Outputs (3)

Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. (2009)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Panter-Brick, C., Kilpatrick, K., & Casiday, R. (2009). Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), 758-765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.014

The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis (2008)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Casiday, R., Kilpatrick, K., & Panter-Brick, C. (2009). The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis. Disasters, 33(1), 132-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01066.x

In 2004-05, Niger suffered a food crisis during which global attention focused on high levels of acute malnutrition among children. In response, decentralised emergency nutrition programmes were introduced into much of southern Niger. Child malnutrit... Read More about The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger’s recent food crisis.

Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania (2008)
Journal Article
Mshana, G., Hampshire, K., Panter-Brick, C., & Walker, R. (2008). Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania. Journal of Biosocial Science, 40(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932007002295

Stroke is an emerging problem in sub-Saharan Africa, about which little is known since most research to date has been based on retrospective, hospital-based studies. This anthropological work, designed to complement a large community-based project on... Read More about Urban-rural contrasts in explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours for stroke in Tanzania.