Epidemiology and anthropology: A proposal to address complexity in public health Academic Article

journal

  • Revista Facultad de Medicina

abstract

  • Public health problems are complex, multifaceted, concatenat-ed and contradictory; epidemiology is in need of a complement allowing it to deal with such objects. Risk seen from the point of view of multivariate models' epidemiological perspective would seem to offer great potential in this respect but, nev-ertheless, this is inadequate for an integral understanding of study phenomena. The current proposal suggests integrating epidemiology and anthropology from dialogue between risk and narrative models arising from abductive, iterative and recursive ethnography.

publication date

  • 2012-1-1

edition

  • 60

keywords

  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0120-0011

number of pages

  • 15

start page

  • 247

end page

  • 261