Medical Anthropology workshop

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Upon completion of this course one is expected to understand the basic concepts of medical anthropology; comprehend the anthropological approach to public health and understand the rationale for ethnographic and qualitative research methods used in medical anthropology. Participants will be from the partner countries including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan. Tunisia. They will be mainly mid and senior level researchers and academics in public health.

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  • Workshop
When Dec 09, 2013 08:00 AM to
Dec 12, 2013 06:00 PM
Where Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
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Attendees Participants will be from the partner countries including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan. Tunisia. They will be mainly mid and senior level researchers and academics in public health.
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RESCAP-MED Capacity Development Workshop

 

Introduction to Medical Anthropology

 

Cesme, Izmir, Turkey  9-12 December 2013

 

Workshop Coordinator:  Dr. Shahaduz Zaman, Newcastle University, UK

 

 

Workshop Content:

 

Medical Anthropology is among the largest and most vibrant subfields within the discipline of Anthropology, reflecting the centrality of health in people’s lives and the scope health and medicine provide for social scientific perspectives. There is increasing recognition that socio-economic and cultural factors have crucial influences on health and health care. What are the socio-economic and cultural factors which complicate treatment for chronic conditions like diabetes?  What factors contribute to the acceptance of community health financing or a vaccination program? What social and cultural factors should be taken into account to realize all ambitious plans to improve reproductive health care? What cultural assumptions of health care workers hinder or facilitate communication with members of the community?  What are the needs of the growing group of older people or psychiatric patients?  These are only some of the questions health professionals and health planners are confronted with. Anthropological research can be a tremendous support to health programs, by giving insights from the perspectives of recipients and providers of health programs and health care and also by providing managers and implementers of these programs with mechanisms and strategies that could lead to a reorientation of health care programs and policies towards the actual needs of the target group.  NCDs in particular pose enormous challenges for health care, because of the need for long-term management of patients, and the importance of health professionals working with families.  In addition, such research helps health workers to reflect on their own role in public health and critically assess their contribution in the field of health and health care. The need for more insight in the social and cultural context of health and health care has been expressed by social scientists involved in multi-disciplinary health research projects, and public health staff at different levels of organization. Similarly, professionals directly involved in providing health education and primary health care and in implementing the health programs are confronted with difficulties related to the socio-cultural context in which they work. This workshop aims to address these issues.

 

Workshop Objectives

Participants who successfully complete this workshop will be able to:

  • Understand the basic concepts of anthropology in general and medical anthropology in particular
  • Understand the anthropological approach to public health;
  • Comprehend the social and cultural realities of health and health care;
  • Understand how medical anthropologists can work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary research team;
  • Understand the rationale for ethnographic and qualitative research methods used in medical anthropology; and be able to apply some basic skills of ethnography in relevant contexts.

 

 

Session Plan of the Workshop

 

Session

Date

Time

Length

Facilitator

Title

1

9/12 2013

9:00-

9: 30

30 mins

Shahaduz Zaman

Introduction to the workshop 

 

2

 

9:30-11:00

90  mins

Shahaduz Zaman

Anthropological Approach and Concept of Culture  

 

 

11:00-11:30

30 mins

 

TEA BREAK

3

 

11:30-13:00

90 mins

Sjaak van der Geest

Basic Concepts of Medical Anthropology   

 

 

13:00-14:00

60 mins

 

LUNCH BREAK

4

 

14:00-15:30

90  mins

Shahaduz Zaman

Role of Medical Anthropology in Public Health

 

 

15:30-

15: 45

15 mins

 

TEA BREAK

5

 

15:45- 17: 15

90 mins

Zaman and Sjaak 

Film Show on Cultural relativity and discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

10/12 2013

9:00-10:30  

 90 mins

Sjaak van der Geest

Cultural Dimension of Biomedicine: Pharmaceuticals

 

 

10:30-11:00

30  mins

 

TEA BREAK

7

 

11:00-12:30  

90   mins

Shahaduz Zaman

Hospital Culture: Case from Bangladesh   

 

 

12:30-

13:30

60 mins

 

  LUNCH BREAK

8

 

13:30-

14:30

60 mins

Inci User

Women Workers Health: An Oxymoron (Turkish expereince)

 

 

14:30- 15:00

30 mins

 

TEA BREAK 

9

 

15:00-16:30

90 min

Zaman and Sjaak

Group reading and discussion on an ethnographic paper 

 

 

 

 

 

Gala Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

11/12 2013

8:30—9:30

60 mins

Shahaduz Zaman

 

Globalization and Health 

11

 

9:30-

10: 30

60 mins

Sjaak van der Geest

 

Culture and Hygiene

 

 

10:30-

10: 45

15  mins

 

TEA BREAK

12

 

10:45-11:30

45 mins

Bahar Taymaz

 

Making Sense of Pain: An Anthropological Perspective

 

13

 

11:30-12:30

60 mins

Sjaak van der Geest

 

Growing Old: Experience and Care

 

 

 

12:30-

 

 

LUNCH BREAK   AND SITE SEEING

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

12/12 2013

9:00- 10:15

70 min

Shahaduz Zaman

Basic concepts of anthropological/Qualitative research

15

 

10:15-

11:00

45 min

Sjaak van der Geest

 

Role of self in anthropological research

 

 

11:00-

11:15

15 min

 

TEA BREAK

16

 

11:15- 12:30

75 min

Shahaduz Zaman

Ethnography

 

 

12:30- 14:00

90 min

 

LUNCH BREAK  including observation exercise  

17

 

14:00- 14:45

45 min

Shahaduz Zaman/ Sjaak

Group discussion on the observation exercise  

18

 

14:45-

15:30

 45 min

Shahaduz Zaman

Principles of qualitative data analysis 

 

 

15:30- 15:45

15 min

 

TEA BREAK

19

 

15:45-

16:45

60 min

Belkis Kumbetoglu

Some Ethical Dimensions of Interviewing

 

 

16:45-

17:00

15 min

Sjaak van der Geest/Shahaduz Zaman

Final Q & A

20

 

17:00- 17:30

30 min

 

Closing remarks, Workshop evaluation and certificate giving

 

 

 

Facilitators:

Shahaduz Zaman: Newcastle University, UK- Workshop Coordinator

Sjaak van der Geest- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

İnci User- Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Belkıs Kümbetoğlu, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Bahar Taymaz, Duku Eylus University, Izmir, Turkey

 

 

 

 

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