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Semester | fall semester 2008 |
Course frequency | Irregular |
Lecturers |
Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk (brigit.obrist@unibas.ch)
Mitchell G. Weiss (mitchell-g.weiss@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
Content | Cultural epidemiology is concerned with sociocultural features of illness, their distribution, and their impact on behaviour and public health. Integrating principles and methods of medical anthropology and classical epidemiology, ethnographic data helps to identify locally valid categories of illness-related experience, meaning and behaviour with reference to appropriate variables and qualitative illness narratives. This course reviews concepts, methods, and uses of cultural epidemiology for health research. It introduces integrated quantitative and qualitative methods for developing instruments, managing data, analysis, and reporting with examples from descriptive, comparative, and analytic studies of tuberculosis, malaria, and mental health problems. |
Language of instruction | English |
Use of digital media | No specific media used |
Course auditors welcome |
Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
Modules |
Masterprogramm Infektionsbiologie / Epidemiologie (Master in Infektionsbiologie / Epidemiologie) Modul Environment and Human Well-Being (Master's degree program: African Studies) |
Assessment format | record of achievement |
Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
Scale | Pass / Fail |
Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
Responsible faculty | Faculty of Science, studiendekanat-philnat@unibas.ch |
Offered by | Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut |