Culture and Health: UCL- Lancet Commission.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Culture and Health

T2 - UCL- Lancet Commission.

AU - Ancarno, Clyde

AU - A David Napier, Clyde Ancarno, Beverley Butler, Joseph Calabrese, Angel Chater, Helen Chatterjee, François Guesnet, Robert Horne, Stephen Jacyna,

PY - 2014/11/1

Y1 - 2014/11/1

N2 - Planned and unplanned migrations, diverse social practices, and emerging disease vectors transform how health and wellbeing are understood and negotiated. Simultaneously, familiar illnesses—both communicable and non-communicable—continue to affect individual health and household, community, and state economies. Together, these forces shape medical knowledge and how it is understood, how it comes to be valued, and when and how it is adopted and applied.

AB - Planned and unplanned migrations, diverse social practices, and emerging disease vectors transform how health and wellbeing are understood and negotiated. Simultaneously, familiar illnesses—both communicable and non-communicable—continue to affect individual health and household, community, and state economies. Together, these forces shape medical knowledge and how it is understood, how it comes to be valued, and when and how it is adopted and applied.

U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61603-2

DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61603-2

M3 - Article

SN - 0140-6736

VL - 384

SP - 1607

EP - 1639

JO - The Lancet

JF - The Lancet

IS - 9954

ER -