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Survey Examines Rural Guatemalan Attitudes toward Childhood Illness and Pregnancy — Sep 15, 2010

The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.

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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America — May 31, 2010

Faith-based organizations such as churches and religious relief and development groups can play an important role in the response to HIV and AIDS in Central America, despite the fact that many do not support certain prevention measures such as condoms.

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How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? (Spanish translation) — May 26, 2010

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America (Spanish translation) — May 24, 2010

Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance their efforts, both independently and in collaboration with other organizations, such as government ministries of health.

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How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? — May 20, 2010

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Diffusion of Ideas About Personal Hygiene and Contamination in Poor Countries: Evidence from Guatemala — Dec 31, 2000

In this paper, The authors explore the diffusion of beliefs pertaining to the causes of childhood diarrhea in rural Guatemala.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Beliefs About Children's Illness — Dec 31, 1998

Beliefs about child illness were investigated using semi-structured interviews with mothers and providers in four rural Guatemalan communities.

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• Children and Families Research Area

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The Use of Calendars to Measure Child Illness in Health Interview Surveys — Dec 31, 1997

Health interview surveys have become an increasingly common source of information about current morbidity patterns and utilization of health services in developing countries. This study describes an effort to enhance the utility of these surveys by incorporating a calendar format. Findings indicate that additional implementation and evaluation of calendar formats is warranted to provide useful and accurate data possible at relatively low…

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• Children and Families Research Area

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Encuesta Guatemalteca De Salud Familiar =: The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health — Dec 31, 1996

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Prenatal and Delivery Care and Childhood Immunization in Guatemala: Do Family and Community Matter? — Dec 31, 1995

Family and community membership are very important determinants of the use of health care, even in the presence of controls for a large number of observed characteristics of individuals, families, and communities.

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• Children and Families Research Area