Abstract

CORTEZ GOMEZ, Renata Gabriela. Mother’s Health-Related Knowledge and the Treatment of Diarrheal Disease and Acute Respiratory Infection in Ocotepec, Chiapas. Desacatos [online]. 2018, n.56, pp.108-123. ISSN 2448-5144.

How mothers’ health-related knowledge avoids the use of appropriate medical treatment for diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection in Ocotepec, Chiapas, is analyzed from a sociocultural epidemiology approach, focusing in their social representations and practices of treatment. The results demonstrate that the “danger signs” of the most severe threats of those illnesses: dehydration and pneumonia, are not recognized. This problem leads to children deaths due to the lack of use of appropriate treatment, that was not reachable because of the processes of medicalization and commodification of the local medical practice, and the lack of access to public medical attention.

Keywords : mothers’ health-related knowledge; acute respiratory infection; diarrheal disease; under five children; under five mortality.

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