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Author Kloos, Helmut

Title The Ecology of Health and Disease in Ethiopia
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (561 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Notes -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE The Physical and Socioeconomic Environment, the Population, Nutrition, and Disasters -- 2 Movement Toward Modernization: A Century of Progress -- 3 The Physical and Biotic Environment -- 4 Population -- 5 The Economy, with Particular Reference to the Agricultural Sector -- 6 Food, Diet, and Nutrition -- 7 Famine and Malnutrition -- 8 Health Impacts of War -- PART TWO Health Services and Sexually Transmitted and Other Nonvectored Diseases -- 9 Modern Health Services -- 10 Traditional Medicine -- 11 Water Supply and Sanitation -- 12 Childhood Diseases and Immunization -- 13 Acute Childhood Diarrhea -- 14 Viral Hepatitis -- 15 Intestinal Parasitism -- 16 Eye Diseases and Blindness -- 17 Leprosy -- 18 Tuberculosis -- 19 Meningococcal Meningitis -- 20 Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- 21 Social Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology -- 22 AIDS -- PART THREE Vector-Borne Diseases -- 23 Malaria -- 24 Trypanosomiasis -- 25 Onchocerciasis -- 26 Leishmaniasis -- 27 Yellow Fever and Other Arboviral Diseases -- 28 Relapsing Fever -- 29 Typhus and Other Rickettsial Diseases -- 30 Schistosomiasis -- PART FOUR Chronic Noninfectious Diseases, Injuries, Mental Health, and Other Health Problems -- 31 Chronic Noninfectious Diseases of Adults -- 32 Diabetes Mellitus -- 33 Podoconiosis (Nonfilarial Elephantiasis) -- 34 Fluorosis -- 35 Dental Health -- 36 Unintentional and Intentional Injuries -- 37 Neurological Disorders -- 38 Mental Illness -- 39 Other Diseases -- 40 Conclusion: Prospects of the Future -- Index -- Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Public health -- Ethiopia
Medical care -- Ethiopia
Diseases -- Ethiopia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Diseases
Medical care
Public health
Ethiopia
Form Electronic book
Author Zein, Zein Ahmed
ISBN 9781000244250
1000244253
9780429310232
0429310234
9781000316131
1000316130
9781000280197
1000280195