African Health Leaders
Making Change and Claiming the Future
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2014
- ISBN 9780198703327
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 234x171x20 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book demonstrates how, over three generations, African health leaders are creating a distinctive vision of health in Africa. Written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book discusses the innovation and leadership that has been involved in tackling everything from HIV to neglected tropical diseases.
MoreLong description:
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership that has been involved tackling everything from HIV/AIDs, to maternal, and child mortality and neglected tropical diseases. It celebrates their achievements and shows how, over three generations, African health leaders are creating a distinctively African vision of health and health systems.
The book reveals how African Health Leaders are claiming the future - in Africa, but also by sharing their insights and knowledge globally and contributing fully to improving health throughout the world. It illustrates how African leadership can enable foreign agencies and individuals working in Africa to avoid all those misunderstandings and misinterpretations of culture and context which lead to wasted efforts and frustrated hopes.
African Health Leaders challenges Africans to do more for themselves; build on success; tackle weak governance, corrupt systems and low expectations and claim the future. It sets out what Africa needs from the rest of the world in the spirit of global solidarity - not primarily in aid, but through investment, collaboration, partnership and co-development. It concludes with a vision for improvement based on three foundations: an understanding that 'health is made at home'; the determination to offer access to health services for everyone; and an insistence on the pursuit of quality.
The book provides an authoritative firsthand account of heroes and heroines who, despite working in very difficult and challenging contexts, have led real transformations in the health of Africans by inspiring others to do more and to become more.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Overview of African health leaders
Introduction: African health leaders
Health leadership in Africa
Part 2: The greatest challenges
Introduction: The greatest challenges
Pioneering work on HIV/Aids in Uganda
Mobilising the community against maternal death - the Malawi community champion model
Epidemiology and health policy in Africa
Part 3: All the resources of the community
Introduction: All the resources of the community
Community health, community workers and community governance
The development of Community Directed Treatment for tackling river blindness
Politics, economics and society
Part 4: Making the best use of all the talents
Introduction: Making the best use of all the talents
Technicos de cirurgia - assistant medical officers trained for surgery in Mozambique
All the skills of the health team
The evolution of professional education and health systems in Sub Saharan Africa
Indigenous knowledge systems
Part 5: Health for the whole population - leaving no one behind
Introduction: Health for the whole population - leaving no one behind
Twenty years of improving access to health care in Rwanda
HIV/AIDS and National Health insurance in South Africa
Coverage of the poor: innovative health financing in Ghana
Health for the whole population
Part 6: The future
Introduction: The future
The future: view from a Minister
The future: younger and future leaders
The future: vision and challenges
