CULANTH 424K: Medical Anthropology: Public Health

Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases.

Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations.

Campbell, Dave. 2011. Anthropology's contribution to public health policy development. MJM : an international forum for the advancement of medical sciences by students 13, (1): 76.

• The assessment and monitoring of the health of communities and populations at risk to identify health problems and priorities.

• The formulation of public policies designed to solve identified local and national health problems and priorities.

• To assure that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care, including health promotion and disease prevention services.

Paul Farmer has pioneered community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings in the U.S. and other countries.

E-Books:

• To repair the world: Paul Farmer speaks to the next generation

• Haiti after the earthquake

• Partner to the poor: a Paul Farmer reader

• Aids and accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame

• Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor

• Infections and inequalities: the modern plagues

• Never Again? Reflections On Human Values and Human Rights