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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 descriptionsDemonstrates how a
cultural approach to health research enriches and informs our
understanding of intractable public health problemsCovers methods
and measurements applicable to a variety of cultural research
approaches as well as actual research resultsCase studies include
medical anthropology, cultural epidemiology, cultural history and
social medicine perspectives
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field
experience to examine how food systems are changing around the
globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in
other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich
ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food
economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic
and environmental anthropology economic development, agricultural
economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental
sustainability, and globalization studies.
This book covers the differential health impacts of family and early development, changes in work and work conditions, health systems, the physical environment of cities, indigenous peoples, rural populations, social capital, culture, and global economic and environmental changes. It contains material that explains how inequality gets "under the skin", through describing the physiological changes caused by stress and behavior. Particularly important is the "natural experiment"--representing the different political and economic paths taken by Australia and New Zealand over the past two decades, and the opportunity it provides to assess its impact on health.
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