Priscilla Duboz
Biographic Data
| ID | 74956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priscilla Duboz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priscilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Duboz |
| SIGNATURE | DUBOZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cheikh Anta Diop University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5869-379X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Porter et supporter: Comment les femmes font le monde de vie peul dans le Ferlo Sénégalais
The Maghreb region has recently experienced a fertility decline, the pace and continuity of which has varied by country: Algeria and Tunisia have seen a rebound followed by further decline, and Morocco a steady fall. These trajectories reflect lasting changes in marriage, contraception, and family norms, against a socio-economic backdrop of prolonged education and later labour market entry. These countries are likely to be facing a sustained peri…
Étudier et vivre dans le Ferlo sénégalais: Corps, environnement, monde de vie
The Maghreb region has recently experienced a fertility decline, the pace and continuity of which has varied by country: Algeria and Tunisia have seen a rebound followed by further decline, and Morocco a steady fall. These trajectories reflect lasting changes in marriage, contraception, and family norms, against a socio-economic backdrop of prolonged education and later labour market entry. These countries are likely to be facing a sustained peri…
Integrating environmental memories to address environmental changes: A case study in Ferlo, Senegal
Associations between dietary diversity and self-rated health in a transverse study of four local food systems (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Portugal and Senegal)
This study demonstrates a positive association between dietary diversity and self-rated health across distinct cultural contexts. The findings reinforce the importance of diverse diets for subjective well-being, regardless of differences in food systems. Public health messaging should continue to promote dietary diversity and home-cooked meals as effective strategies for improving health. Self-rated health could serve as a useful tool for quickly…
Women’s orgasms in Senegal: An exploratory mixed methods study of orgasm frequency, pleasure, and meaning among Senegalese women
The objective of this study was to provide a better understanding of representations and behaviours related to sexual pleasure and orgasm among women in Dakar, Senegal, measure their frequency, and analyse some of their determinants. We used a mixed methods approach with data being collected from a qualitative sample (N = 10) and a quantitative convenience sample (N = 155). Data were analysed separately and integrated only at the interpretative s…
Habiter en Peul le Ferlo sénégalais: Vivre Et Faire Avec L’espace
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Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Les mémoires phénoménologiques peuvent promouvoir la conservation de la nature
L’oubli des conditions environnementales passées constitue un problème sérieux conduisant à accepter une perte de biodiversité par manque de connaissances. Alors que ce problème est bien connu, peu d’articles étudient le rôle de la mémoire de l’environnement passé dans la conservation. Dans cet article, nous montrons à travers une approche interdisciplinaire comment les humains peuvent s’emparer de leur mémoire phénoménologique pour se reconnecte…
Transformation of Relationships with the Environment - Exploring Environmental Memories in Dakar
Nothing in Excess: Physical Activity, Health, and Life World in Senegalese Fulani Male Pastoralists, a Mixed Method Approach
The mixed method approach developed in this study has shown that the IPAQ-SF is not a valid measure of PA in the population of Fulani male herders from the Ferlo region, given that unproductive energy expenditure is incompatible with the Fulani way of life, which condemns excess and immoderation
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological systems, this article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green Wall reveals power dynamics between Western and Sahelian countries. We put in tension this acceleration of the Great G…
L'alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal: Comparaison entre contextes rural et urbain autour d’éléments emblématiques
Cet article porte sur l'alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l'un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l'autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale du pays, Dakar, depuis au moins dix ans. L'analyse porte sur les différences mais aussi les éléments communs dans l'alimentation de ces populations et sur la pluralité des influences mais aussi, des process…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Assessing health impacts of an environmental pan-African development project: A migration perspective
The general objective of this article is to analyze to what extent the implementation of the Great Green Wall project is likely to disrupt migratory movements towards the rural environment and, consequently, the socio-economic structures and health status of local populations. This study was carried out in 2015 on a population sample of 500 individuals living in the municipality of Tessekere, constructed using the quota method. Socioeconomic and …
Development and validation of the body shape scale (Boshas) for assessing body shape perception in African populations
The BOSHAS is the first sex-specific scale of real African models photographed in face and profile, including large body shape variability. The validation protocol showed good validity and reliability for evaluating body shape perceptions and dissatisfaction of Africans
Ageing and the body: One African perspective
