Youth Mobilization

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-140
Author(s):  
Patricia Zavella
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Access To Health

This chapter explores how three different reproductive justice organizations use the language of youth empowerment. It argues that increasingly storytelling is becoming a methodology within the movement for reproductive justice and illustrates how organizations train youth to use narratives to convey analyses of social problems and to garner support from policy makers and community members for specific policy changes related to sex education, access to health care, and valuing the perspectives of young people. Youths’ participation in reproductive justice youth programs helps them to navigate the transition to adulthood with the understanding that true empowerment addresses structural inequalities.

Participation as Inclusion and Exclusion: Policing the Boundaries of “Citizenship” in Roma Health Mediation

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-443
Author(s):  
Charlotte Kühlbrandt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roma Health ◽  
Governing Institutions ◽  
Improve Access

Participatory health interventions have long been advocated as an approach to help marginalised community members exercise their rights as citizens, including access to health care. More than two decades ago, the Roma health mediation programme was established in Romania as a participatory community health intervention. Mediators are employed specifically to act as intermediaries between ‘Roma patients’ and local authorities or health professionals, with the overall aim to increase trust and improve access to health care. Based on data gathered during a year of ethnographic fieldwork with Roma health mediators in Romania, including participant observation and interviews, this article analyses the social processes by which participatory approaches produce both social inclusion and exclusion. It illustrates how mediators exceeded their remit of health and attempted to discipline communities into forms of neoliberal citizenship. Mediators reframed access to health care not as a right that community members already have, but as a benefit that must be individually ‘earned’ through the fulfilment of neoliberal citizenship. The article argues that far from being an ‘empowering tool’, community participation can extend the power of governing institutions and thereby may in fact contribute to the maintenance of a political status quo that perpetuates the precarisation of marginalised communities.

A Knotty Problem: Consumer Access and the Regulation of Provider Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 937-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon F. Haeder ◽  
David L. Weimer ◽  
Dana B. Mukamel
Keyword(s):  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Provider Networks ◽  
Consumer Access ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Access And Quality

Abstract In order to increase access to medical services, expanding coverage has long been the preferred solution of policy makers and advocates alike. The calculus appeared straightforward: provide individuals with insurance, and they will be able to see a provider when needed. However, this line of thinking overlooks a crucial intermediary step: provider networks. As provider networks offered by health insurers link available medical services to insurance coverage, their breadth mediates access to health care. Yet the regulation of provider networks is technically, logistically, and normatively complex. What does network regulation currently look like and what should it look like in the future? We take inventory of the ways private and public entities regulate provider networks. Variation across insurance programs and products is truly remarkable, not grounded in empirical justification, and at times inherently absurd. We argue that regulators should be pragmatic and focus on plausible policy levers. These include assuring network accuracy, transparency for consumers, and consumer protections from grievous inadequacies. Ultimately, government regulation provides an important foundation for ensuring minimum levels of access and providing consumers with meaningful information. Yet, information is only truly empowering if consumers can exercise at least some choice in balancing costs, access, and quality.

scholarly journals Autism, Rhetoric, and Whiteness

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Heilker
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Education Levels

<p>Keywords: autism, rhetoric, whiteness</p><p>This paper first explicates various forces working to construct autism as an overwhelmingly white phenomenon in public discourse, including popular films, television programming, "armchair" internet diagnoses, "geek chic," "shiny" autistics, "Aspie supremacy," the rhetorics of autism advocacy organizations, special education, access to health care, and parental education levels.&nbsp; It then considers the epistemological and rhetorical implications of autistic whiteness, including an examination of its functions in Burkean identification and its possible operation in educational, workplace, criminal justice, and governmental contexts.</p>

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Patricia Zavella
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This chapter reflects on how the movement for reproductive justice addresses the increased polarization of politics around immigration and reproductive rights in the wake of the election of President Trump. It argues that women of color in the movement for reproductive justice have a history of crafting a politics of inclusion that aims to empower those who are marginalized by intersecting systems of power, with a radical vision of citizenship. These activists insist that poor women of color have the human right to access to health care with dignity as well as the right to healthy lives and wellness.

