Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Culture Change, Women, and Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates

博士论文改进补助金：阿拉伯联合酋长国的文化变革、妇女和糖尿病

• 批准号: 0851478
• 负责人: Ivy Pike
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 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: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851478&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Culture

University of Arizona graduate student, Sarah Trainer, with guidance from Dr. Ivy Pike, will undertake anthropological research on the relationship between culture change, weight, and disease. Her reseach will be carried out among Emirati women in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with a focus on type 2 diabetes. The researcher will take a context-driven approach to understanding how social change can affect biology. She will employ mixed methods, including focus-groups, structured and semi-structured interviews, and anthropometric measurements. The goal is to obtain anthropologically grounded information regarding recent shifts in behavior related to the emergence of obesity and associated health problems. Particular areas of interest include how urban women in Dubai cope with local gender role ideals; the increased availability of non-traditional, "fast" foods; changing work patterns; evolving ideas about body image, risk, and health; and conflicting messages about Emirati identity. The meshing of the biological and cultural is a pivotal aspect of the study and will provide a unique perspective on obesity and diabetes in the UAE, as well as on the impact of the globalizing and local processes occurring there.The research is important because the World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, seventy percent of all deaths globally will be the result of chronic disease. Many countries remain ill-equipped to face the social, political, and economic repercussions of these increases in chronic disease. Although this study focuses on the local context of these processes, its methods and perspectives can be used to consider the effects of development-driven changes in other populations around the world. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

亚利桑那大学的研究生莎拉·特雷纳将在艾薇·派克博士的指导下，对文化变迁、体重和疾病之间的关系进行人类学研究。她的研究将在阿拉伯联合酋长国（阿联酋）迪拜的阿联酋妇女中进行，重点是2型糖尿病。研究人员将采取情境驱动的方法来理解社会变化如何影响生物学。她将采用混合方法，包括焦点小组，结构化和半结构化访谈，以及人体测量。 其目的是获得人类学基础的信息，关于最近的行为变化与肥胖的出现和相关的健康问题。特别感兴趣的领域包括迪拜的城市妇女如何科普当地的性别角色理想;非传统的“快餐”食品的增加;不断变化的工作模式;关于身体形象，风险和健康的不断发展的想法;以及关于阿联酋身份的相互冲突的信息。生物学和文化的结合是这项研究的一个关键方面，它将为阿联酋的肥胖和糖尿病以及全球化和当地进程的影响提供一个独特的视角。这项研究很重要，因为世界卫生组织估计，到2030年，全球70%的死亡将是慢性疾病的结果。许多国家仍然没有能力应对慢性病增加所带来的社会、政治和经济影响。虽然本研究侧重于这些过程的当地背景，但其方法和观点可用于考虑世界各地其他人口中发展驱动的变化的影响。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。