States of disease : political environments and human health / Brian King.
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TextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520962118
- 0520962117
- Social ecology -- Health aspects -- South Africa
- Social ecology -- Health aspects -- Botswana
- AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Government policy -- South Africa
- AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Government policy -- South Africa
- Environmental health -- Botswana
- Sida -- Traitement -- Politique gouvernementale -- Afrique du Sud
- Sida -- Prévention -- Politique gouvernementale -- Afrique du Sud
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography
- AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Government policy
- AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- Government policy
- Environmental health
- Botswana
- South Africa
- 304.2/0968 23
- HM861
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "no one dies of AIDS" -- Social ecology of health -- HIV lifeways -- Historical spaces and contemporary epidemics -- Landscapes of HIV -- Health ecologies within dynamic systems -- States of health.
"Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. States of Disease advances a social ecology of health framework to demonstrate how historical spatial formations contribute to contemporary vulnerabilities to disease and the possibilities for health justice. The book examines how managed HIV in South Africa is being transformed with expanded access to antiretroviral therapy, and how environmental health in northern Botswana is shifting due to global climate change and flooding variability. These cases demonstrate how the political environmental context shapes the ways in which health is embodied, experienced, and managed"--Provided by publisher.
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