Epidemiologists working together with anthropologists: lessons from a study to evaluate the epidemiological impact of a city-wide sanitation program

Killinger, Cristina Larrea; Rêgo, Rita de Cássia Franco; Strina, Agostino; Barreto, Maurício Lima

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“…Our aim is to create a novel deepsurveying instrument for wider use on the (global) social epidemiology of urban mental health, and to inform strategies to address development priorities. Examples of such ethnography in support of innovative epidemiology can be found for hygiene (Larrea-Killinger et al 2013), teen pregnancy (Béhague et al 2008) and health seeking (Freidenberg et al 1993).…”

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Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health

Manning

2018

Soc Theory Health

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This paper examines the way in which sociology and biology continue to struggle to understand why urban life creates high levels of mental disorder. The movement of the world population to be majority urban in recent years adds urgency to this issue. The paper addresses ways in which sociological analysis and biological analysis might work together through the identification of mechanisms, imagined and confirmed through data, of the way in which urban life gets 'under the skin'. The argument moves from the use of mechanisms in scientific explanation, to the shortcomings of epidemiology, and the possibility of a new 'mechanism-rich' epidemiology. It then discusses seven examples of work that might contribute to this effort, concluding that more careful ethnography is required.

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Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health

Manning

2018

Soc Theory Health

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“…Sin embargo, hasta donde conozco, no se han desarrollado abordajes de este tipo para estudiar la práctica de la investigación epidemiológica en general. Como excepción, encontré algunos estudios etnográficos de investigaciones epidemiológicas, todos ellos realizados en Brasil (62,106,107) .…”

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“…Desde 1997 a 2000, se realizó un estudio ecoepidemiológico para evaluar el impacto en la salud a través del Proyecto Bahía Azul, un programa de saneamiento ambiental en la Bahía de Todos los Santos, Bahia, Brasil (106,107) . Paralelamente a la encuesta de hogares, Larrea-Killinger et al (107) llevaron a cabo una observación participante de la dinámica social y cultural cotidiana de 62 familias, con el objetivo de inocular una mayor sensibilidad etnográfica en el equipo epidemiológico. Las técnicas etnográficas empleadas fueron entrevistas en profundidad, historias de vida, datos genealógicos, observaciones sobre salud y saneamiento, mapeo, filmación, fotografía y actividades comunitarias, antes y después de la instalación del sistema de alcantarillado.…”

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“…Además de refinar los criterios para la elección de los entrevistados y la selección y capacitación de los entrevistadores, estudiaron cómo el enfoque antropológico ayudó a mejorar la recopilación de datos y a promover la participación de los epidemiólogos en las actividades locales, lo que permitió una mayor aceptación de la investigación por parte de los entrevistados de la comunidad de estudio. A propósito, el informe de investigación tiene el sugerente título de Epidemiólogos que trabajan junto con antropólogos (107) . SALUD COLECTIVA.…”

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Ethnoepidemiology and mental health: insights from Latin America

Almeida-Filho¹

2020

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In this essay, I explore methodological as well as theoretical implications of an ethno-epidemiological approach, aiming to integrate research findings in mental health into new conceptual models. With this objective, I first evaluate the roots and uses of the term “ethnoepidemiology” to designate three research strategies for scientific knowledge production: type I (studies of sociocultural risk factors and ethnically defined risk groups); type II (studies of lay models of distribution and occurrence of illness in populations); type III (ethnographic studies of projects and areas of epidemiologic research). As an illustration, selected methodological features of three studies in which I have participated are presented and discussed. I then elaborate upon methodological developments derived from this experience of doing research, generating new models for transcultural transdisciplinary research of mental health practices. Lastly, I comment on some broad implications of studying mental health problems from an integrated ethnographical and epidemiological point of view, in diverse and deeply unequal societies such as those of contemporary Latin America.

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Cultural Epidemiology

Trostle¹

2017

International Encyclopedia of Public Health

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Epidemiologists working together with anthropologists: lessons from a study to evaluate the epidemiological impact of a city-wide sanitation program

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Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health

Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health

Ethnoepidemiology and mental health: insights from Latin America

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