Who needs 'pukka1 anthropologists'? A study of the perceptions of the use of anthropology in tropical public health research

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1264-1275

  Napolitano, Dora A ^a   Jones, Caroline O H ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Inequities in health; Tropical public health

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TROPICAL REGION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; TROPICAL DISEASE; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALARIA; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; ROLE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TERMINOLOGY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33746389330     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01669.x     Document Type: Article

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