Key words
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Internationale Gesundheit, Epidemiologie, Kultur, Indien, Sri Lanka, Schweiz, Stigma, geistige Gesundheit, EMIC, Anthropologie
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Key words
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Cultural epidemiology, India, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, stigma, mental health,
EMIC, anthropology
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Short description
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Practical interests include determinants of health services utilisation, delayed treatment of infectious diseases and psychiatric disorders, perceived quality of care, stigma of particular health problems, and clarification of key issues in cultural psychiatry and international mental health. A range of studies are being carried out together with local partners and institutions in India, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.
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Project aims
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Research activities at STI have been developing a theoretical framework for an emerging field of cultural epidemiology. Encompassing an ethnographic agenda and the use of a semi-structured interview framework, known as the EMIC, to develop an epidemiology of illness representations, collaborative research is studying illness-related experience, meaning, and behaviour.
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Publications / Results
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Weiss MG, Auer C, Somma DB, Abouihia A, Kemp J, Jawahar MS, Karim F, Arias NL (2006) Gender and tuberculosis: cross-site analysis and implications of a multi-country study in Bangladesh, India, Malawi, and Colombia. WHO/TDR Social, Economic and Behavioural Research Report Series, No. 3. Geneva: World Health Organization. Uplekar M, Rangan S, Weiss MG, Ogden J, Borgdorff MW, Hudelson P. Attention to gender research in tuberculosis control. Int J Tub Lung Dis 2001; 5(3):220-224. Atre SR, Kudale AM, Morankar SN, Rangan SG, Weiss MG (2004) Cultural concepts of tuberculosis and gender among the general population without TB in rural Maharashtra, India. Trop Med Int Health 9(11):1228-1238.
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URL-addresses
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