Titre :
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Mexican use of lead in the treatment of empacho : Community, clinic, and longitudinal patterns. (1998)
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Auteurs :
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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
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 47, n° 9, 1998)
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Pagination :
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1263-1266
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Plomb
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Intoxication
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Epidémiologie
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Thérapeutique
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Homme
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Mexique
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Amérique centrale
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Amérique
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Appareil digestif [pathologie]
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Résumé :
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[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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