| Titre : | Mexican use of lead in the treatment of empacho : Community, clinic, and longitudinal patterns. (1998) |
| Auteurs : | R.D. BAER ; J. GARCIA DE ALBA ; N. GOSLIN ; R. MARES LEAL ; A.R. PLASCENCIA CAMPOS ; Department of Anthropology. University of South Florida. Tampa FL. USA ; School of Public Health. University of Guadalajara. Guadalajara Jalisco. MEX |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 47, n° 9, 1998) |
| Pagination : | 1263-1266 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Plomb ; Intoxication ; Epidémiologie ; Thérapeutique ; Homme ; Mexique ; Amérique centrale ; Amérique ; Appareil digestif [pathologie] |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST jnSM6R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper discusses research designed to investigate community, clinic. and longitudinal patterns in use of lead as a treatment for empacho, a folk illness manifest by gastrointestinal symptoms. The same questionnaire used in a clinic-based study seven years previously in Guadalajara, Mexico. was used to interview a randomly selected community sample ; in addition. the study was repeated at the same clinic sites that had been studied previously. The goals were to investigate : (1) What are community wide prevalences of empacho and use of lead based remedies ? (2) To what extent are current patterns of use of lead for treatment of empacho in clinic-based samples similar to those seven years ago. The attributable risk to the population as a whole from use of lead based remedies was found to be 11% of the households of Guadalajara. Essentially this same estimate was seen for the 1987 and 1994 clinic populations. Interestingly, while percentages of lead users have declined since 1987, twice as great a percentage o informants reported treatin empacho. Other patterns originally identified in 1987 persisted in 1994 ; lead use continues to be associated with lower levels of parental education and income. |
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