Over the last decade, many developing nations have embraced Primary Health Care (PHC) within their national health plans. PHC, in contrast to earlier approaches to national health development, emphasizes community participation and basic health care for the poorer segments of society. The...

This paper aims to provide a synergy between genetic and social environmental factors of the human civilization progress. The social environment, represented by the modes of production, culture and institution, is believed to incrementally progress throughout human civilization. From a certain...

An analysis of food transactions in a Nepalese village provides an interpretation of the cultural place of illness within high caste Hindu traditions. In several realms of village social life, rules of food transfer simultaneously mark hierarchical relationships between people and symbolize an...

The adoption of Primary Health Care in developing countries brought a new interest in the influence of cultural factors in community health programs. This paper traces the changes in the way that the role of culture has been analyzed in relation to community health issues and in particular with...