How Do You Build a "Culture of Health"? A Critical Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical Anthropology.

Katherine A Mason, Sarah S Willen, Seth M Holmes, Denise A Herd, Mark Nichter, Heide Castañeda, Helena Hansen

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Article in Population health management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Connections and Biases in Health Equity and Culture Research: A Semantic Network Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022
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Katherine A MasonDepartment of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Sarah S WillenDepartment of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

Seth M HolmesDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

Denise A HerdSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

Mark NichterSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Heide CastañedaDepartment of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Helena HansenDepartment of Anthropology, and Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, New York, USA.

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Science/Technical CoreP2CHD041020 · NICHD · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI ZHENCHAO QIAN · 2016 to 2026

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health Action Framework aims to "make health a shared value" and improve population health equity through widespread culture change. The authors draw upon their expertise as anthropologists to identify 3 challenges that they believe must be addressed in order to effectively achieve the health equity and population health improvement goals of the Culture of Health initiative: clarifying and demystifying the concept of "culture," contextualizing "community" within networks of power and inequality, and confronting the crises of trust and solidarity in the contemporary United States. The authors suggest that those who seek to build a "Culture of Health" refine their understanding of how "culture" is experienced, advocate for policies and practices that break down unhealthy consolidations of power, and innovate solutions to building consensus in a divided nation.

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Health EquityPopulation HealthAnthropology, MedicalHumansUnited Statesanthropologyculture of healthhealth equity

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PMID31928510

DOI10.1089/pop.2019.0179

PMCPMC7703238

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