RAPID: Cultural Models of H1N1

RAPID：H1N1 流感的文化模型

• 批准号: 1007842
• 负责人: Roberta Baer
• 金额: $ 3.03万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1007842&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Cultural; Models; H1N1

Dr. Robert D. Baer (University of South Florida)will udnertake research on how the global pandemic of H1N1 influenza is understood in different cultural contexts, in this case, among laypeople and physicians in Mexico and the United States, as well as the responses people consider appropriate to this new illness. In the case of a pandemic, viruses move around the globe, carried by people and dispersed in the course of social interaction. Fears and anxieties, as well as vaccines, are also dispersed around the globe. This study will thus contribute to the anthropological literature on how macro global forces play out in different cultural contexts. The extent to which local interpretations differ may help to understand cultural responses to global patterns. Epidemics provide the opportunity to investigate how people use cultural knowledge to react to new kinds of social experiences; the new illness is interpreted in terms of the ethnomedical beliefs of the cultural group. As such, the project will explore how aspects of culture affect the impact of global forces.This study is a cross-cultural comparative study describing the explanatory models of H1N1 among laypeople and physicians in the US and Mexico, comparing and contrasting individual and cultural themes in the models. The researcher will employ a two-step process for data collection. The first step uses qualitative, open-ended interviews to collect descriptive information on explanatory models of H1N1 in the US and Mexico. In the second step, themes from the descriptive interviews will be used to develop a structured interview, so that detailed comparisons can be made between laypeople and physicians, and across individuals, social classes, and cultural settings.In addition to contributing to social scientific theory, the data from this study will be useful in our improving our understanding of how laypeople and physicians interpret H1N1 and its vaccine. Such information may be of great value in public health programs both in Mexico and the United States.

Robert D. Baer（南佛罗里达大学）将研究如何在不同的文化背景下理解H1N1流感的全球大流行，在这种情况下，在墨西哥和美国的外行和医生中，以及人们认为适合这种新疾病的反应。在大流行病的情况下，病毒在地球仪中移动，由人携带，并在社会交往过程中传播。恐惧和焦虑，以及疫苗，也分散在地球仪各地。因此，这项研究将有助于人类学文献如何发挥宏观全球力量在不同的文化背景。地方解释的差异程度可能有助于理解对全球模式的文化反应。流行病提供了研究人们如何利用文化知识对新的社会经验作出反应的机会;新的疾病是根据文化群体的民族医学信仰来解释的。因此，该项目将探讨文化方面如何影响全球力量的影响。本研究是一项跨文化比较研究，描述了美国和墨西哥的外行和医生对H1N1的解释模型，比较和对比了模型中的个人和文化主题。研究人员将采用两个步骤收集数据。第一步使用定性的、开放式的访谈来收集关于美国和墨西哥H1N1解释模型的描述性信息。在第二步中，从描述性访谈的主题将被用来开发一个结构化的采访，以便详细的比较，可以在外行和医生之间，并在个人，社会阶层，和文化settings. Although有助于社会科学理论，从这项研究的数据将有助于我们提高我们的理解外行和医生如何解释H1N1及其疫苗。这些信息可能对墨西哥和美国的公共卫生项目都有很大的价值。