The Okanisi: A Surinamese Maroon Community, c.1712–2010

The therapeutic itinerary in urgent/emergency pediatric situations in a Maroon community.

The goal was to understand the therapeutic itinerary of Maroon children in urgent/emergency situation. Is a descriptive research with a qualitative approach that uses the Health Care System model of Arthur Kleinman as its theoretical support. Participants included 12 mothers of children who had experienced any urgent or emergency medical situation. Data collection took place from December 2013 ...

Skin marks in Surinamese people.

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and the performance of a risk score among Hindustani Surinamese, African Surinamese and ethnic Dutch: a cross-sectional population-based study

BACKGROUND While the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is high, tailored risk scores for screening among South Asian and African origin populations are lacking. The aim of this study was, first, to compare the prevalence of (known and newly detected) DM among Hindustani Surinamese, African Surinamese and ethnic Dutch (Dutch). Second, to develop a new risk score for DM. Third, to evalu...

Comparison of Flood Routing Models (Case Study: Maroon River, Iran)

This study is undertaken to compare some different flood routing models including wave models and numerical models in the real field. The results of the wave models included kinematic, diffusive and dynamic wave have already been compared using laboratory data. Lack of the data field and technical support has been causes of not be investigated in the real field. In this present paper, several n...

Negotiating Social Identities on an Eastern Maroon Radio Show

In recent years, Pidgin and Creole languages have made significant inroads into the public domain of the countries where they are spoken. The media, and the radio broadcasting sector in particular, are the areas in which they figure most prominently. Extension of their use has brought about linguistic changes (Garrett, 2000). This paper explores such changes in relation to the Eastern Maroon ra...