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Divining without seeds : the case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa /

Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness in Africa, yet health practitioners often fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. Iruka Okeke argues that there is a pressing need to improve laboratory diagnostics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
Diagnosis, Laboratory > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical laboratories > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Clinical medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Communicable Diseases > diagnosis
Laboratories > supply & distribution
Clinical Medicine > methods
Africa South of the Sahara
Diagnostics biologiques > Afrique subsaharienne.
Médecine > Laboratoires > Afrique subsaharienne.
Médecine clinique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Afrique subsaharienne.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Clinical medicine.
Diagnosis, Laboratory.
Medical laboratories.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness in Africa, yet health practitioners often fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. Iruka Okeke argues that there is a pressing need to improve laboratory diagnostics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780801460906
0801460905