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From: "Catherine Palmer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:19 PM
Subject: Anthropology & Public Health - National Short Course
> PLACES ARE FILLING FAST!
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> National Short Course in Anthropology & Public Health
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> Monday 10th July - Friday 14th July 2006
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> Adelaide, South Australia
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> Aims:
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> This national course provides an introduction to the unique contribution
> that anthropology makes to public health issues, debates, policies and
> programs. Aimed at postgraduate students and professionals in population
> and clinical health fields, the course adopts a distinctive
> anthropological
> approach to exploring and communicating the various impacts of culture on
> public health problems, policies and programs. Through a series of
> seminars,
> lectures and workshops, participants will develop the skills to apply
> anthropological theories and methods to a range of public health settings.
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> The five-day course covers topics such as:
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> * anthropology as a framework for understanding public health issues
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> * the ways in which health and illness are socially constructed in
> different cultural settings
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> * mental health in cross-cultural contexts
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> * culturally appropriate health promotion
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> * the cultural underpinnings of health policy, programs and
> organisations
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> * anthropological methods in public health research (rapid
> ethnography,
> evaluation, needs assessment)
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> * the linkages between epidemiological and anthropological
> perspectives
> in public health
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> * health and human rights
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> * health inequities
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> * the application of anthropological theory to public health issues
> and
> practice
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> The course will draw on a wide range of examples to illustrate these
> topics,
> including: reproductive practices in Brazil, mental health/illness in
> Australia and SE Asia, organ 'donation' in the Philippines, anorexia in
> Australia and the Pacific, poverty and famine in a global context,
> Indigenous health issues, 'risky' health behaviours, AIDS/ HIV in Africa
> and
> the Caribbean, physical activity in Australia and abroad, community health
> and community development and health organisations in Australia and
> abroad.
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> Course Facilitators:
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> Dr Catherine Palmer, Department of Public Health, Flinders University,
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> Dr Megan Warin, Department of Public Health and Discipline of Gender, Work
> and Social Inquiry, University of Adelaide.
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> How to register:
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> Email Trish Clark in the first instance to inquire if there are vacancies
> in
> the short course and to tentatively book your place:
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> Trish Clark: [log in to unmask]
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> Telephone: +61 8 8204 3005, Fax: +61 8 8204 5693
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> Dept. Public Health, Flinders University
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> GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA 5001, Australia
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> Dr Catherine Palmer
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> Lecturer / Researcher
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> Department of Public Health,
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> Flinders University
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> GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001, Australia
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> ph: + 61 8 8204 4277
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> fax: +61 8 8204 5693
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