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The Political economy of health in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Dennis Ityavyar.
Van Pelt Library RA428.3.A35 P65 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Monographs in international studies. Africa series ; no. 60.
- Monographs in international studies. Africa series ; no. 60
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Africa.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Africa--History.
- Medical economics--Africa.
- Medical economics.
- Medical care--Political aspects--Africa.
- Social medicine--Africa.
- Social medicine.
- Delivery of Health Care--trends.
- Medical care--Political aspects.
- History.
- Africa.
- Health Policy--trends.
- Political Systems.
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care--trends.
- Africa.
- Health Policy--trends.
- Political Systems.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1992.
- Summary:
- This book examines the major phases in the history of health services in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa's underdevelopment. One important thesis is that Western delivery systems have made health care less accessible for most people. Contributors direct attention to problems engendered by food shortages, acute cases of infection, the market in fake drugs as well as the inequality of access to facilities, the violation of human rights, and the recent danger of the dumping of toxic wastes in several African countries.
- One major implication of this volume is that there can be no solution to the health crisis in Africa until the linkage between health and poverty is recognized. The authors consider questions which add to the contemporary discussion of the place which traditional African medicine and philosophy should take alongside modern Western medicine in Africa today.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Crisis of African Health Care Services / Toyin Falola 3
- Part II. Indigenous Systems and Colonial Heritage
- Chapter 2. Health in Precolonial Africa / Dennis A. Ityavyar 35
- Chapter 3. Foreign Impact on Precolonial Medicine / S. Kofi Bonsi 49
- Chapter 4. The Colonial Origins of Health Care Services: The Nigerian Example / Dennis A. Ityavyar 65
- Chapter 5. The Impact of Colonial Rule on Health Development: The Case of Kenya / F. M. Mburu 88
- Chapter 6. Colonial Rule, International Agency, and Health: The Experience of Ghana / Patrick A. Twumasi 107
- Part III Contemporary Crises and Contradictions
- Chapter 7. Social Science and Medicine in Africa / Isadore S. Ubot 123
- Chapter 8. The Underdevelopment of Traditional Medicine in Africa / U. A. Igun 143
- Chapter 9. Violence, Conflict, and Health in Africa / Dennis A. Ityavyar, Leo Ogba 163
- Chapter 10. Health Inequalities in Africa / Tola Olu Pearce 184
- Chapter 11. National Governments and Health Service Policy in Africa / Robert Stock, Charles Anyinam 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0896801683
- OCLC:
- 26591667
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