title: [Human vulnerability to Trypanosoma cruzi vector transmission through health-disease processes and social appropriation of the territory].
abstract: Risk studies of Trypanosoma cruzi vector transmission have classically overlooked the role of social behaviors and subjectivities within the natural landscape and social environment. A review and analysis of the literature on relevant biological, eco-epidemiological and sociocultural factors was combined with an ethnographic study in order to develop a risk model framework identifying the components of hazard and human vulnerability. Social practices, representations and knowledge regarding the health-disease-care process and the social appropriation of the territory are considered as elements explicative of human vulnerability. Exploring these components within an ethnographic analysis allows new options and more adequate prevention or comprehensive risk control measures to be identified.
authors.affiliation: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México.
authors.forename: Alba Rocío
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Valdez Tah
authors.affiliation: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huicochea Gómez
authors.affiliation: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, México.
authors.forename: Austreberta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nazar Beutelspacher
authors.affiliation: Centro Regional de Investigaciones Biomédicas Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ortega Canto
authors.affiliation: Centro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública en Tapachula, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, México.
authors.forename: Janine M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ramsey
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000635:transmission*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D012306:Risk; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment
keywords: Social Vulnerability; Social Perception; Culture; Triatominae; Trypanosoma cruzi