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Symbol. Adaptation. Agency. History. Structure. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and the ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Symbol. Adaptation. Agency. History. Structure. Medical Anthropology and the Anthropological Perspective. Methods Evidence Arguments. Paul Farmer: Infections & Inequalities. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and the ANTHROPOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE
HistoryAdaptation
Symbol
Structure
Agency
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Medical Anthropology and the Anthropological Perspective
• Methods• Evidence• Arguments
HistoryAdaptation
Symbol
Structure
Agency
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Paul Farmer:Infections & Inequalities
• Emerging & re-emerging infectious diseases (adaptations)– Health transitions– Modern plagues
• Social inequalities & health (structure)• Epistemology & health practices
(meaning)• World systems & health (history)
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL -- HEALTH TRANSITIONS
• complex change in patterns of health and disease
• the interactions between these patterns and the demographic, economic, and sociological determinants and consequences.
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Transitions & Disease Profiles
• pestilence and famine• receding pandemics• degenerative and man-made diseases
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Life Expectancies as Measure of Health Transitions
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From Infectious to Chronic Diseases
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10 leading causes of death in US
19001. Influenza and pneumonia2. Tuberculosis3. Gastritis4. Diseases of the Heart5. Cerebrovascular Disease6. Chronic Nephritis7. Accidents8. Cancer9. Certain diseases of infancy10. Diptheria
19981. Heart Diseases (31.4% )
2. Cancer (23.3%)
3. Cerebrovascular diseases (6.9%)
4. COPD (4.7%)
5. Accidents (4.1%) 6. Pneumonia and Influenza
(3.7%)
7. Diabetes (2.7%)
8. Suicide (1.3%)
9. Diseases of Arteries (1.2%)
10. Nephritis (1.1%)
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Ten leading causes of death (2000)Developed countries1. IHD 22.6%2. CVD 13.7%3. Lung Ca. 4.5%4. Respiratory infections 3.7%5. COPD 3.1%6. Colon Ca 2.6%7. Stomach Ca 1.9%8. Self-inflicted injuries 1.9%9. Diabetes 1.7%10. Breast Ca 1.6%
Developing countries1. IHD 9.1%2. CVD 8.0%3. Respiratory infections 7.7%4. HIV/AIDS 6.9%5. Perinatal conditions 5.6%6. COPD 5%7. Diarrhoeal diseases 4.9%8. Tuberculosis 3.7%9. Malaria 2.6%10. Road accidents 2.5%
Beaglehole and Yach. Lancet 2003
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Demographic Transitions and Health
• Decreased fertility rates• Decreased infant mortality rates• Increased life expectancies at birth• Reflect shifts in social and economic
patterns• Changes in health conditions• Changes in health care
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Population and demographic changes
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Human Determinants of Transitions
• technological change• alterations in the environment• alterations in food type, availability,
production, preparation, and consumption• alterations in patterns of energy
expenditure• interplay of environmental factors and the
genetic pool of a community
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Two Examples of Interplay of Human Determinants of Health
• Malaria & Sickle Cell Anemia• Type 2 Diabetes & Chronic Diseases
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Epistemological Framework of Epidemiological Transitions
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MULTIPLE EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITIONS
• recent resurgence of infectious disease mortality marks a third epidemiologic transition
• characterized by newly emerging, re-emerging, and antibiotic resistant pathogens in the context of an accelerated globalization of human disease ecologies
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Human Determinants of Transitions REDUX
• technological change• alterations in the environment• alterations in food type, availability,
production, preparation, and consumption• alterations in patterns of energy
expenditure• interplay of environmental factors and the
genetic pool of a community• Social inequality? Where is it?
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“SOCIAL FORCES AND PROCESSES EMBODIED AS
BIOLOGICAL EVENTS”THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
• Paul Farmer:• “Inequality itself constitutes our modern
plague – inequality is a pathogenic force”• “Social inequalities often determine both
the distribution of modern plagues and clinical outcomes among the afflicted”
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Life Expectancy & Ethnicity in the US
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First Nations people and Inuit face some serious health-related challenges, such as high rates of chronic and contagious diseases and shorter life expectancy.
Compared to the general Canadian population,
• Heart disease is 1.5 times higher; • Type 2 diabetes is 3 to 5 times higher among First Nations
people and rates are increasing among the Inuit; and • Tuberculosis infection rates are 8 to 10 times higher. • 15 per cent of new HIV and AIDS infections occur in
Aboriginal people.
