Handbook of Urban Health

Abstract

Anthropology brings a useful suite of tools and concepts to urban health research. Mixed-methods approaches can embrace both\r objective and more subjective ways of understanding human adaptation to and variation within the urban context. There have\r been many productive interactions among anthropologists and various disciplines studying health over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are poised to enhance our ability to understand urban\r health contexts through effective collaboration among anthropologists and other disciplines studying urban health.