Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay

在整个南美洲，土著社区的经济不太繁荣，比邻近的农村农民非土著社区更容易感染传染病。在不同的农村社区，成年人的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。 国家科学基金会项目将与国家卫生研究所资助的一个公共卫生项目一起开展初步工作，为一个重大项目做准备，以检验从因果路径模型得出的假设，该模型以成人健康状况为预测变量，以经济生产力和经济决策的各个方面为中间变量，以家庭成员的福祉为结果变量;检查和控制模型中的因果变量的种族的影响，确定在多大程度上不同的健康状况在社区之间的差异，在巴拉圭东部的Mbaracayu保护区的社区的经济繁荣的帐户。

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.