Mapping of developmental origins of health and disease to 'Sustainable Development Goals' and implications for public health in Africa
Date
2020
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African Sun Media
Abstract
A call for new approaches and knowledge systems has emerged, to map the way
forward for the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ in Africa.6 Public health on the
continent, calls for an approach to effect changes to reach the goals proposed by
the World Health Organization.7 It is against this backdrop that the developmental
origins of health and disease (DOHaD) are proposed as a framework of
implementation for specific Sustainable Development Goals.8
The DOHaD concept identifies the origins of health and disease, and also
elucidates early mechanisms for achieving these goals. Numerous Sustainable
Development Goals are specifically applicable to the DOHaD concept, and
DOHaD and Sustainable Development Goals have immense synergistic potential.
The chapter identifies gaps in which DOHaD may offer direct, informed solutions
to the hurdles encountered in Sustainable Development Goals achievement
strategies, and these have direct public health implications for the continent.
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CITATION: Kajee, N. et al. 2020. Mapping of developmental origins of health and disease to 'Sustainable Development Goals' and implications for public health 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:10.18820/9781928357759/04.
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Keywords
Diseases -- Africa, Public health -- Africa
Citation
Kajee, N. et al. 2020. Mapping of developmental origins of health and disease to 'Sustainable Development Goals' and implications for public health 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:10.18820/9781928357759/04.