Agyepong, Irene Akua, Sewankambo, Nelson, Binagwaho, Agnes, Coll-Seck, Awa Marie, Corrah, Tumani, Ezeh, Alex, Fekadu, Abebaw, Kilonzo, Nduku, Lamptey, Peter, Masiye, Felix, Mayosi, Bongani, Mboup, Souleymane, Muyemb, Jean-Jaques, Pate, Muhammad, Myriam, Sidibe, Simons, Bright, Tlou, Sheila, Gheorghe, Adrian, Legido-Quigley, Helena, McManus, Joanne, Ng, Edmond, O’Leary, Maureen, Enoch, Jamie, Kassebaum, Nicholas and Piot, Peter (2017) The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet, 390 (10114). pp. 2803-2859. ISSN 0140-6736

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Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa’s health challenges are numerous and wide-ranging. Most sub-Saharan African countries face a double burden of traditional, persisting health challenges, such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, and emerging challenges from an increasing prevalence of chronic conditions, mental health disorders, injuries, and health problems related to climate change and environmental degradation. Although there has been real progress on many health indicators, life expectancy and most population health indicators remain behind most low-income and middle-income countries in other parts of the world.

Our Commission was prompted by sub-Saharan Africa’s potential to improve health on its own terms, and largely with its own resources. The spirit of this Commission is one of evidence-based optimism, with caution. We recognise that major health inequities exist and that health outcomes are worst in fragile countries, rural areas, urban slums, and conflict zones, and among the poor, disabled, and marginalised. Moreover, sub- Saharan Africa is facing the challenges and opportunities of the largest cohort of young people in history, with the youth population aged under 25 years predicted to almost double from 230 million to 450 million by 2050. The future of health in Africa is bright, but only if no one is left behind.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Global Health and Infection
Research Centres and Groups:	Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research
Depositing User:	Esther Garibay
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2018 10:47
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2020 09:45
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/72618

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