The Relevance of Patients’ Spiritual Care in the Nigerian Cultural Context: A Health Care Chaplain’s Perspective

Author(s):  
Victoria T. Aja

In most Nigerian hospitals, there is no evidence of formally employed health care chaplains. Personal experiences of a health care chaplain serving at a faith-based hospital in Nigeria show that the Nigerian cultural context, as it relates to individuals’ personal spirituality, as well as the abundant research on the associations between spirituality/religiosity and health, precipitate the need for services of health care chaplains in Nigerian hospitals, whether faith-based, non-faith-based, or government hospitals.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turkan Ahmet

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.


2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
GhaithAhmad Bani Melhem ◽  
RuqayyaS Zeilani ◽  
OssamaAbed. Zaqqout ◽  
AshrafIsmail Aljwad ◽  
MohammedQasim Shawagfeh ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (33) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Teila Ceolin ◽  
Rita Maria Heck ◽  
Renata Menasche ◽  
Maria-Antonia Martorell-Poveda

O objetivo foi compreender o sistema de cuidado à saúde entre famílias rurais ao Sul do Rio Grande do Sul. Constituiu-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, com orientação etnográfica, realizada em 2014, com 25 interlocutores, residentes em um território rural. Os dados foram analisados por meio de uma abordagem hermenêutica antropológica. As práticas de cuidado à saúde, para essas famílias rurais, envolvem diferentes saberes, tanto os oriundos do sistema formal, quanto do sistema informal de saúde. Essas práticas transitam pelo cuidado familiar, serviços biomédicos, religiosidade, não ocorrendo um fluxo único, mas utilizando-se dos diferentes espaços e serviços, de acordo com suas necessidades. Nesse sentido, para realização de um cuidado integral à saúde dos indivíduos e das suas famílias, os profissionais necessitam conhecer o contexto cultural da comunidade acompanhada, entender e valorizar as práticas e as dinâmicas de cuidado que integram seu sistema de cuidado à saúde.Descritores: População Rural, Família, Cultura, Enfermagem. Health care system of rural familiesAbstract: The aim was to comprehend the health care system of rural families in the south of Rio Grande do Sul. Qualitative research with etnographic orientation, developed in 2014, with 25 interlocutors, residents of a rural territory. Data were analyzed through antropological hermeneutic approach. Health care practices, for these rural families, involve different knowledge, those from the formal system and those from the informal system of health. These practices transit through family care, biomedical systems and services, religiosity, not a single flow, but using different spaces and services, according to their needs. Thus, the realization of an integral health care of the individuals and their families requires professionals that know the community’s cultural context, understand it and value practices and care dybamics that integrate their health care system.Descripstors: Rural Population, Family, Culture, Nursing. Sistema de atención de salud a familias ruralesResumen: El objetivo era comprender el sistema de atención de salud entre las familias rurales en el sur de Rio Grande do Sul. Consistió en una investigación cualitativa, con orientación etnográfica, realizada en 2014, con 25 interlocutores, residentes en un territorio rural. Los datos se analizaron utilizando un enfoque hermenéutico antropológico. Las prácticas de atención médica para estas familias rurales implican diferentes tipos de conocimiento, tanto de los sistemas de salud formales como informales. Estas prácticas se mueven a través de la atención familiar, los servicios biomédicos, la religiosidad, no un solo flujo, sino que utilizan diferentes espacios y servicios, de acuerdo con sus necesidades. En este sentido, para brindar atención médica integral a las personas y sus familias, los profesionales necesitan conocer el contexto cultural de la comunidad que se sigue, comprender y valorar las prácticas y dinámicas de atención que integran su sistema de atención de salud.Descriptores: Población Rural, Família, Cultura, Enfermería.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Cecilia Benoit ◽  
Ivy Bourgeault ◽  
Raymond DeVries ◽  
Jane Sandall ◽  
...  

It is widely accepted that policy-makers (in Nepal and elsewhere) can learn valuable lessons from the way other countries run their health and social services. We highlight some of the specific contributions the discipline of sociology can make to cross-national comparative research in the public health field. Sociologists call attention to often unnoticed social and cultural factors that influence the way national reproductive health care systems are created and operated. In this paper we address questions such as: ‘Why do these health services appear to be operating successfully in one country, but not another?’; ‘What is it in one country that makes a particular public health intervention successful and how is the cultural context different in a neighbouring country?’ The key examples in this paper focus on maternity care and sex education in the Netherlands and the UK, as examples to highlight the power of cross-national research. Our key messages are: a) Cross-national comparative research can help us to understand the design and running of health services in one country, say Nepal, by learning from a comparison with other countries, for example Sri Lanka or India. b) Cultural factors unique to a country affect the way that reproductive health care systems operate. c) Therefore,we need to understand why and how services work in a certain cultural context before we start trying to implement them in another cultural context.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Kim Case

Patricia Hill Collins (1986) labels herself as an ‘outsider within’ due to her intersectional standpoint as a Black woman sociology professor in the ivory tower. In contrast to the ‘outsider within’ lens, I theorize my own social location as an ‘insider without’ due to a complex matrix of identities within the classed academic cultural context. Using counter storytelling, I explore my insider without location through analysis of my journey across the ‘working-class academic arc.’ In the working-class academic arc described below, I apply intersectional theory (Collins 1990; Crenshaw 1989) by connecting my personal experiences with existing working-class studies scholarship. The arc process culminates in my development of critical intersectional class consciousness and actions of resistance. By introducing this three-phase arc, I hope to raise awareness of the invisible academic class culture which invalidates working-class ways of being and knowledge production.


LAW REVIEW ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. R. K. Verma

Health and health care development has not been a priority of the Indian States and it is a wellknown fact that all these facilities, policies and systems of healthcare are an eyewash and restricted to sheer papers. The worst aspect of this situation is that private medical colleges and institutions have become money making machine and in turn they take admissions of even the incompetent and unworthy students in consideration of inordinate fees and donations and as a result the doctors who get their degrees from these incompetent and unethical institutions are authorized to practice who are mostly inept, unskilled and unworthy thereby putting to risk lives of many of their patients. Over the years, the IMA and the MCI have been alleged to be deviating from its motto, thereafter doing little to control the rampant corruption in medical profession and medical colleges/government hospitals etc. Moreover, there is no transparency in their working or accountability for deeds. Medical care is not just a matter of accessibility and affordability but also quality as India prepares to fight the emerging problems of health care. To provide best health care at the lowest possible cost and make health care providers accountable for cost and quality, it is a high time for critical analysis regarding views and perspective of National Medical Commission Bill, 2017.


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