Cultural Knowledge of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Mexican Patients

鲁贝尔9320624这个项目支持一个文化人类学家团队的研究，该团队研究两个墨西哥社区的人们是如何看待呼吸道疾病，特别是肺结核的。使用共识分析的定量技术，该项目将采访两组患者：结核病患者，以及未被诊断出患有该特定疾病但表现出呼吸道症状的患者。要测试的具体假设涉及个人如何使他们对明确定义的疾病的民间理解适应他们在治疗过程中接触到的生物医学模型--在自己的民间理论方面更专业的人是否能够更好地学习不同的生物医学理论。这个项目很重要，因为许多当地人口都有疾病的民间模型；我们对持有这些模型的人如何适应特定经验和信息的理解的进步，可以帮助设计分娩程序，提高人们对医疗的依从性。***

Rubel 9320624 This project supports the research of a team of cultural anthropologists studying how people in two Mexican communities conceive of respiratory disease in general and pulmonary tuberculosis in particular. Using a quantitative technique of consensus analysis, the project will interview two cohorts of patients: TB sufferers, and patients who have not been diagnosed with that specific disease but who exhibit respiratory symptoms. The specific hypotheses to be tested relate to how individuals adapt their folk understanding of a well-defined disease to the biomedical model which they are exposed to during treatment -- whether persons more expert in their own folk theory are better able to learn a different, biomedical theory. This project is important because many local populations have folk models of disease; advances in our understanding of how individuals holding these models adapt in response to specific experiences and information can help design delivery procedures which increase people's compliance with medical treatments. ***