Open AccessGender, Behavior and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt
Author(s) -
Jehan Mullin
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.195
Subject(s) - schistosomiasis , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , socioeconomic status , geography , agriculture , tropical disease , socioeconomics , medicine , disease , sociology , immunology , population , helminths , engineering , electrical engineering , archaeology , pathology
In Gender, Behavior and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt, Samiha El Katsha and Susan Watts examine schistosomiasis (commonly known as bilharzia) in two semi-rural villages in the Nile Delta, employing gender analysis in order to better understand human behaviors that lead to infection, transmission, and prevention. It is one study among a very select few that examines the socio-behavioral and gendered aspects of schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease found predominantly in tropical and sub-tropical countries that infected over two hundred million people world-wide during the mid-1990s while three times that amount were estimated to be at-risk (p. 1). This multi-disciplined and multi-faceted study, conducted between 1991-1996, explores individual and social behaviors while also examining the complex interactions between gender, behavior, biomedicine, the environment, agriculture, and economic factors that relate to schistosomiasis.