New perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa.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, with a special focus on the increasing incidence of “non-communicable” and chronic conditions. In this book, historians, social anthropologists, public health experts, and social epidemiologists present important insights into epidemiological change in Africa beyond theories of “transition.” The volume covers a broad thematic range, including the trajectory of maternal mortality in East Africa, the smoking epidemic, the history of sugar consumption in South Africa, the causality between infectious and non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Belize, the complex relationships between adult hypertension and pediatric HIV in Botswana, and stories of cancer patients and their families in Kenya. In all, the volume provides insights drawn from historical perspectives and from the African social and clinical experience that are of value to students and researchers in global health, medical anthropology, public health, and African studies.
...MoreChapter Shane Doyle (2021) Maternal Health, Epidemiology and Transition Theory in Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 106-132).
Chapter David Reubi (2021) Pathologies of Modernisation: Epidemiological Imaginaries and the Smoking Epidemic in Postcolonial Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 133-161).
Chapter Michelle Pentecost (2021) Transitioning Societies: Non-Communicable Disease and ‘the First 1000 Days’ in South Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 252-275).
Chapter Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo (2021) Validity of Measures for Chronic Disease in African Settings. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 181-211).
Chapter Amy Moran-Thomas (2021) The Para-Communicable: Living Between Infectious and Non-Communicable Conditions. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 233-251).
Chapter Olutobi Sanuade (2021) Estimating and Monitoring the Burden of Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Ghana. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 212-230).
Chapter Betsey Behr Brada (2021) Narrowed Passages, Increased Pressures: Adult Hypertension and Paediatric Hiv in Botswana. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 298-321).
Chapter Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (2021) Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950–80s). In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 80-105).
Chapter Simon Szreter (2021) The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside down: Britain’s Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 39-79).
Chapter Megan Vaughan; Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo (2021) Introduction. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 1-36).
Chapter Megan Vaughan (2021) Sugar and Diabetes in Postwar South Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 162-178).
Chapter Catherine Burns (2021) In Tandem: Breastfeeding Knowledge and Thinking from Southern Africa. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 276-297).
Chapter Ruth J. Prince (2021) Malignant Stories: The Chronicity of Cancer and the Pursuit of Care in Kenya. In: Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 322-349).
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