What is it about?
Using the anthropological life cycle approach, this piece interrogates the explicit and implicit perception of health and well-being among the Jats of Western Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Why is it important?
It was observed that concepts of tradition and the modern health system are inadequate to explain people's perception of health and well-being. So, health and well-being from the life cycle approach a novel study in more contemporary literature. It tries to answer a few questions, such as what is health and well-being, how culture is related to it, how culture perceives this, what are the main medical anthropological approach relevant to study these perceptions, and how relevant the anthropological informed life-cycle approach is relevant to document this perception.
Perspectives
Medical anthropology and the life cycle approach used to provide the analytic framework of the study. Attempts have been made to understand the relations, linkages, and patterns between the health and well-being in Jats and their life-stages. How they perceive health and wellbeing at the different stages of life-cycle
Dr. Dhananjay Kumar
Centre for Culture and Development
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This page is a summary of: Health and Well-Being Among the Jats of Western Uttar Pradesh, January 2020, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1185-5.ch007.
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