How do non-Western societies envisage the relationship between the body and ageing? The present work aimed to shed light on this question by exploring how adult men and women of different ages living in Dakar, Senegal, view their bodies. A quantitative methodology was selected, and this study was carried out on a sample of 1,000 dwellers of the Senegalese capital, aged 20 and older. This sample was constructed using the quota method in order to s…
The One Health Concept: 10 Years Old and a Long Road Ahead
Over the past decade, a significant increase in the circulation of infectious agents was observed. With the spread and emergence of epizootics, zoonoses, and epidemics, the risks of pandemics became more and more critical. Human and animal health has also been threatened by antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution, and the development of multifactorial and chronic diseases. This highlighted the increasing globalization of health risks an…
Biocultural determinants of overweight and obesity in the context of nutrition transition in Senegal: A holistic anthropological approach
Senegal is experiencing a rising obesity epidemic, due to the nutrition transition occurring in most African countries, and driven by sedentary behaviour and high-calorie dietary intake. In addition, the anthropological local drivers of the social valorization of processed high-calorie food and large body sizes could expose the population to obesity risk. This study aimed to determine the impact of these biocultural factors on the nutritional sta…
Les déterminants de l'auto-évaluation de la santé à Dakar. Une étude anthropo-biologique exploratoire
L'auto-évaluation de la santé est une variable largement utilisée dans les recherches en santé, mais elle n'a donné lieu qu'à de rares études en Afrique Sub-saharienne, et aucune au Sénégal sur la population générale. L'objectif de cette étude était donc d'analyser les principaux déterminants de l'auto-évaluation de la santé à Dakar, en tenant compte des facteurs socio-démographiques et économiques, des relations sociales et l'état de santé physi…
Exploring Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in Dakar
Social representations of older adults [ magget ] in Dakar
The objectives of this study in Dakar were twofold: to determine whether the representations of older adults are mainly positive, neutral or negative in the Senegalese capital; and to analyse the emic notions on which these age representations are based. As a first step in understanding how older adults are represented in this contemporary urban African context, a methodology was selected that is both quantitative and qualitative, including close…
The Paradox of Impossible Beauty: Body Changes and Beauty Practices in Aging Women
The aim of this article is to describe and understand the experience of aesthetic body changes in women between 65 and 75 years old. To approach the issue, 29 in-depth interviews were conducted in Marseille in 2011. Following a brief review of contemporary Western aesthetics, we will examine the marks of time women perceive as stigmatizing and analyze beauty practices that aim to conceal or repair them. The last part of this article will be devot…
La fin de la dépendance: Transformations Contemporaines Des Corps-Sujets Vieillissants
L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les changements en germe dans les représentations des personnes âgées dépendantes, en France, au travers du prisme du corps vieillissant. Pour aborder cette problématique, 29 entretiens compréhensifs ont été réalisés avec des femmes âgées de 65 à 75 ans, à Marseille en 2011. Après une brève analyse de la notion de dépendance dans les sociétés individualistes, puis des liens qui l’unissent à la vieillesse e…
Migrations internes au Sénégal. Caractéristiques socioéconomiques, démographiques et migratoires des Dakarois
Les objectifs de cette étude sont de comparer les caractéristiques 1) des migrants installés à Dakar et des personnes d’origine dakaroise et 2) des migrants internes en fonction du genre et de leur période d’installation dans la capitale. Pour cela, un échantillon de 600 personnes, représentatif de la population dakaroise âgée de 20 ans et plus, a été constitué. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la migration interne vers Dakar est majoritairemen…
Social representations of older adults [ magget ] in Dakar
The objectives of this study in Dakar were twofold: to determine whether the representations of older adults are mainly positive, neutral or negative in the Senegalese capital; and to analyse the emic notions on which these age representations are based. As a first step in understanding how older adults are represented in this contemporary urban African context, a methodology was selected that is both quantitative and qualitative, including close…
Les dimensions de la qualité de vie subjective à Dakar
L'ensemble des recherches participatives menées sur la qualité de vie subjective dans les pays en développement a mis en évidence l'importance de la santé physique au sein de ce concept. Cependant, au Sénégal, la qualité de vie subjective n'a jamais été étudiée. Ainsi, les objectifs principaux de cette étude qualitative étaient les suivants : en premier lieu, comprendre ce que signifie le concept de « qualité de vie » (dundu bu baax) et identifie…
Exploring Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in Dakar
The Paradox of Impossible Beauty: Body Changes and Beauty Practices in Aging Women
The aim of this article is to describe and understand the experience of aesthetic body changes in women between 65 and 75 years old. To approach the issue, 29 in-depth interviews were conducted in Marseille in 2011. Following a brief review of contemporary Western aesthetics, we will examine the marks of time women perceive as stigmatizing and analyze beauty practices that aim to conceal or repair them. The last part of this article will be devot…
Migrations internes au Sénégal. Caractéristiques socioéconomiques, démographiques et migratoires des Dakarois
