The economics of health and wellness anthropological perspectives (Elsevier JAI, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction / Donald Wood -- Lakota health care access and the perpetuation of poverty on Pine Ridge / Kathleen Pickering and Bethany Mizushima -- The power of culture in selecting health care providers in rural Bangladesh : an ethno scientific analysis / Azizur R. Molla -- Reinventing mental health care : public-private systems / Sue Gena Lurie -- Failed urban migration and psychosomatic numbing : Cortisol, unfullfilled lifestyle aspirations And depression In Botswana / Seamus Decker -- Attributions of danger and responses to risk among logging contractors In British Columbia's southern interior : implications for accident prevention in the forest industry / Patrick B. Patterson -- Missed connections : hypertension and occupational health at the San Francisco municipal railway / Beverly Ann Davenport -- Pawning for financing health expenditures : do health shocks increase the probablity of losing the pledge? / Kristiano Raccanello, Jayant Anand, and Eder Gibran Bielma Dolores -- Basic needs and expenditure on health care in a shanty town of Lima / Mónica Guillén Royo -- Political economy and the health and vulnerability of battered women in Northern Vietnam / Lynn Kwiatkowski -- The economies of health in Western Buddhism : a case study of a Tibetan Buddhist group in France / Lionel Obadia