Why Visual Ethnography Should Be Used to Incorporate Traditional Knowledge Into Health Promotion in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Adam Thompson

SAGE Open, 2019, vol. 9, issue 2, 2158244019856950

Abstract: Health promotion within Aboriginal communities has typically come from a top-down approach with government-funded health research directing the nature in which health information is disseminated. Previous literature has argued for two-way interaction that requires an equivalent bottom-up approach to integrate community beliefs and perceptions. Good hygiene has been the focus of many health promotion campaigns to reduce the presence of a wide variety of pathogens, but to date, there have been few attempts to incorporate traditional knowledge into such campaigns. This article proposes that visual ethnography, specifically community video, provides a good method for understanding community beliefs while simultaneously creating health promotion materials within the local culture.

Keywords: cultural anthropology; anthropology; social sciences; social anthropology; health communication; human communication; communication studies; communication; science communication; cultural communication; media & society; mass communication; intercultural communication; research methodology and design; research methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244019856950

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