Coral Wayland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 660632 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Coral Wayland |
| NOMBRES | Coral |
| APELLIDO | Wayland |
| FIRMA | WAYLAND C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Infant Agency and Its Implication for Breast-Feeding Promotion in Brazil
Studies indicate that early weaning and supplementation (before six months) are widespread problems in Brazil. To arrest and reverse this trend, national, local, and grassroots organizations have implemented a number of breast-feeding promotional campaigns. While these campaigns employ a number of different strategies, many incorporate education as a key component. Often these programs share a common assumption about infant feeding and decision m…
Breastfeeding patterns in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
This paper presents a preliminary profile of infant feeding practices in a peri-urban Amazonian community. A random sample of 180 households with at least one child under the age of five years were interviewed in 1996 as part of a maternal-child health survey conducted in a peri-urban neighborhood in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Since some households had more than one child under the age of five, data were collected for a total of 250 children. The …
The failure of pharmaceuticals and the power of plants
Contextualizing the Politics of Knowledge
This article examines how a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon values medicinal plant knowledge. As biomedical health care providers, physicians routinely draw on scientific plant knowledge. At the same time, as residents of the Amazon and health care providers to the poor, they are aware of and sometimes participate in local systems of plant knowledge. When discussing medicinal plant use, physicians repeatedly mention three th…
Acceptable and appropriate
This paper explores how contested ideas of appropriate and acceptable health care, a key feature of primary health care (PHC), can influence program delivery and success. Specifically, this paper uses poor job performance as a lens to critically examine of some of the ideas and assumptions that are part of the PHC/community health worker (CHW) model. A case study of a CHW program in a low-income Brazilian community reveals that CHWs are not perfo…
Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care
The importance of community in primary health care (PHC) is evident in the role of community participation and in the types of programs that are routinely implemented (community health-worker [CHW] programs, community clinics, community-based disease-control programs). Few health care providers and program administrators, however, have considered the meaning of community. Instead, they frequently impose their own definition of community and assum…
Gendering Local Knowledge
Local knowledge is becoming increasingly important in primary health care projects. However, these projects often incorporate local knowledge in an uncritical manner. One area where this is apparent is in the lack of attention paid to the gendered nature of local knowledge. I use one example, women's knowledge and use of medicinal plants in a low-income community in the Brazilian Amazon, to illustrate the links among authority, knowledge, and gen…
Gendering Local Knowledge
Local knowledge is becoming increasingly important in primary health care projects. However, these projects often incorporate local knowledge in an uncritical manner. One area where this is apparent is in the lack of attention paid to the gendered nature of local knowledge. I use one example, women's knowledge and use of medicinal plants in a low-income community in the Brazilian Amazon, to illustrate the links among authority, knowledge, and gen…
Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care
The importance of community in primary health care (PHC) is evident in the role of community participation and in the types of programs that are routinely implemented (community health-worker [CHW] programs, community clinics, community-based disease-control programs). Few health care providers and program administrators, however, have considered the meaning of community. Instead, they frequently impose their own definition of community and assum…
The failure of pharmaceuticals and the power of plants
Contextualizing the Politics of Knowledge
This article examines how a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon values medicinal plant knowledge. As biomedical health care providers, physicians routinely draw on scientific plant knowledge. At the same time, as residents of the Amazon and health care providers to the poor, they are aware of and sometimes participate in local systems of plant knowledge. When discussing medicinal plant use, physicians repeatedly mention three th…
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Breastfeeding patterns in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
This paper presents a preliminary profile of infant feeding practices in a peri-urban Amazonian community. A random sample of 180 households with at least one child under the age of five years were interviewed in 1996 as part of a maternal-child health survey conducted in a peri-urban neighborhood in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Since some households had more than one child under the age of five, data were collected for a total of 250 children. The …
Gendering Local Knowledge
Local knowledge is becoming increasingly important in primary health care projects. However, these projects often incorporate local knowledge in an uncritical manner. One area where this is apparent is in the lack of attention paid to the gendered nature of local knowledge. I use one example, women's knowledge and use of medicinal plants in a low-income community in the Brazilian Amazon, to illustrate the links among authority, knowledge, and gen…
Acceptable and appropriate
This paper explores how contested ideas of appropriate and acceptable health care, a key feature of primary health care (PHC), can influence program delivery and success. Specifically, this paper uses poor job performance as a lens to critically examine of some of the ideas and assumptions that are part of the PHC/community health worker (CHW) model. A case study of a CHW program in a low-income Brazilian community reveals that CHWs are not perfo…
Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care
The importance of community in primary health care (PHC) is evident in the role of community participation and in the types of programs that are routinely implemented (community health-worker [CHW] programs, community clinics, community-based disease-control programs). Few health care providers and program administrators, however, have considered the meaning of community. Instead, they frequently impose their own definition of community and assum…
Contextualizing the Politics of Knowledge
This article examines how a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon values medicinal plant knowledge. As biomedical health care providers, physicians routinely draw on scientific plant knowledge. At the same time, as residents of the Amazon and health care providers to the poor, they are aware of and sometimes participate in local systems of plant knowledge. When discussing medicinal plant use, physicians repeatedly mention three th…
Infant Agency and Its Implication for Breast-Feeding Promotion in Brazil
Studies indicate that early weaning and supplementation (before six months) are widespread problems in Brazil. To arrest and reverse this trend, national, local, and grassroots organizations have implemented a number of breast-feeding promotional campaigns. While these campaigns employ a number of different strategies, many incorporate education as a key component. Often these programs share a common assumption about infant feeding and decision m…
Breastfeeding patterns in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
This paper presents a preliminary profile of infant feeding practices in a peri-urban Amazonian community. A random sample of 180 households with at least one child under the age of five years were interviewed in 1996 as part of a maternal-child health survey conducted in a peri-urban neighborhood in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Since some households had more than one child under the age of five, data were collected for a total of 250 children. The …
The failure of pharmaceuticals and the power of plants
Length of residence, age and patterns of medicinal plant knowledge and use among women in the urban Amazon
BACKGROUND: This paper explores patterns of women's medicinal plant knowledge and use in an urban area of the Brazilian Amazon. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship between a woman's age and her use and knowledge of medicinal plants. It also examines whether length of residence in three different areas of the Amazon is correlated with a woman's use and knowledge of medicinal plants. Two of the areas where respondents may have reside…
Sociology (7 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (4 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Amazon rainforest (2 obras) · Animal and Plant Science Education (2 obras) · Breast feeding (2 obras)