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First nations and TB
• The tuberculosis rate in the First Nations was 8 to 10 times that of the entire Canadian population in 1999. Overcrowded housing is associated with an increased risk of tuberculosis in a community
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Table 3.2Notifiable Disease Incidence Rates for First Nations (Notifiable disease data were not available from 47 of the 144 communities in Ontario, and 29 of the 41 communities in Quebec. Data for the overall
Canadian population are from Health Canada, 2001) and Canada, 1999
Diseases preventable by routine vaccination
Notifiable disease First Nations(cases per 100,000)
Canada(cases per 100,000)
Haemophilus influenzae Type b 0 0.1
Measles 0 0.1
Mumps 0.8 0.3
Pertussis 57.6 20.0
Rubella 0.3 0.1
Sexually transmitted and bloodborne pathogens
Notifiable disease First Nations(cases per
100,000)
Canada(cases per
100,000)
Genital Chlamydia (Includes data from all Regions except Alberta.) 947.0 138.2
Hepatitis C 67.9 63.6
Enteric, food and waterborne diseases
Notifiable disease First Nations(cases per 100,000)
Canada(cases per 100,000)
Giardiasis 26.8 17.2
Hepatitis A 15.4 2.9
Shigellosis 69.6 3.6
Verotoxigenic E. coli 0 4.9
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Bourdieu: 3 types of capital• Economic capital: command over economic
resources (cash, assets). • Social capital: resources based on group
membership, relationships, networks of influence and support.
• Cultural capital: forms of knowledge; skill; education; any advantages a person has which give them a higher status in society, including high expectations.– E.g. Parents provide children with cultural capital, the
attitudes and knowledge that makes the educational system a comfortable familiar place in which they can succeed easily.
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Definitions of Social Capital• In contrast to classical and neoclassical economic theory
– assumes society is made up of the sum of persons acting individually to achieve non-collective goals
• Social capital inheres the structure of relationships between persons and among persons. – the institutions, relationships and norms that shape the quality and
quantity of a society's social interactions.
• Social capital has a material base as well as a moral base.
• People have different amounts of social capital– depending on the actual or potential resources– depending upon the size of the network to which they are linked– depending on the amount of economic and cultural capital the members
of that network have.
• Social capital is never independent of the other forms of capital
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With regard to social capital, studies increasingly show that communities supported by a substantial stock of social capital have better economic and social performance (Putnam, 2000).
Better health, health conditions, and health care.
Social Capital & Health in Canada
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Canada, Health, & Inequalities
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Social & Cultural Capital:Non-Medical Determinants of Health • Compared with the Canadian population in 1996,
the First Nations population (on and off reserves) rated lower on all educational attainment.
• Among First Nations, the 1996 labour participation rate was 59% and the employment rate was 43%. – Rates for Canada as a whole were 68% and 62%,
respectively.
• First Nations unemployment rate was twice the Canadian rate in 1996.
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Non-Medical Determinants of Health• In First Nations communities only 56.9% of homes
were considered adequate in 1999--00. • 33.6% of First Nations communities had at least
90% of their homes connected to a community sewage disposal system.
• In 1999, 65 First Nations and Inuit communities were under a boil water advisory for varying lengths of time--an average of 183 days of boil water advisories per affected community.
• Many communicable diseases such as giardiasis and shigellosis (both acute infectious diseases characterized by diarrhea, fever and nausea) can be traced to poor water quality
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Cultural Capital & Health
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World-Wide Health Inequalities
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WORLD SYSTEMS
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World Systems (I. Wallerstein) • A world-system is a social system
– one that has boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimation, and coherence.
• made up of the conflicting forces which hold it together by tension and tear it apart as each group seeks eternally to remold it to its advantage.
• a life-span over which its characteristics change in some respects and remain stable in others.
• its structures -- at different times strong or weak in terms of the internal logic of its functioning.
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Haiti, AIDS, & the Atlantic World System
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Atlantic World System• the notion of the Americas, Africa, and Europe
as composing a "regional system" from the late fifteenth century to the present.
• questions of economic development, free and unfree labor, and working-class formation, as well as more recent interest in the making (and undoing?) of welfare states, frontiers, ethnicity, sexuality, and legal culture and institutions.
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HIV/AIDS Worldwide
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HIV/AIDS in Latin America & Caribbean
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AIDS Incidence Rates
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Mode of Transmission: Caribbean