Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa Changes and Challenges
Auteur : Segal Isidor
Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges provides an in-depth examination into the rise of western digestive diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For those interested in the causes of the major diseases of the ?West?, the patterns in Africa have always reflected on the emergence of western diseases and elucidated the pattern of these conditions and their clinical course. Coverage includes the present epidemiology of GI diseases in SSA, the trends that are occurring, and the context of other emerging diseases. Appropriate for researchers, gastroenterologists and internists, this book brings together the latest research in a single, complete volume.
1. Alcohol and smoking: impact of behavioral risk factors2. Urbanisation, upward mobility, demographics, environmental changes and availabity of natural resources in sub-saharan africa (ssa)3. Review of traditional digestive diseases common in ssa4. Epidemiology of digestive diseases in ssa: trends that are occurring5. Emerging non-intestinal diseases arising in ssa6. Changes in nutritional status of africans: recommendations for sub-saharan africa7. Cancer of the esophagus in sub-saharan africa8. Dodenal ulcer and diet in sub-saharan africa9. Helicobacter pylori in sub-saharan africa10. Pancreatitis in sub-saharan africa11. H.i.v. And the digestive system12. Characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in sub-saharan africa13. Abominal tuberculosis in sub-saharan africa14. Colorectal cancer in sub-saharan africa15. Aspects of viral hepatitis in sub-saharan africa in the 21st century16. Hepatocellular carcinoma in africa17. Biliary disease in sub-saharan africa18. Amoebiasis in sub-saharan africa: problems and possible solutions19. Intestinal schistosomiasis in sub-saharan africa20. Cholera in sub-saharan africa21. Conclusions: problems and possible solutions
Researchers of gastroenterology, Gastroenterologists
- Provides evidence of the changes occurring in digestive disease in Sub-Saharan Africa due to Westernization
- Covers urbanization, upward mobility, demographics, environmental changes, and the availability of natural resources that have a decisive influence on digestive diseases
- Offers models for the amelioration of digestive diseases due to Westernization
Date de parution : 11-2018
Ouvrage de 242 p.
19x23.3 cm
Thème de Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa :
Mots-clés :
6.2 Million people in South Africa are infected; 71% of total HIV patients found in Sub-Saharan Africa; Adenocarcinoma; Adherence clubs; Aflatoxin; Alcohol; Alcohol and smoking in Africa; Alcoholic pancreatitis; Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP); Amoebiasis; Antigen detection tests; Bilharsiasis; Biliary pancreatitis; Biliary tract malignancy; Cancers in addition to GIT cancers; Cardiovascular diseases; Cholera in Africa; Chronic infection; Contaminated water; Coping with change; Crohn's disease; Demographics; Diabetes mellitus; Digestive diseases; Direct acting antiviral therapy; Duodenal ulcer; E; histolytica; Effect of diet; Elimination; Environmental change; Esophageal cancer; Food environment; Food-based dietary guidelines; Gallstones common; Gastric ulcer; Gastrointestinal involvement; Gastrointestinal tract; Hand-rolled cigarettes; Helicobacter pylori; Hepatic schistosomiasis; Hepatitis B birth dose vaccine; Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); High morbidity; HIV; HIV cholangiopathy; Increase in survival on antiretroviral therapy (ART); Katayama fever; Liver cirrhosis; Mental illness; Mortality; Multikinase inhibitors; Natural resources; Nutrition education; Nutrition transition; Obesity; Oral rehydration therapy; Overnutrition; Overweight; Pancreatitis; Poverty; Prevalence; Prevalence in SSA; Prevention-clean water; Primary liver cancer; Rarity in SSA; Rat peptic ulcer models; Reflux symptoms; Risk factors; s Hch; Schistosomiasis; Side effects of ART therapy; Squamous cancer; Submucosa layer; Sub-Saharan Africa; Swimmer' Tobacco; Traditional beers; Transmission; Trophozoites; Tropical pancreatitis; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis and IBD; Ulcerative colitis; Undernutrition; Upward mobility; Urbanization; Viral hepatitis; Virulence factors