ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the CPI model to demonstrate how a medical ecology framework helps us understand the complex inter-relationships among biology, environment, and culture as expressed in the spread, and then in the control, of an infectious disease like cholera. It took a more global and reflective approach as showed how the structural violence of history shaped which communities were at the highest risk of the disease, and the ways in which the communities responded. The book concluded with a discussed of the lessons learned from this approach in anticipation that the CPI model will be applied in other places around the globe. The CPI project provided skills, techniques, and opportunities to a variety of people, most of whom had never had such opportunities presented to them. Successful and sustained individual behavior change is at the heart of most global health projects.