ANTC68H3 Lecture : Lecture3.ANTC68.docx
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Lecture # 3 epidemiological transitions & syndemics. Health belief model: educating patients will lead to a change in behavior by replacing supposed false beliefs with accurate knowledge (doesn"t always works) Sustainable interventions: anthropologists help with knowledge translation. Syndemics: syngeristic interaction of two or more co-existing diseases and the resultant excess burden of disease. Medical anthropology contributes to the study of illness by exploring alternate concepts of sickness in a socio-cultural context. As the way we think about sickness changes our response to it changes as well. In a syndemic, the whole is greater than the sum of their parts. Interaction between two diseases can occur a the biological level or a more social/macro level. Structural violence: violence of poverty, social and political marginalization, racism, sexism, and other forms of structure inequalities and their effects on people"s lives, health and agency.
