Herausforderungen und Potentiale geschlechtsspezifischer Gesundheitsversorgung: 3. Bundeskongress Gender-Gesundheit vom 21. bis 22. Mai 2015 in der Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Berlin
Titelübersetzung:Challenges and Potentials of Gender-Specific Health Care: Third Federal Congress Gender Health, 21/22 May 2015, Representation of Baden-Württemberg to the Federation, Berlin
Autor/in:
Hendrix, Ulla; Hilgemann, Meike; Niegel, Jennifer
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 7 (2015) 3, S 143-148
Inhalt: Der dritte Bundeskongress Gender-Gesundheit fand im Mai 2015 in Berlin statt. Das Schwerpunktthema der diesjährigen Tagung lautete "Gender und Diabetes". Auf dem Kongress wurde die Notwendigkeit einer geschlechterunterscheidenden Betrachtung der Medizin hervorgehoben und es wurden praktische und politische Implikationen für eine bessere medizinische Versorgung diskutiert.
Inhalt: The Third Federal Congress Gender Health was held in Berlin in May 2015. The main top ic of the conference was "Gender and Diabetes". The congress highlighted the gender-differentiated perspective on medicine and discussed practical and political implications for better medical care.
Self-reflection as a means for personal transformation: an analysis of women's life stories living with a chronic disease
Titelübersetzung:Selbstreflexion als Weg zur persönlichen Transformation: eine Analyse von Lebensgeschichten von Frauen, die mit einer chronischen Erkrankung leben
Autor/in:
Prodinger, Birgit; Stamm, Tanja Alexandra
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11 (2010) 3, 16 S
Inhalt: Ziel dieser Studie war es zu erläutern, wie die Lebensgeschichten von Frauen mit chronischer Polyarthritis eingebettet sind und geformt werden von für als selbstverständlich angenommenen Praktiken innerhalb des Gesundheitssystems. Eine Sekundäranalyse der Lebensgeschichten von sechs Frauen mit chronischer Polyarthritis wurde durchgeführt. Die Lebensgeschichten der sechs Frauen waren in der Primärstudie (STAMM et al. 2008) einer Typologie mit dem Namen "chronische Polyarthritis als Quelle für neue Herausforderungen" zugeordnet worden. Die feministische Standpunkttheorie und ausgewählte feministische Philosophien dienten als theoretischer Bezugsrahmen für diese Sekundäranalyse.
In der Analyse wurde deutlich, dass jede der sechs Frauen zumindest an einem Punkt in ihrer Lebensgeschichte begann, die Praktiken innerhalb des Gesundheitssystems und die kognitive Autorität der Medizin zu hinterfragen. Dieses Bewusstsein befähigte die Frauen, dem eigenen Wissen zu vertrauen und selbst Entscheidungen für die eigene Gesundheit zu treffen. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse eröffnen für Professionelle aus dem Gesundheitssystem die Möglichkeit, ihre für selbstverständlich genommenen Praktiken kritisch zu hinterfragen. Durch eine solche kritische Auseinandersetzung und das Bewusstsein, wie diese Praktiken in einem breiteren System eingebettet sind, können möglicherweise zukünftige Rahmenbedingungen initiiert werden, die den Dialog zwischen Patient/innen und Professionellen im Gesundheitssystem fördern.
Inhalt: The aim of this secondary analysis is to explicate taken-for-granted practices in the health care system in which the life stories of six women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are embedded. A secondary analysis of life stories of six women with RA, which were assigned to a typology named "rheumatoid arthritis as a source for new challenges" (STAMM et al., 2008) in the primary narrative study, was conducted. The theoretical framework applied for the analysis was informed by feminist standpoint theory and feminist philosophy. In the present analysis, each of the women challenged established health care practices and the cognitive authority of medicine at a certain point in their life story reflections. Becoming more conscious about health care practices enabled the women to acknowledge their own knowledge and to make choices about their health. The findings challenge health care providers to engage in critical reflexivity to become conscious about and to transform taken-for-granted practices as embedded in larger systems and to create health care environments that enable dialogue between clients and health care providers.
