The purpose of this chapter is to examine the nexus between public health and political
economy of development in Africa using spatiality as a cog of theoretical and conceptual …

This paper discusses the health status of Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on infectious and
parasitic diseases, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, famine, and political instability. Its …

The book examines the major phases in the history and development of health care services
in Africa and treats health as an integral aspect of the deepening crisis in Africa's …

Over the past few years there have been major political developments in southern Africa. In
the Republic of South Africa, the National Party's short-lived reformist strategy designed to …

Africa shoulders the world's burden of disease. It is the epicentre of the global resurgence of
infectious epidemics and pandemics. Africans remain troubled by diseases like diarrhoea …

The issue of interdependence between the state of a community or nation's economic
progress and the health of its people is slowly coming to prominence among scholars …

This briefing demonstrates some of the tensions which arise in trying to define and describe
problems of health in Africa: the tension of having available only statistics of known …

The remnants of the colonial and apartheid era are evident in the South African health
system's persistently higher levels of injury, mental health problems, disease and mortality …

Among Africa’ s problems, chronic poverty and poor health stand out. Traditional
development thinking has maintained that health improvements are a consequence of …

This article investigates the shortcomings in the implementation of an approach based on
the social determinants of health in sub-Saharan Africa. This approach is extended by …