Doctoral Dissertation: African Women's Support Networks Health

博士论文：非洲妇女支持网络健康

• 批准号: 9818570
• 负责人: Lynnette Leidy Sievert
• 金额: $ 0.69万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; African; Women; Support

This project involves the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Massachusetts, studying how African women's support networks affect the health of their children and themselves. Using data collected from a long-term project in Mali, the student will analyze measures of social support such as women's accounts of crisis events, 24-hour recalls of their actual support flows, focus groups and in-depth life-cycle interviews. The network data will be related to health measures such as nutritional status, reported morbidity and child deaths over the past five years. The student will test the hypothesis that the nature of a women's support network, its size as well as its strength, affect health. The study contributes to our knowledge of social networks and health in the developing world, and advances a theory grounded in cross-cultural and comparative observations of third-world populations. In addition it contributes to the training of a young social scientist, and improves our knowledge about this important region of the world.

该项目涉及马萨诸塞州大学一名人类学学生的论文研究，研究非洲妇女的支助网络如何影响其子女和她们自己的健康。 利用从马里的一个长期项目收集的数据，学生将分析社会支持的措施，如妇女的危机事件的帐户，24小时回顾其实际支持流，焦点小组和深入的生命周期访谈。 该网络的数据将与过去五年的营养状况、报告的发病率和儿童死亡率等保健措施有关。学生将测试的假设，一个妇女的支持网络的性质，其规模以及其强度，影响健康。这项研究有助于我们了解发展中国家的社交网络和健康，并提出了一个基于第三世界人口的跨文化和比较观察的理论。此外，它有助于培养一名年轻的社会科学家，并提高我们对世界这一重要地区的认识。