Craig R Janes
Biographic Data
| ID | 605197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig R Janes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig R |
| FAMILY NAME | Janes |
| SIGNATURE | JANES C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2652-1117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Privatization of maternal care and women’s access to quality healthcare: A case study on middlemen in Bangladesh
This study critically examines how the unregulated expansion of private healthcare, coupled with health-system challenges such as corruption, and lack of monitoring and accountability, affects women’s experiences of obtaining healthcare in Bangladesh. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 31 female patients, 28 biomedical providers, and 12 health administrators and policymakers, we found that the absence of effective regulation, supervisi…
Challenging the myth of women's empowerment: Mining development and commercial sex in a Zambian town
Commercial sex and mining have long been interwoven. With the spread of neoliberal capitalism, social relations around the mine site have become increasingly commodified. This ethnographic study examines the experiences of female sex workers in the mining town of Solwezi, Zambia. Women's stories offer insight into the lives of those excluded from the conventional women's economic empowerment narrative that has been widely adopted by the mining in…
Identifying barriers to the production and use of routine health information in Western Province, Zambia
Recent decades of improvements to routine health information systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have increased the volume of health data collected. However, countries continue to face several challenges with quality production and use of information for decision-making at sub-national levels, limiting the value of health information for policy, planning and research. Improving the quality of data production and information use is…
Investigating global mental health: Contributions from political science
This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, a…
A reflection on medical anthropology and epidemiology
Assessing the effects of a Canadian-Mongolian capacity building program for health and environmental impact assessment in the mining sector
What the mind does not know, the eyes do not see”. Placing food allergy risk in sub-Saharan Africa
Harnessing opportunities for good governance of health impacts of mining projects in Mongolia: Results of a global partnership
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals call for the effective governance of shared natural resources in ways that support inclusive growth, safeguard the integrity of the natural and physical environment, and promote health and well-being for all. For large-scale resource extraction projects -- e.g. in the mining sector -- environmental regulations and in particular environmental impact assessments (EIA) provide an important but insufficie…
Corporate sponsorship of global health research: Questions to promote critical thinking about potential funding relationships
Putting Health Impact Assessment into practice through the lenses of diffusion of innovations theory: A review
Bringing health impact assessment to the Mongolian resource sector: A story of successful diffusion
Following the 2009 signing of the stability agreement between the Mongolian Government and Canadian mining company Turquoise Hill Resources (formerly known as Ivanhoe Mines), researchers from Simon Fraser University secured funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research to conduct applied knowledge translation (KT) research that introduces health impact assessment (HIA) to Mongolia's rapidly emerging resource sector. HIA is a highly reg…
An equity tool for health impact assessments: Reflections from Mongolia
Microclimate and Human Factors in the Divergent Ecology of Aedes aegypti along the Arizona, U.S./Sonora, MX Border
Anthropology and Global Health
This article addresses anthropology's engagement with the emerging discipline of global health. We develop a definition for global health and then present four principal contributions of anthropology to global health: (a) ethnographic studies of health inequities in political and economic contexts; (b) analysis of the impact on local worlds of the assemblages of science and technology that circulate globally; (c) interrogation, analysis, and crit…
The Health of Populations: General Theories and Particular Realities by Stephen J. Kunitz
Belief in ghost month can help prevent drowning deaths: A natural experiment on the effects of cultural beliefs on risky behaviours
The behavioural research agenda in global health: An advocate's legacy
Two of the disciplines that have come to infuse global health with some of its current vibrancy are epidemiology and anthropology, disciplines that focus, in one way or another, on the causal importance of human behaviour in socio-political, ecological, evolutionary, and cultural context. One of the little-known stories in the history of twentieth century global health involves the works of a number of pioneering interdisciplinary scholar-practit…
Poor medicine for poor people? Assessing the impact of neoliberal reform on health care equity in a post-socialist context
Driven in part by a resurgent interest in social inequality and health, and in part by increasing scrutiny of the social and health consequences of neoliberal economic reform, principles of health equity and social justice, the centerpieces of the Health for All strategy drafted at Alma Ata in 1978, are once again at center stage in global public health debates. Whether and how equity in access to health care can be maintained in a context of mar…
