Intersectoral approaches to health and non-communicable disease prevention in Africa
Date
2020
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African Sun Media
Abstract
This chapter grounds efforts to achieve optimal population health in Africa, within
the context of global and regional aspirations for health as part of the sustainable
development agenda. The author highlights the important role that the rapidly
growing urban centres in Africa are playing in the ongoing epidemiological
transition, with an emerging non-communicable disease epidemic alongside a high
burden of infectious disease. Far from seeing this only as a challenge, the author
of this chapter explores the opportunity to harness this changing environment for
health creation, propose a re-thinking of accountability for health towards a more
inclusive definition of health services, and the role that adolescents can and should
play both as important targets for non-communicable disease prevention and as
agents of change, advocating for an all of government, all of society’s approach
to health.
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CITATION: Oni, T. 2020. Intersectoral approaches to health and non-communicable disease prevention in Africa, in Macnab, A., Daar, A. & Pauw, C. 2020. Health in transition : translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928357759/15.
The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za
The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za
Keywords
Diseases -- Africa, Public health -- Africa
Citation
Oni, T. 2020. Intersectoral approaches to health and non-communicable disease prevention in Africa, in Macnab, A., Daar, A. & Pauw, C. 2020. Health in transition : translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928357759/15.