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Ginger: An Introduced Foreign Species and Its Recognition as a Traditional Medicine Plant by the Peruvian Awajun Populations
In the Peruvian Amazon, the Awajun indigenous populations have treated diseases traditionally through the consumption of medicinal plants and...
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Do searches on Google help in deterring property crime? Evidence from Indian states
Crime is a major social problem in most developed and develo** countries. It induces a social, economic, and psychological impact on the victim....
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Using Anthropological Perspectives to Integrate Health Equity Across a Family Medicine Residency Program in New Mexico
Family medicine began as a specialty dedicated to the holistic care of the whole patient in their family and community context. However, as health...
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Social Networks and Health Care of Rural Elderly Women
Health is a key determinant of quality of life for the elderly, and health issues hamper their ability and participation in active social life....
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Faith Healing Techniques in the Management of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Nigeria
People living with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) tend to experience multiple sources of therapy complemented by self-care practices. In Nigeria, over...
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Healthcare and Wellness
Health status has been linked with future income, consumption, and welfare. More importantly health is the basic capabilities that should not be...
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Health Care Systems Among Broq-pa Tribe
This paper focuses on the challenges faced by the traditional healers to meet the health care needs and the interaction of biomedicine and...
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Active Ageing and Healthy Ageing
With increasing life expectancy and its potential economic implication, World Health Organization (WHO) has advocated Active Ageing Policy since the...
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Equity in the Cuban Policy Response Against the Pandemic
Since the initial case of SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported on March 11, 2020, the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Cuba diligently created and...
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Introduction: Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India: Challenges and Possibilities of Recognition and Integration
Introducing the theme of this volume, this chapter delves into ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices drawing insight from anthropological...
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The Moral Making of Data-Rich Personalised Medicine
The author of this chapter focuses on one key element put forward in Prainsack’s arguments: the deployment of a moral vocabulary in current visions...
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Policy Implications and Discussions
The goal of the book was to improve understandings of the relationship between the receipt of patient-centered care and disparities in accessing...
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Local Health Traditions and Preservation of National Heritage: Emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Benefit Sharing and Mainstreaming
Traditional knowledge on health sciences in India is broadly comprised of systematically documented and dedicated compendia of Ayurveda, Siddha,...
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Introduction
Why write a book on medicalization and psychologization in the welfare state? In this introduction, Reibling points out how the topical issue of...
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Using Basic and Applied Research on Risk and Resilience to Inform Preventive Interventions for Immigrant Youth
A unique set of stressors affect adolescents in immigrant families, particularly for youth from low-resource contexts who were born in or spent...
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Introduction: On the Necessity and Meaningfulness of a Health Ethnology Perspective in Health Literacy Research
This book aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to health ethnology-inspired health literacy research in particular and public health...
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Knowledge, Adherence, and the Lived Experiences of Refugees in COVID-19
Introduction and Background. The extent to which refugee communities were aware of the COVID-19 pandemic and adhered to related preventive measures...
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Effectiveness of Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme and Private Healthcare Providers in Hong Kong
Facing the problem of ageing population, the Department of Health of Hong Kong launched an Elderly Care Voucher Pilot Scheme in 2009 and it has...
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COVID-19 and Healthcare as a Human Right in Bangladesh: The Way Forward
The human right to health in Bangladesh has recently encountered unprecedented challenges owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines four of...
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Moving Towards Integrated Models of Aged Care Across Boundaries in Asia
The demand for aged care has been increasing continuously. Integrated care covers comprehensive areas of medical and health services and is essential...