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Anthropology and Public Health - Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Anthropology and Public Health - Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new
millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical
role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1)
anthropological understandings of public health problems such as
malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of
public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and
elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health
initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4)
anthropological critiques of public health policies, including
neoliberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates,
anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public health
problems from the perspectives of the populations in which the
problems occur. On the basis of such understandings,
anthropologists may develop and implement interventions to address
particular public health problems, often working in collaboration
with local participants. Anthropologists also work as evaluators,
examining the activities of public health institutions and the
successes and failures of public health programs. Anthropological
critiques may focus on major international public health agencies
and their workings, as well as public health responses to the
threats of infectious disease and other disasters. Through
twenty-four compelling case studies from around the world, the
volume provides a powerful argument for the imperative of
anthropological perspectives, methods, information, and
collaboration in the understanding and practice of public health.
Written in plain English, with significant attention to
anthropological methodology, the book should be required reading
for public health practitioners, medical anthropologists, and
health policy makers. It should also be of interest to those in the
behavioral and allied health sciences, as well as programs of
public health administration, planning, and management. As the
single most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of anthropology's
role in public health, this volume will inform debates about how to
solve the world's most pressing public health problems at a
critical moment in human history.
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