‘Hawa’ and ‘Resistensiya’: Local Health Knowledge and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Tan, Michael Lim, Lasco, Gideon
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: COVID-19; pandemics; ethnomedicine; infectious diseases; medical anthropology; quantitative research; Development Studies; Diseases; Health and Physical Education; Health Communication; Health Policy; Other Anthropology; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/87; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13648470.2021.1893980?journalCode=canm20
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Understanding people's concepts of illness and health is key to crafting policies and communications campaigns to address a particular medical concern. This paper gathers cultural knowledge on infectious disease causation, prevention, and treatment the Philippines that are particularly relevant...