Anthropology and Epidemiology

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

AvC. Janes,R. Stall,S.M. Gifford,S. M. Gifford

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Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease. Several reasons can be cited for this increasing interest. Primary among these has been the rise of the chronic, non-infectious diseases as important causes of morbidity and mortality within Western populations during the 20th century. Generally speaking, the chronic, non infectious diseases are strongly influenced by lifestyle variables, which are themselves strongly influenced by social and cultural forces. The under standing of the effects of the behavioral factors in, say, hypertension, thus requires an understanding of the social and cultural factors which encourage obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, non-compliance with anti-hypertensive medica tions (or other prescribed regimens), and stress. Equally, there is a growing awareness that considerations of human behavior and its social and cultural determinants are important for understanding the distribution and control of infectious diseases. Related to this expansion of epidemiologic interest into the behavioral realm 'has been the development of etiological models which focus on the psychological, biological and socio-cultural characteristics of hosts, rather than exclusive concern with exposure to a particular agent or even behavioral risk. Also during this period advances in statistical and computing techniques have made accessible the ready testing of multivariate causal models, and so have encouraged the measurement of the effects of social and cultural factors on disease occurrence.

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Utgivningsdatum1986-12-31
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt552 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCulture, Illness and Healing
Antal sidor364
Upplaga1986
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789027722492

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Medicin: allmänt inom Medicin
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
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Section I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.- Introduction: Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology.- Early Work in Anthropology and Epidemiology: From Social Medicine to the Germ Theory, 1840 to 1920.- Anthropology and Epidemiology in the Twentieth Century: A Selective History of Collaborative Projects and Theoretical Affinities, 1920 to 1970.- Section II: Infectious Diseases.- Epidemiological Research on Infectious Disease: Quantitative Rigor or Rigormortis? Insights from Eth-nomedicine.- Ethnicity, Ecology, and Mortality Transitions in Northwestern Thailand.- The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: Epidemiological and Anthropological Perspectives.- Section III: Non-Infectious Diseases.- Migration and Hypertension: An Ethnography of Disease Risk in an Urban Samoan Community.- The Meaning of Lumps: A Case Study of the Ambiguities of Risk.- Section IV: Psycho-Social Conditions.- Colonial Stress in the Canadian Arctic: An Ethnography of Young Adults Changing.- Respondent-Identified Reasons for Change and Stability in Alcohol Consumption as a Concomitant of the Aging Process.- Identifying Psychosocial Disorders in Children: On Integrating Epidemiological and Anthropological Understandings.- List of Contributors.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

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