Human rights-based conceptions of deservingness: health and precarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Sarah Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Health Related

Purpose Ideas of health-related deservingness in theory and practise have largely been attached to humanitarian notions of compassion and care for vulnerable persons, in contrast to rights-based approaches involving a moral-legal obligation to care based on universal citizenship principles. This paper aims to provide an alternative to these frames, seeking to explore ideas of a human rights-based deservingness framework to understand health care access and entitlement amongst precarious status persons in Canada. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of deservingness, this paper aims to bring deservingness frameworks into the language of human rights discourses as these ideas relate to inequalities based on noncitizenship. Findings Deservingness frameworks have been used in public discourses to both perpetuate and diminish health-related inequalities around access and entitlement. Although, movements based on human rights have the potential to be co-opted and used to re-frame precarious status migrants as “undeserving”, movements driven by frames of human rights-based deservingness can subvert these dominant, negative discourses. Originality/value To date, deservingness theory has primarily been used to speak to issues relating to deservingness to welfare services. In relation to deservingness and precarious status migrants, much of the literature focuses on humanitarian notions of the “deserving” migrant. Health-related deservingness based on human rights has been under-theorized in the literature and the authors can learn from activist movements, precarious status migrants and health care providers that have taken on this approach to mobilize for rights based on being “human”.

scholarly journals “I was trying to speak to their human side” coping responses of Belgium’s undocumented migrants to barriers in health-care access

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Dirk Lafaut ◽  
Gily Coene
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Access To Health

Purpose Undocumented migrants experience major legal constraints in their health-care access. Little is known on how undocumented migrants cope with these limitations in health-care access as individuals. The purpose of this study is to explore the coping responses of undocumented migrants when they experience limited health-care access in face-to-face encounters with health-care providers. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted multi-site ethnographic observations and 25 semi-structured in-depth interviews with undocumented migrants in Belgium. They combined the “candidacy model” of health-care access with models from coping literature on racism as a framework. The candidacy model allowed them to understand access to health care as a dynamic and interactive negotiation process between health-care workers and undocumented migrants. Findings Responses to impaired health-care access can be divided into four main strategies: (1) individuals can react with a self-protective response withdrawing from seeking further care; (2) they can get around the obstacle; (3) they can influence the health-care worker involved by deploying discursive or performative skills; or (4) they can seek to confront the source of the obstacle. Research limitations/implications These findings point to the importance of care relations and social networks, as well as discursive and performative skills of undocumented migrants when negotiating barriers in access to health care. Originality/value This study refines the candidacy model by highlighting how individuals respond on a micro-level to shifts towards exclusionary health policies and, by doing so dynamically, change provision of health-care services.

Neurobiology of Female Homicide Perpetrators

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051986007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Brewer-Smyth ◽  
Ann Wolbert Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Crime Severity ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Frontal Lobe Damage ◽  
Prevention Interventions ◽  
Life Threatening

Neurobiology of female homicide perpetrators is not well understood. Data from private interviews and examinations of females were re-analyzed comparing those who committed homicide ( n = 9); other violent crimes, no known homicide ( n = 51); nonviolent crimes, no known violent convictions ( n = 49); and noncriminals ( n = 12). Homicide perpetrators suffered the most childhood sexual abuse (CSA); most recent abuse; had the most neurological histories, mainly traumatic brain injuries (TBIs); most health care access for abuse-related injuries; lowest AM and PM salivary cortisol; and greatest proportion who committed crime under the influence of alcohol. Only CSA, years since last abuse, TBI, neurological histories, and health care access for abuse-related injuries were significant. Those who committed homicide under the influence of alcohol suffered the most recent abuse and had the lowest AM cortisol and flattest diurnal cortisol slope (DCS) compared with others; though the n precludes determining significance. Amount of time since last abuse, AM cortisol and DCS progressively decreased as crime severity increased; other variables progressively increased as crime severity increased. These preliminary findings suggest that low AM cortisol, flat DCS, greater CSA frequency and severity, recent abuse, TBIs, and health care access for abuse-related injuries could be risk factors for females committing homicide. Further study is needed due to the small n of homicide perpetrators. Abuse victims may be at greater risk for alcohol use and cortisol dysregulation associated with perpetrating violence, especially homicide. Frontal lobe damage from TBIs may decrease ability to control behaviors associated with emotions from the limbic system. Health care providers released these women when their abuse-related injuries were not life-threatening; yet, they were life-threatening for victims of their subsequent homicides. Females accessing health care for abuse-related injuries present a critical opportunity for violent crime prevention interventions.

scholarly journals Health Care Access and Utilization for American Indian Elders: A Concept-Mapping Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H Sommerfeld ◽  
Elise Trott Jaramillo ◽  
Erik Lujan ◽  
Emily Haozous ◽  
Cathleen E Willging
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Care Access

