Vaughan, M and Adjaye-Gbewonyo, K and Mika, M (Eds).
(2021)
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important insights from a number of African perspectives and locations to present an incisive critique of ‘epidemiological transition’ theory and suggest alternative understandings of the epidemiological change on the continent. Arranged in three parts, ‘Temporalities: Beyond Transition’, ‘Numbers and Categories’ and ‘Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems’, the chapters cover a broad range of subjects and themes, including the trajectory of maternal mortality in East Africa, the African smoking epidemic, the history of sugar consumption in South Africa, causality between infectious and non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Belize, the complex relationships between adult hypertension and paediatric HIV in Botswana, and stories of cancer patients and their families as they pursue treatment and care in Kenya. In all, the volume provides insights drawn from historical perspectives and from the African social and clinical experience to offer new perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa that go beyond theories of ‘transition’. It will be of value to students and researchers in Global Health, Medical Anthropology and Public Health, and to readers with an interest in African Studies.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787357044 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787357044 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org /10.14324 /111.9781787357044 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2021 Text © Contributors, 2021 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Vaughan, M., Adjaye-Gbewonyo, K. and Mika, M. (eds.). 2021. Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357044 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | epidemiology, chronic disease, infectious disease, sub-saharan Africa |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117924 |
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