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From AIDS to Population Health – How an American University and a Kenyan Medical School Transformed Healthcare in East Africa

Autor James D. Kelly
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 noi 2022
"From AIDS to Population Health explores the thirty-year history of a unique collaboration between the medical schools of Indiana University and Moi University in Kenya, as it progressed from combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in East Africa to the building of a national plan to provide universal healthcare to all. The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) program focuses on the medical education of healthcare professionals who are building communities that can take care of themselves. The overwhelming success of the AMPATH program and its continuing vibrant legacy today are showcased through dozens of striking photographs, telling interviews, and revealing anecdotes and encounters. From AIDS to Population Health focuses on four of the most innovative projects among the fifty that AMPATH oversees: a microfinance officer who organizes villagers, an oncology nurse who runs outreach clinics, a farm extension agent working in partnership with a multinational agriculture corporation to improve farm output, and a special healthcare clinic exclusively for adolescents. Over its thirty-year history, AMPATH has served more than one million clients and trained 2,600 medical professionals and community health workers, always guided by its motto, "Leading with Care." From AIDS to Population Health presents their compelling stories and explores the program's continuing legacy for the first time"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253062758
ISBN-10: 0253062756
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 288 x 264 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.34 kg
Editura: Wiley

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Cuprins

Part 1: Introduction
1. My African Experience
2. History and AMPATH
3. AMPATH Re-envisioned
Part 2: Photographic Essays of Workers
4. Population Health through Economic Empowerment
5. Public-Private Partnerships
6. Managing Chronic Diseases
7. Rafiki Centre for Adolescent Health
Part 3: Leadership Profiles
8. The Leadership
Part 4: Research
9. Methodology
10. Staff Responses to the Survey
11. Discussion and Conclusions
Epilogue
References