It’s like a black woman’s Charlie Brown moment: An autoethnography of being diagnosed with lupus

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1566-1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Ferdinand
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Barriers To Health Care ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Barriers To Health

This essay uses autoethnography to relate the experience of being diagnosed with lupus. By using my personal experiences and a discussion of illness and Black women’s health, I critically examine larger critical race issues of race, gender, and the social barriers to health care. Specifically, the essay focuses on the ways in which race impacts my experiences with the healthcare system, from my own insecurities of being stereotyped to the ways that doctors interact with me. The essay is framed by popular quotes from Charlie Brown because they help mediate the very personal experiences I am recounting.

Governing Risk, Governing Women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda R. Waggoner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
The Social

This concluding chapter revisits the social and medical trends that have intersected with recent knowledge shifts in understanding pregnancy health risk, especially the contemporary tendency in medicine and public health toward the anticipation of risk, the persistence of cultural and medical assumptions that link all reproductive outcomes to women’s individual behaviors, and the ongoing debates in reproductive politics that hinder discussions about comprehensive women’s health care. This chapter ends by considering ways to think through, with, and beyond the pre-pregnancy care model in women’s health policy.

The Impact of War on Population Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turkan Ahmet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Impact

The past few decades of ongoing war in Iraq has had a dramatic impact on the health of Iraq’s population. Wars are known to have negative effects on the social and physical environments of individuals, as well as limit their access to the available health care services. This paper explores the personal experiences of my family members, who were exposed to war, as well as includes information that has been reviewed form many academic sources. The data aided in providing recommendations and developing strategies, on both local and international levels, to improve the health status of the populations exposed to war.

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