Overview
- Provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of the history of contemporary health and health systems in Africa
- Based on extensive primary source material
- Provides a followup from Volume I which discusses precolonial health systems in Africa
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mario J. Azevedo is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Jackson State University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Dean of the School of Health Sciences, and Interim Dean of the College of Public Service at Jackson State University. Azevedo has published a number of articles and books on African History and Health. His most recent book, Health and the State of Health Care in Mississippi, was published in 2015.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
Book Subtitle: The Modern Era
Authors: Mario J. Azevedo
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32564-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32563-7Published: 09 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81315-8Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32564-4Published: 24 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 288
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: African History, Social History, Public Policy, Imperialism and Colonialism, African Politics