Medical Anthropology examines how cultural factors influence health beliefs, practices, and behaviors, as well as how these factors shape the delivery and reception of healthcare.

Medical Anthropology emphasizes cultural relativism, recognizing that health and illness are culturally defined and vary across societies.

Ethnomedicine is the study of traditional healing practices, beliefs, and knowledge systems used by different cultural groups.

The social determinants of health theory highlights how social, economic, and environmental factors shape health outcomes.

Medical anthropologists aim to understand how cultural factors shape health beliefs, practices, and behaviors, and how these factors influence health outcomes.

Animism is the belief that natural objects, animals, and even inanimate objects possess a soul or spirit, and that these spirits can influence health and illness.

Cultural psychiatry explores the relationship between cultural factors and mental health, examining how cultural beliefs, values, and practices shape the experience and treatment of mental illness.

Integrative medicine combines traditional healing practices with modern medicine, recognizing the value of both approaches in promoting health and well-being.

Cultural gerontology examines how cultural factors influence the experience of aging, including attitudes towards aging, retirement, and intergenerational relationships.

Vitalism is the belief that health and illness are influenced by a balance between opposing forces, such as hot and cold, wet and dry, or yin and yang.

Cultural disability studies explores how cultural factors shape the experience of disability, including attitudes towards disability, access to healthcare, and social support.

Cultural competence involves understanding and respecting the cultural beliefs, values, and practices of patients, and incorporating this understanding into healthcare delivery.

Cultural reproductive health examines how cultural factors influence reproductive beliefs, practices, and behaviors, including contraception, childbirth, and abortion.

Environmental determinism is the belief that health and illness are primarily determined by environmental factors, such as climate, geography, and pollution.

Cultural nutrition explores how cultural factors influence food beliefs, practices, and behaviors, including dietary patterns, food taboos, and meal preparation.