Exploring Medical Anthropology

Joralemon, Donald

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“…Institutions can be shaped or crafted by external intervention and, providing due attention is paid to the structures (rules and roles) and norms (relations of trust and co-operation) contained within them, then collectively beneficial outcomes may be achieved (Uphoff and Wijayaratna, 2000). Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment (Joralemon, 2010). There have been ecological, economic, demographic and social changes taking place in the Nyando papyrus wetlands.…”

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Institutional pluralism, access and use of wetland resources in the Nyando Papyrus Wetland, Kenya

Nasongo¹,

Zaal²,

Dietz³

et al. 2015

J. Ecol. Nat. Environ.

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Institutional pluralism, access and use of wetland resources in the Nyando Papyrus Wetland, Kenya

Nasongo¹,

Zaal²,

Dietz³

et al. 2015

J. Ecol. Nat. Environ.

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“…The Peruvian program specialist had experience only with the American-style ideological systems that exist in Peru and Mexico (although Mexico does provide a good deal of federal funding for health, especially for upper and middle class healthcare, and particularly in urban centers) (Lassey et al 1997: 314). Nevertheless he was saddened to see similar health burdens on the lowest-income people in this nation as exist in Mexico and his native Peru (Lassey et al 1997, Glass-Coffin 1998, Joralemon 1999).…”

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The Right to Health

Fredman¹

2018

Comparative Human Rights Law

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The author would like to express deep gratitude to all the clients, staff, and providers connected to the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Services for their courage, dedication, and cooperation. This project could never have been done without each one of you. Heartfelt thanks also go out to my committee and fellow graduate students in the USF Department of Anthropology, for all your help and support; and finally, my love and gratitude for my wife Kelley and son Richard, for whom I do all things.ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the United States spends more per capita than any other nation on healthcare for its citizens, the quality of American health outcomes lags well behind every other developed country in the world. This paper proposes that it is no coincidence that the United States is also the only developed nation that does not guarantee the right comprehensive coverage of medical services for its citizens. Instead, we rely on a fee-for-service system which functionally denies quality health care to those without the means to pay for it.In this paper I document the experiences of various clients and staff of the Center, a torture survivor treatment and support agency, the majority of whose clients are or were refugees or political asylees, with the healthcare systems in the United States and elsewhere. I also analyze documented differences in the efficiency, efficacy, and levels of satisfaction with these foreign health care systems to that of the United States. The barriers to good quality health care experienced by the participants in this research are systemic, rather than individualistic, in nature. I therefore argue that the American ideology of health as a commodity to be bought and sold directly contributes to the inferior health outcomes of the United States health care delivery system, as compared to other nations whose ideology of health holds it to be a universal human right. v

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“…Applying the concept of ecology to medical anthropology offers an advantage of quantifying how successful or unsuccessful a social system is in meeting the goals of survival and reproduction. This concept has been elaborated by Mc Elroy and Townsend (1996) who adopted the term 'medical ecology' in which the concept of adaptation is used similarly as was used by Alland in 1970(Joralemon 2010.…”

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Interrelating Ecology and Health: Some Bio-Social Concerns

Kaur

2015

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Ecology and health issues are often characterized by complex interactions between ecosystems and social systems, and demand integration of themes that span the environmental and socioeconomic determinants of health. The present paper emphasizes the health implications of interactions between human groups and their social, physical and biological environments which help in understanding how changes and fluctuations in ecology affects rate and pattern of diseases. ECOPRINT 21: 31-40, 2014DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/eco.v21i0.11902

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Exploring Medical Anthropology

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Institutional pluralism, access and use of wetland resources in the Nyando Papyrus Wetland, Kenya

Institutional pluralism, access and use of wetland resources in the Nyando Papyrus Wetland, Kenya

The Right to Health

Interrelating Ecology and Health: Some Bio-Social Concerns

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