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Being a Community Health Worker Means Advocating

WebAbstract Community health workers (CHWs) participate in advocacy as a crucial means to empower clients in overcoming health disparities and to improve the …

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Putting Anthropology into Global Health

WebAbstract This analysis of over a century of public health campaigns against human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Angola aims to unravel the role of …

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The Value of Anthropology in Child Health Policy

WebAbstract Working at the nexus of medical anthropology and the anthropology of childhood, this article challenges three assumptions often embedded in child health …

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Community–University Health Research Partnerships

WebAbstract In recent years, there have been positive changes to the health research landscape, with increasing interest amongst community organisations and …

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Pollution, Health, and Disaster in: Environment and Society …

WebEngaging Environmental Health and Disaster. Ethnographic work on disasters has significant roots in anthropological political ecology and represents a range of work …

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Global Health Research, Anthropology and Realist Enquiry

WebAbstract In this article, I set out to capture the dynamics of two streams within the field of global health research: realist research and medical anthropology. I critically …

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Using a game for undergraduate global health students in the …

WebAbstract Global health programmes have become quite popular within universities in the United States. But despite the growth in undergraduate programming …

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Health diplomacy in: Regions and Cohesion Volume 9 Issue 1 (2019)

WebAbstract This article explores the role of health diplomacy in promoting the right to health. It first looks at the historical trajectory of the right to health as it evolves …

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The Role of Anthropology in India's Public Health

WebAbstract Conducting research on healthcare systems, policy implementation and the impact of health programmes can systematically identify the gaps and …

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Shades of Green: Measuring the Ecology of Urban Green Space in …

WebIn this paper we review and analyze the recent research literature on urban green space and human health and well-being, with an emphasis on studies that attempt …

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Navigating Crises of Scale in the Anthropocene

WebAbstract In our contemporary era, anthropologists are increasingly tasked with studying crises of scale—that is, studying issues related to existential threats such as …

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‘I Certainly Wasn't as Patient-Centred’

WebAbstract This article explores how a group of paramedics were cross-trained as community health workers (CHWs) in Indiana. Cross-training paramedics as CHWs …

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Valuing Care in: Anthropology in Action Volume 29 Issue 2 (2022)

WebAbstract In this article, I explore the contradictory demands of ‘participation’ and ‘bureaucratisation’ in Pakistan's HIV sector. Local models of relatedness, …

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Towards Communities of Practice in Global Sustainability

WebC arl A. M aida is a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in the College of Letters and Science, where he teaches courses on action …

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The Case of the United States

WebAbstract Connectedness is vital for health and well-being. Families with lower socioeconomic status and of racial and ethnic minority groups experience inequities in …

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ASEAN's “actorness” and “effectiveness” regarding the COVID-19 …

WebAbstract The COVID-19 pandemic represents a new significant test for the role of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in regional health governance …

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Global Health Research, Anthropology and Realist Enquiry

WebIn this defi nition, actors (and their unpredictable behaviour), their interactions and their relationships make an intervention ‘complex’ (Marchal et al. 2012). Other methods …

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Beyond Failure in: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale …

WebAbstract In a radical move that recalled the egalitarian promises of Kenya's post-independence years, the Kenyan government recently made all public health care …

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Museums in the Pandemic

WebThroughout human history, the spread of disease has closed borders, restricted civic movement, and fueled fear of the unknown; yet at the same time, it has helped build …

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