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Anthropology and Epidemiology - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Anthropology and Epidemiology - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: Culture, Illness and Healing, 9
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Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the
contribu tions that the social sciences might make to the
epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease. Several
reasons can be cited for this increasing interest. Primary among
these has been the rise of the chronic, non-infectious diseases as
important causes of morbidity and mortality within Western
populations during the 20th century. Generally speaking, the
chronic, non infectious diseases are strongly influenced by
lifestyle variables, which are themselves strongly influenced by
social and cultural forces. The under standing of the effects of
the behavioral factors in, say, hypertension, thus requires an
understanding of the social and cultural factors which encourage
obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, non-compliance with
anti-hypertensive medica tions (or other prescribed regimens), and
stress. Equally, there is a growing awareness that considerations
of human behavior and its social and cultural determinants are
important for understanding the distribution and control of
infectious diseases. Related to this expansion of epidemiologic
interest into the behavioral realm 'has been the development of
etiological models which focus on the psychological, biological and
socio-cultural characteristics of hosts, rather than exclusive
concern with exposure to a particular agent or even behavioral
risk. Also during this period advances in statistical and computing
techniques have made accessible the ready testing of multivariate
causal models, and so have encouraged the measurement of the
effects of social and cultural factors on disease occurrence."
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