Feminine identity: the representation of the uterus for women undergoing hysterectomy
Titelübersetzung:Identidade feminina: a representação do útero para as mulheres submetidas à histerectomia
Autor/in:
Martins, Caroline Lemos; Pinto, Bruna Knob; Soares, Marilu Correa; Muniz, Rosani Manfrin; Pickersgill, Mirela Farias; Antoniolli, Liliana
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5 (2013) 4, S 574-582
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Inhalt: Objective: To identify the representation of the uterus for women who underwent hysterectomy and experience of sexuality in this period. Method: Qualitative survey conducted in October 2008 in a teaching hospital in southern Brazil, with five women hysterectomy. It was used as a tool to semi-structured interview. For data analysis we used the thematic content analysis. Results: For women the uterus was identified as an organ useless, having already played their reproductive role and its removal did not appear to interfere with the way they view their sexuality and femininity. Conclusions: Providing information to women who undergo hysterectomy may assist in understanding that this procedure does not interfere with female identity.
Schlagwörter:woman; Gesundheit; health; Weiblichkeit; femininity; Sexualität; sexuality; Identität; identity; Operation; surgery; Brasilien; Brazil; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Südamerika; South America
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The cultural construction of the birth process
Titelübersetzung:A constrção cultural do processo de parto
Autor/in:
Pimenta, Lizandra Flores; Ressel, Lúcia Beatriz; Stumm, Karine Eliel
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5 (2013) 4, S 591-598
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Inhalt: Objective: We aimed to understand how culture influences in the process of women delivery. Eight women were interviewed. Method: A qualitative study done at a teaching hospital and basic health unit, in the year 2011. The interviews were analyzed and interpreted according to the Analysis of Thematic Content. Results: Showed that the positive meaning conveyed by the women who cohabit with the interviewed, provided an enriching delivery and influenced in the preference for the natural labor. The participants who received negative comments felt fear, anxiety and insecurity during the birth experience. Conclusion: We understand that culture influences in labor of women.
Schlagwörter:Anthropologie; anthropology; woman; Gesundheit; health; Angst; anxiety; Geburt; birth; Pflege; caregiving; Geburtshilfe; obstetrics; interkulturelle Faktoren; intercultural factors; Einfluss; influence
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Dialogue with immigrant mothers from Chinese and Tamil communities to explore homogenization, normalization, and objectification of their body
Titelübersetzung:Gespräche mit chinesischen und tamilischen Müttern zur Homogenisierung, Normalisierung und Objektivierung von Körperbildern
Autor/in:
Ferrari, Manuela; McVey, Gail; Rummens, Joanna Anneke
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14 (2013) 1, 21 S
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Inhalt: "Urbanisierungs-, Modernisierungs- und Akkulturationsprozesse sind als Ursachen von Körperbild- und Essstörungen hinlänglich bekannt. Frauen, die einem westlichen Schönheitsideal von Schlankheit ausgesetzt sind, sind hiernach eher in Gefahr, mit ihrem Körper unzufrieden zu sein. Was zu dieser Unzufriedenheit beiträgt, kann mit Bordo's Theorie des 'Empire of Images' (2003) und mit der 'Objectification Theory' von Fredrickson und Roberts (1997) gefasst werden: Beide Theorien gehen davon aus, dass weibliche Körper in westlichen Gesellschaften als passiv erachtet werden, und dass sich Frauen in der Folge bemühen, ihre Körper so zu bemessen, zu ändern und zu kontrollieren, dass er westlichen Standards von Schönheit und Attraktivität genügt. Die Homogenisierung, Normalisierung und Objektivierung von Körper(bilder)n wurde bisher weder für Immigrantinnen noch in Bezug auf Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen verschiedenen ethno-kulturellen Gemeinschaften untersucht. Die hier vorgestellte Studie folgte bei der Datenerhebung und -analyse einem partizipativen Forschungsansatz. Insgesamt wurden sechs Fokusgruppen, jeweils drei mit tamilischen und drei mit chinesischen Müttern von Grundschulkindern und 13 Einzelgespräche durchgeführt. In diesen wurden neu nach Kanada immigrierte Mütter gebeten, kulturelle Vorstellungen von Schönheit zwischen ihrem Herkunftsland und der kanadischen Gesellschaft zu benennen und zu vergleichen. Für die befragten tamilischen und chinesischen Mütter fanden sich hierbei Ähnlichkeiten in Bezug auf Homogenisierungs-, Normalisierungs- und Objektivierungsprozesse ihrer Körper(bilder). Die Frauen und deren Töchter internalisierten westliche Schlankheitsideale und zeigten eine gegenüber ihrem Herkunftsland erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit für den eigenen Körper." