Taxonomy of Disease Causation

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg

Co-Investigators

Carl Marrs, Lixin Zhang, Gabriel Trueba, William Cevallos Trujillo, James Trostle, Karen Levy, Alan Hubbard

Funding Sources

National Institutes of Health

About this Project

In northern coastal Ecuador, there have been many changes since 2001, including the construction of a paved road that has improved access to the region. The arrival of this road serves as an example of what happens in many places where there are abrupt transformations in the natural space and lifestyles of its inhabitants. In the process, new and old concepts of health and disease are changing.

This is an ethnoepidemiologic study of the variability in the taxonomy of diarrheal disease in northern coastal Ecuador.