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Anthropological perspectives on injections: a review.

Qualitative studies from developing countries have pointed to the widespread popularity of injections. In addition to their use by formal and informal providers and traditional healers, there is now increasing evidence of the use of injections and injection equipment by lay people. Epidemiological research links the large number of unsafe injections to serious bloodborne infections such as vira...

Child Well-Being: Anthropological Perspectives

Anthropology commonly is regarded as the study of human origins or exotic cultures, but in fact, its remit embraces all aspects of humanity. It is distinguished from other social sciences, conceptually, by its attention to both culture and biology and their interaction on the timescales of evolution, history, and the individual lifespan, and methodologically, by a tradition of ethnographic fiel...

Anthropological variables as economic indicators.

Anthropological studies of human populations are traditionally aimed at identifying the relative contributions of the genetic, physiological and cultural mechanisms underlying the geographical micro-differentiation and adaptation of populations to the different environments in which they live. According to this approach, all anthropological variables are subjected to environmental pressures and...

POWER AND ITS DISGUISES Anthropological Perspectives on Politics Second Edition

The evolution of disease: anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions

BACKGROUND The model of epidemiologic transitions has served as a guiding framework for understanding relationships between patterns of human health and disease and economic development for the past several decades. However, epidemiologic transition theory is infrequently employed in epidemiology. OBJECTIVE Moving beyond Omran's original formulation, we discuss critiques and modifications of ...