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More recently, social network paradigms, combined with community-based participatory principles (CBPR) have provided an important theoretical foundation for understanding infectious disease carriage and transmission through the confluence of Staphylococcus aureus genomics and network analytics. The project has focused on health disparities in Staphylococcus aureus transmission and carriage in a border Region of the United States based on cultural differences in social Relationships (Pearson et al. 2019), providing an example of the potential confluence between biology, social organization, culture, and communication. The epidemiological aspects of genomics are a strong fit with paradigms that include organized social relationships.
Cultural Ecology, Critical Medical Anthropology, and Cultural Epidemiology Theories
The midrange theories related to cultural ecology, critical anthropology, and cultural ecology that have been successfully tested include Barriers to Change research (Environmental Factors Research), Cultural Congruency Models (Conflicts in Belief and Process), Human-Biological Interactions Research, Comparative Cultural Models Research, Deconstructionist Models, Critical Theory approaches, and studies of the political economy of health and illness (cf. Hill 1991; Singer and Baer 1995). These theories have provided a wide range of evidence for the effectiveness of midrange critical theory, cultural ecology, and risk reduction. These range from more theoretical constructions to models for application of the theories (Singer 1995; Singer et al. 2006), and the politics of HIV research (Singer 1994). Cultural disparities-oriented studies have successfully applied these theories to institutional environments impacting social justice issues (cf. Trotter et al. 2019).