Curing Our Ills / De-Graft Aikins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aikins, De-Graft, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elephants--Fiction.

Elephants.

Wildlife conservation.

Wildlife conservation--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

Millions of Ghanaians live with diabetes, hypertension, stroke, cancers and other major chronic diseases.Millions more are at risk of getting these conditions.Individuals living with chronic conditions experience many disruptions, especially at the early stages of diagnosis and adjustment.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Foreword

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: CRITICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Definitions and sub-fields of Psychology

The critical turn in Psychology

The Theory of Social Representations

PART 2: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHRONIC DISEASE RISK, EXPERIENCES AND CARE

The Psychology of Chronic Disease Risk

How lay Ghanaians and Africans define NCD Risk

How lay Ghanaians and Africans Manage NCD Risk

The Psychology of Chronic Disease Experience

The Psychology of Chronic Disease Care

PART 3: CURING OUR ILLS?

Understanding Our Physical and Ideological Ills

Developing multi-level chronic disease interventions

CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Research projects and locations in Ghana, 1997 - 2016

Appendix 2. Cognitive polyphasia: employing diverse and opposite ways of thinking

Appendix 3. WHO endorsed strategies to reduce risks of NCDs

Appendix 4. Social representations of diabetes: examples from Nkoranza

Appendix 5. Biographical transformation: Opanin's story

Appendix 6. Diabetes and the world of caregiving: John's story

Appendix 7. Diabetes and the world of caregiving: Ruth's story

Appendix 8. Hope for a cure: a driver for healershopping

Appendix 9. NCD prevention and control responses from selected low and middle income countries

REFERENCES

Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins: a Profile

INDEX

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789988936914

9988936915

OCLC:

1470859931