Les objectifs de cette étude sont de comparer les caractéristiques 1) des migrants installés à Dakar et des personnes d’origine dakaroise et 2) des migrants internes en fonction du genre et de leur période d’installation dans la capitale. Pour cela, un échantillon de 600 personnes, représentatif de la population dakaroise âgée de 20 ans et plus, a été constitué. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la migration interne vers Dakar est majoritairemen…
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological systems, this article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green Wall reveals power dynamics between Western and Sahelian countries. We put in tension this acceleration of the Great G…
Migration and hypertension in Dakar, Senegal
This article examines social and environmental influences on the development of hypertension in a sample of 568 adults (290 men; 278 women) aged 20 years and older from Dakar, Senegal. We test the hypothesis that more recent immigrants to the city of Dakar will have lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension than those who have lived there longer. Cross‐sectional sociodemographic, anthropometric and blood pressure data were collected du…
La notion d'ethnie à Dakar: Autodéclaration, Force De l'Identification Et Validité en Anthropologie Démographique
Version électronique, version papier en cours
L'alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal: Comparaison entre contextes rural et urbain autour d’éléments emblématiques
Cet article porte sur l'alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l'un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l'autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale du pays, Dakar, depuis au moins dix ans. L'analyse porte sur les différences mais aussi les éléments communs dans l'alimentation de ces populations et sur la pluralité des influences mais aussi, des process…
Les dimensions de la qualité de vie subjective à Dakar
L'ensemble des recherches participatives menées sur la qualité de vie subjective dans les pays en développement a mis en évidence l'importance de la santé physique au sein de ce concept. Cependant, au Sénégal, la qualité de vie subjective n'a jamais été étudiée. Ainsi, les objectifs principaux de cette étude qualitative étaient les suivants : en premier lieu, comprendre ce que signifie le concept de « qualité de vie » (dundu bu baax) et identifie…
Migrations internes et santé à Dakar (Sénégal). Comparaison de l’autoévaluation de la santé, de l’hypertension artérielle et de l’obésité des migrants internes et des personnes originaires de Dakar
L’objectif de cet article est de comparer les prévalences d’hypertension et d’obésité ainsi que l’autoévaluation de la santé des migrants internes et des populations originaires de Dakar en tenant compte de la durée de résidence et de l’insertion socio-économique des migrants. L’échantillon de population, représentatif de la population du département de Dakar, comprend 600 individus. Les caractéristiques sociodémographiques, le statut de migrant,…
Don(s) de sang: De quoi parle-t-on ? Approche anthropo-bio-culturelle du don de sang
Migration and hypertension in Dakar, Senegal
This article examines social and environmental influences on the development of hypertension in a sample of 568 adults (290 men; 278 women) aged 20 years and older from Dakar, Senegal. We test the hypothesis that more recent immigrants to the city of Dakar will have lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension than those who have lived there longer. Cross‐sectional sociodemographic, anthropometric and blood pressure data were collected du…
La notion d'ethnie à Dakar: Autodéclaration, Force De l'Identification Et Validité en Anthropologie Démographique
Version électronique, version papier en cours
La fin de la dépendance: Transformations Contemporaines Des Corps-Sujets Vieillissants
L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les changements en germe dans les représentations des personnes âgées dépendantes, en France, au travers du prisme du corps vieillissant. Pour aborder cette problématique, 29 entretiens compréhensifs ont été réalisés avec des femmes âgées de 65 à 75 ans, à Marseille en 2011. Après une brève analyse de la notion de dépendance dans les sociétés individualistes, puis des liens qui l’unissent à la vieillesse e…
Migrations internes au Sénégal. Caractéristiques socioéconomiques, démographiques et migratoires des Dakarois
Les objectifs de cette étude sont de comparer les caractéristiques 1) des migrants installés à Dakar et des personnes d’origine dakaroise et 2) des migrants internes en fonction du genre et de leur période d’installation dans la capitale. Pour cela, un échantillon de 600 personnes, représentatif de la population dakaroise âgée de 20 ans et plus, a été constitué. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la migration interne vers Dakar est majoritairemen…
Exploring Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in Dakar
Social representations of older adults [ magget ] in Dakar
The objectives of this study in Dakar were twofold: to determine whether the representations of older adults are mainly positive, neutral or negative in the Senegalese capital; and to analyse the emic notions on which these age representations are based. As a first step in understanding how older adults are represented in this contemporary urban African context, a methodology was selected that is both quantitative and qualitative, including close…
The Paradox of Impossible Beauty: Body Changes and Beauty Practices in Aging Women
The aim of this article is to describe and understand the experience of aesthetic body changes in women between 65 and 75 years old. To approach the issue, 29 in-depth interviews were conducted in Marseille in 2011. Following a brief review of contemporary Western aesthetics, we will examine the marks of time women perceive as stigmatizing and analyze beauty practices that aim to conceal or repair them. The last part of this article will be devot…