Globalization, water, and health: Resource management in times of scarcity - Edited by Linda Whiteford & Scott Whiteford
Society for Medical Anthropology
A web-based multimedia spatial information system to document Aedes aegypti breeding sites and dengue fever risk along the US–Mexico border
Criticizing the Impunity?: Bridging the Widening Gulf between Academic Discourse and Action Anthropology in Global Health
Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
Going Global in Century XXI: Medical Anthropology and the New Primary Health Care
I argue here that there is a need for medical anthropology to innovate conceptual and methodological tools to work effectively within complex social spaces created by the articulation of the global and the local in the liberal nonstate. The need for such innovation is suggested by a criticism of the local consequences of global neoliberal health reform and consideration of the potential practical health policies that emerge from such a criticism,…
Society for Medical Anthropology: State of the Society Address
Anthropology and Global Health
This article addresses anthropology's engagement with the emerging discipline of global health. We develop a definition for global health and then present four principal contributions of anthropology to global health: (a) ethnographic studies of health inequities in political and economic contexts; (b) analysis of the impact on local worlds of the assemblages of science and technology that circulate globally; (c) interrogation, analysis, and crit…
The health transition, global modernity and the crisis of traditional medicine: The Tibetan case
The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine
This article presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th-century Tibetan medicine. In its expansion into the state bureaucracy, Tibetan medicine has acceded to institutional modernity through transformations in theory, practice, and methods for training physicians. Despite Chinese rule in Tibet, however, Tibetan medicine has not yielded completely to state interests. With the collapsing of the traditionally pluralistic Tibetan health syst…
Free Markets and Dead Mothers: The Social Ecology of Maternal Mortality in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Beginning in 1990, Mongolia, a former client state of what was then the Soviet Union, undertook liberal economic reforms. These came as a great shock to Mongolia and Mongolians, and resulted in food shortages, reports of famine, widespread unemployment, and a collapse of public health and health care. Although economic conditions have stabilized in recent years, unemployment and poverty are still at disturbingly high levels. One important consequ…
Migration, changing gender roles and stress: The Samoan case
The impact of migration and social change on male and female role expectations is examined in an urban Samoan community. Expanding role expectations and role conflicts in the urban context are linked to differential experiences of stress by gender, which are in turn examined with respect to the health outcomes of arterial pressure, a measure of physical health status, and a psychosomatic complaint index
Massive obesity in a migrant Samoan population
Peoples of the Pacific Islands tend to become overweight when they migrate or are exposed to modernization in situ. Recent evidence suggests that Samoans are particularly susceptible, exhibiting a high prevalence of obesity and hypertension following migration to Hawaii. We report the preliminary results of a survey of height, weight, blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) among an urbanized Samoan community the the San Francisco Bay Ar…
Buddhism, science, and market: The globalisation of Tibetan medicine
In this paper I discuss the processes by which Tibetan medicine has become globalised, and the ways in which these have come to determine, constrain, and, ultimately, transform local practices of healing in both Tibet and the West. I examine the degree to which globalisation, in particular international market capitalism, operating in this case through the Chinese state, structures the content of primary medical resources, confers legitimacy to c…
Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet
This article explores the cultural epidemiology of rlung ("loong") disorder among Tibetans living in the cities and towns of the modern Chinese state of Tibet. Rlung, glossed as air or wind, is the most important of the three humors of the classical Tibetan ethnomedical system. Considered by Tibetans to be contingent upon multiple social, emotional, and religious phenomena, rlung disorders are fertile ground for the development of etiological dis…
Heavy and problem drinking in an American blue-collar population: Implications for prevention
Migration and biocultural adaptation: Samoans in California
Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
The essays in this forum collection are concerned primarily with the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations, as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental organizational action. The essays here are, with a couple of exceptions, written by anthropologists whose knowledge—insofar as it may be distinct from others in the social …
Biocultural risks in longevity: Samoans in California
Corporate sponsorship of global health research: Questions to promote critical thinking about potential funding relationships
