Applied anthropology October 14, 2003 Medical anthropology and applied approaches in health

What is health  Includes approaches to  From large scale to small scaleInfectious disease  From chronic disease to infectious disease  Environmental degradation  Stress  AIDS and malaria  Tuberculosis  Dehyrdration

Four categories of global health problems  ONE: Specific diseases  AIDS or tuberculosis  Ebola, hantavirus, SARS  TWO: Socioeconomic conditions that threaten overall health  Social inequality and low levels of education

 THREE: Human-made or lifestyle diseases  Diabetes, obesity  Effects of migration  FOUR: environmental problems  Urban growth as a factor in global health  From Margaret Gwynne

International health  Health-development link  National health profile  Summary of the kinds and rates of sickness and death  Primary health care (PHC)  Health services as public good or merit goods (clean air versus public health ed)  Community participation and sustainability

James Beebe on RAP  Basic concepts that are in use  Systems perspective  Triangulation  Iterative data collection and analysis  Ethnography as a method  An omnibus strategy

Other methods  Focus groups  Nominal groups and delphi groups  Surveys and questionnaires  Types of questions  Open-ended vs. structured  Sampling  Pretesting and evaluation  Social indicators  RAP  PAR

Other methods  Needs assessments  Social impact assessment  Social network analysis  Patterned associations  The new ethnography  Mapping semantic domains