African Women's Health
ISBN-13: 9780865438125
Contributor(s): Meredeth Turshen
Subject: Family & Health
Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press
Publication Date: 11-10-2000
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£21.95
About the book
This critical collection engages many of the health problems of greatest concern to most African women today: death during pregnancy and the need for assistance in childbirth; the spread of the AIDS epidemic; mental illness and domestic violence, which appears to be increasing along with civil unrest and war; the persistence of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation; and the impact of structural adjustment programmes on health and access to health care.