Doing health anthropology : research methods for community assessment and change

Doing health anthropology : research methods for community assessment and change /

What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs?. The impact of social change on communities?. The processes by which communities confront and overcome their health problems?. How do we study these health questions in new communities and become advocates for change?. These are...

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Main Author: Kiefer, Christie W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, 2007
Subjects:
Medical anthropology > Research > Methodology.
Public health > Anthropological aspects > Research > Methodology.
Anthropology > methods
Community Health Services
Research Design
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Why anthropology?
  • Positivism : the laboratory theory of knowledge
  • The naturalistic theory of knowledge : anthropology
  • The study of real people in natural situations
  • Designing a research project
  • The researcher in and beyond the community
  • Collecting data
  • Analyzing data
  • The theory of needs
  • Community change : the theory of hope
  • Action anthropology
  • Teaching health anthropology
  • Professionalism in naturalistic social science.

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