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Debt crisis health and health services in Africa.
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This essay provides a kaleidoscope of this ominous decay of health and health services in Africa as Africa totters under an excruciating debt burden and accompanying austerity programmes.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Debt crisis & Poverty.read more
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Respiratory Health Hazards in Agriculture
Marc B. Schenker,David C. Christiani,Yvon Cormier,Helen Dimich-Ward,Gert Doekes,James A. Dosman,Jeroen Douwes,K. Dowling,Donald A. Enarson,Francis H. Y. Green,Dick Heederik,K. Husman,Susan M. Kennedy,Gregory J. Kullman,Y Lacasse,Barbara L. Lawson,Per Malmberg,J May,Stephen A. McCurdy,James A. Merchant,James R. Myers,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,Stephen A. Olenchock,Cathy Saiki,David A. Schwartz,James N. Seiber,Peter S. Thorne,G Wagnar,Nicholas J. White,Xiping Xu,Moira Chan-Yeung +30 more
TL;DR: This Conference Report was prepared by a multidisciplinary ad hoc committee of the Assembly on Environmental and Occupational Health.
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EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: The Third Epidemiologic Transition
TL;DR: An expanded framework of multiple epidemiologic transitions is used to review the issues of re/emerging infection and illustrate recurring sociohistorical and ecological themes in humanndisease relationships from the Paleolithic Age to the present day.
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Dead mothers and injured wives: the social context of maternal morbidity and mortality among the Hausa of northern Nigeria
TL;DR: The convergence of all of these factors has resulted in one of the worst records of female reproductive health existing anywhere in the world.
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Sub-Saharan Africa: beyond the health worker migration crisis?
TL;DR: This global overview and the most comprehensive data indicate that the key destinations remain the USA and the UK, and that major sources are South Africa and Nigeria, but in both contexts there is now greater diversity.
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Invisible carers: young people in Zimbabwe's home-based healthcare
TL;DR: It is suggested that young people (especially girls) become carers according to varied personal and household factors in the context of the AIDS pandemic, macro-economic decline and ESAP-weakened formal health services.
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A Dying Colonialism
TL;DR: Fanon's A Dying Colonialism as mentioned in this paper is an account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors.
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The political economy of health
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Financing Health Services in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Reform
TL;DR: 4 policies for health financing are proposed to raise revenues for important health programs increase the efficiency of public health services and make the system better serve the poor.
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The quest for therapy in Lower Zaire
TL;DR: This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness, select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process the authors call "therapy management."
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