Access to Nutrition in Odisha

2021 ◽  
pp. 026272802110560
Author(s):  
Neha Saigal ◽  
Saumya Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Protection Mechanisms ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Supplementary Nutrition ◽  
Nutrition Programme

Celebrated as a nutrition champion, Odisha state in India has achieved significant improvements in nutrition of its women and children. The overall progress, however, masks familiar inequities, evidenced in significantly higher levels of stunting, wasting and underweight in children. The article examines access, a key underlying determinant of undernutrition, to two nutrition government schemes of Odisha—the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and Mamata—for the most vulnerable groups in the state’s Angul district. The study identifies limited awareness and lack of proactive disclosure of scheme information, excessive distance from centres that provide the schemes, caste-based power dynamics and weak monitoring institutions as key factors restricting access of specific social groups to these two schemes. The article examines the factors constraining access and considers potential solutions to overcome these bottlenecks in order to provide more effective protection mechanisms.

scholarly journals Tracking the Deadlock of the Struggle on Inclusive Citizenship Study of the Disability Movement in DIY Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Isnenningtyas Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Movement Model ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Disability Movement ◽  
As If

Abstract   Inclusive citizenship is currently being fought for by groups that care about vulnerable groups. In Indonesia the ideals of inclusive citizenship are also fought for persons with disabilities. So far, persons with disabilities have become excluded social groups. The disability movement is intensely voicing inclusive citizenship through the struggle to form regulations that can bring changes to the lives of persons with disabilities, starting from the CRPD Convention, the Disability Persons Act, then local regulation of Disabilities. This paper will use the concept of structuration Giddens and confronting the disability movement in fighting for inclusive citizenship with efforts from the government to capture the issue of inclusive citizenship. The Disability Movement in Yogyakarta Province is a model of the movement that has succeeded in fighting for regional regulations for persons with disabilities. This movement was considered successful when the national movement struggled for the Law on Persons with Disabilities experiencing a deadlock, but in the process the disability movement has not been able to process the issue of inclusive citizenship in its struggle, and the local government as if it does not understand what the disability movement is trying to achieve. Instead of make realize the ideals of inclusive citizenship, the Disability Movement is trapped in an exclusive movement model. The Movement Model in DIY Province is an example in the struggle for inclusive citizenship which was initially considered successful but later suffered a deadlock.  

Power Dynamics at College Parties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Beste
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Powerful Group

Undergraduate ethnographers analyzed the power dynamics among different social groups at parties, attending to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender. Based on their observations, they sought to identify dominant and subordinate social groups. Most ethnographers who addressed power dynamics in regard to ethnicity and sexual orientation (many did not) perceived that white heterosexual males had the most power and dominance. Regarding power dynamics among the genders, 66% of students claimed that heterosexual males were the most powerful group; 7% argued that females had more power; 24% perceived that both men and women exercise different forms of power or that social factors unrelated to gender determined which individuals were most powerful; and 3% did not directly answer the question about power. After analyzing ethnographers’ reasoning for their perspectives, Beste draws on social scientific research to analyze the power dynamics and gender inequalities manifest in college social and sexual culture.

Healthy Start: The Use of Welfare Food Vouchers by Low-Income Parents in England

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J Lucas ◽  
Tricia Jessiman ◽  
Ailsa Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Healthy Start ◽  
Fruit And Vegetables ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Additional Protection ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Self Service ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Social Security Benefits

The Healthy Start scheme provides food welfare to pregnant women and children under four years old in the UK. The Government provides vouchers to families living on a low income that can be exchanged for infant formula, plain cow's milk and fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables. This article reports on a qualitative study of parents using Healthy Start in England. Interviews were conducted with 107 parents from thirteen areas in England. Most found the scheme easy to use, but some vulnerable groups were unable to access the scheme. The vouchers provided a vital source of food at times of crisis, and put purchase of fruit and vegetables within reach for some. Parents reduced stigma by using self-service tills and by only visiting retailers known to accept the vouchers. Healthy Start provides additional protection by sitting outside of other social security benefits. To continue to provide this essential protection, their value should be reviewed and increased.

scholarly journals Indicators of Good Nursing Practices for Vulnerable Groups in Primary Health Care: A Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiko Yoshikawa Egry ◽  
Lucimara Fabiana Fornari ◽  
Monica Taminato ◽  
Sônia Maria Garcia Vigeta ◽  
Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Scoping Reviews ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

Objective: to map the indicators of Good Nursing Practices in Primary Health Care, from the perspective of Collective Health, reported to the vulnerable social groups. Method: this is a scoping review according to the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. The searches were carried out in2020 in six databases and in a virtual library. Independent reviewers performed the reading of the full texts, as well as treatment, analysis and synthesis of the content. Results: a total of 13 articles were found, the first from 2007 and the last from 2020. The data were classified according to the following empirical categories: assessment and control of health conditions(3 indicators); assessment of knowledge about health(3 indicators); use of sociodemographic characteristics to estimate risks or vulnerabilities(3 indicators); assessment and monitoring of health needs(5 indicators); promotion of safety and trust in health services(6 indicators); and assessment of the care process(4 indicators). Conclusion: the articles showed a variety of indicators that assess the interventions carried out in the context of Nursing in Primary Care with vulnerable social groups. These indicators are related to health conditions, especially those of the biopsychological body, reported to vulnerable populations, especially women, children, adolescents and older adults.

scholarly journals The Politics of Vulnerability in Refugee Admissions Under the EU-Turkey Statement

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Welfens ◽  
Yasemin Bekyol
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Selection Practices

Resettlement and humanitarian admission programs claim to target ‘particularly vulnerable’, or ‘the most vulnerable’ refugees. If the limited spots of such programs are indeed foreseen for particularly vulnerable groups and individuals, as resettlement actors claim, how is vulnerability defined in policies and put into practice at the frontline? Taking European states’ recent admission programs under the EU-Turkey statement as an example, and focusing on Germany as an admission country, this research note sheds light on this question. Drawing on document analysis, and original fieldwork insights, we show that on paper and in practice vulnerability as a policy category designates some social groups as per se more vulnerable than others, rather than accounting for contingent reasons of vulnerability. In policy documents, the operational definition of vulnerability and its relation to other criteria remain largely undefined. In selection practices, additional criteria curtail a purely vulnerability-based selection, exacerbate existing or create new vulnerabilities in their own right. We conclude that, in the absence of clear definitions, resettlement and humanitarian admission programs’ declared focus on the most vulnerable remains a discretionary promise, with limited possibilities of political and legal scrutiny.

scholarly journals Institutional Logics and Social Responses to Covid – 19 Outbreak and Lockdown Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Jelena Gaković ◽  
◽  
Tatjana Žarković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War

In this paper we explore social responses, attitudes and social practices of everyday life in the midst of a complete social closure at an early stage of corona crisis, based on original empirical survey data collected via online questionnaire (N=352) during the lockdown and state of emergency in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Aiming to analyse social implications of the ongoing crisis and directions for future research we have particularly focused on several dimensions: work, free time and everyday activities, attitudes towards the new uncertainty and specific needs of different social groups in the context of crisis. Social responses to novel living circumstances have highlighted problems related to the status of vulnerable groups present from before in a society that is most commonly categorized as a country in transition marked by post-war challenges. Results show that established discrimination practices have resurfaced while vulnerable social groups’ living conditions have significantly aggravated even early at the times of pandemic emergence.

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