When Culture Impacts Health
Subtitle: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books; Elsevier Academic Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780124159211
Subjects: Health
Description: Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, methodological and practical insights into understanding and successfully mediating cultural influences to address old and new public health issues.