Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology and Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. 3rd ed.

Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Robert Anderson. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. + 454 pp.
Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. 3rd ed. Cecil G. Helman. Oxford, England: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd., 1994. viii. 446 pp.     

Women's Health, Women's Lives

What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health. Lesley Doyal. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii. 280 pp.
Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn F. Sargent and Caroline Brettell. eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. + 370 pp.
Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence. Paul Farmer. Margaret Connors. and Janie Simmons. eds. Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 1966. xxi. 473 pp.
Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women. E. J. Sobo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. ix. 232 pp.
Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in Mexico. Kaja Finkier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xix. 238 pp.     

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology

Dangerous Places: Health, Safety,and Archaeology. David A. Poirier and Kenneth L. Feder. eds. Westport, CT and London: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. + 249 pp.     

The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology and Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives

The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology. T. Kue Young. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (cloth), ix + 275 pp.
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), xii + 334 pp.     

Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective

Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective . Greg Guest, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. 274 pp.     

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine. Martha O. Loustaunau and Elisa J. Sobo. Westport, CT: Begin & Garvey, 1997. 222 pp.     

Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives

Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives. Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. eds. New York and London: Routledge, 1999. + 374 pp.     

Hormones, Health, and Behavior: A Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective

Hormones, Health, and Behavior:. Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective. C. Panter-Brick and C. M. Worthman. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 290 pp.     

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity. Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, 2005. 322 pp.     

Handbook of Black American Health: The Mosaic of Conditions, Issues, Policies, and Prospects

Handbook of Black American Health: The Mosaic of Conditions, Issues, Policies, and Prospects. Ivor Lensworth Livingston, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994 (cloth). xxxv + 453 pp.     

Health education, recent and future trends

During the past, Health Education has been taking place in a variety of ways: prevention, monitoring and control of potentially epidemic diseases. New trends have been arising (such as 'health corners', interdisciplinary activities, exhibit, 'mini-university' for children, etc.). But it is important to discuss what 'Health Education' means, and define 'health' and rethink educational strategies. Several evaluations have highlighted the limited impact that communication activities, or one-off awareness campaigns, may have.     

Extending the Boundaries,Bridging the Gaps: Crafting Mental Health: Culture,Race, and Ethnicity,a Supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health

The August 2001 issuance of Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity--A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, represents a landmark in the dialogue--political and scientific--regarding health disparities in the United States. This paper offers a critical appraisal of the process and structure of generating these reports, paying particular attention to issues that marked serious epistemological tensions among the participants. These issues revolved around the relative emphasis placed on (1) mental illness and mental health; (2) risk, etiology, and treatment versus prevention and promotion; (3) large-scale, population-based surveys and randomized clinical trials as the standard bearers of scientific evidence; (4) variation related to gender, social class, and culture; (5) ethnicity and culture as dispositional variables or individual glosses as opposed to dynamic, collective phenomena; and (6) the historical forces that shaped the contemporary context for much of this discussion. It describes the sometimes subtle, other times stark differences in assumptions and experience that sprang from disciplinary orientations, investigative methods, institutional affiliations, and personal histories and agendas.     

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson. eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 331pp.     

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field

Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore Manderson. eds. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. vi. 333 pp.     

Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest

Endangered Species: Health, Illness and Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest. Janice Harper. Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. xvii. 273 pp.     

Our Planet,Our Health

Readers' corner

Our Planet, Our Health Report of the who commission on health and environment     

Anthropology in Public Health

Anthropology in Public Health. Robert A. Hahn. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxii +384 pp.     

Tribal Health and Medicines

Tribal Health and Medicines . A. K. Kalla and P. C. Joshi, eds. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing, 2004. xxi + 447 pp.     

Privatizing Health Services in Africa

Privatizing Health Services in Africa. Meredeth Turshen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xvi. 185 pp.     

Human Health, Well-Being, and Global Ecological Scenarios

This article categorizes four kinds of adverse effects to human health caused by ecosystem change: direct, mediated, modulated, and systems failure. The effects are categorized on their scale, complexity, and lag-time. Some but not all of these can be classified as resulting from reduced ecosystem services. The articles also explores the impacts that different socioeconomic–ecologic scenarios are likely to have on human health and how changes to human health may, in turn, influence the unfolding of four different plausible future scenarios. We provide examples to show that our categorization is a useful taxonomy for understanding the complex relationships between ecosystems and human well-being and for predicting how future ecosystem changes may affect human health.Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the World Health Organization. This article has been subjected to EPA review and approved for publication but does not necessarily reflect EPA policy.