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David Sanders was born in South Africa and grew up in Zimbabwe, where he qualified as a medical doctor. During the 1970's, he lived and worked in Britain where he specialized in paediatrics and later in Tropical Public Health. While there he was actively involved in campaigns to defend the National Health Service and in solidarity work with the liberation struggles in the former Portugese African Colonies, Zimbabwe and South Africa. He was also a founding member of ZIMA (Zimbabwe Medical Aid) and the "Politics of Health" group. In 1980 David Sanders returned to the newly independent Zimbabwe as Coordinator of a rural health program developed by OXFAM in association with the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health. He also initiated and helped develop a national children's supplemental feeding program and actively contributed to the reconstruction and development of Zimbabwe's health system. He joined the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Medical School in Harare and later transferred to the Department of Community Medicine, in which he was a latterly Associate Professor and Chairperson. During this period, he was centrally involved in the restructuring of the Medical Undergraduate curriculum. In 1992 he became director of Staff/Student Development at the Medical School of the University of Natal in South Africa, where he became actively involved in health policy development with the African national Congress (ANC) and SAHSSO (South African Health and Social Services Organization). In 1993 he was appointed as Professor and Director of a new Public Health program at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, which provides practice oriented education and training in public health and primary health care to a wide range of health and development workers. He is the author of the book, "The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the Politics of Underdevelopment", as well as several booklets and articles on the political economy of health, structural adjustment, child nutrition and health personnel education.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Sanders, David (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75. Seller Inventory # G0965558517I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Sanders, David (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75. Seller Inventory # G0965558517I3N00