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245 0 0 _aWhen culture impacts health :
_bglobal lessons for effective health research /
_c[edited by] Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon.
260 _aSan Diego :
_bElsevier Science,
_c2013.
300 _a379 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aWhen Culture Impacts Health -- Antecedents of Culture-in-Health Research -- Biological and Biocultural Anthropology -- Toward Cultural Epidemiology: Beyond Epistemological Hegemony -- The Cultural Anthropological Contribution to Communicable Disease Epidemiology -- Medicalization or Medicine as Culture? The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs: Lay Concepts of Contagious Disease Transmission in Developed Countries --Context and Environment: The Value of Considering Lay Epidemiology -- Identity, Social Position, Well-Being, and Health: Insights from Australians Living with Hearing Loss -- Framing Debates about Risk for Skin Cancer and Vitamin D Deficiency in New Zealand: Ethnicity, Skin Color, and/or Cultural Practice? -- Analyzing Smoking Using Te Whare Tapa Wha -- Thirty Years of New Zealand Smoking Advances a Case for Cultural Epidemiology and Cultural Geography -- On Slimming Pills, Growth Hormones, and Plastic Surgery: The Socioeconomic Value of the Body in South Korea -- Tacking between Disciplines: Approaches to Tuberculosis in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu.
520 _aBringing 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.
650 0 _aSocial medicine.
650 0 _aHealth
_xSocial aspects.
700 1 _aBanwell, Cathy.
700 1 _aUlijaszek, Stanley J.
700 1 _aDixon, Jane
_q(Jane Meredith)
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