".. It's all the Same No Matter How Much Fruit or Vegetables or Fresh Air We Get" : Traveller Women's Perceptions of Illness Causation and Health Inequalities  

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Hodgins, Margaret ; Millar, Michelle ; Barry, Margaret M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 8 (Apr. 2006), page 1978-1990.
Topik: health; health inequalities; lay perceptions; irish travellers; ireland; women

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper explores the perceptions of illness causation and health inequalitites of travellers, an ethnic minority group who experience considerable social and health disadvantages in ireland. In order to allow for subjective meanings to emerge, a qualitative methodology with purposive sampling was employed. Participants in the study were invited to respond to a vignette in a focus froup setting. Forty one traveller women were recruited to the focus groups through community projects or adult education initiatives. The study not only illustrates the complexity of lay perceptions of ill health and health inequalities, but raises important questions about the prevalence of depression and of domestic violence in the travelling community. These traveller women were very willing to discuss the structural factors that contributed to their health status, attributing ill health to social and environmental factors, such as described in the vignette. Traveller women's understandings of health and the factors that determine it are deeply embedded in the social context of thei lives and their ethnic identity. These findings are discussed in the context of social study revealed that traveller women see many shortcomings in health service provision. They need service provision to be culturally sensitive and responsive to their needs.

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