Health Geography in Sub-Saharan Africa: Development-Health Nexus
Braimah, Joseph Asumah, Bisung, Elijah, Kuuire, Vincent
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-08-24
- 售價: $5,690
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,406
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 204
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 303137567X
- ISBN-13: 9783031375675
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This volume creates a platform to showcase health geography research from countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and draws on theoretical and methodological innovations to initiate a discussion on the complexities of the issues impacting health in the region. Through theoretically and empirically grounded contributions from a variety of researchers working across SSA, the book addresses a wide range of topics that are usually treated separately when discussing health geography in the region. By bridging the social science and health disciplines, the book introduces new ways of thinking temporally and spatially about these topics in non-geography contexts as well. In 4 sections, the text will broadly appeal to students, researchers, teachers, policy makers, and global health professionals.
Section 1 addresses the social determinants of health, including gender, disability, and other inequities and inequalities associated with healthcare access. Section 2 discusses the environmental determinants of health such as food security, water and sanitation, mining, and climate change. Section 3 focuses on current and emerging challenges to health in SSA, including ageing, non-communicable disease, and infectious diseases. Section 4 concludes the text by discussing the need to develop social and environmental intervention policies and strategies to address health challenges in SSA.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本卷創建了一個平台，以展示來自撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）國家的健康地理研究，並利用理論和方法上的創新來啟動對影響該地區健康問題複雜性的討論。透過來自不同研究者的理論和實證貢獻，這些研究者在SSA各地工作，本書涵蓋了通常在討論該地區健康地理時分開處理的各種主題。通過橋接社會科學和健康學科，本書引入了在非地理背景下對這些主題進行時間和空間思考的新方式。全書分為四個部分，廣泛吸引學生、研究者、教師、政策制定者和全球健康專業人士。
第一部分探討健康的社會決定因素，包括性別、殘疾以及與醫療保健獲取相關的其他不平等和不公正。第二部分討論健康的環境決定因素，如食品安全、水和衛生、採礦和氣候變遷。第三部分聚焦於SSA當前和新興的健康挑戰，包括老齡化、非傳染性疾病和傳染病。第四部分通過討論需要制定社會和環境干預政策及策略來應對SSA的健康挑戰，來結束本書的內容。
作者簡介
Dr. Joseph Asumah Braimah is an Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Health & Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His research focuses primarily on the health and wellbeing of marginalized and structurally exposed populations in the Global South and the Global North, drawing on multiple methodologies and theoretical perspectives. His work largely revolves around aging and health, social determinants of health, food insecurity, and community-based participatory research.
Dr. Vincent Kuuire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at University of Toronto Mississauga. His research interests include migration and immigrant well-being, population health, environment and health connections, healthcare access, and non-communicable diseases. His research sites are in North America (specifically Canada) and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He also teaches courses in health and migration.
Dr. Elijah Bisung is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University. He is a health geographer focusing on social and environmental production of health and well-being. His research interests include environmental collective action for environmental health promotion, environmental stress and psychosocial health, community based participatory research, health systems resilience to climate change, and safe water and sanitation interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Dr. Joseph Asumah Braimah是多倫多大學士嘉堡校區健康與社會系的包容性卓越博士後研究員。他的研究主要集中在全球南方和全球北方邊緣化及結構性暴露人群的健康與福祉，採用多種方法論和理論視角。他的工作主要圍繞老齡化與健康、健康的社會決定因素、食品不安全以及基於社區的參與式研究。
Dr. Vincent Kuuire是多倫多大學密西沙加校區地理系的助理教授。他的研究興趣包括移民與移民福祉、人口健康、環境與健康的關聯、醫療保健的可及性以及非傳染性疾病。他的研究地點位於北美（特別是加拿大）和撒哈拉以南非洲的幾個國家。他還教授健康與移民相關的課程。
Dr. Elijah Bisung是女王大學運動學與健康研究學院的助理教授。他是一位健康地理學家，專注於健康與福祉的社會與環境生產。他的研究興趣包括為促進環境健康而進行的環境集體行動、環境壓力與心理社會健康、基於社區的參與式研究、健康系統對氣候變遷的韌性，以及撒哈拉以南非洲的安全水源與衛生干預。
