Latin American critical ("Social") epidemiology : new settings for an old dream

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2008

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Oxford University Press, Oxford, GB

Abstract

As the diagnostic arm of public health, epidemiology is caught in the crossfire of oppositional social values and demands. The article reviews constructions of epidemiology within viewpoints of power, class and determination for instance, and then locates it in a particular Latin American perspective: epidemiological research and the linkages between agro-industrial work and indigenous communities have led to intercultural knowledge-building as well as analysis of the relation between modes of life and exposure patterns, and the design of community-based instruments for assessing impacts of unsustainable ‘lifestyle’ effects like toxicity and stress.

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PUBLIC HEALTH, CRITICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, HEALTH SCIENCE EPISTEMOLOGY, COLLECTIVE HEALTH, LATIN AMERICANS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, SUSTAINABLE AGRO-INDUSTRIES, ECOHEALTH, LATIN AMERICA, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS

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