Les déterminants de l'auto-évaluation de la santé à Dakar. Une étude anthropo-biologique exploratoire
L'auto-évaluation de la santé est une variable largement utilisée dans les recherches en santé, mais elle n'a donné lieu qu'à de rares études en Afrique Sub-saharienne, et aucune au Sénégal sur la population générale. L'objectif de cette étude était donc d'analyser les principaux déterminants de l'auto-évaluation de la santé à Dakar, en tenant compte des facteurs socio-démographiques et économiques, des relations sociales et l'état de santé physi…
The One Health Concept: 10 Years Old and a Long Road Ahead
Over the past decade, a significant increase in the circulation of infectious agents was observed. With the spread and emergence of epizootics, zoonoses, and epidemics, the risks of pandemics became more and more critical. Human and animal health has also been threatened by antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution, and the development of multifactorial and chronic diseases. This highlighted the increasing globalization of health risks an…
Biocultural determinants of overweight and obesity in the context of nutrition transition in Senegal: A holistic anthropological approach
Senegal is experiencing a rising obesity epidemic, due to the nutrition transition occurring in most African countries, and driven by sedentary behaviour and high-calorie dietary intake. In addition, the anthropological local drivers of the social valorization of processed high-calorie food and large body sizes could expose the population to obesity risk. This study aimed to determine the impact of these biocultural factors on the nutritional sta…
Ageing and the body: One African perspective
How do non-Western societies envisage the relationship between the body and ageing? The present work aimed to shed light on this question by exploring how adult men and women of different ages living in Dakar, Senegal, view their bodies. A quantitative methodology was selected, and this study was carried out on a sample of 1,000 dwellers of the Senegalese capital, aged 20 and older. This sample was constructed using the quota method in order to s…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Assessing health impacts of an environmental pan-African development project: A migration perspective
The general objective of this article is to analyze to what extent the implementation of the Great Green Wall project is likely to disrupt migratory movements towards the rural environment and, consequently, the socio-economic structures and health status of local populations. This study was carried out in 2015 on a population sample of 500 individuals living in the municipality of Tessekere, constructed using the quota method. Socioeconomic and …
Development and validation of the body shape scale (Boshas) for assessing body shape perception in African populations
The BOSHAS is the first sex-specific scale of real African models photographed in face and profile, including large body shape variability. The validation protocol showed good validity and reliability for evaluating body shape perceptions and dissatisfaction of Africans
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
L'alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal: Comparaison entre contextes rural et urbain autour d’éléments emblématiques
Cet article porte sur l'alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l'un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l'autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale du pays, Dakar, depuis au moins dix ans. L'analyse porte sur les différences mais aussi les éléments communs dans l'alimentation de ces populations et sur la pluralité des influences mais aussi, des process…
Nothing in Excess: Physical Activity, Health, and Life World in Senegalese Fulani Male Pastoralists, a Mixed Method Approach
The mixed method approach developed in this study has shown that the IPAQ-SF is not a valid measure of PA in the population of Fulani male herders from the Ferlo region, given that unproductive energy expenditure is incompatible with the Fulani way of life, which condemns excess and immoderation
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological systems, this article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green Wall reveals power dynamics between Western and Sahelian countries. We put in tension this acceleration of the Great G…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Les mémoires phénoménologiques peuvent promouvoir la conservation de la nature
L’oubli des conditions environnementales passées constitue un problème sérieux conduisant à accepter une perte de biodiversité par manque de connaissances. Alors que ce problème est bien connu, peu d’articles étudient le rôle de la mémoire de l’environnement passé dans la conservation. Dans cet article, nous montrons à travers une approche interdisciplinaire comment les humains peuvent s’emparer de leur mémoire phénoménologique pour se reconnecte…
Transformation of Relationships with the Environment - Exploring Environmental Memories in Dakar
Associations between dietary diversity and self-rated health in a transverse study of four local food systems (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Portugal and Senegal)
This study demonstrates a positive association between dietary diversity and self-rated health across distinct cultural contexts. The findings reinforce the importance of diverse diets for subjective well-being, regardless of differences in food systems. Public health messaging should continue to promote dietary diversity and home-cooked meals as effective strategies for improving health. Self-rated health could serve as a useful tool for quickly…
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