Social sector

Health programs for the disadvantaged: a psychosocial approach to barriers in the community

The implementation of health programmes by external health professionals (`givers') in disadvantaged communities (`receivers') faces a variety of interactional barriers, some of which can be appreciated within the framework of the doctor-patient relationship. This paper identifies the problems of cultural dissonance, unrealistic expectations, hostility, and non-Cupertino that sometimes arise within the giver-receiver relationship and outlines strategies to deal with them. The recognition and resolution of these issues are important to ensure the success of health programmes.
Author: 
Goh, W. M. H.
Author: 
Ratnaike, R. N.
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Methodological issues in research on women's health

This article is written from the perspective of a health activist engaged in research on women's health. It lays out a methodological framework for studying issues concerning women's health, and goes on to describe a range of tools for collection of qualitative and quantitative information from the field. The article ends with a call for activist involvement in research to generate information that genuinely reflects women's needs and concerns, and could facilitate women's informed involvement in changing the circumstances that contribute to their poor health status.
Author: 
Ravindran, T.K. Sundari
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Population control in the new world order

Population-control programmes can violate basic human rights and be a form of violence against women. The author presents her views on family planning as a form of social control arising from a neo-Malthusian world view which blames poverty and environmental degradation on population growth while obscuring the real causes: the increasing control of economic, political and environmental resources by a growing international elite. This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader Development for Health.
Author: 
Hartmann, Betsy
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Feedback

Dr Elizabeth Lira, Director of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Salud Mental y Derechos Humanos (the Latin American Institute for Mental Health and Human Rights) responds to articles by Linda Agerbak and Derek Summerfield, drawing on her extensive experience of working with the victims of trauma and political repression.
Author: 
Lira, Elizabeth
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A meeting about women and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean

The author reports on the Latin America and Caribbean Women and Health Network of Isis International's working meeting in October 1991, held in Santiago, Chile. The meeting produced guidelines for the women's health movement on abortion, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, birth planning, and population policies.
Author: 
Garcia Moreno, Claudia
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Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects of migration.
Author: 
Van Eyck, Kim
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Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

This paper underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice by presenting and discussing ethnographic vignettes about three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Tsunami. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, and the third discusses the issue of humanitarian partnerships. Each vignette points to the need for detailed analysis of everyday practice as the starting point for understanding humanitarian aid.
Author: 
Fernando, Udan
Author: 
Hilhorst, Dorothea
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Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated prejudices be removed, facilitating early detection and elimination of leprosy.
Author: 
Plagerson, Sophie
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Mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS on rural livelihoods: building on Southern African experiences to chart a way forward

A variety of interventions to mitigate the increasing impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on smallholder agricultural production and food security are currently implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. However, documentation and dissemination of such interventions is limited and patchy.

Author: 
Mutangadura, Gladys B
Author: 
Sandkjaer, Bjorg
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More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in microfinance in Ghana

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, which consequently affected financial responsibilities and education of children, and largely contributed to household well-being. However, the small size of the loans was a limitation.

Author: 
Arku, Cynthia
Author: 
Arku, Frank S
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