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The first francophone Colloquium of anthropology of health will report on maternal and child health research. It will also determine how to shape a program adapted to the realities.

Understanding for effective action. It is in this investigation process that fits the first symposium in anthropology of health in Madagascar. Domestic care to public policy, This scientific meeting which will be held from 14 to the 16 March, should provide clarification on the difficulties of development of health programs not always adapted to the realities of field and the demands of the communities.

A segment of the population remains, Indeed, waterproof to certain programmes of prevention and in the margins of the care system. "Individuals in conflict often resistance when a change in behaviour is more or less imposed., because they do not understand always the relevance or interest in improving their health and that of their family.
It is therefore up to researchers to study habits and practices to help health authorities, the donors and health actors to propose programmes compatible with the time needed for their implementation and their ownership by the beneficiaries', details Christine Bellas-Cabane, pediatrician anthropologist, Advisor regional health at the Embassy of France, Member of the Organizing Committee of the Symposium.
This melting pot of encounters and exchanges will bring together francophone researchers for a State of play of ongoing or completed research in Madagascar. But he will also emerge new problems.

26 communications

Anthropology is a posture more than a science that seeks to understand, without judging, the underlying logic of the workings of individuals and communities, to emerge and ask them.
This science also allows unmask behind justifications too often cited as culture, the tradition, the deeper causes of such or such behaviors. "Do not continually hiding behind the traditions to avoid to ask other questions., be open to other alternatives. Health, This is important., pleads Christine Bellas-Cabane.

The 26 programmed oral communications will stimulate a reflection on the anthropological issues of maternal and child health. This should make it possible to make a situational focus on subjects as various as the perception of the child in Malagasy culture, the role of the grandmother in the care of the pregnant woman and the child, traditional medical practices in Madagascar, or even ordinary violence in a Malagasy hospital in relations caregivers-treated.

Thematic
14 March - French Institute of Madagascar
Panel 1 : Children and domestic care
Panel 2 : Anthropological posture and reflexivity
18h 19 h : Public lecture : Socio-anthropologist of public policies : Revenge of the contexts - Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
Tuesday 15 March at the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar
Panel 3 : The women's health through the prism of care systems
Panel 4 : Culture, care and public health
Panel 5 : Structures of care and caregivers-treated relations
Wednesday 16 March at the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar
Panel 6 : Therapeutic offerings and plural usages
Panel 7 : Political realities on the ground and public health : consistency ?

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