Chronic respiratory disease is a serious and growing threat to global health. The WHO estimates that 300 million people worldwide have asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, already one of the top killers. Having worked in clinical settings in low and lower-middle income countries, I’ve always been struck by the absence of basic equipment like [...]
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New edition of Anthropology and Public Health published
The first edition of Anthropology and Public Health, which was edited by Robert Hahn, is one of my favorite books of medical anthropology – full of great pieces like Dorothy Mull’s report on acute respiratory infections in Pakistan (I’ve written about it here). Last year, Marcia Inhorn and Robert Hahn asked me to write a [...]
How do physicians in India treat asthma exacerbations?
Raj B. Singh MD (Apollo Hospital – Chennai) and I recently published a paper in the Clinical Respiratory Journal describing the management of asthma exacerbations by physicians in India. We used a well-known epidemiological instrument, the ISAAC video questionnaire, to simulate five presentations of asthma. For more details, please take a look: [abstract] [pdf]
