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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: CRITICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; Definitions and sub-fields of Psychology; The critical turn in Psychology; The Theory of Social Representations; PART 2: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHRONIC DISEASE RISK, EXPERIENCES AND CARE; The Psychology of Chronic Disease Risk; How lay Ghanaians and Africans define NCD Risk; How lay Ghanaians and Africans Manage NCD Risk; The Psychology of Chronic Disease Experience; The Psychology of Chronic Disease Care; PART 3: CURING OUR ILLS?; Understanding Our Physical and Ideological Ills. |
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Developing multi-level chronic disease interventionsCONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; APPENDICES; Appendix 1: Research projects and locations in Ghana, 1997 -- 2016; Appendix 2. Cognitive polyphasia: employing diverse and opposite ways of thinking; Appendix 3. WHO endorsed strategies to reduce risks of NCDs; Appendix 4. Social representations of diabetes: examples from Nkoranza; Appendix 5. Biographical transformation: Opanin's story; Appendix 6. Diabetes and the world of caregiving: John's story; Appendix 7. Diabetes and the world of caregiving: Ruth's story. |
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Appendix 8. Hope for a cure: a driver for healershoppingAppendix 9. NCD prevention and control responses from selected low and middle income countries; REFERENCES; Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins: a Profile; INDEX; Back cover. |
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Wildlife conservation. |
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Print version: Aikins, De-Graft. Curing Our Ills : The Psychology of Chronic Disease Risk, Experience and Care in Africa. Oxford : Sub-Saharan Publishers & Traders, ©2018 9789988550028 |
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9988883021 |
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9789988883027 (electronic book) |
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