When Culture Impacts Health

Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, methodological and practical insights into understanding and successfully mediating cultural influences to address old and new public health issues including safe water delivery, leprosy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and body image. It contains useful methodological tools - how to map cultural consensus, measure wealth capital, conduct a cultural economy audit, for example. It provides approaches for discerning between ethnic and racial constructs and for conducting research among indigenous peoples. The book will be indispensible for culture and health researchers in all regions.

Discusses global application of case descriptions
Demonstrates how a cultural approach to health research enriches and informs our understanding of intractable public health problems
Covers methods and measurements applicable to a variety of cultural research approaches as well as actual research results
Case studies include medical anthropology, cultural epidemiology, cultural history and social medicine perspectives

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:380
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780124159211

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"Banwell, Ulijaszek, and Dixon assemble 30 essays by health sociology, medical and bio-anthropology, cultural anthropology, and epidemiology researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and the UK, who provide medical anthropologists and social epidemiologists with conceptual and measurement tools to improve their understanding of how culture affects population health behaviors and chronic and infectious disease risks and demonstrate how public health can influence culture to encourage healthy lifestyles." --Reference and Research Book News, August 2013

Innehållsförteckning

1. When culture impacts healthPart A – Research approaches2. The antecendents to culture in health research: perspectives from the social sciences3. Biological and biocultural anthropology4. Toward Cultural Epidemiology: Beyond Epistemological Hegemony5. The cultural anthropological contribution to communicable disease epidemiology Part B - Local tales I. Industrial and post-industrial societies6. Medicalisation or medicine as culture? : The case of ADHD7. Filthy fingernails and friendly germs: Lay concepts of contagious disease transmission in developed countries8. Context and environment: The value of considering lay epidemiology9. Identity, social position, wellbeing and health: insights from Australians living with hearing loss 10. Framing debates about risk for skin cancer and vitamin D deficiency in New Zealand: Ethnicity, skin colour and / or cultural practice? 11. Analysing smoking using Te Whare Tapa Wha12. Thirty years of New Zealand smoking advances a case for cultural epidemiology and cultural geography13. On Slimming Pills, Growth Hormones, and Plastic Surgery: The Socioeconomic Value of the Body in South Korea II. Economically transitioning societies14. Tacking between disciplines Approaches to tuberculosis in New Zealand, Cook Islands and Tuvalu15. Social determinants of health in a Papuan village16. Life and well-being under historical ecological variation: the epidemiology of disease and of representations17. Perceptions of Leprosy in the Orang Asli (indigenous minority) of Peninsular Malaysia18. A qualitative exploration of factors affection uptake of water treatment technology in rural Bangladesh19. Anthropological approaches to outbreak investigations in Bangladesh20. Post-Disaster Coping in Aceh: Sociocultural Factors and Emotional ResponsePart C – Methodological Lessons21. Non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians: cultural-social positioning and health22. Capturing the capitals; a heuristic for measuring â€˜wealthâ€™ of NZ children in the 21st century. An application to the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal cohort23. Cultural consensus modeling of disease24. Meaning and measurement – research with African immigrants in Australia25. The cultural economy approach to studying chronic disease risks, with application to illicit drug use26. Doing health policy research: how to interview policy elites27. Thai food culture in transition: a mixed methods study on the role of food retailing28. Developing culturally appropriate interventions to prevent person-to person transmission of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: cultural epidemiology in actionConclusion29. From local tales to global lessons30. Complementary readings