What is needed for health promotion in Africa: Band-aid, live aid or real change?

Critical Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 509-519

  Sanders, David ^a   Stern, Ruth ^a   Struthers, Patricia ^a   Ngulube, Thabale Jack ^b   Onya, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b Centre for Health Science and Social Research (CHESSORE)   (Zambia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Civil society mobilisation; Colonialism; Globalisation; Political transition; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONDOM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOZAMBIQUE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACISM; SAFE SEX; SANITATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; URBANIZATION; VIOLENCE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 57049153927     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581590802503076     Document Type: Article

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