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Author:   Cathy Banwell (NCEPH, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) ,  Stanley Ulijaszek (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Jane Dixon (NCEPH, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780124159211

ISBN 10:   0124159214
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   27 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 ‘wealth’ 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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Banwell, Ulijaszek, and Dixon assemble 30 essays by health sociology, medical and bio-anthropology, cultural anthropology, and epidemiology researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and the UK, who provide medical anthropologists and social epidemiologists with conceptual and measurement tools to improve their understanding of how culture affects population health behaviors and chronic and infectious disease risks and demonstrate how public health can influence culture to encourage healthy lifestyles. --Reference and Research Book News, August 2013

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