04739namaa2200793uu 4500 oapen47024 oapen 20251217011848.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240731s2020a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 1202467135 OCoLC 9780198862437 (OCoLC)1202467135 oapen oapen eng dc J thema JH thema JHB thema JHBD thema M thema MB thema MBN thema MBNH thema Charbit, Yves aut The Anthropological Demography of Health Oxford University Press 2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research. Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Demographic anthropology. Population Health aspects. Anthropologie démographique. Anthropology. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS. bisacsh Demographic anthropology fast Demography. bisacsh Economics. bisacsh HEALTH & FITNESS. bisacsh MEDICAL. bisacsh Medicine and Nursing thema Medicine: general issues thema Personal & public health. bicssc Personal and public health / health education thema Physical. bisacsh Population & demography. bicssc Population and demography thema Population Health aspects fast Public health and preventive medicine thema Public Health. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE. bisacsh Society and Social Sciences thema Sociology and anthropology thema Sociology thema anthropological demography health Charbit, Yves edt kreager, philip edt Petit, Véronique edt Qureshi, Kaveri edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47024 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36989 36989