Abstract
Health promotion within Aboriginal communities has typically come from a top-down approach with government-funded health research directing the nature in which health information is disseminated. Previous literature has argued for two-way interaction that requires an equivalent bottom-up approach to integrate community beliefs and perceptions. Good hygiene has been the focus of many health promotion campaigns to reduce the presence of a wide variety of pathogens, but to date, there have been few attempts to incorporate traditional knowledge into such campaigns. This article proposes that visual ethnography, specifically community video, provides a good method for understanding community beliefs while simultaneously creating health promotion materials within the local culture.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Sage Open |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2019 |
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Why Visual Ethnography Should Be Used to Incorporate Traditional Knowledge Into Health Promotion in Remote Aboriginal Communities. / Thompson, Adam.
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T1 - Why Visual Ethnography Should Be Used to Incorporate Traditional Knowledge Into Health Promotion in Remote Aboriginal Communities
AU - Thompson, Adam
N1 - Published online: June 12, 2019
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - Health promotion within Aboriginal communities has typically come from a top-down approach with government-funded health research directing the nature in which health information is disseminated. Previous literature has argued for two-way interaction that requires an equivalent bottom-up approach to integrate community beliefs and perceptions. Good hygiene has been the focus of many health promotion campaigns to reduce the presence of a wide variety of pathogens, but to date, there have been few attempts to incorporate traditional knowledge into such campaigns. This article proposes that visual ethnography, specifically community video, provides a good method for understanding community beliefs while simultaneously creating health promotion materials within the local culture.
AB - Health promotion within Aboriginal communities has typically come from a top-down approach with government-funded health research directing the nature in which health information is disseminated. Previous literature has argued for two-way interaction that requires an equivalent bottom-up approach to integrate community beliefs and perceptions. Good hygiene has been the focus of many health promotion campaigns to reduce the presence of a wide variety of pathogens, but to date, there have been few attempts to incorporate traditional knowledge into such campaigns. This article proposes that visual ethnography, specifically community video, provides a good method for understanding community beliefs while simultaneously creating health promotion materials within the local culture.
KW - anthropology
KW - communication
KW - communication studies
KW - cultural anthropology
KW - cultural communication
KW - health communication
KW - human communication
KW - intercultural communication
KW - mass communication
KW - media & society
KW - research methodology and design
KW - research methods
KW - science communication
KW - social anthropology
KW - social sciences
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U2 - 10.1177/2158244019856950
DO - 10.1177/2158244019856950
M3 - Article
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Sage Open
JF - Sage Open
SN - 2158-2440
IS - 2
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