health inequality in africa


  • What are the health inequalities in Africa?

    Sub-Saharan Africa also bears the brunt of global health inequalities, with high levels of undernutrition, 50% of maternal and child deaths, and a high burden of infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis (1,3).
  • What are the 4 explanations of health inequalities?

    In broad agreement with other commentators (Brotherston, 1975; Cartwright, 1982), it isolates four possible types of explanation of class differences in health: measurement artefact; natural or social selection; materialist; and cultural/behavioural differences.
  • What is the major health issue in Africa?

    Without access to medicines, Africans are susceptible to the three big killer diseases on the continent: malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Globally, 50% of children under five who die of pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
  • Some of the structural factors include Page 7 7 the legacies of slavery, colonialism in large swath of Africa and that of apartheid in South Africa have left deep marks in the distribution of land, political power and other related processes that impact directly inequality.
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