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Pregnancy and childbirth among the Amish
Social science & medicine • 36 (3) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 333-342
By: Campanella, Karla, Korbin, Jill E., Acheson, Louise S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study examined Amish patterns of perinatal health care utilization from the perspective of Amish women and local health care providers in Geauga County, Ohio. Participant observation and intrerviews with health care providers and 15 Amish women yielded data on perinatal beliefs and utiliztion patterns for 76 pregnancies. While local health care providers regard the Amish as suboptimally utilizing prenatal care, this study found a consistent pattern of health seeking behavior. In the absence of symptoms perceived to be serious, Amish women initiated prenatal care earlier for fist pregnancies and progressively later with increasing parity. Amish women's perinatal health care utilization must be seen within the context of barriers of transportation, cost, and child care needs. The Amish do not automatically reject medical technology, but select those aspects that are congruent with and that will support and maintain their way of life. Further, despite outward appearances of homogeneity, Amish women display individual variability in responding to pregnancy and childbirth (p. 333).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Medical care
- Medical personnel
- Hospitals and clinics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Medical Personnel
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Geauga County, Ohio, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karla Campanella, Jill E. Korbin, Louise Acheson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-342)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82643975
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish