Dissertation Research: Alternative Caregivers Among the White Mountain Apache and Their Impact on Child Health

这个项目支持亚利桑那大学人类学专业的一名学生的论文研究，研究替代性照顾者(而不是孩子的父母)对孩子的健康和幸福的作用和影响。这项研究的地点是白山阿帕奇人，这是一个具有发展中国家典型流行病模式的社会。该项目将探索阿帕奇社区中替代性照顾者的角色和态度，并研究不同水平的知识、经验、权力和资源对照看服务的影响。这项研究很重要，因为大多数关于照顾者的研究集中在父母身上，而其他研究通常在世界上大多数社会提供儿童保育。这项研究很重要，因为大多数关于照顾者的研究都集中在父母身上，而其他研究通常在世界上大多数社会提供儿童保育。该项目将提供关于谁实际照顾幼儿的信息，无论他们是健康的还是生病的，还将审查使用不同照顾者的原因和态度。它将评估各种替代照顾者在保护和促进儿童健康方面的有效性(或没有)。不同的照顾者将创造关于护理的积极和消极方面的新知识，这将有助于政策制定者设计健康教育计划。此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家。

9904385Nichter / Sparks This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Arizona, studying the role and impact of alternative caregivers (not the child's parents) on the health and well-being of the child. The site of the research is the White Mountain Apache, a society that has epidemiological patterns typical of the developing world. The project will explore the roles of and attitudes towards alternative caregivers in one Apache community, and examine how different levels of knowledge, experience, power and resource to resources influence care provision.This research is important because most studies of caregivers focus on parents, yet others commonly provide child care in most societies in the world. This research is important because most studies of caregivers focus on parents, yet others commonly provide child care in most societies in the world. This project will provide information on who is actually caring for young children, both when they are healthy ad sick, and also will examine the reasons for and attitudes towards the use of different caregivers. It will assess how effective various alternative caregivers are (or are not) at protecting and promoting children's health. The new knowledge to be created about the positive and negative aspects of care by different caregivers will help policy makers design programs of health education. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist.