Health care, culture and society : understanding death rates by intestinal infections in Ecuador /

are taken from Ecuadorian census and vital statistics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claycomb, Nancy Mawn
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:are taken from Ecuadorian census and vital statistics
behind these provincial variations. The data for my analysis
concern in Ecuador.
critical role in reducing rates of death by intestinal
cultural factors help to account for the provincial
find that not only Western medical care, but also social and
health levels in the country, it is important to develop an
in the rates of death by intestinal infections across the
infections, but that the social and cultural contexts of the
Intestinal infections are a leading cause of death and a
intestinal infections are to lose their dominance as a health
intestinal infections. This thesis explores the variations
major health concern among the people of Ecuador. To improve
materials from 1982 and 1990. Through my data analysis, I
people served by these practices must be accommodated for if
provinces of Ecuador and accounts for some of the reasons
results suggest that Western medical practices play a
understanding of the reasons behind these problems with
variations in rates of death by intestinal infections. My
Item Description:"Major subject: Sociology".
Vita.
Physical Description:vii, 71 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.