intensive interviews and observations with bereaved mothers and traditional healers show that mothers ' failure to obtain medical care for severely ill children is due more to real-life bureaucratic and geographic barriers to access than to fatalistic or neglectful attitudes on the part of the poor , that mothers ' flat affect in response to infant deaths is due more to folk catholic beliefs than to lack of emotional attachment to infants , that fatalistic statements are often post hoc and do not indicate fatalistic behavior , and that decisions about whether to treat severely ill infants are made by mothers and families in consultation with traditional healers in accord with a folk system of classification of high risk infants .
C0008059
children
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infants