Understanding Public Health in Africa

PART I . Basic Principles of Public Health. 1. Defining Public Health: Concepts and Approaches. 2. Determinants of Health and Measures of Health. 3. Introduction to Health Systems. 4. Health Insurance Scheme: Case Study of Zambia. PART II. Environment and Health. 5. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Low-resource Settings. 6. Air Pollution in Low-resource Settings. 7. Food and Nutrition in Low-resource Settings. PART III. Disease Burden in Low-resource Settings. 8.Challenges in Managing Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Accessibility in Low-resource Settings. 9. Tuberculosis Still a Public Health Problem of Low-resource Settings. 10. Malaria Still a Public Health Concern in LMICs. 11. Situational Analysis of HIV/AIDS Pandemic in LMICs. 12. Maternal and Child Health. 13. Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases. 14. Mental Health in Low-resource Settings: Public Health Challenges and Practice. 15. Public Health Surveillance in Low-resource Settings. 16. Comparison of Frequencies in Cross-sectional or Case-control Studies. PART IV. Emerging Public Health Issues in Low- and Middle-income Settings of Africa. 17. Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: An Emerging Public Health Concern in LMICs. 18. Human-Wildlife Conflicts: An Emerging Public Health Issue in Low-resource Settings of Africa. 19.Climate Change and Human Health.