The greater risk of fewer deaths: an ethnodemographic approach to child mortality in Hausaland.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Africa Pub Date : 1991-01-01

P J Ross, N L Etkin, I Muazzamu

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Abstract

"A Nigerian case study illustrates how local understandings of health influence perceptions of infant survival in ways that may juxtapose indigenous interpretations to other 'objective' data. Evidence from two extended field investigations of a Hausa-Fulani village, set 12 years apart, suggests a decline in childhood mortality rates attendant upon the increasing availability of biomedicines. We note, however, that local perceptions are that mortality risks are now greater for those less than five years old. Our discussion focuses on the circumstances that inform this ethnodemography and its applicability to other population studies." (SUMMARY IN FRE)

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死亡人数减少的风险更大:豪萨兰儿童死亡率的民族人口统计学方法。

"尼日利亚的一项案例研究说明，当地对健康的理解如何影响对婴儿存活率的看法，这种理解可能将土著的解释与其他'客观'数据并列。相隔12年对一个豪萨-富拉尼村进行的两次广泛实地调查的证据表明，随着生物医药的日益普及，儿童死亡率有所下降。然而，我们注意到，当地的看法是，现在五岁以下儿童的死亡风险更大。我们的讨论集中在这种民族人口学及其对其他人口研究的适用性的环境上。”(免费摘要)

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Africa Multiple-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Africa aims to give increased attention to African production of knowledge, highlighting the work of local African thinkers and writers, emerging social and cultural trends ''on the ground'', and links between local and national levels of society. At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa''s own cultural categories. Each issue contains six or seven major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews. Special issues are published annually.