How Public Health Could Benefit From Anthropology
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The document discusses how anthropology can benefit public health. It explains that anthropology is the study of human cultures and societies and that medical anthropology specifically looks at health, sickness, and treatment. It outlines how people from different cultures can have varying explanations for illnesses like colds and different treatments. The document also discusses anthropological research methods like participant observation, interviews, and qualitative data collection. Finally, it summarizes that taking a holistic, non-ethnocentric approach and understanding health in its proper cultural context can provide deeper insights to improve public health.
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- 1. How Public health could benefit from anthropology? DIS - 21. November 2011, Nikolaj Darre
- 2. Learning objectives • Discusswhat anthropology is about andhowit can be useful when working at the arena of Public Health. DIS - 21. November 2011
- 3. Overview 1. Can we catch a cold? 2. Methodology 3. Theory DIS - 21. November 2011
- 4. Anthropology • The study of humankind (Anthro[p] = human, ology = the study of) • Social and cultural aspect of humankind • Medical anthropology = health, sickness and treatment. DIS - 21. November 2011
- 5. Catching a cold is your own fault by David Aldridge • A example of how people from different contexts offering different diagnosis and different advice. • Therefore decisions in health care practice are made according to different meanings and cultural contexts. DIS - 21. November 2011
- 6. Different reasons for cold • the dust from decorating the house (wife) • neglects (mother) Nothing to do with bacterial. • Hayfever or stress. (work) DIS - 21. November 2011
- 7. Different treatments: • Consume alcohol • Go home and go to bed The point: “…different explanations exist concurrently according to our own world views, and the ‘patient’ does not always reflect the epistemological position of the observers” (p.129) DIS - 21. November 2011
- 8. Agreed sickness • Our experience of being ill needs to be validated by someone else – in that way it is ‘negotiable’, not fixed and open to change (p.131). • The doctor can invalidate the patients • Shared meaningis important. DIS - 21. November 2011
- 9. Methodology in Anthropology Qualitative Vs. Quantitative DIS - 21. November 2011
- 10. Fieldwork DIS - 21. November 2011
- 11. Participate observation Captures not just what you say – But also what you do! DIS - 21. November 2011
- 12. Interview DIS - 21. November 2011
- 13. Implication using Qualitative methods Validation and verification requires Transparency, transparency and transparency DIS - 21. November 2011
- 14. Theory in Anthropology • Helps us understand real life • But, it is also a certain viewpoint in which we look at things. • Theory is empirically imbedded DIS - 21. November 2011
- 15. Tough athlete or cripple? DIS - 21. November 2011
- 16. Relativism and The social fabric of health DIS - 21. November 2011
- 17. Medical traditions • Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurvedic medicine, medical traditions of Africa, Western biomedicine etc. • Medical pluralism DIS - 21. November 2011
- 18. Views and ideas • Balance between elements (Asia, Africa) • Body fluids (Humoral system, Greece) • Soul loss (Shamanism, America, Africa) • Dualism between body/soul (Biomedicine) DIS - 21. November 2011
- 19. Ethnocentrism • People are experts on their own life, therefore try to understand people in their own context – use a emicperspective. • Be aware of contexts (physical, social, temporal) DIS - 21. November 2011
- 20. Holism • Try to see things in a bigger perspective • Remember patients are much more than their sickness DIS - 21. November 2011
- 21. Theory is Empirical founded DIS - 21. November 2011
- 22. Interdisciplinary • Not like monotheistic religions, but more like polytheistic • Claude Levy-Strauss and Structuralism – Semiotics have form and substance – Signifier/Signified – Social praxis/underlying meaning DIS - 21. November 2011
- 23. Summing up • Health is everywhere culturally particular and varied (Janzen 2002:52) • Se heath, sickness and treatment in a bigger perspective • Include context • Don’t be ethnocentric • Use qualitative methods if your looking for a deeper understanding. • Be reflexive DIS - 21. November 2011
- 24. The end DIS - 21. November 2011