Edward C Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 74967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward C Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward C |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Health Belief Model
This article traces the origin and evolution of the health belief model, a behavior change framework that has been and is still widely used throughout the world. The health belief model is the basis of or is incorporated into interventions to increase knowledge of health challenges, enhance perceptions of personal risk, encourage actions to reduce or eliminate the risk, and—in its later iteration—build a sense of self-efficacy to undertake the ne…
Assessment of an HIV-prevention intervention for couples in peri-urban Uganda
Reducing multiple and concurrent partnerships has been identified as a priority in generalised HIV epidemics, yet developing successful interventions to bring about such behaviour change has proven challenging. We offered a three-session intervention aimed to improve couple relationship quality and address HIV risk factors, particularly concurrent sexual partnerships (CSP), in a peri-urban community of Kampala, Uganda. Before launching the interv…
Navigating intimate sexual partnerships in an era of HIV
Couple relationship functioning impacts individual health and well-being, including HIV risk, but scant research has focused on emic understandings of relationship quality in African populations. We explored relationship quality and satisfaction in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) using data from 148 in-depth interviews (117 life-course interviews with 28 adults and 31 interviews with 29 marriage counselors and their clients) and 4 focus group discu…
Couple Relationship Functioning as a Source or Mitigator of HIV Risk
From first love to marriage and maturity
This paper uses a life-course approach to explore the sexual partnerships and HIV-related risk of men and women in Swaziland throughout their adolescence, 20s and 30s. Twenty-eight Swazi men and women between the ages of 20 and 39 discussed their life histories in 117 in-depth interviews, with an average follow-up of nine months. Many participants described painful childhood experiences, including a lack of positive role models for couple relatio…
Making voluntary medical male circumcision a viable HIV prevention strategy in high-prevalence countries by engaging the traditional sector
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been rapidly accepted by global HIV policy and donor institutions as a highly valuable HIV prevention strategy given its cost-effectiveness, limited interactions with a health facility, and projected long-lasting benefits. Many southern African countries have incorporated VMMC into their national HIV prevention strategies. However, intensive VMMC promotion programs have met with limited success to da…
Love, lust and the emotional context of multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships among young Swazi adults
Men and women in Swaziland who are engaged in multiple or concurrent sexual partnerships, or who have sexual partners with concurrent partners, face a very high risk of HIV infection. Ninety-four in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 Swazi men and women (14 of each sex) between the ages of 20 and 39 to explore participants' sexual partnership histories, including motivations for sexual relationships which carried high HIV risk. Concurrency w…
Demographic and health surveys indicate limited impact of condoms and HIV testing in four African countries
Condom promotion and HIV testing for the general population have been major components of HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa's high prevalence HIV epidemics, although little evidence documents their public health impact. Recent enhancements to the large, population-based demographic and health surveys (DHS) and AIDS information surveys (AIS) allow use of these data to assess the population-wide impact of these strategies. We analysed th…
The Need to Reemphasize Behavior Change for HIV Prevention in Uganda
Uganda has long been considered an AIDS success story, although in recent years declines in prevalence and incidence appear to have stalled or even reversed. During the early stages of Uganda's AIDS prevention program, health messages emphasized behavior change, especially fidelity. Ugandans were made to fear AIDS and feel personally at risk of dying from a new, poorly understood disease. In this research, six focus group discussions with 64 part…
Prevention messages and Aids risk behavior in Kampala, Uganda
Uganda was one of the first countries to substantially reduce HIV rates through behavior change, but these gains have not continued in recent years. Little is known about what messages Ugandans are currently hearing about AIDS prevention, what they themselves believe to be important prevention strategies, and how these beliefs are associated with behavior. We interviewed men and women aged between 20 and 39 in two poor peri-urban areas of Kampala…
Mobilising indigenous resources for anthropologically designed HIV-prevention and behaviour-change interventions in southern Africa
HIV prevention is often implemented as if African culture were either nonexistent or a series of obstacles to overcome in order to achieve an effective, gender-equitable, human rights-based set of interventions. Similarly, traditional or indigenous leaders, such as chiefs and members of royal families, have been largely excluded from HIV/AIDS responses in Africa. This qualitative study used focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with tra…
A Framework of Sexual Partnerships
The global diversity of HIV epidemics can be explained in part by types and patterns of sexual partnerships. We offer a typology of sexual partnerships that corresponds to varying levels of HIV‐transmission risk to help guide thinking about appropriate behavioral interventions, particularly in the epidemics of sub‐Saharan Africa. Declines in HIV prevalence have been associated with reductions in numbers of sex partners, whereas many other prevent…
