Cultivating health : cultural perspectives on promoting health / edited by Malcolm MacLachlan.

Other author MacLachlan, Malcolm.
Format Book
Publication InfoChichester ; New York : Wiley, ©2001.
Descriptionxviii, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Cultivating health / Malcolm MacLachlan -- The context and cultivation of health. Cultivating health through multiculturalism / Mesfin S. Mulatu and John W. Berry -- 'Good' reasons for 'bad' records: the social, political and cultural context of vital registration / Gillian Lewando-Hundt -- Cultivating health and preventing HIV/AIDS in the dual employment system of China / Shuguang Wang and Daphne Keats -- Cultivating health and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Philip Cook -- Pluralism and cultivating health. Asian psychological approaches and Western therapy / Dan Berkow and Richard C. Page -- Cultivating health through complementary medicine / Adrian Furnham and Charles Vincent -- Boiled nettles in May: studies of plural medicine in Northern and Southern Ireland / Anne MacFarlane and Pauline Ginnety -- Special issues in cultivating health. Traditional mechanisms for cultivating health in Africa / Karl Peltzer -- Cultivating the psychosocial health of refugees / Alastair Ager and Marta Young -- Designing sustainable health promotion: STD and HIV prevention in Singapore / George D. Bishop and Mee Lian Wong.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00043549
ISBN047197725X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0471496200 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks RA427.8 .C84 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold