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PubMed2004

Popular perceptions of emerging influences on mortality and longevity in Bangladesh and West Bengal.

Relatively little is known about how environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity are perceived by the public. In this study in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, which used individual interviews and focus-group discussions to investigate the changing costs of and motivations for reproduction, respondents were questioned about their perceptions of changes in mortality. The findings show that, while child mortality levels are perceived to have fallen dramatically in recent times, the health and survival prospects of the middle aged and the elderly are seen to have been better in the past. The perceived decline in adult health is attributed to environmental deterioration and lifestyle changes accompanying modernization. This paper explores people's reasons for this unexpected worldview. References to pesticides and chemical fertilizers as causes of death abound in their explanations and are seen to be associated with unhealthy agricultural practices and impiety.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

Acute respiratory illness: popular health culture and mother's knowledge in the Philippines.

Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is one of the chief causes of morbidity and mortality in the third world. This ethnographic study of ARI in the Philippines draws attention to local knowledge, sign recognition, perceptions of severity, and cultural factors influencing health care seeking. The mix of research methods used to generate data on these issues is discussed.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed2003

Missing girls and son preference in rural India: looking beyond popular myth.

Survival chances of girls in parts of South and East Asia have been adverse. Female foeticide, infanticide, abandonment, out-adoption, under-reporting of female births, and selective neglect of girls leading to higher death rates, have contributed to this adversity. Here, I reflect on an observed skewed sex ratio at birth in rural West Bengal, and discuss female foeticide, infanticide, son preference, and abortion. More boys were recorded at birth, and the majority of women desired sons. Trajectories of selective neglect of and discrimination against daughters have been researched extensively, but the related issues of female foeticide and infanticide have been less examined.

Abortion, Legal↗
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An analysis of menopause in the popular press.

With the increased interest in menopause, it is imperative that midlife women be given reliable information. An analysis of the lay literature on menopause over the past ten years in the United States was conducted in order to determine the content of the articles, their source, and their credibility. Most articles were found to blend opinion with fact, and many of the authors of these articles did not have any stated qualifications in midlife women's health. Physicians, particularly those espousing the medicalization of menopause, were the most often quoted experts, and few nurses or other health care workers were cited as experts. It is suggested that nurses become more involved in health education for midlife women.

Attitude to Health↗