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  Several implications can be drawn...

  "Several implications can be drawn from the prevalent age distribution of the Orang Asli. Considering the youthfulness of the age structure, we can expect the growth rates to be maintained at high levels for some time, even with relatively modest birth rates. The large proportion of the population below 15 years also implies that development plans and strategies need to give greater emphasis to this age group, especially in terms of educational facilities and health care."
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  Sociocultural aspects of tuberculosis control in Ethiopia

  Examines ethnomedical knowledge and practices related to tuberculosis conceptualization and management in a rural southern Ethiopian community.
• Texthealth care

  Politics, practical logic, and primary health care in rural Haiti

  Examines how local residents pushed the project, "Rural Health Delivery System" in unpredictable and ironic directions based on fieldwork in a single village.
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  Fast relief: Buying time with medications

  Examines the manner in which time demands shape lay interpretations of medicine efficacy and drive increases in medication use for adults as well as children.
• Textbirth carehealth care

  Pluralism and pragmatism : Knowledge and practice of birth in Morocco

  Examines knowledge and practice surrounding birth in Morocco, using women's narratives of their recent birth experiences, observations of medical encounters, and statements about prescribed behaviors during pregnancy and birth.
• Texthealth caremedicinal plants

  Gendering local knowledge: Medicinal plant use and primary health care in Amazon

  Argues that policy makers must pay attention to the relationships among authority, gender, and local knowledge.
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  In visible bodies: Minority women, nurses, time, and the new economy of care

  Health care reform in Canadian hospitals has resulted in increased workloads and bureaucratization of patient care contributing to the development of a new economy of care.
• Texthealth carewelfare state

  Different subjects: The health care system's participation in differential construction of the cultural citizenship of Cuban refugees and Mexican immigrants

  The public health system's differential construction of Mexican and Cuban immigrants, "deservingness" of citizenship benefits and its preparation of them for different roles in U.S. society.
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  The politics of recognition in culturally appropriate care

  In calling for health care that is culturally appropriate, minority groups seek political recognition of often racialized constructions of cultural difference as they intervene in health care planning and organization.