Beliefs regarding the etiology and treatment of infantile diarrhea in Lima, Peru

Escobar, Gabriel J.; Salazar, Eduardo; Chuy, Mario

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(83)90018-7

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“…Belief has been used most often as a proxy for culture and as an explanation for behavior in contexts where an anthropologist has been asked to provide information about local knowledge of illness and treatment in order to explain patterns of behavior related to health services (cf. Escobar et al 1983). When confronting the contrast between biomedical knowledge of disease and local knowledge using quite different categories, avoiding the implication that the contrast consists primarily of differing "cultural beliefs" is not easy.…”

Section: Serving As Experts On Local Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Relevance: Belief, Knowledge, and Practice in International Health Projects

Yoder¹

1997

Med Anthropol Q

121

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Section: Serving As Experts On Local Knowledgementioning

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Negotiating Relevance: Belief, Knowledge, and Practice in International Health Projects

Yoder¹

1997

Med Anthropol Q

121

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“…6 These communities usually maintain strong cultural and family ties with their origins, 7 and traditional beliefs and practices often persist widely. [8][9][10] Many of the source communities for these people remain culturally and geographically isolated, and the use of traditional remedies in these communities is widespread. 11 The success of the National TB Control Program (NTP) is dependent upon potential TB cases submitting sputum samples to health clinics for TB diagnosis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Traditional Medicine Use Hamper Efforts at Tuberculosis Control in Urban Peru?

Oeser¹,

Escombe

Gilman

et al. 2005

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Decades of social and political unrest have contributed to the urbanization of the population of Peru with large-scale migration from rural Andean and Amazonian communities to overcrowded shantytowns around Lima. We administered a face-to-face survey questionnaire to 116 patients with suspected and proven tuberculosis (TB) in northern Lima to determine the extent to which the use of traditional therapies from indigenous regions persists and the impact of any such use on TB control. Sixty-three percent of participants reported some form of self-treatment prior to presentation to the National Tuberculosis Program; 52% of them used traditional remedies. Symptom duration was longer among self-remedy users than non-users (median = 25 versus 15 days; P = 0.07) and among those exclusively using western remedies rather than traditional remedies (median = 30 versus 15 days; P = 0.01). We thus found no evidence that use of traditional remedies has an appreciable effect on diagnostic delay in Lima.

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“…In this study, interest was focused on the mother because she is usually in charge of family health care 5,6,7,13 . In Groups A and B mothers were in charge of their family's health (93.3% and 80% respectively).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Usually this person is a woman and, particularly, the mother. This occurs in the great majority of cultures where the mother or a grandmother are assumed to be in charge of the maintenance of family health 7,13 . Studies that have shown that it is the woman who takes care of family health, have not taken her emotional state, a variable that may affect her family's health, into consideration.…”

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Health and poverty: health management by the woman

Alvarez

Wurgaft

1992

Rev. Saúde Pública

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The goal this follow-up study was to relate the mother's marital satisfaction to family health status in a low SES. The random sample was made up of 30 families with children under 7 years old: 15 considered as sick (Group A) and 15 as healthy (Group B). Both group had similar demographic characteristics (age of father and mother, persons per family group and age of children) and SES. Results showed that mothers were those mainly in charge of their family groups. Mothers of Group A were significantly less understanding and more dissatisfied than those of Group B ( p < .05 and p < .01). Mothers of Group A had significantly more arguments with their partners than those of Group B (p < .006). Health care was learned less from the child's own mother in group A than in B (p < .05). Health was considered by mothers of Group A as something that "must be taken care of" more than by those of Group B (p < .01). The behaviours of mothers in choosing one of the health systems was similar in both groups. Dissatisfied mothers were associated more with sick family members during the 6 month follow-up. It is suggested that the satisfaction of the mother is a factor that needs further investigation because health is managed by mothers is the large majority of families.

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Beliefs regarding the etiology and treatment of infantile diarrhea in Lima, Peru

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

Negotiating Relevance: Belief, Knowledge, and Practice in International Health Projects

Negotiating Relevance: Belief, Knowledge, and Practice in International Health Projects

Does Traditional Medicine Use Hamper Efforts at Tuberculosis Control in Urban Peru?

Health and poverty: health management by the woman

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