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The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals
This Companion explores the tension between the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the realities of health and healthcare in a volatile and uncertain world wracked by climate change and conflict. Championing health as a pivotal public good, it presents solutions for improved access to health rooted in community empowerment and accountability of governance.
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Contents
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This Companion explores the tension between the promises of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the realities of healthcare in a volatile and uncertain world wracked by climate change and conflict. Championing health as a pivotal public good, it presents solutions for improved access to health rooted in community empowerment and accountability of governance.
Highlighting innovative research and practice, academics and practitioners from the Global South and North examine key strategies for success in the future of health and the SDGs, focusing on holistic structural approaches. Bringing different voices and perspectives to the fore, they cover a wide range of dimensions to the challenge, including: inequality, power and participation; health systems; gender-based discrimination and violence; sexual and reproductive health and rights; food and the environment; urbanisation; and governance and accountability. Ultimately, the Companion embodies a vision for change, offering practical insights from the inclusive work of social enterprises, NGOs, cross-sector integrated approaches to health, and reform dynamics in global and national-level institutions and governance systems.
The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals is a crucial resource for students and academics in development studies, health policy and economics, social policy, sociology of development and sustainable development. It is also invaluable to practitioners and policymakers in NGOs, governments, private philanthropy and consultancy.
Highlighting innovative research and practice, academics and practitioners from the Global South and North examine key strategies for success in the future of health and the SDGs, focusing on holistic structural approaches. Bringing different voices and perspectives to the fore, they cover a wide range of dimensions to the challenge, including: inequality, power and participation; health systems; gender-based discrimination and violence; sexual and reproductive health and rights; food and the environment; urbanisation; and governance and accountability. Ultimately, the Companion embodies a vision for change, offering practical insights from the inclusive work of social enterprises, NGOs, cross-sector integrated approaches to health, and reform dynamics in global and national-level institutions and governance systems.
The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals is a crucial resource for students and academics in development studies, health policy and economics, social policy, sociology of development and sustainable development. It is also invaluable to practitioners and policymakers in NGOs, governments, private philanthropy and consultancy.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book is a refreshing addition to the steady stream of publications on the Sustainable Development Goals. The editors describe the book as offering a “hopeful vision”; that indeed it does, providing lessons from history, policy and practice in what can work to enhance health and wellbeing in the midst of a volatile and insecure world.’
– Janet Seeley, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
– Janet Seeley, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Contents
Contents
Foreword xvi
1 Introduction: health as a public good in an uncertain world 1
Susannah H. Mayhew and Michael Hammer
INEQUALITY, PARTICIPATION AND POWER DIFFERENTIALS IN GLOBAL HEALTH ACCESS
2 A practitioner’s view on clean energy and female health outcomes in Africa with case studies from Nigeria 24
Ifeoma Malo and Abel B.S. Gaiya
3 Travelling the ‘last mile’ first: learning from a spontaneous intervention on the COVID-19 pandemic and socio-economic determinants of its impact in India 37
Pradeep Narayanan and Tarini S. Shipurkar
4 Transport access routes for motorcycles in Liberia 47
Krijn Peters and Jack Jenkins
5 Community action in preventing epidemics: comparative lessons of Ebola virus disease, COVID-19 and smallpox in Sierra Leone 59
Paul Richards and Esther Yei Mokuwa
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH SYSTEMS TO BUILD FUTURE RESILIENCE
6 Promoting and institutionalizing community health cadres in Ethiopia to enable progress towards the SDGs: a historical perspective 76
Mirkuzie Woldie, Firew Bobo and Dina Balabanova
7 The evolution of the Afghan health system 2002 to 2022 and challenges ahead after the return of the Taliban to power 102
Najibullah Safi, Ahmad Jan Naeem and Palwasha Anwari
8 Community and Indigenous concepts of and involvement with ‘health’ and how they contribute to achieving the SDGs 119
Amanda Wingett, Eniola Olubukola Cadmus, Julieta Matos Freschi,Mariana M. Vale, Simeon I. Cadmus, Stewart Sutherland and Robyn G. Alders
GENDER AND SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
9 Climate change and gender-based violence: international legal obligations and proactive strategies for protection 141
Brendan Gogarty, Alexandra Robinson and Meghna Ranganathan
10 Navigating crisis: addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls in the aftermath of natural disasters 160
