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This paper describes mortality transitions, morbidity patterns and risk factors in several types of communities, identified on the basis of ethnographic research, within an ethnically differentiated population in an ecologically varied portion of northwestern Thailand. Community type is the basic unit of comparison. Disaggregation of the population according to type of community shows that fertility and mortality patterns are systematically associated with ethnicity and ecology (location and basic economy) of these communities. Populations in the study area allow control of ecological and ethnic variability by comparing, for example, the same ethnic group in different ecological settings (Northern Thai in Town, Suburb, and Lowland Rural communities, and different ethnic groups in the same ecological setting (e.g., Highland Skaw Karen, Po Karen, and Lua’ with similar swidden economies).
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Kunstadter, P. (1986). Ethnicity, Ecology and Mortality in Northwestern Thailand. In: Janes, C.R., Stall, R., Gifford, S.M. (eds) Anthropology and Epidemiology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3723-9_5
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