Ross P J, Etkin N L, Muazzamu I
Africa (Lond). 1991;61(4):502-12.
"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)
一项尼日利亚的案例研究表明，当地人对健康的理解如何以可能将本土解释与其他“客观”数据并列的方式影响对婴儿生存的认知。对一个豪萨 - 富拉尼村庄进行的两次相隔12年的广泛实地调查的证据表明，随着生物医学药品供应的增加，儿童死亡率有所下降。然而，我们注意到，当地人的看法是，现在五岁以下儿童的死亡风险更大。我们的讨论集中在形成这种种族人口统计学的情况及其对其他人口研究的适用性上。（法语摘要）
