Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer's Disease

A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 548-568

  Schrauf, Robert W ^a   Iris, Madelyn ^b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus analysis in studies of health and illness illness conditions in ethnic communities; Consensus analysis of illness knowledge a theoretical model; Cultural beliefs about Alzheimer's disease (AD) for ethnic groups in the United States; Data analysis, and consensus analysis assessing within group knowledge; Differences between ethnic models whether or not AD, being considered a mental illness; focus on intercultural variation consensus analysis, cross ethnic comparison of beliefs about health and illness; Group, lay knowledge comprising a cultural model of illness condition; Prior cross cultural applications of method breast and cervical cancer among women in El Salvador and Mexico, Chicana and Anglo women in US; Use of cultural consensus analysis between group knowledge of Alzheimer's disease among African Americans; Using consensus analysis in investigating cultural models of Alzheimer's disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885811097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444394931.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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