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4799348(EXLCZ)99371000000105107220170202d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHistorical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II The Modern Era /by Mario J. Azevedo1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XXI, 288 p. 10 illus.) African Histories and Modernities,2634-57733-319-32563-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. .African Histories and Modernities,2634-5773Africa—HistorySocial historyPublic policyImperialismAfrica—Politics and governmentAfrican Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/714000Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000Public Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911060Imperialism and Colonialismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/722000African Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911090Africa—History.Social history.Public policy.Imperialism.Africa—Politics and government.African History.Social History.Public Policy.Imperialism and Colonialism.African Politics.960Azevedo Mario Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut926809BOOK9910254772303321Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II2137978UNINA