Society, Culture and Health

Society, Culture and Health

Author: Karen Willis

Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand

Published: 2011-07-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195574623

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Society, Culture and Health, 2nd Edition introduces sociology to students studying nursing, providing framework from which to consider issues such as chronic illness and disability, health in the media, and changing illness patterns in Australian society.


Health, Culture and Society

Health, Culture and Society

Author: Elizabeth Ettorre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 3319607863

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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories and debates remain valuable to scholars today. Chapters cover historical events and cultural practices from the standpoint of ‘difference’; formulate theories about the emergence of social issues and problems and discuss health and illness in light of cultural values and practices, social conditions, embodiment and emotions. This collection will be of great value to scholars of biomedicine, health and gender.


Anthropology in Public Health

Anthropology in Public Health

Author: Robert A. Hahn

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 019511955X

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Cultural and social boundaries often separate those who participate in public health activities, and it is a major challenge to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across these boundaries. This book provides an overview of anthropology and illustrates in 15 case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. For example, one chapter shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S. county hinder the control of epidemics. Another chapter examines reasons that Mexican farmers don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the culture of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public health practice, and suggests issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process.; Each chapter characterizes a public health problem, describes methods used to analyse it, reviews results, and discusses implications; several chapters also describe and evaluate programs designed to address the problem on the basis of anthropological knowledge. The book provides practical models and indicates anthropological tools to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action.


Society and Health

Society and Health

Author: Benjamin C. Amick

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780195085068

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How do some families create more healthful environments for their children? How do we explain the health status differences between men and women, blacks and whites, and different communities or cultures? How is stress generated in the workplace? What accounts for the persistent social class differences in mortality rates? Why do societies experience higher rates of mortality after economic recession? Such fundamental questions about the social determinants of health are discussed in depth in this wide-ranging and authoritative book. Well-known contributors from North America and Europe assess the evidence for the diverse ways by which society influences health and provide conceptual frameworks for understanding these relationships. The book opens with a broad review of research on the social environment's contribution to health status and then addresses particular social factors: the family, the community, race, gender, class, the economy, the workplace and culture. The concluding two chapters examine the contribution of medicine to the improved health of Americans and recast the health care policy debate in a broad social policy context.


Body, Society, and Nation

Body, Society, and Nation

Author: Chieko Nakajima

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674987173

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Chieko Nakajima tells the story of China's unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. She explains how local customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape local cultures and behavior.


Successful Societies

Successful Societies

Author: Peter A. Hall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-08-24

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0521516609

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Why are some societies more successful than others at promoting individual and collective well-being? This book integrates recent research in social epidemiology with broader perspectives in social science to explore why some societies are more successful than others at securing population health. It explores the social roots of health inequalities, arguing that inequalities in health are based not only on economic inequalities, but on the structure of social relations. It develops sophisticated perspectives on social relations, which emphasize the ways in which cultural frameworks as well as institutions condition people's health. It reports on research into health inequalities in the developed and developing worlds, covering a wide range of national case studies, and into the ways in which social relations condition the effectiveness of public policies aimed at improving health.


Health, Culture, and Society

Health, Culture, and Society

Author: Bernard Jouanjean

Publisher: Rawat Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9788131603970

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Health, Culture and Society establishes a link between human physiological functions and social representations. The book questions human behavior over the centuries, comparing select models found in China, France, and ancient India. It appears that the societies at high risk, such as modern societies in particular, develop four functional, extra-organic prostheses around which social constructions are built - namely metabolic, neuropsychic, immunological, and elimination. Those societies at low risk, like that of the former French regime, adopt a tripartite model like that of Dumezil. Yet, the ancient Indian social system, originally quadripartite, has evolved over the centuries towards a tripartite model. What are the reasons which prompted the ancient Indians to establish a system of social quadripartition? Was it for the sake of prevention? Were they theorists? If the Indians developed a social system based on the balance of functions, wouldn't it be possible to suggest a definition of prevention and to put forward the model of a health system based on both the management of the autonomous regulation of the body and its functions? What is the conclusion regarding the evolution of our society? Health, Culture and Society examines these questions.


Healthcare in Latin America

Healthcare in Latin America

Author: David S. Dalton

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781683403258

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"Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, contributors to this volume explore the development and representation of public health in Latin American countries"--


Anthropology and Public Health

Anthropology and Public Health

Author: Robert A. Hahn

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0195374649

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Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs.