About the Book: Anthropology In Public Health
Looking backward over the last few decades, it is impressive to see how far
anthropological approaches to public health have come up, not just on
communicable disease research and prevention, but also for non-communicable
diseases like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, female reproductive
health, mental illness, substance consumption and abuse, and health practices.
Yet, when countries with established economy are compared with low economy
countries, there seem to be a radical difference. Anthropologists with their
extensive field work and vast well grounded theoretical knowledge plays a
significant role in public health arena. One of the most attractive features of
this book is that