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It has been frequently reported by the medical practitioners and public health workers that very often people do not utilize the medical and preventive facilities available to them. Social and economic factors are generally accepted as highly important in the multiple causation of disease. Therefore, health workers must come to understand such factors if they are to deal effectively in both primary prevention and cure of disease and other health disorders. ...
This volume contains eight articles on health, forest development and environment in three sections. The first article in Section 1 covers socio-cultural dimensions of health, relation between environment and health, interaction of traditional and modern health care systems and tribal medicine. The second article emphasizes the need to develop traditional knowledge and wisdom instead of replacing it. The third article examines development of medical anthropology ...
The volume consists of 40 papers by eminent scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, Medical Science and Health Administrators, from different parts of the world. These papers cover wide rage of important issues related to health from cultural and environmental perspectives with cross-cultural date.