Building a Systems Dynamic Model of Smokeless Tobacco Use in Mumbai

Bibliographic Data

ID14834733
AuthorsJean Schensul (Institute for Community Research, Community Situated Research Institute Located, Hartford, Connecticut)
Year2013
Volume35
Issue1
Pages24-28
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePracticing Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/praa.35.1.243k7wt78311v84r
OpenAlexW2012376054
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

In this paper, I review the steps our international research team followed in transforming an ethnographic description of drivers of smokeless tobacco use into systems dynamic model with potential for calibration and quantification. In 2010, the Institute for Community Research (ICR) and the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH) mounted a mixed methods ethnographic study funded by the National Cancer Institute and the United States Fogarty Center to examine factors associated with smokeless tobacco (SLT) among women of reproductive health age (PIs Jean Schensul for ICR and Saritha Nair for NIRRH). Smokeless tobacco in many different forms is very widely used throughout South and Southeast Asia, with negative health consequences including poor birth outcomes and rates among women are increasing

Environmental health · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Reproductive health · Research center · Smokeless tobacco · Tobacco use · Vietnamese · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Medicine

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