| Description |
x, 179 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Essential public health |
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Essential public health.
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| Contents |
Culture and the human condition: an introduction -- There is health, and there is health ... (Laura Smith encounters a situation) -- Starting point: defining culture, defining health -- Tools and perspectives for understanding the relationship between culture and health -- Ethnomedicine I: cultural health systems of related knowledge and practice -- Ethnomedicine II: cultural systems of psychology and mental/emotional health -- Moral dimension: the relationship of etiology to morality in cultural beliefs and practices related to health -- Culture, healers, and the institutions of health -- Sociocultural ecologies of disease and illness -- Culture, subculture, and constructions of health risk -- Applying concepts of cultural diversity to health promotion -- Dimensions of culture in a sampling of current public health challenges -- Primer on research strategies to obtain cultural information -- Incorporating cultural knowledge in health promotion interventions, with selected examples -- Wrapping up: being culturally competent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Health services accessibility.
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Social Medicine -- methods.
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Cultural Competency.
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Culture.
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Health Behavior.
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Health Promotion.
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Health Status Behavior
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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| LC no. |
2011042560 |
| ISBN |
9780763780456 (paperback) |
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0763780456 (ibid.) |
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