Genitourinary Systems Entangled with Shifting Environments in a Salvadoran Subsistence Farming Community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2289008
AutoresMike Anastario (0000-0002-7761-572X, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work Florida International University, autor de correspondencia), Miguel Geovanny Arias Rodas (0000-0001-5346-0770, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas El Salvador), Milton Alexander Escobar Arteaga (Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas El Salvador), Christian Villanueva (0000-0003-4030-8280, Loyola University Chicago), Fernando Chacón Serrano (0000-0001-8637-3403, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas El Salvador), Hope Ferdowsian (0000-0002-8662-1654, University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque)
Año2021
Volumen35
Número2
Páginas246-265
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12616
PMID33035383
OpenAlexW3092460621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas44

Diseases of the genitourinary system are the leading cause of hospital deaths in El Salvador, and chronic kidney disease of unknown origin has been gaining attention as a public health problem among farmers in particular. Epidemiological studies point, in part, to environmental risk factors, which have shifted over time with the deployment of modern agricultural science and ongoing climate change. We examined how diseases of the genitourinary system were situated at several margins of an epidemic in one rural Salvadoran municipality where these environmental and epidemiological changes are occurring, albeit relatively slow. By using this approach to study diseases of the genitourinary system, we illustrate one way in which shifting human/environment entanglements can be experimentally "known" in the context of human diseases associated with them. Our approach offers a unique perspective in thinking with ethnographic data to compliment ongoing epidemiological investigations of kidney disease in El Salvador

Agriculture · Biology · Context (archaeology · Disease · Environmental health · Genitourinary system · Geography · Pathology · Perspective (graphical · Public health · Situated · Subsistence agriculture · Computer Science · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Ecology · Epidemiology