A Comparison of Health Disparities Among Americans With Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder and Americans With Other Disabilities

Inclusion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean P. Hall ◽  
Noelle K. Kurth
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Community Inclusion ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Abstract This article uses recent survey data to compare and contrast American adults with intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with other disabilities with regard to overall health, access to health care, and other aspects of community participation. Although people with ID and/or ASD and others with disabilities share many issues related to poorer health and access to care compared to the general population, adults with ID and/or ASD reported different experiences and outcomes than other people with disabilities. An examination of these differences provides insights into policy changes and targeted interventions that might improve overall health and community inclusion specifically for people with ID and/or ASD.

scholarly journals The Link Between Difficulty in Accessing Health Care and Health Status in a Canadian Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 117863292097790
Author(s):  
Matthew Garrod ◽  
Afshin Vafaei ◽  
Lynn Martin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Indigenous Status ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Access To Health

Much of the Canadian population reports some level of difficulty in accessing health care services. Despite being a recognized determinant of health, the relationship between access to health care and overall health has not been examined extensively. This study is an analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey 2016 database. A composite score for difficulty in accessing health care was constructed based on several survey questions. Self-rated health (SRH), the measure of general health status, was compared between individuals with and without difficulty in accessing health care services by estimating prevalence rate ratios adjusting for age, sex, education, income, urban/rural status, race, and Indigenous status. After adjustment for pertinent confounders, difficulty in accessing health care was not statistically significantly associated with SRH. However, in stratified models, difficulty accessing health care was associated with a 12% lower probability of reporting good SRH among non-white individuals. Test of interactions for other social determinants was not significant. For racial minorities, inequalities in access to health care are associated with lower self-rated health. Further research to investigate causes underlying difficulties in accessing health care could lead to public health programs ensuring all Canadians receive equal health care services.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF MICRO FINANCE INSTITUTIONS ON POVERTY ERADICATION IN MERU SOUTH SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Diana Gaciukia Makunyi ◽  
Dr. Rotich
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the impacts of micro finance institutions in eradication of poverty in Meru South Sub CountyMethodology: This research problem employed a descriptive research design. The target population for this study comprises of all beneficiary households of MFIs in Meru South Sub County. The sample size was 30% of the target population.Results: The study found that microfinance institutions are a very strong tool in poverty alleviation at household level with income after acquiring microfinance credit being found to have significantly increased. The study further found that microfinance credit empowers the poor, enables them to cope with and overcome many of the problems that they face. Additionally, microfinance loans were found to have led to establishment and expansion of businesses, acquisition of shelter, education, access to health care and opening up of opportunities for the poor to improve their living standards including improved sanitation.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: the study recommends that microfinance institutions to continuously improve their outreach to enable them reach more deserving low income earners in all Counties in Kenya. To achieve this, the institutions should effectively market themselves and also fasten on service delivery as in the case of ensuring that loans applied for are disbursed on time.

scholarly journals Rural Health and Contextualizing Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Erin Brock Carlson ◽  
Catherine Gouge
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Vulnerable Community ◽  
Data Visualizations

With significantly higher rates of comorbidities and limited access to health care, some Appalachian rural communities face magnified health challenges due to COVID-19. This article looks at one example of how data visualizations might draw attention to health care realities in rural communities and yet render invisible the realities of the most vulnerable community members. The authors urge technical and professional communicators to contextualize data-driven accounts of public health crises in order to call attention to the needs of rural communities and support community members who are multiply marginalized and thus especially vulnerable.

scholarly journals Identifying The Health Needs In Rural Appalachian Ohio: Outcomes Of A Rural Community-Academic Partnership

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Vance ◽  
Tania B. Basta ◽  
Jennifer J. Bute ◽  
Sharon A. Denham
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Preventive Health Behaviors ◽  
Access To Health

To identify health issues in two rural counties, a needs assessment was developed by health officials and researchers. Focus groups (n = 32) and interviews (n = 8) were conducted among community leaders and a modified BRFFS survey was completed by 399 community members. Results indicated the health of the participants was influenced by: 1) rural Appalachian culture, 2) geography and access to health care, and 3) lack of access/knowledge about preventive health behaviors. These issues likely contributed to 30% obesity prevalence among the sample, which was prioritized as the main health issue for both counties. 

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