African Health Leaders: Making Change And Claiming The Future
by Francis Omaswa /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by
foreigners.
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by
foreigners.African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming
the Future
African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming
the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who
have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book
discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership that has been
involved tackling everything from HIV/AIDs, to maternal, and child
mortality and neglected tropical diseases. It celebrates their
achievements and shows how, over three generations, African health
leaders are creating a distinctively African vision of health and
health systems.
redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who
have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book
discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership that has been
involved tackling everything from HIV/AIDs, to maternal, and child
mortality and neglected tropical diseases. It celebrates their
achievements and shows how, over three generations, African health
leaders are creating a distinctively African vision of health and
health systems.
The book reveals how African Health Leaders are claiming the future
- in Africa, but also by sharing their insights and knowledge
globally and contributing fully to improving health throughout the
world. It illustrates how African leadership can enable foreign
agencies and individuals working in Africa to avoid all those
misunderstandings and misinterpretations of culture and context
which lead to wasted efforts and frustrated hopes.
The book reveals how African Health Leaders are claiming the future
- in Africa, but also by sharing their insights and knowledge
globally and contributing fully to improving health throughout the
world. It illustrates how African leadership can enable foreign
agencies and individuals working in Africa to avoid all those
misunderstandings and misinterpretations of culture and context
which lead to wasted efforts and frustrated hopes.African Health Leaders
African Health Leaders challenges Africans to do more for
themselves; build on success; tackle weak governance, corrupt
systems and low expectations and claim the future. It sets out what
Africa needs from the rest of the world in the spirit of global
solidarity - not primarily in aid, but through investment,
collaboration, partnership and co-development. It concludes with a
vision for improvement based on three foundations: an understanding
that 'health is made at home'; the determination to offer access to
health services for everyone; and an insistence on the pursuit of
quality.
challenges Africans to do more for
themselves; build on success; tackle weak governance, corrupt
systems and low expectations and claim the future. It sets out what
Africa needs from the rest of the world in the spirit of global
solidarity - not primarily in aid, but through investment,
collaboration, partnership and co-development. It concludes with a
vision for improvement based on three foundations: an understanding
that 'health is made at home'; the determination to offer access to
health services for everyone; and an insistence on the pursuit of
quality.
