R T Trotter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2210 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R T Trotter |
| NOMBRES | R T |
| APELLIDO | Trotter |
| FIRMA | TROTTER R T |
| AFILIACIONES | Northern Arizona University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0804-4177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1886 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Methods for Building Community-engaged Partnerships in Ecotoxicology
Background: Ecotoxicology provides powerful tools to characterize the nature and effects of pollution, which can be impactful when used in community-engaged research (CEnR). However, academic researchers are often insufficiently informed about the communities in which they conduct research. Researchers are not usually from or familiar with the cultural nuances of these communities, which is problematic for the strength of community-engaged projec…
Building Research Infrastructure
As one of the Research Centers for Minority Institutions (RCMI), the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) worked over the first five-year period of funding to foster the advancement of Early Stage Investigators, enhance the quality of health disparities research, and increase institution research capacity in basic Biomedical, Behavioral, and/or Clinical research; all priorities of RCMIs. In year 4, the Technical Assistance Group…
Research Infrastructure Core Facilities at Research Centers in Minority Institutions
Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program fosters the development and implementation of innovative research aimed at improving minority health and reducing or eliminating health disparities. Currently, there are 21 RCMI Specialized (U54) Centers that share the same framework, comprising four required core components, namely the Administrative, Research Infrastructure, Investiga…
Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, health care provision changed rapidly and funding became available to assess pandemic-related policy change. Research activities, however, were limited to contactless, online delivery. It was clear early on that some elements of online rapid ethnography were feasible and effective, while others would not approach traditional ethnographic depth. We conducted an online Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) …
Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Individuals Incarcerated in an Arizona County Jail
We aimed to estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity among a sample of individuals incarcerated in an Arizona county jail and compare prevalence estimates to a matched non-institutionalized population. From 2017-2018, individuals housed at a county jail completed a cross-sectional health survey. We estimated the prevalence of hyp…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Environmental Health Research
Leveraging community-engaged principles for studies of environmental contamination can expedite recruitment efforts and stimulate action to improve health outcomes
Another Silver Lining
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has temporarily relaxed restrictions to serve people who are opioid dependent during social distancing mandates. Changes include allowing patients to take home more doses of methadone and buprenorphine rather than coming to the clinic every day (for methadone) or weekly (for buprenorphine) and relaxed restrictions on telehealth delivery. Telemedicine P…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug- and Alcohol-Related Arrest Outcomes in a Southwest County From 2009 to 2018
Objectives. To estimate the association between race/ethnicity and drug- and alcohol-related arrest outcomes. Methods. We used multinomial logistic regression and general estimating equations to estimate the association between race/ethnicity and arrest outcomes in 36 073 drug- and alcohol-related arrests obtained from administrative records in a Southwest US county from 2009 to 2018. Results were stratified by charge type. Results. Among misdeme…
Health Disparities in Jail Populations
This special issue of Practicing Anthropology presents multi-disciplinary and multisectoral views of a community engaged health disparities project titled “Health Disparities in Jail Populations: Converging Epidemics of Infectious Disease, Chronic Illness, Behavioral Health, and Substance Abuse.” The overall project incorporated traditional anthropological mixed-methods approaches with theory and methods from informatics, epidemiology, genomics, …
Organizational and Institutional Compartmentalization as a Barrier to Population Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC 2019e) define population health as “an approach that allows health departments to connect practice to policy.” One intention of the approach is that institutions from several different sectors, including academia, non-profits, public health, and local governments, should collaborate towards a holistic view of local health outcomes. In principal, the holistic view should allow for the recognition…
Overcoming Institutional, Scientific, and Cross-disciplinary Barriers for Healthcare and Disease Transmission Research in County Jail Settings
More than 20 million Americans are currently or have been previously incarcerated and 12 million cycle in and out of the criminal justice system each year. Despite the importance of the jail populations, there are a number of barriers to conducting research in this setting. Challenges in recruiting jail inmates without undue coercion while ensuring proper consent are significant. Even simple things like participant compensation are complicated in…
A Survey of Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, and Converging Morbidities in a County Jail
The environmental health status of jail populations in the United States constitutes a significant public health threat for prisoners and the general population. The ecology of jails creates a dynamic condition in relation to general population health due to the concentrated potential exposure to infectious diseases, difficult access to treatment for chronic health conditions, interruption in continuity of care for serious behavioral health condi…
Transforming Culture
