Dissertation Research: Child Illness in Rural Laos: CulturalPerceptions, Caregiver Response and Implications for Child Survival

论文研究：老挝农村儿童疾病：文化认知、护理人员的反应以及对儿童生存的影响

• 批准号: 9816972
• 负责人: Mark Nichter
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2002-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9816972&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Child; Illness; Rural

This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Arizona. The student will study infant and child illness in Laos, one of the least developed countries in the world. The research will use ethnographic methods to document the socio-cultural and economic contexts in which caregivers in rural Laos distinguish, categorize, diagnose, and select treatments for childhood illnesses, paying careful attention to seasonal variation. In addition the student will study how informal and formal health providers, including vendors, pharmacists, lay healers and public health workers interpret the illness terms and categories presented by caregivers. Methods include participant-observation in a Laotian rural village over 14 months including a household survey, semi-structured as well as structured interviews with small samples of caregivers, additional interviews with a random sample of 50 caregivers, a formal study of drug stores and village market shops selling medicine and providing advice, and interviews with users of public and private clinics and hospitals.At present there are almost no qualitative studies of Laotian health behavior. This project will advance our understanding of how poor people in an underdeveloped society seek out and interpret the information available to them to treat illness in young children. This new knowledge will be valuable to health officials in similar less-developed societies in preparing programs to provide care. The project will also advance our understanding of this important region of the world.

这个项目支持亚利桑那大学人类学学生的论文研究。学生将在老挝学习婴儿和儿童疾病，老挝是世界上最不发达的国家之一。 该研究将使用民族志方法来记录老挝农村护理人员对儿童疾病进行区分、分类、诊断和选择治疗方法的社会文化和经济背景，并仔细关注季节性变化。此外，学生将学习如何非正式和正式的卫生服务提供者，包括供应商，药剂师，非专业治疗师和公共卫生工作者解释疾病的条款和护理人员提出的类别。 方法包括参与观察在老挝农村超过14个月，包括家庭调查，半结构化以及结构化访谈的照顾者的小样本，额外的访谈随机抽样的50名照顾者，正式研究药店和村市场商店出售药品和提供咨询，目前几乎没有关于老挝人健康行为的定性研究。 这个项目将促进我们对不发达社会中的穷人如何寻找和解释他们可用的信息来治疗幼儿疾病的理解。 这一新知识将对类似欠发达社会的卫生官员在准备提供护理的计划时很有价值。该项目还将促进我们对世界这一重要地区的了解。