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When Culture Impacts Health

Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

  • 1st Edition - January 25, 2013
  • Editors: Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 9 2 1 - 1
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 9 4 3 - 3

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 ca… Read more

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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.