Culture and Dehydration
Variation and Persistence in Latin American Beliefs About Evil Eye
In a comparative study of evil eye ( mal de ojo), we demonstrate a methodology appropriate for the study of cultural transmission of beliefs. We studied four diverse populations with historical links to Spain: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, Mexican Americans in south Texas, Mexicans in Guadalajara, and rural Guatemalans. Using agreement on ideas or themes about evil eye within and across sites, we identify specific ideas that may have persisted th…
Qualitative research sample design and sample size
Significant Cultural Transformations in the Automotive Industry
T he manufacturing history of Europe, the United States, and the world is an intertwined flow of cultural transformations. Understanding the broad sweep of those transformations is an excellent way to explore current patterns because any cultural transformation has three elements that define it, explain it, and predict where it will end up. These elements are a history, a present configuration, and future potential. A famous aphorism states, “Tho…
Helping Organizations to See “What Was” and “What Is”
O ne member of our research group, Elizabeth Briody, had the unique experience of conducting anthropological fieldwork in GM manufacturing plants at two different points in time: the mid-1980s (as a sole researcher) and the mid-2000s (as a research-group leader). 1 She did so from the standpoint of an “insider” (a full-time GM researcher) whose job was to design and conduct organizational-culture research. In each case, the research approach was …
Formalizing Ethics Training in Anthropology
Shirley Fiske and Niel Tashima are contributing editors of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
The Knowledge Organization
General Motors Research and Development (R&D) management is planning to renovate portions of the Warren, Michigan, research facility. The study's goal was to help organizational leaders and planners understand culturally endorsed workspace architecture and design elements. Researchers used a rapid ethnographic assessment research design grounded in cognitive anthropology and methods to capture impressions and cultural requirements for workspace. …
A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Study of the Folk Illness Nervios
Rapid Assessment of the HIV/Aids Crisis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities
Objectives. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Congressional Black Caucus, created a new initiative to address the disproportionate ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in racial/ethnic minority populations. Methods. This initiative included deploying technical assistance teams through the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. The teams introduced rapid assessment and response methodologies and trained minority communities in their…
Regional Variation in Latino Descriptions of Susto
Cross-Cultural Applicability Research on Disablement
The World Health Organization (WHO) has undertaken the revision of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH), originally adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1980. The existing classification has been criticized for not meeting the modern standards of cross-cultural applicability necessary for an international classification. A field-based empirical test of a revised version of the ICIDH was conducted …
Drug-using men who have sex with men
Men who have sex with men (MSM) and use drugs are at high risk for HIV. This study assessed drug and sex-related risk behaviours and sexual identities for MSM drug injectors and crack smokers. One hundred and forty four MSM drug injectors and crack smokers from five USA cities were interviewed. One-third of the men were current injectors, twice as many reported lifetime injection. Most (56%) reported sex with women in the prior year; sex trading …
What Is Community? An Evidence-Based Definition for Participatory Public Health
Increased emphasis on community collaboration indicates the need for consensus regarding the definition of community within public health. This study examined whether members of diverse US communities described community in similar ways. To identify strategies to support community collaboration in HIV vaccine trials, qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 African Americans in Durham, NC; 26 gay men in San Francisco, Calif; 25 injection dru…
Regional Variation in Latino Descriptions of Susto
Empacho in four Latino groups
It is usually impossible to know if reported differences between cultures are due to cultural differences or due to a difference in the methods used to study the cultures. This paper describes a collaborative, multisite study using a shared methodology to study intra- and inter-cultural variation in beliefs. A series of standard interview schedules were used to study Latin American beliefs about empacho in Guatemala, Mexico, and in the United Sta…
Rapid Assessment of the HIV/Aids Crisis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities
Objectives. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Congressional Black Caucus, created a new initiative to address the disproportionate ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in racial/ethnic minority populations. Methods. This initiative included deploying technical assistance teams through the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. The teams introduced rapid assessment and response methodologies and trained minority communities in their…
Fallen fontanelle in the American southwest
A Methodological Model for Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation
Rapid assessment projects are expanding in the arenas of public health policy, planning, and program development in both developing and developed nations. This article reviews the methodological advances that have changed rapid assessment from a primarily “quick and dirty” approach for data collection into a public health tool for time-sensitive development of changes in intervention strategies, community-based organizational structure, program e…
Susto
