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
1. When culture impacts health Part A - Research approaches 2. The antecendents to culture in health research: perspectives from the social sciences 3. Biological and biocultural anthropology 4. Toward Cultural Epidemiology: Beyond Epistemological Hegemony 5. The cultural anthropological contribution to communicable disease epidemiology Part B - Local tales I. Industrial and post-industrial societies 6. Medicalisation or medicine as culture? : The case of ADHD 7. Filthy fingernails and friendly germs: Lay concepts of contagious disease transmission in developed countries 8. Context and environment: The value of considering lay epidemiology 9. Identity, social position, wellbeing and health: insights from Australians living with hearing loss 10. Framing debates about risk for skin cancer and vitamin D deficiency in New Zealand: Ethnicity, skin colour and / or cultural practice? 11. Analysing smoking using Te Whare Tapa Wha 12. Thirty years of New Zealand smoking advances a case for cultural epidemiology and cultural geography 13. On Slimming Pills, Growth Hormones, and Plastic Surgery: The Socioeconomic Value of the Body in South Korea II. Economically transitioning societies 14. Tacking between disciplines Approaches to tuberculosis in New Zealand, Cook Islands and Tuvalu 15. Social determinants of health in a Papuan village 16. Life and well-being under historical ecological variation: the epidemiology of disease and of representations 17. Perceptions of Leprosy in the Orang Asli (indigenous minority) of Peninsular Malaysia 18. A qualitative exploration of factors affection uptake of water treatment technology in rural Bangladesh 19. Anthropological approaches to outbreak investigations in Bangladesh 20. Post-Disaster Coping in Aceh: Sociocultural Factors and Emotional Response Part C - Methodological Lessons 21. Non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians: cultural-social positioning and health 22. Capturing the capitals; a heuristic for measuring aEURO~wealthaEURO (TM) of NZ children in the 21st century. An application to the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal cohort 23. Cultural consensus modeling of disease 24. Meaning and measurement - research with African immigrants in Australia 25. The cultural economy approach to studying chronic disease risks, with application to illicit drug use 26. Doing health policy research: how to interview policy elites 27. Thai food culture in transition: a mixed methods study on the role of food retailing 28. Developing culturally appropriate interventions to prevent person-to person transmission of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: cultural epidemiology in action Conclusion 29. From local tales to global lessons 30. Complementary readings
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