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SUMMARY:Culture and Health
DESCRIPTION:Add to Calendar! \nThis webinar explores the multifaceted relationship between culture and health from an economic perspective\, integrating insights from anthropology\, psychology\, and political science. It begins by examining how culture provides meaning to illness and suffering and explores how culturally grounded “disease theory systems” influence beliefs about what causes illness\, how and whether suffering should be remedied\, and the appropriate role of the state in allocating health care resources. The importance of culture in defining the boundary between normal and abnormal pathology is highlighted via case studies. The chapter next reviews evidence on how health behaviors such as smoking\, firearm ownership\, dietary practices\, and reproductive decisions are influenced by cultural norms of masculinity and religiosity. Lastly\, it examines how firms\, governments\, and civil society leverage and advance cultural narratives to influence individual behavior and public policy. Thus\, culture in relation to health both naturally evolves and is actively constructed\, with implications for health inequality and health policy. \nSpeaker:  \nMarcella Alsan is a physician-economist studying the economics of health inequality domestically and internationally. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Literature and Co-Chair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT. She is co-recipient of the 2019 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics\, the 2021 William G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics\, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was elected into the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. She co-directs the Health Inequality Lab at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://healtheconomics.org/event/culture-and-health/
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