Social Environment and Physiologic Adjustment in a Developing Society

发展中社会的社会环境与生理调节

• 批准号: 9020786
• 负责人: William Dressler
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-05-01 至 1993-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9020786&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Environment; Physiologic; Adjustment; Developing

This project supports an anthropologist conducting research in southwestern Brazil on the social, ethnic, and dietary factors affecting the incidence of high blood pressure in a sample of adults. 150 households will be surveyed and biological tests assessing cardiovascular and metabolic responses to stress conducted. The hypothesis to be tested assumes that individuals encountering high stress, due to their social and ethnic incongruity in their life styles in a rapidly changing social environment, will have high blood pressure, and high total cholesterol and triglycerides. This research is important since rapid socio-cultural changes take place in all "traditional" societies in the contemporary world. Understanding how human populations respond biologically to the social stress that rapid change induces will help us understand the course of human social and biological evolution.

该项目支持一位人类学家在巴西西南部对影响成人高血压发病率的社会、种族和饮食因素进行研究。将对150个家庭进行调查，并进行生物测试，评估心血管和代谢对压力的反应。要测试的假设是，在快速变化的社会环境中，由于他们的社会和种族生活方式不协调，遇到高压力的个体将患有高血压，高总胆固醇和甘油三酯。这项研究很重要，因为在当代世界，所有“传统”社会都发生了迅速的社会文化变化。了解人类如何从生物学上对快速变化所带来的社会压力作出反应，将有助于我们理解人类社会和生物进化的过程。