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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Anthropol. 2015 Nov 3;57(6):761–784. doi: 10.1086/689307

Table 4.

Association between medicinal plant knowledge/local environmental knowledge and health

Share of days reportedly sick

H1 H3 H4
Model 1 (Sites) Model 2 (Villages) Model 3 (Sites) Model 4 (Villages) Model 5 (Sites) Model 6 (Villages)

First part: Logistic regression

Medicinal knowledge 0.052 0.030 0.030 0.016
(0.136) (0.134) (0.129) (0.132)
LEK 0.086 0.068
(0.164) (0.176)
Male -0.686*** -0.660*** -0.739** -0.703** -0.521* -0.476*
(0.262) (0.246) (0.324) (0.321) (0.302) (0.278)
Age 0.020*** 0.019** 0.0200*** 0.019*** 0.020*** 0.0200***
(0.007) (0.008) (0.007) (0.007) (0.005) (0.005)
Household size -0.024 -0.006 -0.025 -0.007 -0.012 0.003
(0.048) (0.050) (0.048) (0.050) (0.043) (0.045)
Medicine use -0.091 -0.064 -0.087 -0.061 -0.183 -0.150
(0.217) (0.247) (0.218) (0.250) (0.225) (0.249)
Exposure to national society -0.033 0.004
(0.105) (0.110)
Integration into market economy -0.412** -0.405*
(0.203) (0.211)
Wage labor -0.002 -0.005**
(0.002) (0.002)
Tsimane’ -0.732 -0.729 -0.566
(0.520) (0.521) (0.472)
Baka 0.642 0.623 0.297
(0.524) (0.523) (0.521)
V1: Sta Maria -1.560*** -1.560*** -1.301***
(0.092) (0.094) (0.153)
V2:Cuchisama -1.203*** -1.209*** -1.174***
(0.071) (0.078) (0.149)
V3:Ngola -0.020 -0.043 -0.383***
(0.070) (0.062) (0.134)
V4: Bizam -0.069 -0.093 -0.401***
(0.077) (0.097) (0.114)
V5:Long Ranau -1.348*** -1.351*** -1.383***
(0.073) (0.070) (0.091)
Intercept -0.712 -0.154 -0.680 -0.113 -0.744 -0.155
(0.890) (0.484) (0.876) (0.453) (0.753) (0.281)

Second part: Ordinary Least Square regression

Medicinal knowledge -0.009 -0.008 -0.011 -0.012
(0.006) (0.006) (0.008) (0.008)
LEK -0.018** -0.017*
(0.008) (0.009)
Male 0.022** 0.024** 0.034** 0.034** 0.021* 0.022
(0.011) (0.011) (0.015) (0.015) (0.011) (0.014)
Age 0.001** 0.001** 0.001** 0.001** 0.001 0.001
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Household size 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.0002 0.0004
(0.002) (0.002) (0.002) (0.002) (0.002) (0.002)
Medicine use -0.036 -0.034 -0.037 -0.034 -0.027 -0.026
(0.023) (0.023) (0.023) (0.023) (0.025) (0.024)
Exposure to national society -0.016 -0.017
(0.010) (0.011)
Integration into market economy 0.0300 0.032
(0.022) (0.027)
Wage labor 0.0003 0.0003
(0.0002) (0.0002)
Tsimane’ -0.036** -0.036** -0.044*
(0.018) (0.018) (0.025)
Baka -0.006 -0.0004 0.005
(0.019) (0.020) (0.017)
V1: Sta Maria -0.042*** -0.042*** -0.059***
(0.011) (0.011) (0.018)
V2:Cuchisama -0.047*** -0.046*** -0.046**
(0.014) (0.014) (0.022)
V3:Ngola -0.012 -0.007 -0.004
(0.012) (0.014) (0.021)
V4: Bizam -0.017 -0.012 -0.001
(0.014) (0.014) (0.021)
V5:Long Ranau -0.026*** -0.025*** -0.030***
(0.006) (0.005) (0.006)
Intercept 0.093** 0.098** 0.084* 0.089** 0.113* 0.120**
(0.046) (0.041) (0.047) (0.042) (0.065) (0.059)

N 389 389 389 389 383 383

AIC 290.43 279.55 290.20 279.30 265.59 254.94
BIC 330.07 319.18 329.84 318.93 305.07 294.42

Note: See Note in Table 3.