Body Concepts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In a society overwhelmed by HIV/AIDS, a particularly compelling public health question in South Africa is how young people integrate the scientific discourse of HIV/AIDS and pregnancy/contraception with lay beliefs and practices. Our objective was to conduct a preliminary exploration of concepts and related beliefs among young women and men regarding the body, disease and pregnancy. In-depth interviews were conducted with 50 sexually active students recruited from two high schools in a rural region of South Africa. Four primary themes emerged from the interviews. These were (1) sexual activity damages the body, (2) contraceptive use has deleterious effects, (3) menstruation causes physical and moral weakness, and (4) women's bodies are repositories of disease. Their discourses revealed beliefs that sexual activity can have severe physical consequences. A gendered difference emerged through the association of women's bodies with disfiguring, unclean, or immoral behaviors in juxtaposition to men's bodies. Women continue to be linked more closely to concepts of infection than were men. Men assume the role of authorities regarding condom and contraception use in their relationships with women. Findings are discussed in terms of improving young South Africans sexual health, in particular, the health status of women in sexual relationships with men.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.033 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".