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An Ethnography of Child Growth Mchome, Zaina
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Mchome, Z. (2021). An Ethnography of Child Growth: socio-cultural context and meanings attached to child growth in southeastern Tanzania. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.169360197
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1. Community’s cultural schema's and the biomedical construction of healthy child growth exist alongside each other (This thesis).
2. Caregivers’ concepts of what constitutes normal or poor child growth and development are embedded in their own cultural framework, which greatly shapes their childrearing practices (This thesis; LeVine RA, 2007).
3. Healthy growth is a multi-dimensional, and thus, plural concept (This thesis, Haisma et al., 2018; Yousefzadeh et al., 2019). 4. Applying a multi-dimensional lens while also aligning health messages with the socio-cultural context is important to the
implementation of policies that are designed to alleviate malnutrition in all its forms. (This thesis).
5. For a better understanding of child growth, and effective intervention development, the attention to parents’ agency and capabilities is indispensable (This thesis).
6. Nutritionists should promote and advocate exclusive breastfeeding while taking into account that a mothers’ capability to breastfeed is related to mothers’ and fathers’ productive and reproductive roles (This thesis).
7. As structures, cultural schemas (norms) not only constrain individuals’ (mothers’) behaviors, but also enable other forms of action (This thesis; Giddens, 1984).
8. Irrespective of people’s good intentions, they often fail to adopt the desired healthy behaviors due to the effects of the systems and the structures of the environment in which they live (Shaw D, 2008). 9. “Being ashamed to appear in public” and “not being able to
participate in the life of the community” represent absolute forms of deprivation equal to hunger (Sen, 1993).
10. A person is unlikely to seek care and treatment for an illness unless its symptoms and signs are aligned with society's view of what constitutes an illness (Helman (2007).
11. “Hatuwezi kutatua matatizo yetu kwa kujidanganya kuwa
hayapo” “We can’t solve our problems by fooling ourselves that they do not exist” (J.K. Nyerere, 1962).
