Objective
* To describe and interpret the practices and popular representations in connection with health and the illness in West Africa, and their interactions with the practices and representations of the health workers.
* To use thus collected socio-anthropological knowledge to improve the quality of the care.
Expected Outcome
* course of "anthropology of health applies to public health" (from West African materials), bound for the health personnel (doctors, male nurses, midwives).
* teaching materials concerning the popular practices and designs in connection with certain priority pathologies.
* implementation, collaboration with members of the health professions, of inspired experimental preventive or curative actions of the identified conclusions; improvement of the look after-looked after reports and of the education messages for health.
* production of articles and of scientific works.
* development of socio-anthropological evaluation methodology of the public health actions and of the projects in the health field.
Activities will proceed in several languages of major extension, in particular bambara-dioula, songhay-zarma, peul, hausa ....
In each one of these cultural surfaces, six topics will be investigated.
* Complaint and language of the symptoms. One will give priority to an analysis of the dynamic of transformation of the semiology popular of the symptoms and of the "language of evils".
* Topic 2. Contagion, contamination, transmission. One will be attached to a systematic inventory of the local definitions of contagion, of contamination, of the epidemic, or of the other "methods of acquisition" of the illnesses, as well as of the popular practices of prevention and of hygiene which are dependent to them.
* Topic 3. The popular nosological entities. One will analyse in each culture the principal popular nosological entities, which appear like "hold-all" from a biomedical point of view, but which are endowed for the unit and coherence people.
* Topic 4. The management of fruitfulness and of sexuality. One will carry out a comparative analysis of the representations and popular practices associated with the sexual act, with the pregnancy, with the failure and with the labour.
* Topic 5. Health and logical structures of those involved. One will carry out an evaluation of programmes, projects and health actions and of their social registrations. Each health site will be regarded as sand where groups of those involved confront themselves endowed with logics, with resources and with different interests.
* Topic 6. The health interactions of the countryside to the city. One will be attached to the analysis of the effects on the popular practices and representations of a series of variables connected with the urban way of life and of sociability.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences public health
- social sciences sociology anthropology
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine obstetrics
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pathology
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