Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : : social and historical perspectives / / edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Marissa Mika.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mika, Marissa,; Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui,; Vaughan, Megan,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages)

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. His...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Temporalities: Beyond Transition
• 1 The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside Down: Britain's Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa
• 2 Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950-80s)
• 3 Maternal Health, Epidemiology and Transition Theory in Africa
• 4 Pathologies of Modernisation: Epidemiological Imaginaries and the Smoking Epidemic in Postcolonial Africa 5 Sugar and Diabetes in Postwar South Africa
• Numbers and Categories
• 6 Validity of Measures for Chronic Disease in African Settings
• 7 Estimating and Monitoring the Burden of Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Ghana Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems: 'New Diseases' in Context
• 8 The Para-Communicable: Living Between Infectious and Non-Communicable Conditions
• 9 Transitioning Societies: Non-Communicable Disease and 'The First 1000 Days' in South Africa
• 10 In Tandem: Breastfeeding Knowledge and Thinking from Southern Africa 11 Narrowed Passages, Increased Pressures: Adult
• Hypertension and Paediatric HIV in Botswana
• 12 Malignant Stories: The Chronicity of Cancer and the Pursuit of Care in Kenya
• Index
• Back Cover.