PH 265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Infant Mortality, Structural Violence, Médecins Sans Frontières

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 265
• Professor: Nancy Chin

Document Summary

Narrator and her assistant ahmed talk to rais and his mother moom. The region of kuhdeh was settled around 1780 but it was burned to the ground by the ruling. It was later resettled but the environmental conditions made life in the region hard. Rais joined the soviet army in kazakhstan and then returned to kuhdeh in 1974 and joined the. He got married and had children and seven out of ten of them died soon after birth. Rais talked about not receiving health care or being taught basic hygiene information. Rais says that during the soviet era, there were a lot of supplies in kuhdeh and people could generally afford to buy things. The soviet union was fairly efficient in bringing goods to remote destinations like kuhdeh and a good system for getting poor people the things that they needed.