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epidemiology and culture

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this book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of"cultural epidemiology" describe human healt, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervense to improve health and prevent disease. it uses textual and statistical portraits of diseas to describe past and present collaborations between anthropology and epidemiology. interprenting epidemiology as a cultural practice helps to reveal the ways in which measurement, causal thinking, and intervention design are all influenced by belief, habit, and theories of power. by "unpacking" many common diseas risk and epidemiologic categories, this book reveals unexamined assumptiond and show how sociocultur context influences measurement of diseas. examples include studies of epilepsy, cholera, mortality on the titanic, breastfeeding, and adolescent smoking. the book describes methods as varied as observing individuals, measuring social network, and compiling data from death certificates. it argues that effective public health interventions must work more often and better at the level of entire communities.

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Ketersediaan — Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat

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614.4/TRO/E/C1

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: Cambridge University Press., 2010

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208

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Indonesia

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978-0-521-79389-6

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614.4/TRO/E/C1

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