Culture and Health
Applying Medical Anthropology
Chapter One
APPLIED MEDICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HEALTH CARE
In improving patient satisfaction ... administrators' attention
is being directed to the impact of culture-of organization, roles,
and values-upon overall quality of care and outcomes
-Press, 1997, P. 6
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
* Introduce how culture affects health
* Illustrate how anthropological perspectives can facilitate effective health care
* Introduce the nature of cultural competence in health care
* Illustrate medical anthropology's major applications in addressing cultures'
impacts on health
* Illustrate the broad range of concerns people have with respect to their health
* Introduce the biopsychosocial framework for understanding diverse effects on
health
* Present a cultural systems model for addressing factors that affect health
* Illustr ... read full excerpt from Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology ebook
