The Critical Problems Facing Nursing Care in African Countries

Resumo

As study after study has pointed out, the health care systems in Africa pay little attention to the critical interface between education and good health, especially when it comes to the education of women and mothers, who are the primary line of defense against child diseases, and perform simultaneously most domestic chores and critical agricultural activities. While many medical educational institutions on the continent tend to perpetuate, at times, skewed and irrelevant Eurocentric health training, the national pyramidal health structure, weakened at the village level, and disproportionately favoring the provincial and national hospitals, gives the illusion that rural areas are well-served, when in actuality they are not. This chapter endorses the restrengthening of an uncompromised health care system to make it effective and efficient for both rural and urban areas; one that finds ways of trimming financial and humanresource waste; revamps the institutions that train health care and service providers to make the system responsive to the real health needs of the people and not just the wealthy; one that compensates physiciansjust as civil servants; and aligns the educational system with targeted and expected measurable health outcomes.

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Ano

2024

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Licença

CC BY-NC

DOI

10.37506/v8w9xz09

Como citar (ABNT)

HARUNA ABUBAKAR. The Critical Problems Facing Nursing Care in African Countries. International Journal of Nursing Care, v. 12, n. 2, p. 21-26, 2024. DOI: 10.37506/v8w9xz09.