This book focuses on Africa's challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.
| ISBN: | 9783319813158 |
| Publication date: | 12th July 2018 |
| Author: | Mario J Azevedo |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | African Histories and Modernities |
| Genres: |
African history Social and cultural history Colonialism and imperialism Public administration Politics and government |