Comparative Ecology of Subsistence, Health and Parenting in Manu National Park, Peru

这个项目允许来自纽约大学的实地工作者 墨西哥和三名研究生以及合作医生 研究行为、健康和 在传统社会中， 特别是 研究人员将研究健康、生存、生殖和 在秘鲁的马努国家公园，一群印第安人正在养育孩子。 该项目将调查影响增长的因素， 健康和生存问题，特别关注 父母保护孩子健康的策略， 营养和工作对妇女生育能力的影响。 这项研究很重要，因为它将提供一个 了解小规模的人口和健康问题， 生活在相当原始条件下的传统社区。 任何 了解这些问题，在更工业化的城市 条件必须建立在理解的基线上， 更原始的条件。 该项目将提供以下数据 为此目的的重要价值。

This project allows a fieldworker from the University of New Mexico and three graduate students and collaborating physicians to investigate the interaction between behavior, health and reproduction in traditional societies. Specifically the researchers will study health, subsistence, reproduction and parenting among a tribe of Indians in Manu National Park, Peru. The project will investigate the factors affecting the growth, health and survival of Indian children, with special interest on parental strategies for guarding their children's health, and on the effects of nutrition and work on women's fecundity. This research is important because it will provide an understanding of demographic and health issues in a small-scale, traditional community living in fairly primitive conditions. Any understanding of these issues in more industrialized urban conditions has to build upon a baseline of understanding from more primitive conditions. This project will provide data of significant value toward this end.