Doing Health Anthropology
Subtitle: Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780826115577
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Social & cultural anthropology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; General; Research; Nursing - Research & Theory; Anthropological aspects; Anthropology; Medical anthropology; Methodology; Public health; methods
Description: "These are critical questions in confronting the social causes of ill health, yet many health students do not have the appropriate training in the anthropological methods and techniques that help answer them. Christie Kiefer has written Doing Health Anthropology to prompt students to enter the community already prepared in these methods so that they can accurately ask and solve these important questions themselves." "Using this book as a guide, students learn to integrate cultural anthropology with health science and come to their own conclusions based on field research. The book includes common pitfalls to avoid when conducting interviews and observations, and ways to formulate and answer research questions, maintain field notes and other records, and correctly analyze qualitative data. With the help of this text, practitioners and students alike will be able to integrate cultural anthropology methods into their health science investigations and community health initiatives."--book jacket.