Upul Kumara Wickramasinghe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Upul Kumara Wickramasinghe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Upul Kumara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickramasinghe |
| SIGNATURE | WICKRAMASINGHE U K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Screening Charity Recipients: Health Philanthropy, Medical Diagnosis, and Kidney Disease Prevention in Sri Lanka
Over the last several decades, epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) have appeared in Mesoamerica, North Africa, and South Asia. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a CKDu-affected village in Sri Lanka, I explore how one CKDu 'hotspot' came into being following population screening interventions by a community development organisation, a philanthropic foundation, and a university research group. While the p…
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Screening Charity Recipients: Health Philanthropy, Medical Diagnosis, and Kidney Disease Prevention in Sri Lanka
Over the last several decades, epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) have appeared in Mesoamerica, North Africa, and South Asia. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a CKDu-affected village in Sri Lanka, I explore how one CKDu 'hotspot' came into being following population screening interventions by a community development organisation, a philanthropic foundation, and a university research group. While the p…
Anthropology (1 works) · Disease (1 works) · Economic growth (1 works) · Environmental health (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Ethnology (1 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (1 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (1 works) · Kidney disease (1 works) · Medicine (1 works)