Dissertation Research: K'iche' Mayan Men's Influences on Maternal and Child Health in Guatemala

0109311传统社区中的男子通常被认为比妇女更不关心产妇保健和死亡率，这种差异源于传统的劳动分工，即男子关注家庭以外的事情，而妇女更多地关注家庭内部的事情。埃默里大学的一名人类学学生的论文研究项目将研究男性在危地马拉坎特尔玛雅社区的孕产妇健康和死亡率中的作用。这项研究将在危地马拉最近的国内暴力和随后的玛雅民族运动的背景下，审查男性对健康的影响模式。学生将通过结合健康调查、人体测量健康指标、定性访谈和观察，调查男性的信念、态度和对家庭健康状况的贡献。将检验关于产妇发病率和死亡率与家庭获得保健、产妇保健、社会经济指标、种族特征和一系列男子活动之间关系的假设。这项研究的结果将有价值地纠正关于男性家庭健康贡献的信息相对缺乏的问题；将为旨在改善孕产妇和婴儿健康的保健干预措施提供信息；将有助于培养年轻的社会科学家，并将增进我们对世界这一重要地区的认识。

0109311Worthman / Dudgeon Men in traditional communities are often thought to be less concerned about maternal health and mortality than women, the difference stemming from the traditional division of labor of men focusing outside the household, and women relating more towards inside the household events. This dissertation research project by an anthropology student from Emory University will study the role of men in maternal health and mortality in the Mayan community of Cantel, Guatemala. The study will examine patterns of men's influences on health in the context of Guatemala's recent civil violence and subsequent Mayan ethnic activism. The student will investigate men's beliefs, attitudes, and contributions to household health status through a combination of health surveys, anthropometric health indicators, and qualitative interviews and observations. Hypotheses will be tested relating maternal morbidity and mortality with household access to health care, maternal health, socioeconomic indicators, ethnic identity, and an array of men's activities. The results from this study will be valuable correctives to the relative paucity of information on men's' household health contributions; will inform health interventions directed towards improving maternal and infant health; will contribute to the training of a young social scientists, and will advance our knowledge of this important region of the world.