Uganda's HIV Prevention Success
There has been considerable interest in understanding what may have led to Uganda's dramatic decline in HIV prevalence, one of the world's earliest and most compelling AIDS prevention successes. Survey and other data suggest that a decline in multi-partner sexual behavior is the behavioral change most likely associated with HIV decline. It appears that behavior change programs, particularly involving extensive promotion of "zero grazing" (faithfu…
Aids Debate in An
Commentary
Health care seeking behaviour for sexually transmitted diseases among commercial sex workers in Morogoro, Tanzania
A qualitative study was conducted in a community of 100 female, self-employed commercial sex workers (CSWs), in Morogoro township, Tanzania. Data was gathered through key informant interviews and open-ended questionnaires. Respondents had extensive experiential knowledge of STDs and HIV/AIDS. They pursued several different avenues in attempting to prevent STDs including eating nutritiously to enhance immunologic status, using condoms, and vaginal…
Society for Medical Anthropology
Ethnographically Evaluating Palestinian Forum Theater
Can Qualitative Research Produce Reliable Quantitative Findings
This article asks whether qualitative anthropological research using rapid methods can produce results as reliable and valid as those derived from expensive sample surveys, at least under certain circumstances. The discussion focuses on nonformal sampling or informant selection techniques on which anthropologists rely. To help answer the question, the author describes two relatively low-cost, rapid, qualitative studies in applied medical anthropo…
The Circumcision and Aids Debate
Indigenous Knowledge For Development
Intersectoral healthcare delivery
Etiology in human and animal ethnomedicine
White Cultural Practices Unmasked
D Michael Warren
Traditional healers, mothers and childhood diarrheal disease in Swaziland
Traditional healers in Swaziland
Can collaborative programs between biomedical and African indigenous health practitioners succeed
Sexually transmitted disease, ethnomedicine and health policy in Africa
Diarrhea and the social marketing of oral rehydration salts in Bangladesh
The experience of an Aids prevention program focused on South African traditional healers
The Snake in the Stomach
Research on diarrhea in early childhood in Manica Province, Mozambique, showed that traditional healers conceptualize a complex array of illnesses that have diarrhea as a symptom. They did not have a concept of dehydration, although depressed fontanelle was recognized as evidence of serious illness. On the other hand, diarrhea was linked to symptoms of dehydration through the concept of nyoka, a guardian of bodily purity thought to dwell in all p…
Sexually-transmitted diseases, Aids and traditional healers in Mozambique
Qualitative research was conducted with traditional healers in Manica Province, Mozambique to develop an empirical, culturally-appropriate strategy for communication between government and traditional healers related to the prevention of STDs including AIDS. Most Manica healers regard AIDS as a new disease for which they lack medicines. However, when questioned on other sexually transmitted diseases, as defined by healers themselves, relatively c…
The anthropology of sexually transmitted disease in Liberia
Part II
Aids and STDs in Africa
Since sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) facilitate the transmission of AIDS and since, in Africa, most STD cases are brought to traditional healers, this text argues that biomedical practitioners must work together with healers to help contain the spread of AIDS. Drawing upon research in southern Africa, as well as East, and West Africa, the author examines the role of traditional healers in providing health care and collaborative AIDS/STD and…
Purity, pollution and the invisible snake in Southern Africa
There exists in parts of southern and eastern Africa an apparently widespread belief in the existence of an invisible, internal "snake," often described as a power or force of some kind that dwells in the stomach but that can move throughout the upper body. Although some anthropologists have described this snake as related to witchcraft, findings from diverse parts of Mozambique, South Africa and elsewhere suggest that it may (also) be thought of…
Can Qualitative Research Produce Reliable Quantitative Findings
This article asks whether qualitative anthropological research using rapid methods can produce results as reliable and valid as those derived from expensive sample surveys, at least under certain circumstances. The discussion focuses on nonformal sampling or informant selection techniques on which anthropologists rely. To help answer the question, the author describes two relatively low-cost, rapid, qualitative studies in applied medical anthropo…
Winti and Christianity
A traditional Afro-American religion in Suriname is described and the impact of Christian missionaries and their teachings on this religion is assessed. There has been little or no African-Christian fusion of ideas, or syncretism, making Winti rather unique among Afro-American religions. Reasons for this lack of syncretism are explored. One important reason or factor that emerges from the present case study is the relative incompatibility between…
Intersectoral healthcare delivery
Etiology in human and animal ethnomedicine
Matawai lineage fission
L'auteur entend: 1Expliquer le processus de division de lignage dans une societe de negres marron de Guyane| 2Comparer le modele ideal de ce processus selon la vision de l'indigene avec celle de l'anthropologue| 3Evaluer l'utilite generale du contraste ideal/reel. Le terme matawai utilise dans l'article designe a la fois la langue, le territoire et le peuple. Il s'agit la de la seule societe afro-americaine possedant une organisation de lignage e…
