Exploring multiple trajectories of causality: collaboration between Anthropology and Epidemiology in the 1982 birth cohort Pelotas Southern Brazil

摘要

OBJECTIVE:Although the relationship between epidemiology and anthropology has a long history, it has generally been comprised of the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods. Only recently have the two fields begun to converge along theoretical lines, leading to a growing mutual interest in explaining rather than simply describing phenomena. This paper aimed to illustrate how ethnographic analyses can be used to assist with the in-depth and theoretically-imbued interpretation of epidemiological results.