When Culture Impacts Health
Global Lessons for Effective Health Research
- 1st Edition - February 20, 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
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 descriptions
- Demonstrates how a cultural approach to health research enriches and informs our understanding of intractable public health problems
- Covers methods and measurements applicable to a variety of cultural research approaches as well as actual research results
- Case studies include medical anthropology, cultural epidemiology, cultural history and social medicine perspectives
Researchers and graduate and undergraduate students in public health and epidemiology, government public health organizations, anthropology health economists, physicians, nurses and others seeking an overview of public health.
Contributors
Chapter 1. When Culture Impacts Health
Rationale
The Book’s Orientation
The Book’s Structure
References
Part A: Research Approaches
Chapter 2. Antecedents of Culture-in-Health Research
Introduction
Social Medicine
Medical Anthropology
Sociology of Health
Social Epidemiology
Culture in Anthropology, the Social Sciences, and Epidemiology
Culture-in-Health
References
Chapter 3. Biological and Biocultural Anthropology
Introduction
Biological Anthropology and Constructions of Disease
Biocultural Anthropology and Disease
References
Chapter 4. Toward Cultural Epidemiology: Beyond Epistemological Hegemony
Introduction
Epistemological Hegemony
Drivers of Epistemological Hegemony
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5. The Cultural Anthropological Contribution to Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Introduction
Critique of the Biomedical Paradigm
Framing Public Health Issues Comprehensively
Communicates the Voice of the Community
Assists in Developing and Evaluating Interventions
References
Part B: Local Tales
Section I: Industrial and Post-Industrial Societies
Chapter 6. Medicalization or Medicine as Culture? The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Introduction
ADHD
References
Chapter 7. Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs: Lay Concepts of Contagious Disease Transmission in Developed Countries
Introduction
Methodology
Findings
Discussion
References
Chapter 8. Context and Environment: The Value of Considering Lay Epidemiology
Methodology and Method
Epidemiology and Risk
References
Chapter 9. Identity, Social Position, Well-Being, and Health: Insights from Australians Living with Hearing Loss
The Social Epidemiology of Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss and Physical Health
Hearing Loss and Mental Health
Hearing Loss and HRQoL
Methods Used in this Chapter
References
Chapter 10. Framing Debates about Risk for Skin Cancer and Vitamin D Deficiency in New Zealand: Ethnicity, Skin Color, and/or Cultural Practice?
Introduction
Recent Concerns about Vitamin D
Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Chapter 11. Analyzing Smoking Using Te Whare Tapa Wha
Te Whare Tapa Wha
Method
Results
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 12. Thirty Years of New Zealand Smoking Advances a Case for Cultural Epidemiology and Cultural Geography
Introduction
Thirty Years of Smoking in New Zealand: What we know
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13. On Slimming Pills, Growth Hormones, and Plastic Surgery: The Socioeconomic Value of the Body in South Korea
Introduction
Emergence of a Western Corporeal Ideal in Korea
Acknowledgments
References
Section II: Economically Transitioning Societies
Chapter 14. Tacking between Disciplines: Approaches to Tuberculosis in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu
Questioning Epidemiology: TB and Migrants
The Matters of History: Why Historical Political Ecology is Necessary
Contemporary TB: New Theoretical Frameworks
Conclusion
References
Chapter 15. Cultural Epidemiology: The Example of Pari Village, Papua
Culture and Disease in Traditional Times
Case Study Methodology
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 16. Life and Well-Being under Historical Ecological Variation: The Epidemiology of Disease and of Representations
Introduction
Cultural Epidemiology of the Mian
Conclusion
References
Chapter 17. Perceptions of Leprosy in the Orang Asli (Indigenous Minority) of Peninsular Malaysia
Introduction
Methods
Case Studies
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 18. A Qualitative Exploration of Factors Affecting Uptake of Water Treatment Technology in Rural Bangladesh
Background
Research Process
Discussion
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 19. Anthropological Approaches to Outbreak Investigations in Bangladesh
Background
Discussion
References
Chapter 20. Post-Disaster Coping in Aceh: Sociocultural Factors and Emotional Response
Background
The Conceptualization of Trauma
Islam in Aceh
Survivor Understanding of the Tsunami
Survivor Response to the Tsunami
Acknowledgment
References
Part C: Methodological Lessons
Chapter 21. The Positioning of Indigenous Australians as Health Care Recipients
Introduction
Indigenous Socioeconomic Positioning
Asking the Indigenous Status Question
Conclusion
References
Chapter 22. Capturing the Capitals: A Heuristic for Measuring the “Wealth” of New Zealand Children in the Twenty-First Century: An Application to the Growing Up in New Zealand Longitudinal Cohort
Introduction
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 23. Cultural Consensus Modeling of Disease
Introduction
The Method
Cultural Consensus, Cultural Competence, and Disease
Discussion
References
Chapter 24. Reconsidering Meaning and Measurement: An Ethno-Epidemiology Study of Refugee Youth Settlement in Melbourne, Australia
Introduction
Background: It all Started when …
Challenges of Researching Refugee Settlement and Well-Being
The Good Starts Study: Aims and Study Design
Logistical Issues with Sampling and Recruitment
Looking Back: What did we Learn?
Meaning or Measurement?
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 25. The Cultural Economy Approach to Studying Chronic Disease Risks, with Application to Illicit Drug Use
Diseases of Modernity and Consumption
Studying the Cultural Economy of Consumption
The Cultural Economy Approach to Understanding Social Practices
Conclusion
References
Chapter 26. Doing Health Policy Research: How to Interview Policy Elites
Introduction
Research Questions and Study Objectives
Sampling Strategy and Representativeness
Recruitment and Participant Management
Structuring the Interviews
Validity and Reliability in Interviewing
What Questions Should be Asked?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 27. Thai Food Culture in Transition: A Mixed Methods Study on the Role of Food Retailing
Introduction
Thai Transitions
Thai Food Culture Transition Study
Conclusions
References
Chapter 28. Developing Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Prevent Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: Cultural Epidemiology in Action
Introduction
Understanding Epidemiology of Nipah Encephalitis
Select Possible Behavior Change Messages
Lesson Learned and Next Steps
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 29. From Local Tales to Global Lessons
Applying Cultural Concepts When Identifying Health Risks: Section B
Unifying Threads in Section B
Methods for Doing Culture-in-Health Research: Sections B and C
Five Methodological Issues that Traverse the Case Studies
Applying a Cultural Perspective to Interventions
Conclusion
References
Chapter 30. Complementary Readings
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 20, 2013
- Language: English
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Cathy Banwell
Affiliations and expertise
NCEPH, Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaSU
Stanley Ulijaszek
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UKJD
Jane Dixon
Affiliations and expertise
NCEPH, Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaRead When Culture Impacts Health on ScienceDirect