ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sweat Lodge, Dementia, Eastern Cape
29 Mar 2017
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Health & wellness a cross cultural approach. 45% hiv infection rate in boswana and zimbabwe. Brazil has free health care in 1990s halve rate of infection. 27% of infants contract hiv through breast milk. 32% of men believed that sex with a virgin cures hiv. 19th century victorian england belief if would cure syphilis. Sex with a duck and ritually killing it will remove gonorrhea. Structural violence: derives rom how political and economic forces structure risk for various forms of suffering in a population, such as: 2000 ration is 100 to 1 (,000 to ) 1 in 2,500 women die in childbirth in the us in 47,600 in ireland, 1 in 7 in niger. Primary health care system (11% gov"t budget) = 1,200 rural health posts and 90% vaccination rate. War 1980-1992 and imf sap: 70 rural health posts, half pay and half investment, rising infection and illness rates.
