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Introduction (2021)

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On a Wednesday morning the primary healthcare clinic in a small rural South African town is busy.¹ A line of caregivers, mostly women, wait with babies and small children for routine check-ups and immunisations. In the adjacent waiting room patients sit or stand outside a door marked ‘Chronic Clinic’. A nurse is taking blood pressure readings and recording the numbers in the notebooks that patients have brought with them. When her turn comes, Agnes, a woman in her late forties, enters the consulting room and, helped by the woman doctor in charge, cautiously lowers herself onto a seat. A domestic

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Authors & Contributors
Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui
LaBonte, Michelle Lynne
McIlvenna, Kathleen
Mika, Marissa Anne
Sanuade, Olutobi
Kurt Beck
Concepts
Chronic diseases
Epidemiological transition (public health)
Non-communicable diseases
Public health
Philosophy of medicine
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
9th century
10th century
Places
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Africa
Southern Africa
Ghana
London (England)
Massachusetts (U.S.)
Institutions
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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