Anthropology and Primary Health Care

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-01607-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This book covers the major theoretical perspectives, content areas, and methodologic approaches that presently characterize the field of anthropology and primary health care. It is of great value to physicians, epidemiologists, program managers, and other international health professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coreil, Jeannine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword -- Preface -- Overview and Historical Background -- The Evolution of Anthropology in International Health -- The Primary Health Care Dialectic: History, Rhetoric, and Reality -- Critical Perspectives -- Is Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine Really Possible? -- The Role of Anthropologists in Primary Health Care: Reconciling Professional and Community Interests -- Technology and the Social Distribution of Knowledge: Issues for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries -- Extending Primary Health Care into the Community -- Maori Community Health Workers: A Mixed Reception in New Zealand -- Compulsory Medical Service and Primary Health Care: A Mexican Case Study -- Using Anthropological Techniques in Program Design: Successful Nutrition Education in Indonesia -- Ethnomedical Models -- Public Health and the Domestic Domain: Lessons from Anthropological Research on Diarrheal Diseases -- Vaccinations in South Asia: False Expectations and Commanding Metaphors -- Folk Models of Hypertension among Black Women: Problems in Illness Management -- Issues and Methods in Applied Research -- Applied Anthropological Research Methods: Diarrhea Studies as an Example -- Anthropology, Health Education, and the Evolution of Community Control in Primary Health Care -- The Anthropologist and Primary Health Care