| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London : , : UCL Press, , 2021
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages)
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| Disciplina |
362.1
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| Soggetto topico |
Public health
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 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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| Altri titoli varianti |
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910512202403321 |
Info
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Social and historical perspectives / / edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Marissa Mika