Annalise Morlock, Donya Zarrinnegar, Manuela Colombini andSusannah H. Mayhew
11 Sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate, environment and co-existence in Madagascar 191
Vik Mohan and Edith W. Ngunjiri
HEALTH, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT
12 Cities and environmental change 208
Erika Veidis, Ashley Jowell, Ola Alani and Michele Barry
13 Interconnections between health, environment, demographic, and livelihood factors: shaping food security in Rukiga, Uganda 226
Tashfiha Nusrat Ruhi, Richard Muhumuza, Gift Namanya andSusannah H. Mayhew
14 Food loss in fish supply chains: consequences for achieving SDGs on public health and nutrition in Ghana and Tanzania 248
Molly Ahern, Ansen Ward, Adeeba Ishaq and Susannah H. Mayhew
URBANISATION AND HEALTH
15 Cities, health, and equity 274
Ashley Jowell, Erika Veidis, Ola Alani and Michele Barry
16 Opportunities and challenges of remote sensing and spatial analysis of health issues in slum settlements 298
John Friesen
17 ‘One has to manage and its who you know’: social support and coping strategies among urban poor residents during COVID-19 311
Wafa Alam and Sabina Faiz Rashid
GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
18 Taking the long view: a longitudinal perspective on accountability capabilities and capacity of IGOs to adapt to grand challenges 332
Michael Hammer and Susannah H. Mayhew
19 Tracing linkages between pharmaceutical incentivisation, antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance in Pakistan 361
Muhammad Naveed Noor, Sadia Shakoor and Rumina Hasan
20 Corporate accountability and the right to food and nutrition in the context of health and the Sustainable Development Goals 373
Busiso Moyo, Safura Abdool Karim, Petronell Kruger and Helen Walls
21 Conclusion: shifting power, resources and mindsets – from crisis response to sustainable development 386
Michael Hammer and Susannah H. Mayhew
Foreword xvi
1 Introduction: health as a public good in an uncertain world 1
Susannah H. Mayhew and Michael Hammer
INEQUALITY, PARTICIPATION AND POWER DIFFERENTIALS IN GLOBAL HEALTH ACCESS
2 A practitioner’s view on clean energy and female health outcomes in Africa with case studies from Nigeria 24
Ifeoma Malo and Abel B.S. Gaiya
3 Travelling the ‘last mile’ first: learning from a spontaneous intervention on the COVID-19 pandemic and socio-economic determinants of its impact in India 37
Pradeep Narayanan and Tarini S. Shipurkar
4 Transport access routes for motorcycles in Liberia 47
Krijn Peters and Jack Jenkins
5 Community action in preventing epidemics: comparative lessons of Ebola virus disease, COVID-19 and smallpox in Sierra Leone 59
Paul Richards and Esther Yei Mokuwa
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH SYSTEMS TO BUILD FUTURE RESILIENCE
6 Promoting and institutionalizing community health cadres in Ethiopia to enable progress towards the SDGs: a historical perspective 76
Mirkuzie Woldie, Firew Bobo and Dina Balabanova
7 The evolution of the Afghan health system 2002 to 2022 and challenges ahead after the return of the Taliban to power 102
Najibullah Safi, Ahmad Jan Naeem and Palwasha Anwari
8 Community and Indigenous concepts of and involvement with ‘health’ and how they contribute to achieving the SDGs 119
Amanda Wingett, Eniola Olubukola Cadmus, Julieta Matos Freschi,Mariana M. Vale, Simeon I. Cadmus, Stewart Sutherland and Robyn G. Alders
GENDER AND SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
9 Climate change and gender-based violence: international legal obligations and proactive strategies for protection 141
Brendan Gogarty, Alexandra Robinson and Meghna Ranganathan
10 Navigating crisis: addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls in the aftermath of natural disasters 160
Annalise Morlock, Donya Zarrinnegar, Manuela Colombini andSusannah H. Mayhew
11 Sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate, environment and co-existence in Madagascar 191
Vik Mohan and Edith W. Ngunjiri
HEALTH, FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT
12 Cities and environmental change 208
Erika Veidis, Ashley Jowell, Ola Alani and Michele Barry
13 Interconnections between health, environment, demographic, and livelihood factors: shaping food security in Rukiga, Uganda 226
Tashfiha Nusrat Ruhi, Richard Muhumuza, Gift Namanya andSusannah H. Mayhew
14 Food loss in fish supply chains: consequences for achieving SDGs on public health and nutrition in Ghana and Tanzania 248
Molly Ahern, Ansen Ward, Adeeba Ishaq and Susannah H. Mayhew
URBANISATION AND HEALTH
15 Cities, health, and equity 274
Ashley Jowell, Erika Veidis, Ola Alani and Michele Barry
16 Opportunities and challenges of remote sensing and spatial analysis of health issues in slum settlements 298
John Friesen
17 ‘One has to manage and its who you know’: social support and coping strategies among urban poor residents during COVID-19 311
Wafa Alam and Sabina Faiz Rashid
GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
18 Taking the long view: a longitudinal perspective on accountability capabilities and capacity of IGOs to adapt to grand challenges 332
Michael Hammer and Susannah H. Mayhew
19 Tracing linkages between pharmaceutical incentivisation, antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance in Pakistan 361
Muhammad Naveed Noor, Sadia Shakoor and Rumina Hasan
20 Corporate accountability and the right to food and nutrition in the context of health and the Sustainable Development Goals 373
Busiso Moyo, Safura Abdool Karim, Petronell Kruger and Helen Walls
21 Conclusion: shifting power, resources and mindsets – from crisis response to sustainable development 386
Michael Hammer and Susannah H. Mayhew