Schlagwörter:Theorie; self-reference; secondary analysis; Austria; health care delivery system; Dialog; Rahmenbedingung; Gesundheitswesen; Österreich; medicine; chronic illness; dialogue; Kritik; physician-patient relationship; chronische Krankheit; gender; criticism; life career; Arzt-Patient-Beziehung; Medizin; Gender; general conditions; identity; woman; Identität; theory; self-assessment; Selbsteinschätzung; Selbstreferenz; Sekundäranalyse; Lebenslauf; Narrative; feministische Kritik am Gesundheitswesen; Standpunkttheorie; soziales Geschlecht; chronische Polyarthritis; health sciences; social sciences; women's studies; secondary analysis; narratives; feminist critiques on health care; standpoint theory
SSOAR Kategorie:Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften, Gesundheitspolitik
Private individual ambulatory health care providers in Madhya Pradesh province, India
Autor/in:
Costa, Ayesha; Eriksson, Bo; Diwan, Vinod K.
Quelle: Journal of Public Health, 17 (2009) 4, S 235-241
Inhalt: Background: Ambulatory health care services are a major contributor to the large and inequitable health financing burdens (largely out-of-pocket) faced by households in India. The private sector has a virtual monopoly over ambulatory curative services in rural and urban India. Despite this, there is little knowledge about who these providers are, their numbers, distribution, and activities. Aim: This study describes the numbers, gender, distribution, and characteristics of private individual ambulatory care providers in Madhya Pradesh (60.4 million people), one of India’s largest provinces. It discusses the suitability of this provider mix to deal with maternal and child health, a major health priority in the province. Method: A survey enlisting all health care providers was conducted in the 52,117 villages and 394 towns of the province. Results: There were 14,046 private qualified physicians (12.5% women), 57,684 qualified paramedics (3.4% women), and 89,090 unqualified providers (10% women) providing ambulatory services in individual setups. In addition, 55,393 traditional birth attendants provided home-based intranatal care. The macro organization of these providers in this setting is presented. Given the high levels of maternal and child mortality in the province, excessive reliance is placed on less than competent providers as these present lower access barriers. Conclusion: Given the public health priorities in this province (maternal and child health), the provider mix is not optimally suited to the populations’ needs. There is a lack of competent qualified care required to deal with the major causes of morbidity and mortality, particularly in rural areas. Access to qualified women providers is low. The lack of a cadre of qualified midwives possibly contributes to some of the high maternal mortality observed in this province.
Schlagwörter:gender; Gender; Human resources; Maldistribution; Health services India
A 'little world of your own': stigma, gender and narratives of venereal disease contact tracing
Autor/in:
Kampf, Antje
Quelle: Health, 12 (2008) 2, S 233-250
Inhalt: As in other countries, in order to protect the public from venereal disease (syphilis and gonorrhoea), contact tracing in New Zealand has been a public health strategy since the mid-20th century. So far, scholars have predominantly focused on the aspect of control of the cases traced. Based on a rare interview with a female contact tracer, together with a range of archival material, this article aims to expand the scholarship by focusing on the tracer instead of the patient. Using Erving Goffman's original concept of 'courtesy stigma', the article will show that his idea can be nuanced to take into account contact tracers and the ways in which this stigma can be refracted through gender. Working as a tracer had a distinct impact on her life and possibly even her marital status, which were compromised by secrecy, stigma, morality and the demands of public health policies — aspects that were, paradoxically, quite similar to those she traced. The courtesy stigma that contact tracers for venereal disease acquired limited their professional options, as well as isolated them in the non-stigmatized social world.
Schlagwörter:Stigma; gender; stigma; Gender; contact tracing; New Zealand; venereal disease
A Gendered Analysis of Labour Market Informalization and Access to Health in Chile
Autor/in:
Gideon, Jasmine
Quelle: Global Social Policy, 7 (2007) 1, S 75-94
Inhalt: Health sector reforms across Latin America are replacing the concept of risk-sharing across the population with more individualized approaches to accessing health care, and health insurance schemes have been advocated by the World Bank as a means of helping poor people overcome the risk of ill health. Yet at the same time the lowering of labour standards and the growth of informal workers means that for an increased number of workers, contributing to a health insurance scheme is not feasible. Drawing on evidence from Chile this article examines the gendered dimensions of these processes and highlights the ways in which the gender division of labour means that women are more adversely affected than men.