Belief in ghost month can help prevent drowning deaths: A natural experiment on the effects of cultural beliefs on risky behaviours
Assessing the effects of a Canadian-Mongolian capacity building program for health and environmental impact assessment in the mining sector
An equity tool for health impact assessments: Reflections from Mongolia
A reflection on medical anthropology and epidemiology
What the mind does not know, the eyes do not see”. Placing food allergy risk in sub-Saharan Africa
A web-based multimedia spatial information system to document Aedes aegypti breeding sites and dengue fever risk along the US–Mexico border
Massive obesity in a migrant Samoan population
Peoples of the Pacific Islands tend to become overweight when they migrate or are exposed to modernization in situ. Recent evidence suggests that Samoans are particularly susceptible, exhibiting a high prevalence of obesity and hypertension following migration to Hawaii. We report the preliminary results of a survey of height, weight, blood pressure, and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) among an urbanized Samoan community the the San Francisco Bay Ar…
Biocultural risks in longevity: Samoans in California
Migration and biocultural adaptation: Samoans in California
The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives
Anthropology and Epidemiology
Anthropology and prevention in north America: An introduction
Heavy and problem drinking in an American blue-collar population: Implications for prevention
Men, blue collar work and drinking: Alcohol use in an industrial subculture
Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease. Herbert Fingarette
Migration, changing gender roles and stress: The Samoan case
The impact of migration and social change on male and female role expectations is examined in an urban Samoan community. Expanding role expectations and role conflicts in the urban context are linked to differential experiences of stress by gender, which are in turn examined with respect to the health outcomes of arterial pressure, a measure of physical health status, and a psychosomatic complaint index
Migration, Social Change, and Health
Migration, Social Change, and Health: A Samoan Community in Urban California
Migration and Health in a Small Society: The Case of Tokelau. Albert F. Wessen, ed., Antony Hooper, Judith HUNTSMAN, IAN A. M. PRIOR, and CLARE E. Salmond
The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine
This article presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th-century Tibetan medicine. In its expansion into the state bureaucracy, Tibetan medicine has acceded to institutional modernity through transformations in theory, practice, and methods for training physicians. Despite Chinese rule in Tibet, however, Tibetan medicine has not yielded completely to state interests. With the collapsing of the traditionally pluralistic Tibetan health syst…
The health transition, global modernity and the crisis of traditional medicine: The Tibetan case
Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet
This article explores the cultural epidemiology of rlung ("loong") disorder among Tibetans living in the cities and towns of the modern Chinese state of Tibet. Rlung, glossed as air or wind, is the most important of the three humors of the classical Tibetan ethnomedical system. Considered by Tibetans to be contingent upon multiple social, emotional, and religious phenomena, rlung disorders are fertile ground for the development of etiological dis…
Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific
Fulbright New Century Scholars Program Launched
High-frequency death certifiers in Taiwan: A Sociocultural Product
Buddhism, science, and market: The globalisation of Tibetan medicine
In this paper I discuss the processes by which Tibetan medicine has become globalised, and the ways in which these have come to determine, constrain, and, ultimately, transform local practices of healing in both Tibet and the West. I examine the degree to which globalisation, in particular international market capitalism, operating in this case through the Chinese state, structures the content of primary medical resources, confers legitimacy to c…
Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
The essays in this forum collection are concerned primarily with the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations, as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental organizational action. The essays here are, with a couple of exceptions, written by anthropologists whose knowledge—insofar as it may be distinct from others in the social …
Criticizing the Impunity?: Bridging the Widening Gulf between Academic Discourse and Action Anthropology in Global Health
Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
Going Global in Century XXI: Medical Anthropology and the New Primary Health Care
I argue here that there is a need for medical anthropology to innovate conceptual and methodological tools to work effectively within complex social spaces created by the articulation of the global and the local in the liberal nonstate. The need for such innovation is suggested by a criticism of the local consequences of global neoliberal health reform and consideration of the potential practical health policies that emerge from such a criticism,…
Society for Medical Anthropology: State of the Society Address
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (25 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Geography (20 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Health care (9 works) · Law (9 works)