The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia.

ABSTRACT: Water is critical to health and wellbeing. Studies have theorized that problems with water can become embodied, yet few studies have quantified this. Therefore, we first sought to understand the lowland Bolivian water environment of Tsimane' forager-horticulturalists. We assessed the water environment holistically, using objective measures of water quality and water services (Joint Monitoring Programme's drinking water services ladder) and subjective measures, including perceived water safety and water insecurity experiences [Household Water Insecurity Experiences Scale (HWISE)]. We tested how water service levels, perceived water safety, and water fetching frequency were associated with HWISE scores using Tobit regression models among 270 households. We then tested if and how water become

SUBMITTER: Rosinger AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671240 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature