The Ecology Of Health And Disease In Ethiopia

This book examines prevailing human health problems in political, socioeconomic, cultural, and physical/biotic settings of health practitioners and planners in Ethiopia. It also evaluates modern and traditional health resources and examines the occurrence of nonvectored communicable diseases. Cover Half Title Title Dedication Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Editors' Notes Acronyms 1 Introduction PART ONE The Physical and Socioeconomic Environment, the Population, Nutrition, and Disasters 2 Movement Toward Modernization: A Century of Progress 3 The Physical and Biotic Environment 4 Population 5 The Economy, with Particular Reference to the Agricultural Sector 6 Food, Diet, and Nutrition 7 Famine and Malnutrition 8 Health Impacts of War PART TWO Health Services and Sexually Transmitted and Other Nonvectored Diseases 9 Modern Health Services 10 Traditional Medicine 11 Water Supply and Sanitation 12 Childhood Diseases and Immunization 13 Acute Childhood Diarrhea 14 Viral Hepatitis 15 Intestinal Parasitism 16 Eye Diseases and Blindness 17 Leprosy 18 Tuberculosis 19 Meningococcal Meningitis 20 Sexually Transmitted Diseases 21 Social Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology 22 AIDS PART THREE Vector-Borne Diseases 23 Malaria 24 Trypanosomiasis 25 Onchocerciasis 26 Leishmaniasis 27 Yellow Fever and Other Arboviral Diseases 28 Relapsing Fever 29 Typhus and Other Rickettsial Diseases 30 Schistosomiasis PART FOUR Chronic Noninfectious Diseases, Injuries, Mental Health, and Other Health Problems 31 Chronic Noninfectious Diseases of Adults 32 Diabetes Mellitus 33 Podoconiosis (Nonfilarial Elephantiasis) 34 Fluorosis 35 Dental Health 36 Unintentional and Intentional Injuries 37 Neurological Disorders 38 Mental Illness 39 Other Diseases 40 Conclusion: Prospects of the Future Index Contributors