African Health Leaders : Making Change and Claiming the Future /

African Health Leaders : Making Change and Claiming the Future /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:xxvi, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Public health administration -- Africa.
Public health -- Africa.
Health planning -- Africa.
Medical policy -- Africa.
Public Health.
Leadership.
Health Planning.
Health Policy.
Administrative Personnel.
Health planning.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Public health administration.
Africa.
Africa.
Africa.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10117723
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Other authors / contributors:Omaswa, Francis, editor.
Crisp, Nigel, editor.
ISBN:9780198703327
0198703325
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English.
Summary:This volume demonstrates how, over three generations, African health leaders are creating a distinctive vision of health in Africa. It is written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, who discuss the innovation and leadership that has been involved in tackling everything from HIV to neglected tropical diseases.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • Part 1. Overview of African health leaders
  • 1. Introduction to Part 1: Overview
  • 2. Health leadership in Africa
  • Part 2. The greatest challenges
  • 3. Introduction to Part 2: The greatest challenges
  • 4. Pioneering work on HIV/AIDS in Uganda
  • 5. Mobilizing the community against maternal death-the Malawi community champion model
  • 6. Epidemiology and health policy in Africa
  • Part 3. All the resources of the community
  • 7. Introduction to Part 3: All the resources of the community
  • 8. Community health, community workers, and community governance
  • 9. The development of community directed treatment for tackling river blindness
  • 10. Politics, economics, and society
  • Part 4. Making the best use of all the talents
  • 11. Introduction to Part 4: Making the best use of all the talents
  • 12. Tecnicos de cirurgia-assistant medical officers trained for surgery in Mozambique
  • 13. All the skills of the health team
  • 14. The evolution of professional education and health systems in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 15. Indigenous knowledge systems
  • Part 5. Health for the whole population-leaving no-one behind
  • 16. Introduction to Part 5: Health for the whole population-leaving no-one behind
  • 17. Twenty years of improving access to healthcare in Rwanda
  • 18. HIV/AIDS and National Health Insurance in South Africa
  • 19. Coverage of the poor-innovative health financing in Ghana
  • 20. Health for the whole population
  • Part 6. The future
  • 21. Introduction to Part 6: The future
  • 22. The future: view from a Minister
  • 23. The future: younger and future leaders
  • 24. The future: vision and challenges
  • Appendix 1. Africans on the world stage
  • Index

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