All medical students,
Medical residents in different branches
Allied health staff
General public and Media,

On 18th April 2024, we conducted a 1 hour lecture for Phase 1 Students of Atılım Univ.
Medical School with a subject of MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY & HEALTH, CULTURE

Here is the 43 slides updated PDF file (3,7 MB) : Medical Anhropology & Health, Culture

Some important public health issues related to this lecture :

• “The basis of Turkish Republic is Culture. Culture is reading, understanding what you read and training your intelligent.”  M. K. ATATÜRK
• The lecture provides an introduction to the field of Medical Anthropology.
• It includes the application of different forms of social and cultural analysis to the study of
  health, illness, and healing.
• The study of this module enables the students to understand the basic theoretical and applied orientation of Medical Anthropology.
• Medical Anthropology is a subfield of Anthropology
  – that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology
  – to better understand those factors which influence health
  – and well being (broadly defined), – the experience and distribution of illness,
  – prevention and treatment of sickness, healing processes,
  – the social relations of therapy management,
  – and the cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical systems.
• The discipline of medical anthropology  draws upon many different theoretical approaches.

Ahmet SALTIK, MD
Professor of Public Health
BSc in Political Sciences & Public Administration
LLM in Health Law
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