Foreword
Stephan Conermann
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives
Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku
Chapter 1: A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Felix Ankomah Asante and Makafui Isaac Dzudzor
Chapter 2: Medicine Quality in West Africa: Impact of Trans-Border Trade
Oluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku and Christie Bose Ola
Chapter 3: Tackling Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Medicinal Plant Approach
Peculiar Feenna Onyekere, Nwafor Felix Ifeanyi, and Chioma Obianuju Peculiar-Onyekere
Chapter 4:Malaria Control in Ghana: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Ama Pokuaa Fenny and Patricia Ohenewaa Akuffo-Henaku
Chapter 5: Intimate Partner Violence as a Silent Killer: Analyzing Domestic Violence as a Health Hazard in Uganda
Proscovia Namuli
Chapter 6: Caring for the Aged: Africa’s Next Health Challenge
Emmanuel Ashiedu Codjoe
Chapter 7: Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority and provision of quality health care services: Some reflections on the provider payment reforms within the National Health Insurance Scheme
Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei
Chapter 8: Cultural Negotiation and Invention of Healthcare Strategies among Cattle Nomads of Oyo North, Nigeria
Aderemi Suleiman Ajala and Kayode Akinsete
Chapter 9: Safe food systems for better health outcomes: Emerging food safety issues, challenges and solutions in sub-Saharan Africa
Marther W. Ngigi and Dominic Mureithi
Chapter 10: Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health in Africa
Gloria Afful-Mensah, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, and Robert Kaba Alhassan
Chapter 11: Paediatric tuberculosis in Ghana: understanding the sociocultural context to increase case detection
Gloria Ivy Mensah
Chapter 12: Maternal nutrition and the risk of cardiovascular diseases in offspring: translating research into practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Richard Blay