Towards a Sociology of Health Discourse in Africa

Author:   Jimoh Amzat ,  Oliver Razum
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
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Pages:   165
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
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Author:   Jimoh Amzat ,  Oliver Razum
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   4.085kg
ISBN:  

9783319616711


ISBN 10:   3319616714
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
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Chapter 1: Key Concepts in Healthcare.- Chapter 2: Healthcare as a Human Right in Africa.- Chapter 3: Healthcare Delivery Systems .- Chapter 4: Healthcare Financing and Insurance in Africa.- Chapter 5: African Culture and Health.- Chapter 6: Traditional Medicine in Africa.- Chapter 7: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Africa.- Chapter 8: Rural Health in Africa.- Chapter 9:  Pastoral Nomadism and Health in Africa.- Chapter 10: Healthcare Emergencies in Africa: The Case of Ebola in Nigeria.

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Jimoh Amzat holds a PhD (Sociology with specialization in medical sociology) from University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a joint Master of Bioethics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Radboud University, Nijmegen, Holland; and University of Padua, Italy. His major areas of interest include medical sociology, bioethics and social problems. He is a recipient of Erasmus Mundus scholarship (Europe) and Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship (Germany). He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), Nigeria.  He has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, France. His research work focuses on the African context of various health issues. Since 2005, Amzat has published books and numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. His recent book, entitled Medical Sociology in Africa (Springer: 2014), presents core issues in medical sociology with social dimensions of health and illness in Africa. Oliver Razum, Dr. med, MSc Epidemiology, is full professor and Dean of the School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Germany, where he also heads the Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health. His main research field is social epidemiology with a particular focus on the health of immigrants, and on the role of contextual factors in the production of health inequalities. Before moving into epidemiology, Oliver Razum has worked as district medical officer in Zimbabwe. He has published over 180 scientific papers and numerous book chapters. Recent book publications he co-authored orco-edited are “Global Health: Gesundheit und Gerechtigkeit” (with Hajo Zeeb, Olaf Müller & Albrecht Jahn. Huber, Bern: 2014); “Medical Sociology in Africa” (with Jimoh Amzat. Springer, Cham: 2014); „Public Health (with Matthias Egger. De Gruyter, Berlin: 2014); and “Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften” (with Klaus Hurrelmann. Beltz-Juventa, Weinheim: 2012).

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