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Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes.

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Worthman, CM; Kohrt, B
Published in: Soc Sci Med
August 2005

Worldwide challenges to health reflect a "paradox of success," whereby both the strengths and the weaknesses of current approaches in public health, epidemiology, and biomedicine have determined the nature of the health problems we now face. In detail, we analyze and illustrate five constituent paradoxes that fuel continued health risk even in the face of success, including: (1) unmasking, (2) local biology, (3) socialization, (4) emerging and reemerging disease, and (5) savage inequity. We trace the pathways behind the paradoxes and their effects on health, and demonstrate that biocultural dynamics are involved in each. Furthermore, we track the roots of health paradox to changes that divert or disrupt pathways for production of health. These analyses contribute to an emerging literature of research and praxis on integrative biocultural models of health.

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Soc Sci Med

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ISSN

0277-9536

Publication Date

August 2005

Volume

61

Issue

4

Start / End Page

861 / 878

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Environment
  • Public Health
  • Public Health
  • Poverty
  • Humans
  • Global Health
  • Culture
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • 16 Studies in Human Society
  • 14 Economics
 

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Worthman, C. M., & Kohrt, B. (2005). Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes. Soc Sci Med, 61(4), 861–878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.052
Worthman, Carol M., and Brandon Kohrt. “Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes.Soc Sci Med 61, no. 4 (August 2005): 861–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.052.
Worthman CM, Kohrt B. Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Aug;61(4):861–78.
Worthman, Carol M., and Brandon Kohrt. “Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes.Soc Sci Med, vol. 61, no. 4, Aug. 2005, pp. 861–78. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.052.
Worthman CM, Kohrt B. Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Aug;61(4):861–878.
Journal cover image

Published In

Soc Sci Med

DOI

ISSN

0277-9536

Publication Date

August 2005

Volume

61

Issue

4

Start / End Page

861 / 878

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Environment
  • Public Health
  • Public Health
  • Poverty
  • Humans
  • Global Health
  • Culture
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • 16 Studies in Human Society
  • 14 Economics