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15525-01 - Seminar: Cultural epidemiology (2 CP)

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

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

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