Meredith Gartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 94505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Gartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Gartin |
| SIGNATURE | GARTIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0062-4601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate Change as an Involuntary Exposure
Climate change has been referred to as an involuntary exposure, meaning people do not voluntarily put themselves at risk for climate-related ill health or reduced standard of living. The purpose of this study is to examine people's risk perceptions and related beliefs regarding (1) the likelihood of different risks occurring at different times and places and (2) collective (government) responsibility and personal efficacy in dealing with climate …
Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies
"Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies: Preparing Culturally Skilled Practitioners to Serve Internationally, Nationally, and Locally." , 109(9), pp. 1189–1190
Global convergence in ethnotheories of water and disease
Using interviews conducted with 468 adults in nine different global locations, we tested for commonalities in how people culturally understand water-disease connections. On the basis of consensus analysis, we find evidence of shared cultural ideas about the causes and solutions to waterborne disease both within and across all locations. Causes of water-related illness with the highest salience in the different countries were comparable across sit…
Food deserts and nutritional risk in paraguay
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this case study in San Lorenzo, Paraguay is to identify a food desert in a developing context and to test if food deserts shape residential obesity risk. This article reviews some of the debate surrounding whether food deserts really exist; and, if so, what are the dietary implications of living in a food desert. METHODS: The research is an exploratory/explanatory design. The author mapped the downtown food retail distr…
Comparing Focus Group and Individual Responses on Sensitive Topics
Focus groups have gained a reputation for facilitating data collection about sensitive topics. However, we know little about how focus group methods perform compared to individual response formats, particularly for sensitive topics. The goal of this study is to assess how well focus groups perform when compared to individual responses collected using open-ended self-administered questionnaires for sensitive policy-making topics among water decisi…
Urban Ethnohydrology
Gartin, M., B. Crona, A. Wutich, and P. Westerhoff. 2010. Urban ethnohydrology: cultural knowledge of water quality and water management in a desert city. Ecology and Society 15(4): 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03808-150436
Nonprescription Antibiotic Therapy
Antibiotic resistance is a global public health threat exacerbated by medically unwarranted or improper antibiotic use. Pharmacy counters at the U.S.-Mexico border provide an example of where lay decisions to use antibiotics in ways considered "risky" may be initiated and negotiated. We test how cultural and public health knowledge of antibiotics is distributed among pharmacy staff, local Mexican clients, and U.S. medical tourists in the borderto…
Biocultural construction of obesogenic ecologies of childhood
Human biologists recognize the centrality of parental feeding beliefs and related practices in structuring children's under-nutrition risk in food-insecure settings. By contrast, how they might similarly structure children's nutrition-related health risks in calorically rich ecologies has barely been considered. Using the case of 3- to 6-year-old children in a rural Southeastern U.S. community with very high obesity rates, we use cognitive method…
Urban Ethnohydrology
Gartin, M., B. Crona, A. Wutich, and P. Westerhoff. 2010. Urban ethnohydrology: cultural knowledge of water quality and water management in a desert city. Ecology and Society 15(4): 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03808-150436
Comparing Focus Group and Individual Responses on Sensitive Topics
Focus groups have gained a reputation for facilitating data collection about sensitive topics. However, we know little about how focus group methods perform compared to individual response formats, particularly for sensitive topics. The goal of this study is to assess how well focus groups perform when compared to individual responses collected using open-ended self-administered questionnaires for sensitive policy-making topics among water decisi…
Nonprescription Antibiotic Therapy
Antibiotic resistance is a global public health threat exacerbated by medically unwarranted or improper antibiotic use. Pharmacy counters at the U.S.-Mexico border provide an example of where lay decisions to use antibiotics in ways considered "risky" may be initiated and negotiated. We test how cultural and public health knowledge of antibiotics is distributed among pharmacy staff, local Mexican clients, and U.S. medical tourists in the borderto…
Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies
"Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies: Preparing Culturally Skilled Practitioners to Serve Internationally, Nationally, and Locally." , 109(9), pp. 1189–1190
Biocultural construction of obesogenic ecologies of childhood
Human biologists recognize the centrality of parental feeding beliefs and related practices in structuring children's under-nutrition risk in food-insecure settings. By contrast, how they might similarly structure children's nutrition-related health risks in calorically rich ecologies has barely been considered. Using the case of 3- to 6-year-old children in a rural Southeastern U.S. community with very high obesity rates, we use cognitive method…
Comparing Focus Group and Individual Responses on Sensitive Topics
Focus groups have gained a reputation for facilitating data collection about sensitive topics. However, we know little about how focus group methods perform compared to individual response formats, particularly for sensitive topics. The goal of this study is to assess how well focus groups perform when compared to individual responses collected using open-ended self-administered questionnaires for sensitive policy-making topics among water decisi…
Urban Ethnohydrology
Gartin, M., B. Crona, A. Wutich, and P. Westerhoff. 2010. Urban ethnohydrology: cultural knowledge of water quality and water management in a desert city. Ecology and Society 15(4): 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03808-150436
Nonprescription Antibiotic Therapy
Antibiotic resistance is a global public health threat exacerbated by medically unwarranted or improper antibiotic use. Pharmacy counters at the U.S.-Mexico border provide an example of where lay decisions to use antibiotics in ways considered "risky" may be initiated and negotiated. We test how cultural and public health knowledge of antibiotics is distributed among pharmacy staff, local Mexican clients, and U.S. medical tourists in the borderto…
Food deserts and nutritional risk in paraguay
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this case study in San Lorenzo, Paraguay is to identify a food desert in a developing context and to test if food deserts shape residential obesity risk. This article reviews some of the debate surrounding whether food deserts really exist; and, if so, what are the dietary implications of living in a food desert. METHODS: The research is an exploratory/explanatory design. The author mapped the downtown food retail distr…
Global convergence in ethnotheories of water and disease
Using interviews conducted with 468 adults in nine different global locations, we tested for commonalities in how people culturally understand water-disease connections. On the basis of consensus analysis, we find evidence of shared cultural ideas about the causes and solutions to waterborne disease both within and across all locations. Causes of water-related illness with the highest salience in the different countries were comparable across sit…
Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies
"Master of Public Health Global Health Concentration Competencies: Preparing Culturally Skilled Practitioners to Serve Internationally, Nationally, and Locally." , 109(9), pp. 1189–1190
Climate Change as an Involuntary Exposure
Climate change has been referred to as an involuntary exposure, meaning people do not voluntarily put themselves at risk for climate-related ill health or reduced standard of living. The purpose of this study is to examine people's risk perceptions and related beliefs regarding (1) the likelihood of different risks occurring at different times and places and (2) collective (government) responsibility and personal efficacy in dealing with climate …
Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Biology (2 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)