Full Description
This book examines prevailing human health problems in political, socioeconomic, cultural, and physical/biotic settings of health practitioners and planners in Ethiopia. It also evaluates modern and traditional health resources and examines the occurrence of nonvectored communicable diseases.
Contents
Preface -- Editors' Notes -- Introduction -- The Physical and Socioeconomic Environment, the Population, Nutrition, and Disasters -- Movement Toward Modernization: A Century of Progress -- The Physical and Biotic Environment -- Population -- The Economy, with Particular Reference to the Agricultural Sector -- Food, Diet, and Nutrition -- Famine and Malnutrition -- Health Impacts of War -- Health Services and Sexually Transmitted and Other Nonvectored Diseases -- Modern Health Services -- Traditional Medicine -- Water Supply and Sanitation -- Childhood Diseases and Immunization -- Acute Childhood Diarrhea -- Viral Hepatitis -- Intestinal Parasitism -- Eye Diseases and Blindness -- Leprosy -- Tuberculosis -- Meningococcal Meningitis -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Social Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology -- AIDS -- Vector-Borne Diseases -- Malaria -- Trypanosomiasis -- Onchocerciasis -- Leishmaniasis -- Yellow Fever and Other Arboviral Diseases -- Relapsing Fever -- Typhus and Other Rickettsial Diseases -- Schistosomiasis -- Chronic Noninfectious Diseases, Injuries, Mental Health, and Other Health Problems -- Chronic Noninfectious Diseases of Adults -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Podoconiosis (Nonfilarial Elephantiasis) -- Fluorosis -- Dental Health -- Unintentional and Intentional Injuries -- Neurological Disorders -- Mental Illness -- Other Diseases -- Conclusion: Prospects of the Future
