In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 0309054303 / Publisher: National Academies Press, April 1996
This report takes a life span approach to female health in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting biomedic...
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This report takes a life span approach to female health in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting biomedical aspects, the study of which has been relatively neglected compared to socioeconomic and cultural considerations. The life span framework recognizes the need to articulate major causes and manifestations of female morbidity, not solely in women of reproductive age, but within other age groups as well. Chapters address nutritional status; obstetric morbidity and mortality; nervous system disorders; mental health; cancer; injury; tropical infectious diseases; and STDs. The approach and topics are unusual with reference to the developing world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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