Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity

E Prussing - American Anthropologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of critical ethnography compellingly demonstrates how “evidence‐based”
trends are further privileging narrowly construed quantitative statistics, indicators, and …

Through a critical lens: expertise in epidemiology for and by indigenous peoples

E Prussing - Science, technology, & human values, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Epidemiology for and by Indigenous peoples uses quantitative and statistical methods to
better document Indigenous health concerns, and is oriented around providing data for use …

Critical epidemiology in action: research for and by indigenous peoples

E Prussing - SSM-population health, 2018 - Elsevier
Global social justice movements, including transnational activism for indigenous rights, are
working to promote health equity by transforming public health research and policy. Yet little …

Integrating depth and rigor in ethnobiological and ethnomedical research

UP Albuquerque, RR Nóbrega Alves - Journal of Ethnobiology and …, 2024 - Springer
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, traditionally descriptive disciplines chronicling Indigenous
People and Local Community (IPLC) practices, face the challenge of incorporating …

The imperative for research to promote health equity in indigenous communities

LR Stanley, RC Swaim, JK Kaholokula, KJ Kelly… - Prevention …, 2020 - Springer
Health disparities exact a devastating toll upon Indigenous people in the USA. However,
there has been scant research investment to develop strategies to address these inequities …

A new reflexivity: Why anthropology matters in contemporary health research and practice, and how to make it matter more

S Closser, EP Finley - American Anthropologist, 2016 - JSTOR
Many rently of medical lamenting anthropology's the undervalued leading place lights of are
ethno-cur-rently lamenting the undervalued place of ethno-graphic work in public health and …

“American Indian” as a racial category in public health: implications for communities and practice

DR Gartner, RE Wilbur… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
When public health considers the health and disease status of Indigenous people, it often
does so using a racial lens. In recent decades, public health researchers have begun to …

The murky middle ground–when ethnographers engage public health

K Hopper - Social Science & Medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
This commentary revisits dilemmas of relevance that applied anthropology in the US has
long grappled with, no matter the rigor and depth of inquiry. Direct action, collaborative …

Reclaiming indigenous health in the US: moving beyond the social determinants of health

SR Carroll, M Suina, MB Jäger, J Black… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The lack of literature on Indigenous conceptions of health and the social determinants of
health (SDH) for US Indigenous communities limits available information for Indigenous …

Deficit-based indigenous health research and the stereotyping of indigenous peoples

SL Hyett, C Gabel, S Marjerrison… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - erudit.org
Health research tends to be deficit-based by nature; as researchers we typically quantify or
qualify absence of health markers or presence of illness. This can create a narrative with far …