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The influence of urbanization, modernization and acculturation processes as causes for the development of body image concerns and eating disorders are documented in the literature. Women exposed to a Western idea of 'beauty' as skinny and thin may be more vulnerable to body dissatisfaction. The elements of Western society that contribute to women's body dissatisfaction are captured and described in Bordo's empire of images (2003) and Fredrickson and Roberts' objectification theories (1997). Both theories rest on the assumptions that women's bodies are seen as passive elements in Western society, and that as a result women often engage in activities that measure, modify, and control their bodies to meet Western standards of beauty and attractiveness. Homogenization, normalization, and objectification have not been studied among immigrant women, nor have similarities and differences been explored across ethno-cultural communities. Participatory methodology informed the data collection process and analysis. A series of three separate parent focus groups were held with each of the Tamil and Mainland Chinese mothers of elementary school children respectively, for a total of six focus groups and 13 participants. Through dialogue, newcomer immigrant mothers were invited to define their cultural idea of beauty and to confront it with the Canadian one. For both Chinese and Tamil mothers, the homogenization, normalization, and objectification of their bodies appeared to occur in similar ways. Immigrant women and their daughters tend to internalize the Western ideals of women's thinness; this makes them self-conscious about their own bodies." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Kanada; Canada; Einwanderung; immigration; woman; Mädchen; girl; Mutter; mother; Stereotyp; stereotype; Idealtypus; ideal type; Körper; body; Selbstbild; self-image; Wahrnehmung; perception; Essstörung; eating disorder; Gesundheit; health; Gesundheitsverhalten; health behavior; Ernährung; nutrition; Chinese; Chinese; Nordamerika; North America
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Medizinsoziologie, Migration
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Vom Aussterben Europas: eine kritische Einschätzung von Fortpflanzungsdiskursen in europäischen Gesundheitsprogrammen
Titelübersetzung:The extinction of Europe? A critical evaluation of reproductive health policies in Europe
Autor/in:
Schutzbach, Franziska
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 5 (2013) 1, S 72-87
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Inhalt: "Der Text untersucht neue Formen der Bevölkerungspolitiken im europäischen Raum. Am Beispiel der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO Regional Office for Europe) zeigen die folgenden Ausführungen, dass Fortpflanzung auf der Grundlage einer biopolitischen Konzeptualisierung von Gesundheit auf neue Weise regulierbar wird. Dabei stehen drei Aspekte im Vordergrund: das Primat der Bevölkerung über Gesundheit, die Ausdifferenzierung von Risikokalkulationen und die vergeschlechtlichte Dimension der Fortpflanzungsdiskurse. Der Text arbeitet die biopolitische Figuration von Gesundheit als ein historisches Kontinuum heraus und macht die Regulierung der (weiblichen) Fortpflanzung als ein Organisationsprinzip von Nation sichtbar." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This text investigates how the World Health Organization (WHO Regional Office for Europe) introduced the 2001 UN programme on sexual and reproductive health in Europe. It appears that the WHO health programmes constitute a new regime of interventions in the area of population control: sexuality and reproduction are regulated based on a biopolitical conceptualization of health. At the same time, the analysis reveals that the biopolitical signature of health and reproduction is a historical continuum. The following text will go into three aspects of this biopolitical signature: Firstly the primacy of population over health (with the demographic focus on Europe). Secondly the differentiation of risk calculations. And thirdly the gendered discourse of reproduction, making women the central figure of governmental policies." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:EU; Gesundheit; Reproduktionsmedizin; Programm; demographic factors; historische Entwicklung; demographic situation; birth; health service; agenda setting function; demographische Lage; Gesundheitspolitik; Federal Republic of Germany; historical development; health policy; EU; WHO; Gesundheitsleistung; Geburt; agenda setting function; program; reproductive medicine; demographische Faktoren; WHO; health
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Medizinsoziologie
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Assessment of health risk behaviours and their interrelationships among young people from two counties of Romania
Titelübersetzung:Bewertung gesundheitlichen Risikoverhaltens und deren Wechselbeziehungen zwischen jungen Menschen aus zwei Landkreisen in Rumänien
Autor/in:
Lotrean, Lucia Maria; Laza, Valeria; Ionut, Carmen; Vries, Hein de
