{"title":"Community involvement in solving local health problems","authors":"Patrick A. Twumasi","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90036-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90036-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the experience of the Danfa Project as background, in which there were important achievements in maternal and child health, but at costs the country itself could not sustain, a new community-based approach, the Kintampo Project, is described. In this approach, community members through their leadership name the main problems and priorities. Then government and external assistance is brought to bear on these problems in priority order through the local community structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 169-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90036-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18256471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health policy and traditional medicine in Singapore","authors":"Stella R. Quah","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Singapore's degree of government intervention into health policy can be seen as intermediate between the bureaucratic and market strategies which Alford delineates. In this approach, the government takes a quite tolerant if not directly encouraging approach to the several forms of traditional medicine of the several important ethnic groups in the country. To some extent this approach reflects a solution of sorts to the shortage of qualified medical personnel.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 149-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18256469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allopathic medicine, profession, and capitalist ideology in India","authors":"Ronald Frankenberg","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is argued that, notwithstanding medical pluralism, allopathic medical ideology in India is of importance beyond health and medicine in the legitimation and reinforcement of capitalist state power. It is seen as the bearer of an urban, male, technological, hospital-based, cosmopolitan, curative, and individualistic world view. Three cases are presented—the use of medical terms in industry, the events surrounding the President's 1977 illness, and a so-called “epidemic” of poisoning amongst bonded Nagesia tribals in Madhya Pradesh. Finally, it is suggested that other forms of medical ideology have weaker social bases and can provide no institutional challenge even to an admittedly poorly organized allopathic profession.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 115-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18257861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relations between traditional and modern medical systems","authors":"Ray H. Elling","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 87-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122145972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of the role of socio-cultural factors in the treatment of mental illness in Nigeria","authors":"R.Olukayode Jegede","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90045-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90045-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The role of the family and traditional healers in the treatment of mental illness in Nigeria is discussed with reference to data collected in a study of patients in treatment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and at the Aro Village Community Treatment Center, both of which are facilities of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan. In the discussions emphasis is put on the role of relatives in the care of the sick and the role of traditional and religious healers in the health care delivery system of Nigeria.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 49-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90045-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursing, health care and professionalism in Cuba","authors":"Richard Garfield","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90047-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90047-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The pre and post-revolutionary history of nursing are detailed. Related developments in general education, nursing education, the sexual division of labor, economics, and public participation in administration are contrasted to show the intimate relations which nursing as a profession has with the society around it. It is posited that a fundamental change has occurred in the role, training, and expectations of the Cuban nurse. Concurrently, this change has proceeded with a process of elevating quality and self-control of nursing work—key aspects of increased professionalization. This new professionalization is considered in relation to other professions in Cuba and more generally within a socialist system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 63-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90047-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18068639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care priorities and management","authors":"Gavin H. Mooney","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90049-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90049-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Page 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90049-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114807566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care in America—Essays in social history","authors":"Joan E. Lynaugh","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90052-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90052-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 79-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90052-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116676101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cancer quackery : The label of quack and its relationship to deviant behavior","authors":"Allan R. Meyers","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90054-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90054-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 80-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90054-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"101833331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of contents and author index","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90070-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90070-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 ","pages":"Pages i-ix"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90070-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136542901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}