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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.
This book examines the historical and current state of health and
the health of the African people, including the Arab North,
impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements,
cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and
traditional systems. It also looks at technological advances,
poverty and health disparities, utilization of resources, and
international presence, as reflected by the work of the World
Health Organization, and structural adjustments imposed by the IMF
and the World Bank.
Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run
into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to
haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most
politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with
sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate
the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of
the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high
altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest
point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian
zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where
and nut cultivation and harvesting is possible; and an endowed
southern tropical zone where the forest and the savanna meet,
blessed by several long-running rivers, most notably, the Logone
and the Chari that empty their waters into centuries-old Lake Chad.
Even though things in Chad seem to have improved during the past 10
years, most observers agree that the path to peace, reconstruction,
and economic progress is still long and arduous. This fourth
edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an
introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on
important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations,
religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chad.
Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development
Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways
in which health services, public health administration, and
healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how
intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are
weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their
development goals, their leaders must have a firm understanding of
the impact of infectious diseases on their people and take prompt
action to fix socioeconomic issues arising from the problems
associated with poor health practices. Drawing on experiences from
international health organizations such as the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA), commissioned in poor countries to assist
national governments in improving the wellbeing of their citizens,
this volume analyzes maternal and child mortality and the spread of
infectious diseases, and offers communication strategies for the
management of malaria, HIV Aids, Polio, tuberculosis, and others in
Somalia, Madagascar, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, and India.
This book examines the historical and current state of health and
the health of the African people, including the Arab North,
impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements,
cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and
traditional systems. It also looks at technological advances,
poverty and health disparities, utilization of resources, and
international presence, as reflected by the work of the World
Health Organization, and structural adjustments imposed by the IMF
and the World Bank.
In this multidisciplinary book, the editor and contributors
provide the most accurate and most recent information on health and
health care in the State of Mississippi. They explain why the state
finds itself in precarious health conditions and reveal the
prevailing circumstances as the state debates a path toward a
comprehensive health care system for its citizens. They show who
has had access to good health care in the state and celebrate the
heroes who struggled to provide health care to all Mississippians,
and contribute to the debate on how the health care system might be
restructured, reconstructed, or adjusted to meet the needs of all
people in the state, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic
status, and national origin.
The issue of health disparities and socio-economic status leads
to a relevant discussion of whether health and access to quality
care are a right of all people, as the United Nations has
proclaimed, or the privilege of a few who have the economic
resources and the political clout to purchase first-rate care. The
volume offers a clear understanding of health care trends in the
state since the inception of its health system during the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries up to the present and the
prospects of transcending the obstacles of its own creation over
the past two centuries. It likewise highlights the economic
challenges that Mississippi, like other states, confronts; and how
wise and realistic its priorities are in meeting the needs of its
diverse populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.
Global Themes in World History since 1500 provides students with a
concise, thematic approach to world history with emphasis on topics
and themes representative of global patterns across time. Students
are challenged to embrace the idea that history, while based on
primary source evidence, is also based on historians'
interpretations of that evidence, and that historiography changes
through time and place. The book addresses diverse topics and
research areas, including the history of Africa, the African
diaspora, world military history, modern Europe, the Middle East,
empires and imperialism, food history, cultural history, and more.
Each chapter explores key themes that reflect important transitions
in world history research and writing: geography and environment;
material culture; science and technology; gender and sexuality; and
war, peace, and diplomacy. Throughout, students are provided with
primary sources, discussion questions, images, timelines, glossary
terms, and suggested additional readings and media to deepen the
learning experience. An engaging, diverse, and accessible text,
Global Themes in World History since 1500 is well suited to
undergraduate courses in modern world history.
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