Trekking and toddlers: Towards a biocultural analysis of growth among infants and young children in a rural region of the Himalayas

Quinn, Elizabeth A.; Childs, Geoff

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“…Our own work among children under the age of 3 in these communities (Quinn & Childs, 2020) has also demonstrated a lack of altitude effect when engagement in high‐value trade (tourism and medicinal plants) are included. While a few studies have reported associations, these studies fail to adjust for other potential confounders such as nutrition or economics (Dang et al, 2004; Wang, Medina, et al, 2016) or have looked only at one individual component of height, such a leg length.…”

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Childhood growth and education migration among ethnic Tibetan children from Nepal

Quinn

Sangmo²,

Burack

et al. 2023

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Background Ethnographic work among high altitude populations has shown that children are highly mobile—the most recent expression of this is the educational migration of children born at high altitude to boarding schools at lower altitudes. The impact of these patterns of migration on size for age are unknown. Aim We investigated the association between growth in weight and height and educational migration in ethnic Tibetan children living in and out of their natal communities. Subjects and methods Five hundred and fifty eight children ages three to sixteen from the Nubri Valley, Nepal participated in this study. Three hundred children were living in natal villages and 258 were attending boarding schools in Kathmandu. Height, weight, and skinfold thicknesses were collected and matched to demographic data from the community. Results There was no association between altitude of family residence and size for age z‐scores. Males had lower z‐scores than females; z‐scores for both groups declined with age. Differences in size for age among children in boarding schools were associated with two factors: sex and type of boarding school (individual sponsor or group funded). Individuals attending individually sponsored schools had greater size for age compared to children in group funded schools or in their natal villages; younger children in collectively funded schools were smaller than village peers. Conclusions Despite popular perceptions, educational outmigration in Himalayan communities may not be associated with improved child growth outcomes and investment in community level schools may be a practical solution for improving child growth and physical and mental health.

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confidence: 93%

Childhood growth and education migration among ethnic Tibetan children from Nepal

Quinn

Sangmo²,

Burack

et al. 2023

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…The biocultural perspective has gained popularity among anthropologists recently and has proven useful in many realms, including but not limited to the intersections of health and the spectra of gender and sex, 10 the impact of rapid socioeconomic change on infants and children, 11 and linking periodontal disease expression to nutrition and food insecurity 12 . There has been some notable work that has applied a biocultural framework to infectious diseases studies such as early work linking biology and culture to disease patterns in ancient Nubia, 13 the biosocial integration in the anthropology of infectious diseases, 14 discussions of syphilis in antiquity, 15,16 application of the socioecological model to the AIDS pandemic, 1 and recent applications of biocultural theory to increased vulnerabilities to COVID‐19 among gender and sexual minorities 17 .…”

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Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history

Doren

2022

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Anthropologists recognize the importance of conceptualizing health in the context of the mutually evolving nature of biology and culture through the biocultural approach, but biocultural anthropological perspectives of infectious diseases and their impacts on humans (and vice versa) through time are relatively underrepresented. Tuberculosis (TB) has been a constant companion of humans for thousands of years and has heavily influenced population health in almost every phase of cultural and demographic evolution. TB in human populations has been dramatically influenced by behavior, demographic and epidemiological shifts, and other comorbidities through history. This paper critically discusses TB and some of its major comorbidities through history within a biocultural framework to show how transitions in human demography and culture affected the disease‐scape of TB. In doing so, I address the potential synthesis of biocultural and epidemiological transition theory to better comprehend the mutual evolution of infectious diseases and humans.

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“…Companies that apply an entrepreneurial orientation will have traits such as product innovation, market, risk-taking, and proactive in making competitive strategy innovations [9][10][11].…”

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Competitive Strategy of 4-Star Hotels Based on the Entrepreneurial Behavior of VUCA in Makassar City

Muhtasom¹,

.²,

Machmury³

2022

KSS

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Many businesses have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including those in the catering, hotel, and tourism industries. As a result, in addition to posing a threat to public health, COVID-19 has caused economic losses. VUCA must be resilient enough to survive in the current pandemic situation. This study focused on four four-star hotels in Makassar, namely Hotel Gammara, Hotel Citadines, Hotel Mercure, and Hotel Harper Perintis. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect the data. 138 out of 187 people filled in the questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study have implications for researchers, hoteliers, and policymakers, particularly in terms of increasing competitiveness through entrepreneurship development. Keywords: strategy, entrepreneurship, hotel, VUCA era

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Trekking and toddlers: Towards a biocultural analysis of growth among infants and young children in a rural region of the Himalayas

Abstract: This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as

Cited by 6 publications

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Childhood growth and education migration among ethnic Tibetan children from Nepal

Childhood growth and education migration among ethnic Tibetan children from Nepal

Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history

Competitive Strategy of 4-Star Hotels Based on the Entrepreneurial Behavior of VUCA in Makassar City

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