Commentary
Aids and STDs in Africa
A Short-Term Consultancy in Bangladesh
Social Control in Tribal Afro-America
The system of law and social control in an acephalous Maroon society in Surinam is described and the effectiveness of the system is evaluated. The main factors contributing to Matawai social control are identified and further use for such a framework of analysis is suggested. The position is taken that self-control is generally-speaking a more efficient means of social control than is external control
Matawai lineage fission
L'auteur entend: 1Expliquer le processus de division de lignage dans une societe de negres marron de Guyane| 2Comparer le modele ideal de ce processus selon la vision de l'indigene avec celle de l'anthropologue| 3Evaluer l'utilite generale du contraste ideal/reel. Le terme matawai utilise dans l'article designe a la fois la langue, le territoire et le peuple. Il s'agit la de la seule societe afro-americaine possedant une organisation de lignage e…
Social Control in Tribal Afro-America
The system of law and social control in an acephalous Maroon society in Surinam is described and the effectiveness of the system is evaluated. The main factors contributing to Matawai social control are identified and further use for such a framework of analysis is suggested. The position is taken that self-control is generally-speaking a more efficient means of social control than is external control
Winti and Christianity
A traditional Afro-American religion in Suriname is described and the impact of Christian missionaries and their teachings on this religion is assessed. There has been little or no African-Christian fusion of ideas, or syncretism, making Winti rather unique among Afro-American religions. Reasons for this lack of syncretism are explored. One important reason or factor that emerges from the present case study is the relative incompatibility between…
Part II
Traditional healers in Swaziland
Traditional healers, mothers and childhood diarrheal disease in Swaziland
Diarrhea and the social marketing of oral rehydration salts in Bangladesh
A Short-Term Consultancy in Bangladesh
Rejoinder to Wallace's Commentary
A Consumer Intercept Study of Oral Contraceptive Users in the Dominican Republic
Purchasers of a low-cost oral contraceptive were intercepted and interviewed in a sample of Santo Domingo pharmacies that represented the highest sales of the product, yet also reflected the socioeconomic profile of the city's entire population. Users of the contraceptive were later interviewed in greater depth in their homes. The survey of users showed that the Dominican Republic's social marketing program, implemented by PROFAMILIA, was reachin…
Can collaborative programs between biomedical and African indigenous health practitioners succeed
Women’s Groups and Income Generation in Swaziland
Women's self-help groups known as zenzele ("do-it-yourself") have existed in Swaziland since the 1950s, but until recently they received little recognition or support. In 1984 a survey of local-level development organizations showed that zenzele were among the most ubiquitous and self-sufficient local organizations in Swaziland. The survey further discovered a positive statistical correlation between the existence of zenzele groups and the number…
The anthropology of sexually transmitted disease in Liberia
Sexually transmitted disease, ethnomedicine and health policy in Africa
Sexually-transmitted diseases, Aids and traditional healers in Mozambique
Qualitative research was conducted with traditional healers in Manica Province, Mozambique to develop an empirical, culturally-appropriate strategy for communication between government and traditional healers related to the prevention of STDs including AIDS. Most Manica healers regard AIDS as a new disease for which they lack medicines. However, when questioned on other sexually transmitted diseases, as defined by healers themselves, relatively c…
The Snake in the Stomach
Research on diarrhea in early childhood in Manica Province, Mozambique, showed that traditional healers conceptualize a complex array of illnesses that have diarrhea as a symptom. They did not have a concept of dehydration, although depressed fontanelle was recognized as evidence of serious illness. On the other hand, diarrhea was linked to symptoms of dehydration through the concept of nyoka, a guardian of bodily purity thought to dwell in all p…
Anthropologists as Villains
The experience of an Aids prevention program focused on South African traditional healers
Aids and STDs in Africa
Since sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) facilitate the transmission of AIDS and since, in Africa, most STD cases are brought to traditional healers, this text argues that biomedical practitioners must work together with healers to help contain the spread of AIDS. Drawing upon research in southern Africa, as well as East, and West Africa, the author examines the role of traditional healers in providing health care and collaborative AIDS/STD and…
Purity, pollution and the invisible snake in Southern Africa
There exists in parts of southern and eastern Africa an apparently widespread belief in the existence of an invisible, internal "snake," often described as a power or force of some kind that dwells in the stomach but that can move throughout the upper body. Although some anthropologists have described this snake as related to witchcraft, findings from diverse parts of Mozambique, South Africa and elsewhere suggest that it may (also) be thought of…
Aids and STDs in Africa
Intersectoral healthcare delivery
Etiology in human and animal ethnomedicine
White Cultural Practices Unmasked
D Michael Warren
Medicine (29 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Political science (21 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (17 works) · Family medicine (16 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Environmental health (11 works)