Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India

"This is a book whose time has come. Covid-19 should have forced a fundamental shift in thinking around the way African healthcare systems are organised, and how and where they procure essential health commodities. I recommend this book for every African policy maker, parliamentarian, oppositio...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Banda, Geoffrey (Editor), Mackintosh, Maureen (Editor), Njeru, Mercy Karimi (Editor), Makene, Fortunata Songora (Editor), Srinivas, Smita (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:International Political Economy Series,
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 cancer in pandemic times
  • Chapter 1 - the cancer care challenge in the light of pandemic experience
  • Chapter 2 - broken supply chains and local manufacturing innovation: responses to covid-19 and their implications for policy
  • Part 2 the cancer care experience in east Africa
  • Chapter 3 - the social pain of cancer in east africa: understanding need
  • Chapter 4: access to cancer care: navigating the maze
  • Chapter 5 - beyond 'late presentation': explaining delayed cancer diagnosis in east Africa
  • Part 3 local industry and cancer care in india and east Africa
  • Chapter 6 - cupboard full, cupboard empty: the industrial building blocks of covid-19 and cancer systems
  • Chapter 7- manufacturing for cancer care in east africa: raising the ambition
  • Chapter 8 - oncology drug production in sub-saharan africa: the challenge and opportunity, with evidence from india
  • Part 4 - industrial innovation and industrial policy
  • Chapter 9- emerging business models in cancer diagnostic startups in india and lessons for african countries
  • Chapter 10 - realistic ambitions: technology transfer for biologics platform technologies
  • Chapter 11 - palliation economics: the industrial organization of morphine in india
  • Part 5 - tackling institutional gaps: using scenarios
  • Chapter 12 innovation and policy in cancer pain management: systemic interactions in Tanzania
  • Chapter 13 - using scenarios to support innovation and mutual linkages
  • Chapter 14- conclusion: better cancer care and greater local health security: lessons, opportunities and ways forward.