A5010437014- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Education Systems and Policy
- African history and culture studies
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Language Development and Disorders
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Nutrition, Health, and Society Studies
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
University of British Columbia
2016-2020
Muhlenberg College
2016
BC Centre for Disease Control
2015
Women's Health Research Institute
2014
Harvard University Press
1982-2011
Harvard University
1981-2010
University of California, San Diego
1994-1997
Foreword List of tables and figures Preface Part I. African Infancy: Frameworks For Understanding: 1. The comparative study child care 2. Infant in subsaharan Africa II. Parenthood Among Gusii Kenya: 3. culture: A person-centered perspective 4. fertility, marriage, family 5. Pregnancy birth: III. Care Development a Community: 6. care: Cultural norms interpersonal environment 7. Survival health: priorities parents 8. Communication social learning during infancy 9. Variations infant...
THE QUESTION OF HOW FEMALE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE influences fertility and child survival in developing countries has emerged as an important problem the analysis of demographic change evaluation health population policies. An extensive research literature based on national surveys censuses conducted shows maternal schooling to be a highly consistent household-level predictor reduced mortality, even when other socioeconomic factors are controlled.' This led proposals for expanding female school...
Patient engagement in care and adherence to medication are critical achieving the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people with HIV infection. A randomized controlled trial Kenya, WelTelKenya1, showed that an interactive mobile phone text-messaging intervention can improve viral load suppression. We conducted a pilot study adapt WelTel for HIV-infected clients (n = 25) at clinic Vancouver, British Columbia. Between April June 2012, we recruited five participants from...
Building on trauma-informed care (TIC), Trauma and Violence-Informed Care (TVIC) aims to minimize re-traumatization for people who have previously experienced violence, support currently experiencing violence draw attention structural violence. Previous research has not explored how health providers understand TVIC nor studied either TIC or in primary (PHC). This analysis of the perspectives fourteen PHC staff regarding impacts interprofessional education sessions was conducted as part a...
According to psychological models as well common intuition, intense positive and negative situations evoke highly distinct emotional expressions. Nevertheless, recent work has shown that when judging isolated faces, the affective valence of winning losing professional tennis players is hard differentiate. However, expressions produced by athletes during publicly broadcasted sports events may be strategically controlled. To shed light on this matter we examined if ordinary people's...
Comparison of observed maternal behavior to infants in five cultures shows differences between agrarian and urban-industrial societies as well culture-specific patterns related each local context.
Abstract— The articles in this Special Section are based on contributions to an SRCD-sponsored invitational conference held Victoria, Canada, February 2009. This introductory article establishes the rationale for focusing Africa as part of effort advance a more inclusive science child development, provides brief overview thrust other section, describes 2 research capacity-building initiatives that emerged from conference, and concludes with reflective perspectives conceptual methodological...
Gusii patterns of reproduction and child care evolved in an agrarian setting which land was abundant children were scarce. With now scarce abundant, parents continue to be resourceful strategic their infant care, but they have not altered reproductive goals.
This article summarises findings of research designed to shed light on the mechanisms by which female schooling changes atttitudes childbearing and childrearing in Mexico. The data reported come primarily from a 1987 survey rural Mexican town Tilzapotla state Morelos. Subsidiary later 1990 home observations carried out 1983 urban area Cuernavaca. Conditions Cuernavaca are relevant these issues among immigrants United States because communities many Mexico originate. Together results indicate...

 First Nations people and communities have long been championing the provision of holistic, self-determining, culturally safe, responsive health care. In April 2016, a catastrophic rise in illicit drug overdose deaths province British Columbia (BC), Canada, led to declaration public emergency. Due compounding historical ongoing impacts colonialism, including trauma inequitable access services, BC are disproportionately impacted by this crisis. response, Health Authority created Not...
The purpose of this paper is to examine marital morality from the perspective lower-middle and working-class women in a large urban center south Mexico City. Anthropologists have noted that departure ideal sexual fidelity expected male behavior Mexican communities, while infidelity by wife much more negatively regarded. We extent which norms governing husband-wife relations been affected rapid socioeconomic changes recent years. show that, despite persistence double standard morality,...
Beatrice Whiting was a member of the first generation graduate students to be trained in psychological anthropology, and she has always presumed broad range connections between social processes. She salvaged Six Cultures Study through an ecological analysis its child‐observation material, stimulated further studies, using quantitative qualitative methods, ways which categories like sex, age, education influence child development. This article presents overview crosscultural research program...