Week 4: Final Project Initial Proposal and Partners

Blog Discussion 4: Final Project Initial Proposal and Partners

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For the final project, I have chosen to work with Hana Nazir and Angela Liu. Our groups project will be centered around traditional health within Nicaragua. Angela and Hana are both going on the CCESP and so they will ideally want to apply what they learn to the trip whilst I want to understand Nicaragua so that I can then have a better perspective when looking at what traditional health means to Haiti. Angela will start out by talking about the worldview/global view of medicine within Nicaragua. She will also give the histories of the different ethnic groups. I think that it is crucial to understand the difference between the different ethnic groups in Nicaragua because they may not necessarily have the same beliefs when it comes to traditional medicine and modern medicine. Once Angela finishes her part, Hana will then transition into maternal care in Nicaragua. Ideally, Hana will talk about the resources that women have available, their thoughts on medicine, barriers they face, and what more could be done to help them. Then I will talk about childcare and certain diseases that affect children as well as what the different ethnic groups do to combat it. I will try to make my part of the project data oriented because I want to try to inform the audience as much as possible with numbers. I think it will be good for Angela to open up because she will be able to help the audience understand the terminology whilst Hana and I can go into the details of maternal care and childcare.

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