Abstract Objectives Inequities in access to and utilization of health care greatly influence the health and quality of life of American Indian elders (AIEs). This study explores the importance and perceived prevalence of factors affecting health care use within this population and assesses the changeability of these factors to produce a list of action items that are timely and relevant to improving health care access and utilization. Method Concept mapping was conducted with AIEs (n = 65) and professional stakeholders (n = 50), including tribal leaders, administrators of public-sector health systems, outreach workers, and health care providers. Data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analyses. Results The final concept-map model comprised nine thematic clusters related to factors affecting elder health care: Difficulties Obtaining and Using Insurance; Insecurity from Lack of Knowledge; Limited Availability of Services; Scheduling Challenges; Provider Issues and Relationships; Family and Emotional Challenges; Health-Related Self-Efficacy and Knowledge; Accessibility and Transportation Barriers; and Tribal/National Policy. Discussion Findings suggest that improvements in access to and utilization of health care among AIEs will require actions across multiple domains, including health system navigation services, workforce improvements, and tribal, state, and federal policy. A multilevel socioecological approach is necessary to organize and undertake these actions.

Fachärzte bevorzugen Privatpatienten – Gesetzlich Versicherte warten mehr als doppelt so lange auf Termine wie Privatpatienten

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 186-186
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Inequality In Health ◽  
Cream Skimming

Werbeck A, Wübker A, Ziebarth NR. Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment. Ruhr Economic Papers #846. DOI: 10.4419/86788981 Immer wieder heißt es, dass Privatpatientinnen und Privatpatienten in Deutschland schneller einen Arzttermin bekämen als gesetzlich Versicherte. Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse gab es dazu bislang jedoch kaum. Eine Studie des RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung und der Cornell University bestätigt nun den Verdacht.

scholarly journals Black African asylum seekers’ experiences of health care access in an eastern German state

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Scott
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
German State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Black African ◽  
Care Access

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how access to health care for (rejected) asylum seekers in an eastern German state is structured and experienced and to consider the implications for their human rights. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on 12 in-depth interviews with rejected black African asylum seekers and also draws on ethnographic research undertaken at a grassroots refugee organisation and asylum homes. The analysis of the interview data are framed by theorisations of “everyday practices” as “tactics” of resistance to an imposed order. Findings – Accomplishing health care access involved a range of structural barriers and humiliating interactions with administrative and health care staff, which had adverse consequences for their health status and were injurious to their human rights and dignity. The study participants used a range of oppositional and discursive tactics in an effort to secure certain (health) outcomes, mediate social relations and resist their domination as asylum seekers. Research limitations/implications – Further research should focus on the cumulative micro-level effects of asylum policies on health care access and how they create health inequities and violate asylum seekers’ rights and dignity. Practical implications – Policy priorities should include the provision of human rights education as well as training and support for administrative and health staff. Originality/value – There is limited qualitative research on the health care experiences of asylum seekers in Germany. This paper makes policy recommendations and identifies areas for further research and human rights advocacy.

scholarly journals Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: A Balancing Act to Avoid Harm

10.2196/24785 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. e24785
Author(s):  
J Jeffery Reeves ◽  
John W Ayers ◽  
Christopher A Longhurst
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
Virtual Patient ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Care Access

The telehealth revolution in response to COVID-19 has increased essential health care access during an unprecedented public health crisis. However, virtual patient care can also limit the patient-provider relationship, quality of examination, efficiency of health care delivery, and overall quality of care. As we witness the most rapidly adopted medical trend in modern history, clinicians are beginning to comprehend the many possibilities of telehealth, but its limitations also need to be understood. As outcomes are studied and federal regulations reconsidered, it is important to be precise in the virtual patient encounter approach. Herein, we offer some simple guidelines that could assist health care providers and clinic schedulers in determining the appropriateness of a telehealth visit by considering visit types, patient characteristics, and chief complaint or disease states.

scholarly journals The era of virtual care: Perspectives of youth on virtual appointments in COVID-19 and beyond

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E Fletcher ◽  
Vivian W L Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Physical Examination ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Virtual Care ◽  
Time Savings ◽  
Ease Of Access

Abstract In response to COVID-19, paediatric providers have shifted to providing outpatient health care appointments through telehealth. Youth perspectives on changes to health care access during the pandemic are important to consider when optimizing care for paediatric patients. Youth who contributed to this commentary reported that major benefits of virtual care included time savings, ease of access, continuity of care, and ability to participate in health appointments from the comfort of one’s own home without a risk of COVID-19 exposure. These youth also recognized limitations to virtual care, including the inability to complete laboratory or imaging tests, and the lack of physical examination capabilities. Additionally, they stressed the importance of visual components of virtual appointments and health care providers needing to consider privacy restrictions youth may have. Overall, our cohort of youth feel positive about virtual care and hope care providers can work with youth individually to determine the best solution for them.

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