Dissertation Research: Socioecology of Mother and Infant Health Among the Panare

论文研究：帕纳雷母婴健康的社会生态学

• 批准号: 9729777
• 负责人: Benjamin Campbell
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-04-15 至 1999-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Socioecology; Mother; Infant

This project examines the extent to which social and ecological stressors influence mother and infant health among the Eastern Panare of Venezuela. The people of this community are swidden horticulturists who have no access to institutional healthcare, few social or economic ties with outsiders, and whose daily activities reflect traditional patterns of subsistence and social organization. This socio-ecological environment provides an excellent opportunity for a longitudinal investigation of the effects of social tension and residential movement on mother-infant health. The central hypothesis of this study is that social stressors have a negative effect on health, independent of nutrition. Data on salivary immune factors, milk energy, health, anthropometrics, maternal stress, and family mobility will be collected from a series of mother-infant pairs to test whether infants of more highly stressed mothers exhibit evidence of poorer health and growth disruptions. While the influence of nutrition on early childhood well-being has been extensively studied, this will be the first study to combine ethnographic, psychoneuroimmunological, and energetic methods to longitudinally track mother and infant health. Consequently, this work will provide us with a much richer understanding of how both social and ecological factors influence maternal well-being and thus shape infant health status.

该项目研究了社会和生态压力因素对委内瑞拉东部帕纳雷地区母婴健康的影响程度。 这个社区的人们是轮换的园艺家，他们无法获得机构医疗保健，与外人几乎没有社会或经济联系，他们的日常活动反映了传统的生存和社会组织模式。 这种社会生态环境为纵向研究社会紧张和居住流动对母婴健康的影响提供了绝佳的机会。 这项研究的中心假设是，社会压力因素对健康有负面影响，与营养无关。 将从一系列母婴对中收集有关唾液免疫因素、乳汁能量、健康、人体测量、母亲压力和家庭流动性的数据，以测试压力较大的母亲所生的婴儿是否表现出健康状况较差和生长受到干扰的证据。 虽然营养对儿童早期健康的影响已被广泛研究，但这将是第一项结合人种学、心理神经免疫学和能量方法来纵向跟踪母亲和婴儿健康的研究。 因此，这项工作将使我们对社会和生态因素如何影响孕产妇福祉并从而影响婴儿健康状况有更丰富的了解。