Applying Anthropology to Latin American Healthscapes

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Health landscapes (healthscapes) vary across Latin America. The structural factors collide with culture, generating unique obstacles in studying health. This panel combines infectious diseases (tuberculosis) in the remote region of Paraguay and non-infectious diseases such as depression, diabetes, obesity, and cancer in Puerto Rico. All scholars focus on the interaction and feedback of health and culture to examine their specific questions. In similar manners the Paraguayan Chaco has been excluded from global health priorities due to its isolation, and the Puerto Rican insularism has maintained at the margin of health debates due to ease for studying mainland dwelling counterparts.

Sub Track

• Health and Society

Chair

• Isa Rodriguez-Soro, University of Akron

Individual Presentations

• Hablando sobre peso, insatisfacción y estigmatización en tres generaciones de mujeres - Isa Rodriguez-Soro, University of Akron

• Las dinámicas sociales de comida y tuberculosis en comunidades indígenas en Paraguay - Amanda VanSteelandt, Arizona State University

• "An Ugly Paradise": Examining the Effect of Puerto Rico's Political Status on Diabetes, Depression, and Obesity in Puerto Rico - Shir Lerman, University of Connecticut

• La Cultura o La Estructura: Women and Physicians Cultural Knowledge of Breast Cancer in Puerto Rico - June Carrington, University of Florida

• Incluyendo la violencia doméstica en la agenda de salud - Ana María Mercado Casillas, Universidad de Puerto Rico