ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2018
Low perceived control over health is associated with lower treatment uptake in a high mortality population of Bolivian forager-farmers.
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- The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Pooled it
- The power of powerful others: health locus of control and vaccination behavior in rural Namibian pastoralists.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Putting behaviors into context for vector-borne diseases: Examining behaviors that may reduce exposure to disease vectors.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Traditional and biomedical maternal and neonatal care practices in a rural Indigenous population of the Bolivian Amazon.Global public health · 2022Article
- The Effectiveness of Self-Guided Virtual-Reality Exposure Therapy for Public-Speaking Anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Mother's social status is associated with child health in a horticulturalist population.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Relationship of sanitation, water boiling, and mosquito nets to health biomarkers in a rural subsistence population.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2020Article
- Broadening horizons: Sample diversity and socioecological theory are essential to the future of psychological science.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
Indigenous people worldwide suffer from higher rates of morbidity and mortality than neighboring populations. In addition to having limited access to public health infrastructure, indigenous people may also have priorities and health perceptions that deter them from seeking adequate modern healthcare. Here we propose that living in a harsh and unpredictable environment reduces motivation to pursue deliberate, costly action to improve health outcomes. We assess whether variation in Health Locus of Control (HLC), a psychological construct designed to capture self-efficacy with respect to health, explains variation in treatment uptake behavior among Tsimane Amerindians (N = 690; age range: 40-89 years; 55.8% female; data collection: 2008-2012), a high mortality and morbidity indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon, Beni Department. Comparisons with two industrialized populations in Japan (Miyagi prefecture; e
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