ABSTRACT
Objetivo: Describir el perfil psicosocial del viudo y huérfanos afectados por la muerte materna familiar en el departamento de Alta Verapaz durante el año 2009. Metodología: Estudio descriptivo en el cual se entrevistó a miembros, viudos y huérfanos, de 64 de 72 (89%) familias afectadas por muerte materna que ocurrieron en 2009. Resultados: Las familias estudiadas estaban conformadas por 62 viudos (en dos casos la fallecida no tenía pareja) y 286 huérfanos...
Subject(s)
Male , Child , Psychosocial Impact , Family Relations/ethnology , Widowhood/economics , Widowhood/psychologyABSTRACT
The linkages between poverty and death in the family in a sector of the city of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (previously Zaire) were studied. The poor people have been identified using 3 convergent norms, described in the Methods of Materials section, based on total expenditure, calorie consumption in food, and proportion of expenditure for food. Family histories were recorded to understand the difficult situation of widow-headed households identified within the sample area. The relationship between death in the family and poverty was bi-directional: on the one hand, death of the breadwinner can accelerate the level of poverty; and on the other, poverty conditions can result in further deaths in the family.