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Vol. 19 No 2 (2015): Revue africaine de sociologie

6 - Health Inequality in South Africa: A Systematic Review

https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v19i2.3739
Chinwe C. Obuaku-Igwe
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-6924

Corresponding Author(s) : Chinwe C. Obuaku-Igwe

obuaku@yahoo.com

Revue africaine de sociologie, Vol. 19 No 2 (2015): Revue africaine de sociologie

Résumé

Cette étude présente une revue des études empiriques clés sur les inégalités de santé en Afrique du Sud
dans le but de contribuer à un examen comparatif des inégalités sociales de santé dans les différents
pays d’Europe et d’autres parties du monde . Études examinées ont été identifiées par une recherche
informatisée de mots clés tels que les inégalités , la santé, les inégalités en matière de santé , de la race ,
de la santé en Afrique du Sud , les systèmes de santé , les déterminants socio- économiques de la santé
et les moyens de subsistance en Afrique du Sud . Des études ont été incluses si l’objectif principal était
d’explorer les inégalités de santé comme une variable dans la mortalité des enfants / adultes

Mots-clés

inégalités de santé la race la mortalité infantile les conditions socio- économiques l’Afrique du Sud
Chinwe C. Obuaku-Igwe. (2015). 6 - Health Inequality in South Africa: A Systematic Review. Revue Africaine De Sociologie, 19(2), 96–131. https://doi.org/10.57054/asr.v19i2.3739
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Chinwe C. Obuaku-Igwe

Dr Chinwe Obuaku-Igwe is lecturer and researcher at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has a PhD in Medical Sociology and has been responsible for Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching with a specialisation in Medical/Sociology of Health. She has had substantial involvement in the mentoring, grants proposal writing, coaching and general retention of Sociology students at the University of the Western Cape. Her research explicates health and health care systems in Africa, rooting them in the politics and economics of the continent through the utilisation of an array of tools such as STATA, to analyse and test insights from data.
She is currently the President of the South African Sociological Association and a leading authority on African Health, health systems and Development. She is the author of Kakistocracy: An idiot's hilarious guide to Nigerian History. Her new books "New Perspectives on Access to Essential Medicines: Beyond Medications; and An Assets Based Approach to Mental Health Promotion in Africa, are set to be published in 2021

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