Vinay R Kamat

Summary

Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi "I thought it was only ordinary fever!" cultural knowledge and the micropolitics of therapy seeking for childhood febrile illness in Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Soc Sci Med 62:2945-59. 2006
  2. ncbi Reconsidering the allure of the culturally distant in therapy seeking: a case study from coastal Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    Med Anthropol 27:106-35. 2008
  3. ncbi Community response to artemisinin-based combination therapy for childhood malaria: a case study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Malar J 9:61. 2010
  4. ncbi Soft targets or partners in health? Retail pharmacies and their role in Tanzania's malaria control program
    Vinay R Kamat
    University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology, 2319 6303 North West Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z1
    Soc Sci Med 71:626-33. 2010
  5. ncbi Dying under the bird's shadow: narrative representations of degedege and child survival among the Zaramo of Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
    Med Anthropol Q 22:67-93. 2008

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi "I thought it was only ordinary fever!" cultural knowledge and the micropolitics of therapy seeking for childhood febrile illness in Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Soc Sci Med 62:2945-59. 2006
    ....
  2. ncbi Reconsidering the allure of the culturally distant in therapy seeking: a case study from coastal Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    Med Anthropol 27:106-35. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi Community response to artemisinin-based combination therapy for childhood malaria: a case study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Malar J 9:61. 2010
    ..The paper specifically examines the perceived efficacy of ALu as articulated by the mothers of young children diagnosed with malaria and prescribed ALu...
  4. ncbi Soft targets or partners in health? Retail pharmacies and their role in Tanzania's malaria control program
    Vinay R Kamat
    University of British Columbia, Department of Anthropology, 2319 6303 North West Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z1
    Soc Sci Med 71:626-33. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Dying under the bird's shadow: narrative representations of degedege and child survival among the Zaramo of Tanzania
    Vinay R Kamat
    Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
    Med Anthropol Q 22:67-93. 2008
    ..Finally, I also call attention to the politics of provider-patient communication at public health facilities as a means to improve public health interventions to increase child survival...