Culturally sensitive public health makes a difference: The HIV/AIDS disaster and beyond

Krüger F, Geiselhart K, Schmitz P (2014)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2014

Edited Volumes: World Disasters Report 2014. Focus on culture and risk

City/Town: Genf

Pages Range: 152-183

ISBN: 978-92-9139-214-8

Abstract

Cultures perceived as integral parts of fields of practices, as commitments, agendas
and actions, may coexist in a local setting, but not necessarily in harmony.
They may collide, or be contested or ignored, and people or organizations whose
actions are framed by different cultures might suffer from the consequences of
these contests. The example of HIV/AIDS-related research in Botswana is used to
explain the implications this has for public health and to illustrate the perspective,
in this chapter, of culture and health. Many individuals who work in public
health and in disaster management, or who are directly affected by calamitous
health-related events, have observed that, in public health and humanitarian
assistance evolving around HIV/AIDS, local nurses and other medical personnel
have a good understanding of the needs and hardship of those living with HIV and
AIDS. They are, however, often restricted in their actions by conditions governed
at higher levels of their institutions.

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APA:

Krüger, F., Geiselhart, K., & Schmitz, P. (2014). Culturally sensitive public health makes a difference: The HIV/AIDS disaster and beyond. In IFRC (Eds.), World Disasters Report 2014. Focus on culture and risk. (pp. 152-183). Genf.

MLA:

Krüger, Fred, Klaus Geiselhart, and Peter Schmitz. "Culturally sensitive public health makes a difference: The HIV/AIDS disaster and beyond." World Disasters Report 2014. Focus on culture and risk. Ed. IFRC, Genf, 2014. 152-183.

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