Beliefs About Children's Illness

Pebley, Anne R.; Hurtado, Elena; Goldman, Noreen

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“…24,26,27,49,50 Furthermore, in many areas within Latin America, it is a common cultural belief that an imbalance of hot and cold can cause illness. 51 Beliefs of the causes of childhood diarrhea have been previously reported to affect water treatment behavior. 52 Therefore, promoting water treatment and hand washing with soap behaviors with messages on childhood diarrhea prevention may not be effective in cultures where diarrhea is not perceived as a health problem or where the link between these behaviors and childhood diarrhea is not well understood.…”

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Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children Under Five Years of Age Residing in Peri-urban Communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia

George¹,

Perin²,

Calani³

et al. 2014

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. This study examined the relationship between childhood diarrhea prevalence and caregiver knowledge of the causes and prevention of diarrhea in a prospective cohort of 952 children 5 years of age in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The survey of caregiver knowledge found that more than 80% of caregivers were unaware that hand washing with soap could prevent childhood diarrhea. Furthermore, when asked how to keep food safe for children to eat only 17% of caregivers reported hand washing before cooking and feeding a child. Lack of caregiver awareness of the importance of practices related to hygiene and sanitation for diarrhea prevention were significant risk factors for diarrheal disease in this cohort. The knowledge findings from this study suggest that health promotion in these communities should put further emphasis on increasing knowledge of how water treatment, hand washing with soap, proper disposal of child feces, and food preparation relate to childhood diarrhea prevention.

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Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children Under Five Years of Age Residing in Peri-urban Communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia

George¹,

Perin²,

Calani³

et al. 2014

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…The first variable identifies beliefs related to hygiene or contamination and includes such responses as children putting dirty food or other items in their mouths, mothers not washing hands, and the presence of microbes or an infection (Goldman et al 1998b). This variable is intended to identify families holding relatively modern beliefs about illness causation, although it is likely that many of the responses in the hygiene/contamination category do not actually reflect knowledge about germ theory (McKee 1987;Pebley et al 1999). The second variable identifies beliefs related to traditional folk illnesses such as the evil eye and empacho -a folk illness with gastrointestinal symptoms.…”

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“…1998b ). This variable is intended to identify families holding relatively modern beliefs about illness causation, although it is likely that many of the responses in the hygiene/contamination category do not actually reflect knowledge about germ theory ( McKee 1987; Pebley et al . 1999 ).…”

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Health‐seeking behaviour for child illness in Guatemala

Goldman

Heuveline

2000

Tropical Med Int Health

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SummaryRelying on data from the 1995 Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF), we analyse the relationship between child illness and health-seeking behaviour. Information on illness was collected for 3193 children. This analysis is based on 870 of these who became ill with diarrhoeal or respiratory disease during a 13-day period prior to interview. Estimates are derived from logistic models of the probability of seeing any or a specific type of health care provider as a function of characteristics of the illness on a given day and the child. The results indicate that modern medical care plays a major role in the treatment of infectious illness among children in rural Guatemala, with visits to pharmacists, doctors and the staff at government health facilities occurring much more frequently than visits to curers and other traditional practitioners. In general, families are much more likely to seek out a health care provider when a child experiences fever and gastrointestinal symptoms than when suffering from respiratory and other symptoms, and when a mother perceives the illness to be serious. The results also indicate that infants, low parity children, and children assessed as having generally been in good health are more likely to visit health care providers than other children. However, the particular associations often vary by type of health care provider.

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“…Garenne et Van de Walle (1985) ont observé que les connaissances et les pratiques modernes se mêlent aux explications et aux traitements traditionnels. D'autres auteurs sont allés plus loin en précisant que les pratiques d'hygiène ne s'accompagnent pas nécessairement de l'acceptation de la théorie biomédicale (Pebley et al, 1999). Les contributions regroupées par Bonnet et Jaffré (2003) sur l'Afrique de l'Ouest ont finalement identifié différents processus de changement : juxtaposition, ajustement ou syncrétisa-tion entre le système d'interprétation profane, populaire, et le modèle scientifique.…”

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Les risques sanitaires liés aux usages domestiques de l’eau. Représentations sociales mossi à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Santos

2011

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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Résumé -Si l'accès à l'eau courante est une condition nécessaire à des usages qui permettent de prévenir les maladies liées à l'eau, cet accès n'est cependant pas suffisant. Un meilleur accès à l'eau doit être accompagné par des pratiques d'hygiène effectuées au bon moment. Or, cela suppose que le système d'interprétation concernant l'étiologie et les catégories de propre et de sale se réfèrent au modèle scientifique biomédical, ce qui n'est pas forcément le cas pour de nombreuses populations africaines. À partir de deux quartiers de la ville de Ouagadougou, nous allons montrer comment les connaissances sur les risques sanitaires liés aux usages domestiques de l'eau s'éclairent à la lumière des représentations sociales de la santé. L'analyse permet de mettre au jour les processus d'appropriation du modèle biomédical observés dans la population enquêtée. Keywords:water; health risks; social representations; qualitative analysis; Ouagadougou; Burkina FasoAbstract -Health risks of domestic water uses. Mossi social representations in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Water is broadly thought to be a key determinant of health. However, even if the advantages of improved water supply appear self-evident, hygienic knowledge assimilation needs investigating with particular regard to social representations of dirty/clean and disease transmission. This study uses qualitative data to examine the social representations of water and health risks in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. It focuses especially on the Mossi ethnic group. We found that hygienic knowledge assimilation involves a radical change in the cognitive system over a long-time period, because popular conceptions related to water and health relationships are often at the extreme opposite of biomedical theory. More precisely, education may be insufficient to significantly alter daily hygienic water-use practices, which are more the result of an acculturation process to new ways of thinking and behaving. Education does so in conjunction with other, sometimes equally strong, sometimes even stronger sources of influence. Finally, results show that social representations of health risks are linked to internalized norms and personal experience of knowledge, practices and risks.Dans le rapport sur la santé dans le monde publié en 2002, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) estime que 3 % des décès et 4 % des AVCI (années de

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Beliefs About Children's Illness

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Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children Under Five Years of Age Residing in Peri-urban Communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Risk Factors for Diarrhea in Children Under Five Years of Age Residing in Peri-urban Communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Health‐seeking behaviour for child illness in Guatemala

Les risques sanitaires liés aux usages domestiques de l’eau. Représentations sociales mossi à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

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