Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay

在整个南美洲，与邻近的非土著农民社区相比，土著社区在经济上不那么繁荣，更容易受到传染病的侵害。人们对不同农村社区的成年人健康状况对经济繁荣的影响程度知之甚少。该项目将研究健康与经济生产力之间的关系。与NIH资助的公共卫生项目相关，NSF项目将为一个主要项目做前期工作，以检验因果路径模型的假设，该模型以成人健康状况为预测变量，经济生产力和经济决策的各个方面为中间变量，家庭成员的福祉为结果变量；检查和控制种族对模型中因果变量的影响；确定各社区健康状况的差异在多大程度上导致巴拉圭东部姆巴拉卡尤保护区各社区经济繁荣程度的差异。

Hurtado, HillThroughout South America, indigenous communities are less economically prosperous and more vulnerable to infectious diseases than are neighboring rural peasant non-indigenous communities. Little is known about the extent to which economic prosperity is affected by the health status of adults in diverse rural communities. This project will study the relationship between health and economic productivity. In association with a public health project funded by NIH, the NSF project will do preliminary work to prepare for a major project to test hypotheses derived from a causal path model with adult health status as the predictor variable, economic productivity and various aspects of economic decision making as intermediate variables, and the well-being of household members as the outcome variable; examine and control for the effects of ethnicity on causal variables in the model; determine to what extent variation in health status across communities accounts for differences in economic prosperity in the communities in the Mbaracayu Reserve in eastern Paraguay.