shock, holds a special place in medical anthropology. For the past 25 years or more it has provided a convenient springboard tor ethnographic descriptions, for explorations ot the effect of culture on health beliefs, and it has been a common analytical arena for the assessment of stress, social roles, sex roles, the nature-nuture controversy, and the epistemology of medical anthropology itself. While this is a significant burden to load onto a si…
Beliefs about Aids in five Latin and Anglo-American populations
This paper focuses on variability in beliefs about AIDS among Latin Americans, as compared with middle class Americans. Four geographically dispersed groups of Latin Americans were chosen for study as well as a middle class, largely Anglo‐American population. Coherent sets of beliefs were found at each site, and despite tremendous variability among the five populations, beliefs were remarkably similar across sites. The biomedical model is widely …
Curanderismo
In this article curanderismo, Mexican‐American folk medicine, is treated as a systematic body of healing theories rather than a mass cultural phenomenon. Using professional healers as informants for a period of over four years, the authors define and describe curanderismo from the emic theoretical perspective, not only providing explanations for the ties between the “Mexican Folk Illnesses” previously reported in the literature, but also showing …
A Survey of Four Illnesses and Their Relationship to Intracultural Variation in a Mexican‐American Community
Curanderismo, Mexican-American Folk Healing
The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers).Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practic…
Part 2
(1983). Part 2: Community morbidity patterns and Mexican American folk illnesses: A comparative methodology. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33-44
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug- and Alcohol-Related Arrest Outcomes in a Southwest County From 2009 to 2018
Objectives. To estimate the association between race/ethnicity and drug- and alcohol-related arrest outcomes. Methods. We used multinomial logistic regression and general estimating equations to estimate the association between race/ethnicity and arrest outcomes in 36 073 drug- and alcohol-related arrests obtained from administrative records in a Southwest US county from 2009 to 2018. Results were stratified by charge type. Results. Among misdeme…
Variation and Persistence in Latin American Beliefs About Evil Eye
In a comparative study of evil eye ( mal de ojo), we demonstrate a methodology appropriate for the study of cultural transmission of beliefs. We studied four diverse populations with historical links to Spain: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, Mexican Americans in south Texas, Mexicans in Guadalajara, and rural Guatemalans. Using agreement on ideas or themes about evil eye within and across sites, we identify specific ideas that may have persisted th…
The Knowledge Organization
General Motors Research and Development (R&D) management is planning to renovate portions of the Warren, Michigan, research facility. The study's goal was to help organizational leaders and planners understand culturally endorsed workspace architecture and design elements. Researchers used a rapid ethnographic assessment research design grounded in cognitive anthropology and methods to capture impressions and cultural requirements for workspace. …
Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, health care provision changed rapidly and funding became available to assess pandemic-related policy change. Research activities, however, were limited to contactless, online delivery. It was clear early on that some elements of online rapid ethnography were feasible and effective, while others would not approach traditional ethnographic depth. We conducted an online Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) …
Azarcon" and "Greta
Remedios caseros
Notice of the Excavation of St Medan's Cave and Chapel, Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire. Communicated, with Additional Notes
Evidence of an ethnomedical form of aversion therapy on the United States-Mexico border
A Brief Note on Dwindling Research Opportunities for Anthropologists
Curanderismo
In this article curanderismo, Mexican‐American folk medicine, is treated as a systematic body of healing theories rather than a mass cultural phenomenon. Using professional healers as informants for a period of over four years, the authors define and describe curanderismo from the emic theoretical perspective, not only providing explanations for the ties between the “Mexican Folk Illnesses” previously reported in the literature, but also showing …
Folk remedies as indicators of common illnesses
Remedios caseros
Border Healing Woman
Susto
shock, holds a special place in medical anthropology. For the past 25 years or more it has provided a convenient springboard tor ethnographic descriptions, for explorations ot the effect of culture on health beliefs, and it has been a common analytical arena for the assessment of stress, social roles, sex roles, the nature-nuture controversy, and the epistemology of medical anthropology itself. While this is a significant burden to load onto a si…
Ethmopharmacology and epidemiology
Ethnography and bioassay
Curanderismo, Mexican-American Folk Healing
The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers).Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practic…
Theories of Illness
Azarcon" and "Greta
Part 2
(1983). Part 2: Community morbidity patterns and Mexican American folk illnesses: A comparative methodology. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33-44
Greta and Azarcon
This paper reports on the use of two lead compounds, greta (PbO) and azarcon (Pb3O4) currently being used as folk remedies in Mexican-American communities. These compounds have produced cases of acute lead poisoning. The compounds are two of more than 100 treatments for the culture-bound syndrome empacho A survey of over 2,000 informants in 35 clinics indicates that at least one person in approximately ten percent of the participating households …
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Empacho in four Latino groups
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