Health Communication and Disease in Africa Beliefs, Traditions and Stigma /
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| Summary: | XV, 401 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2546-6 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Global inequalities in health and Africa
- Part 2: Conceptual approaches
- Chapter 2: Health beliefs and communication: conceptual approaches
- Chapter 3: Understanding Community Development Approaches in health
- Part 3: Stigma and health
- Chapter 4: Alzheimer’s disease – molecular defect, public perceptions and stigma in South Africa
- Chapter 5: Toward a better understanding of HIV Prevention stigma, religion and health in Zimbabwe
- Chapter 6: Sinikithemba Gospel Group and the Grassroots Struggle against HIV/AIDS Stigma in South Africa
- Part 4: Risk perception and health
- Chapter 7: “Fat people are more respected: Socio-cultural Construction of Obesity and overweight Risk & Prevention in Ugandan Communities
- Chapter 8: “… I had to do this to survive”: HIV risk environment of female street sex work in Nigeria
- Part 5: Reproductive health, traditions and beliefs
- Chapter 9: The sociolinguistic functions of English and Chichewa in GynaecologicalConsultations in a Chichewa speaking Hospital Setting in Malawi
- Chapter 10: Evil spirits and martyrdom as perceptions of preeclampsia among traditional birth attendants in Kano, North-West Nigeria
- Part 6: Mental health
- Chapter 11: Culture and Mental Healthcare Access in the Moroccan Context
- Chapter 12: Social media effects on mental Health: A study of ‘Selfitis’ among undergraduates of a Nigerian university
- Part 7: Communities, western and indigenous communication
- Chapter 13: Collective change through mass media: Engaging adolescent girls through interactive radio to promote AIDS-free communities in Kenya
- Chapter 14: Combating malaria in Nigeria’s rural communities through indigenous communication strategies
- Chapter 15: Indigenous and contemporary knowledge as interventions to reduce teenage pregnancy in South Africa
- Part 8: Religion and health communication
- Chapter 16: Covid-19, religious institutions and the accommodation of science in Africa
- Part 9: Conclusion
- Chapter 17: Is science enough? Health communication and health enabling environments
- Index. .