Parental Strategies and Medical Practices Affecting Children's Health in Jamaica

这一项目将使国际儿童基金会能够在牙买加研究影响父母对待儿童的社会结构和意识形态因素之间的关系。将与西印度群岛大学社会经济研究所的当地研究人员合作，在金斯敦城市社区对大约200户家庭进行家庭普查，并与当地研究人员合作，对父亲和母亲进行参与者观察和深入访谈，以研究妇女作为家庭和公共领域的主要提供者和决策者对男女儿童优惠待遇的影响。这项研究很重要，因为在治疗儿童方面，性别偏见在世界上很普遍，通常偏向男性。在成年女性的经济和社会地位相对高于男性的情况下，对偏见(偏向男性或女性)的调查因此提供了与更常见的男性主导的社会情况的重要比较。

This project will allow the PI to do research in Jamaica on the relation between social structural and ideological factors affecting parental treatment of children. The effect of women's roles as primary providers and decision makers in both domestic and public domains upon any preferential treatment of male or female children will be studied by conducting a household census of about 200 households in an urban neighborhood of Kingston and conducting participant observation and in- depth interviews with fathers and mothers, in collaboration with local researchers from the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies. This research is important because a gender bias in the treatment of children is widespread in the world, usually in the favor of males. The investigation of bias (favoring either males or females) in a situation where adult females have relatively higher economic and social status than males thus provides an important comparison to the more usual male dominated social situation.