Dissertation Research: Socioecology of Mother and Infant Health Among the Panare

该项目研究社会和生态压力对委内瑞拉东帕纳雷人母婴健康的影响程度。 这个社区的人是被砍伐的园艺家，他们无法获得医疗机构的医疗服务，与外界的社会或经济联系很少，他们的日常活动反映了传统的生存模式和社会组织。 这种社会生态环境提供了一个很好的机会，纵向调查的影响，社会紧张和居民运动对母婴健康。 这项研究的中心假设是，社会压力对健康有负面影响，独立于营养。 唾液免疫因子，乳汁能量，健康，人体测量学，母亲压力和家庭流动性的数据将从一系列的母婴对收集，以测试是否更高度强调母亲的婴儿表现出健康状况较差和生长中断的证据。 虽然营养对幼儿健康的影响已经得到了广泛的研究，但这将是第一个将联合收割机人种学、心理神经免疫学和能量方法结合起来纵向跟踪母亲和婴儿健康的研究。 因此，这项工作将为我们提供一个更丰富的了解社会和生态因素如何影响产妇的福祉，从而塑造婴儿的健康状况。

This project examines the extent to which social and ecological stressors influence mother and infant health among the Eastern Panare of Venezuela. The people of this community are swidden horticulturists who have no access to institutional healthcare, few social or economic ties with outsiders, and whose daily activities reflect traditional patterns of subsistence and social organization. This socio-ecological environment provides an excellent opportunity for a longitudinal investigation of the effects of social tension and residential movement on mother-infant health. The central hypothesis of this study is that social stressors have a negative effect on health, independent of nutrition. Data on salivary immune factors, milk energy, health, anthropometrics, maternal stress, and family mobility will be collected from a series of mother-infant pairs to test whether infants of more highly stressed mothers exhibit evidence of poorer health and growth disruptions. While the influence of nutrition on early childhood well-being has been extensively studied, this will be the first study to combine ethnographic, psychoneuroimmunological, and energetic methods to longitudinally track mother and infant health. Consequently, this work will provide us with a much richer understanding of how both social and ecological factors influence maternal well-being and thus shape infant health status.