Religion And Health Care In East Africa
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Author | : Robert B Lloyd |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-03-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1447337875 |
What social factors contribute to the tragic state of health care in Africa? Focusing on East African societies, this book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in African cultures. Taking into account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes. Informed by existing related studies, and on-the-ground interviews with individuals and organizations in Uganda, Mozambique and Ethiopia, this interdisciplinary book will form an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to better understand the links between society, multi-level state instruments, and health care in East Africa.
Author | : Robert B. Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Medical care |
ISBN | : 9781447338000 |
This book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in East Africa. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes.
Author | : Robert B Lloyd |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-03-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1447337891 |
What social factors contribute to the tragic state of health care in Africa? Focusing on East African societies, this book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in African cultures. Taking into account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes. Informed by existing related studies, and on-the-ground interviews with individuals and organizations in Uganda, Mozambique and Ethiopia, this interdisciplinary book will form an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to better understand the links between society, multi-level state instruments, and health care in East Africa.
Author | : Carolyn M. Jones Medine |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2015-10-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137498056 |
Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora explores African derived religions in a globalized world. The volume focuses on the continent, on African identity in globalization, and on African religion in cultural change.
Author | : Adam K. A. Chepkwony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : |
Health care in sub-Saharan Africa is and will continue to be an issue of utmost importance in the twenty-first century. As the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravages the continent, the stakes heighten not only to provide effective and efficient health care to African communities, but also to disseminate knowledge about health-seeking behavior and to instill belief among people in the possibility of leading a healthy existence. Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa raises questions and offers analysis on many issues related to how health and illness are understood by communities in Africa, as well as how health knowledge and beliefs are disseminated and utilized to provide health services to African populations. The chapters in this book derive from many different disciplinary approaches and cover regions across sub-Saharan Africa, thus offering a holistic glimpse at the knowledge and belief systems functioning in Africa and the ways that these systems contribute to health care access and delivery in the world's most endangered continent. "This edited book of thirty-three chapters is an impressive update of scholarship on health concerns in Africa, as the new century begins. Divided into five parts, it presents multidisciplinary analyses from the perspectives of individuals, professionals, non-profit organizations, communities, and governments... This is a volume that has much to offer anyone interested in Africa's evolving health care system." -- The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Author | : Dorothea LĂĽddeckens |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3839445825 |
In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglement between medicine, religion, and spirituality in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. How do political and legal conditions affect these healing systems? How do they relate to religious and scientific discourses? How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients?
Author | : John Ebune |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2021-12-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 334655404X |
Project Report from the year 2020 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 4, , language: English, abstract: There have been several misconceptions and misinterpretations about African traditional medicine and African concept of health, wholeness and diseases. So many Western scholars and some ignorant Africans opined that traditional medicine is fetishism and that Africans do not have proper understanding of the concept of health and wholeness. This misconception, abuse and derogatory attitudes even from some notable Africans towards alternative medicine, as well as the all need of integrating both the alternative and orthodox medicine to bring about total wholeness, serves as the research problem. This study seeks to correct these misconceptions and also to bring to limelight Africans’ proper view on health and wholeness. Its study argued that the bio-psycho-socio-ecological model of health and wholeness is fundamental to the African Traditional Religion and Medicine. This model brings together the different aspects of human life and treats the human person as an integral and harmonious whole in perpetual relationship with the sacred, the human community and the environment.
Author | : Steven Feierman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1992-09-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520066816 |
These essays are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present.
Author | : Mark Cobb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0199571392 |
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research, practice and policy. Healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address spirituality, to develop their knowledge and implement effective policy. This is the first reference text on the subject providing a comprehensive overview of key topics.