Public Health in Postcolonial Africa (eBook, PDF)

The Social and Political Determinants of Health
Redaktion: Faleye, Olukayode; Moyo, Inocent; Akande, Tanimola

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating, multi-disciplinary collection examines how public health interventions in postcolonial Africa mirror wider manifestations of power in the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000996074
• Artikelnr.: 68783972

Autorenporträt

Olukayode A. Faleye is Associate Professor in History and International Studies, Edo State University, Uzairue, Edo State, Nigeria. Tanimola M. Akande is Professor of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Inocent Moyo is Associate Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

0.Introduction: Public Health in Postcolonial Africa. Part I: Healthcare
Policy, Politics of Space and Social Justice. 1.Politics of Healthcare
Reform in Postcolonial Nigeria. 2.Framing Climate Change-Public Health
Nexus in the Political Economy of Adaptive Systems in Postcolonial Africa.
3.Rhetoric of Public Policies and Equity in Access to Health Care in
Postcolonial Senegal. 4.Spatial Politics of Health and The Control of Viral
Hemorrhagic Fevers in Post-Colonial Africa: Lessons from Lagos. Part II:
Church Administration and the Religious Determinants of Health.
5.Socioeconomic Dynamics of Covid-19 Pandemic, Church Administration and
Social Welfare in Nigeria. 6.Social Determinants of Health: The
Contributions of the Catholic Church to Healthcare Delivery in Postcolonial
Nigeria. Part III: Sociopolitical Significance of Sexuality, Medicaments
and Sexual Transmitted Diseases. 7.Sociopolitical Significance of Asian
Aphrodisiacs and African Sexualities in Postcolonial Zimbabwe. 8.Mass
Media, Sexuality and the Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Part
IV: Sociopolitical Determinants of Illness and Wellness in the African
Literary Discourse. 9.Traditional Medicine and Public Health in
Postcolonial African Literary Discourse. 10.Necropolitics and the
Expression of "Madness" in Nigerian Poetry. 11.Trumpism and the
Necropolitics of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications and Relevance to the
African Sociopolitical Ambience. x.Conclusion: Towards Postcolonial
Approaches to Health in a Globalized World.