Medical anthropology study on malaria control among Wa Ethnic in Ximeng County, Yunnan Province
- VernacularTitle:西盟县佤族疟疾防治的医学人类学研究
- Author:
Jianwei XU
;
Min XIA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Medical anthropology;
Malaria;
Wa Ethnic;
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- From:
Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control
1989;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the factors of medical anthropology related to malaria control among Wa Ethnic minority in Ximeng County, Yunnan Province. Methods The study was conducted by the combination of anthropology and epidemiology, qualitative and quantitative, statistical analysis and description. Results Wa people considered malaria as one of three major diseases in the community. In Wa Ethnical language, the word of malaria, “Saihui” (Sai-illness and pain, Hui-being attacked quickly), does not mean of fever. About one third of Wa people had not thought fever as one of malaria symptoms. Most of Wa people only knew vivax malaria, but not falciparum malaria. Only 32.7% of people could connect malaria with mosquitoes, and a few of them could confirm mosquitoes as the only malaria vector. The proportions of sound knowledge of malaria causes, prevention and treatment seeking assessed were lower than 25.0%. As a result of multivariate logistic regression, 3 kinds of malaria knowledge were closely correlated each other, and the connection between causal knowledge and prevention (adjusted OR: 36.610, 95%CI: 10.242-130.866, P