Quelle: Journal of Public Health, 18 (2010) 4, S 403-411
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Inhalt: Aim: The first goal of this study was to assess the prevalence of different health risk behaviours among Romanian young people. Next, the interrelationship between different health risk behaviours as well as age and gender differences with respect to health risk behaviours were examined. Subjects and methods: Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a sample of 1,598 junior high school students, senior high school students and university students from urban and rural areas of two counties of Romania. Results: The results showed that 31% of junior high school students, 59.7% of senior high school students and 64.8% of university students reported more than one risk behaviour. Many of the risk behaviours were likely to correlate with each other and the strongest correlation was found between smoking, alcohol-related behaviour and precocious sexual intercourse. Factor analysis revealed that among junior high school students all health risk behaviours loaded on one factor. In senior high school students and university students the risk behaviours split into two factors, based probably on their frequency and severity. Factor 1 comprised smoking, alcohol-related behaviours as well as precocious sexual intercourse, while factor 2 included less common behaviours: violence, delinquency and illicit drug use. No gender differences were observed regarding the relationship between health risk behaviours. Conclusion: The results stress the importance of developing prevention programmes among Romanian youth for the behaviours discussed. Further research is needed to identify how to best offer these programmes: as stand-alone programmes or as an integrated set of programmes and whether the same approach has to be taken for younger and older adolescents.
Schlagwörter:Drogenkonsum; drug use; Gesundheit; female pupil; Student; student; Prävention; tobacco consumption; Sexualverhalten; Tabakkonsum; pupil; prevention; Gesundheitspolitik; Romania; Jugendlicher; sex behavior; alcohol consumption; Schülerin; Rumänien; Risikoverhalten; Schüler; health policy; Gesundheitsverhalten; gender; adolescent; health education; Alkoholkonsum; Gesundheitserziehung; risk behavior; health behavior; health; Health risk behaviours; Romanian adolescents; Health education
SSOAR Kategorie:Bildungswesen Sekundarstufe I, Medizinsoziologie, Gesundheitspolitik, Bildungswesen Sekundarstufe II
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Health-related quality of life of family caregivers - evidence from Hesse
Titelübersetzung:Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität von pflegenden Familienangehörigen: Ergebnisse aus Hessen
Autor/in:
Rösler-Schidlack, Birgit; Stummer, Harald; Ostermann, Herwig
Quelle: Journal of Public Health, 19 (2010) 3, S 269-280
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Inhalt: Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of primary family caregivers in comparison to the reference values of the average population. Subjects and methods: Data collection took place in the Werra-Meißner district in 2009 with a response rate of 102 primary family caregivers of frail elderly people. The health-related quality of life was measured with the Short Form 36 health survey (SF 36) and compared with the German reference values. Results: Compared to the health values of the normative sample, primary caregivers show significantly lower rates in all dimensions of health-related quality of life. In particular, caregivers between the ages of 53 to 61 report extremely low health values. Caregiving women compared to non-caregiving women have highly significant differences in all subscales of the SF 36. Caregiving men also report highly significant differences to non-caregiving men in all dimensions of the SF 36 except for Physical Functioning and General Health (p < 0.01). Caregivers in general and especially caregiving women aged 53 to 61 (midlife) were identified as at-risk groups for poor health. The latter report lower vitality and well-being, which may be a consequence of both social isolation and social impacts from multiple role demands. Conclusion: The identified high-risk groups of family caregivers, caregivers in midlife and especially caregiving women in midlife, should be supported by social measures, e.g., training courses for family caregivers, particularly in their home setting, and various types of respite care in order to sustain their health.
Schlagwörter:psychische Belastung; Gesundheit; alter Mensch; family member; Lebensqualität; Hessen; risk; health consequences; Federal Republic of Germany; häusliche Pflege; nursing care for the elderly; psychological stress; quality of life; Auswirkung; Risiko; home care; Krankheit; Altenpflege; Hesse; impact; elderly; gesundheitliche Folgen; gender-specific factors; health; Familienangehöriger; illness; family caregiver; health-related quality of life; SF 36; gender differences
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Gesundheitspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz