Gendered Understanding of Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone. Lessons for COVID-19

This case study provides evidence in response to the research question: “How did males and females in the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy i.e. rural poor, respond to the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone?” This case study focuses on the following research sub-questions: • Caretaking Responsibilities: What kind of additional burdens were placed on rural men and women who took on the responsibility for orphaned children? • Income Earnings: How did market closures and restrictions on movements affect income earnings of males and females in the rural area? Based on the analysis of the Ebola crisis on rural poor men and women income and caretaking responsibilities highlighted in this case study, we can state that most women bore the costs of caretaking responsibilities. However, both women and men of Sierra Leone bore serious socio-economic costs at the level of their productive labor (income in this case study). The international community is presently dealing with the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized communities, and the outcomes are still unknown. This brief case study helps to understand the gendered outcomes of previous public health epidemics in the context of social stratification. It is likely that many international humanitarian organizations will eventually aim at building economic and social resilience of impoverished communities with the focus on specific needs of different genders. An evidence from previous public health crises on the economy can help design the most efficient program interventions.

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Effect of shodhana and shamana chikitsa in mandala kustha (psoriasis): A case study

National Journal of Research in Ayurved Science ◽

10.52482/ayurlog.v7i03.364 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (03) ◽

Author(s):

Jyoti Bala Sahu

Keyword(s):

Body Temperature ◽

The Body ◽

Entire Body ◽

Men And Women ◽

Remarkable Improvement ◽

Males And Females ◽

Regulate Body Temperature ◽

Old Men

Skin is the largest organ of the body both by surface area and weight. This covers the entire body. The thickness of skin varies considerably over all parts of the body and between young and old, men and women. It helps to regulate body temperature, stores water fat and permit sensation of touch. Psoriasis is a chronic dermatosis characterized by covered by silvery loose scales. Treatment available on contemporary system is not curative but suppressive only. The prevalence of psoriasis is 8%. Prevalence equal in males and females. A case of Mandala Kustha discussed here. Patient successfully treated with Shodhana (Virechana karma) & Shamana Chikitsa. After course of 2 months treatment provides significant relief in Sign and Symptoms. In our classics mentioned Shodhana Chikitsa for Kustha Roga. Considering the sign and symptoms of patient was treated with classical Virechana karma (therapeutic purgation) and Shamana Chikitsa according to line of treatment of Kustha (Psoriasis). Assessment was done on before treatment, after treatment and after follow up of 2 months; pictures were taken before treatment and after treatment. Remarkable improvement was noticed, induration and itching after Virechana treatment.

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Geographic information systems (GIS) in global public health: A sierra leone case study

Annals of Global Health ◽

10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.695 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

R. Wilson ◽

R. Groen ◽

S. Yambasu ◽

T. Kamara ◽

A. Kushner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Information Systems ◽

Geographic Information Systems ◽

Sierra Leone ◽

Geographic Information ◽

Global Public Health

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Phenomenon of Women Marginalization in Poor Family in Pakpak Community (A Case Study in Pegagan Julu Village, Sumbul Subdistrict, Dairi Regency - North Sumatra - Indonesia)

Journal of Arts and Humanities ◽

10.18533/journal.v6i6.1196 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 38

Author(s):

Hadriana Marhaeni Munthe

Keyword(s):

Formal Education ◽

Research Question ◽

Gender Ideology ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

Dropping Out ◽

Rural Poor ◽

Poor Families ◽

North Sumatra ◽

Ideological Construction

<em>This article is taken from the study of marginalization cases experienced by Pakpak women of rural poor families. The study was conducted in Pegagan village of Sumbul Subdistrict, Dairi, North Sumatra province. The marginalization phenomenon is shown in some aspects; restrictions on women's access to formal education, tendency of dropping out of school, having no inheritance rights and no role in the decision making of custom. Related to this phenomenon, the research question of this study is how the process of marginalization experienced by women in their family is.Marxist structural feminist perspective and qualitative approach with feminist perspective were used to answer the research question. The findings of the study finally show that the structured patriarchy ideology as gender ideology in family becomes the cause of women marginalization. Patriarchy becoming gender ideological construction in Pakpak family is interpreted and expressed in the form of private patriarchy, that is a hegemonizing system or structure of men power that has dominated and subordinated social position of women in Pakpak families.</em>

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The Value of Media Studies Approaches for the Evaluation of Entertainment Education: A Case Study of East Los High

Health Education & Behavior ◽

10.1177/1090198119865007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 24-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Grace Kim ◽

Chon Noriega

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Information ◽

Media Studies ◽

Health Work ◽

Entertainment Education ◽

Latino Men ◽

Men And Women ◽

Popular Medium ◽

Narrative Characters

As entertainment education (EE) becomes an increasingly popular medium for delivering health information, evaluation of EE is key to better understanding how it not only influences audiences but also how it can be better implemented. We suggest that EE evaluation has largely focused on impact while its implementation, specifically through narrative, characters, and genre, has remained unexplored. We propose drawing from theories and methods used in media studies to complement current approaches to understanding and evaluation of EE that can help improve EE for health education. East Los High serves as a case study, through which we examine the characters and the narrative demands of the telenovela genre to reveal a disproportional depiction of Latino men and women that ultimately replays familiar Latino stereotypes of criminality and exaggerated sexuality. We discuss the implications this has on the show’s ability to do public health work.

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies as a Path to Healthy Cities—The Case Study of LMA, Portugal

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11102929 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (10) ◽

pp. 2929 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ana Louro ◽

Nuno Marques da Costa ◽

Eduarda Marques da Costa

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Research Question ◽

Health Policies ◽

Healthy Cities ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

To Come ◽

Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable development has become the basis of several worldwide policies over the last few decades, and its role will continue to shape policies for decades to come, especially those that are focused on urban mobility. At the same time, urban mobility is included in the framework of the Healthy Cities movement. In this context, using the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), Portugal, as the study area, this article intends to answer the following research question: are sustainable urban mobility policies contributing to healthy cities? Urban mobility planning and public health instruments were compared with the discourses and practices of those responsible for the implementation of urban mobility policies and Healthy Cities projects. The results reveal that a large number of responses proposed in the mobility planning instruments are, to some extent, related to the principles of healthy cities. Also, while municipal agents tend not to consider the inclusion of those principles, they instead incorporate the concepts of sustainable development. Nevertheless, we found that both approaches overlap the policy directions of healthy cities. On the other hand, public health policies and Healthy Cities projects presented a scarce number of references to its interventions in the urban mobility domain and mainly focused on the promotion of soft modes. It is concluded that, in the case of the observed municipalities of the LMA, the healthy cities framework is greatly benefited by the inclusion of sustainable development principles in all policies, especially those for urban mobility.

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Petitioners of Jewish Property in Košice: A Case Study on the Holocaust and Local Society in a Slovak-Hungarian Border Region

Mesto a dejiny ◽

10.33542/cah2021-1-03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

László Csősz ◽

Veronika Szeghy-Gayer

Keyword(s):

Social Stratification ◽

Research Question ◽

Social Indicators ◽

Ethnic Origin ◽

Mass Murder ◽

Border Region ◽

Local Society ◽

Holocaust Studies ◽

The Holocaust

This study aims to provide an insight into the microworld of a group of witnesses to and participants in the Holocaust in Košice, a town ceded from dismembered Czechoslovakia to Hungary in November 1938. We argue that Košice represents a suitable case study for the examination of Aryanization of Jewish property on the municipality and individual levels in the Slovak-Hungarian border region (Southern Slovakia), which is a hitherto understudied field in Holocaust studies. Our analysis is centred around 253 petitions submitted by local residents to obtain rental rights to apartments previously occupied by Jews and supporting documentation preserved in the Košice City Archives. Our primary research question is who these petitioners for Jewish apartments actually were and how and why they became involved in the process. We explore the petitioners’ social stratification, occupational structure, gender, ethnic origin and other social indicators. Furthermore, we present and interpret their arguments, excuses and motivations. This issue also involves the striking question of how much these ordinary men and women understood they benefited from mass murder.

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Ebola and Accusation

Anthropology in Action ◽

10.3167/aia.2017.240204 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 25-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Olive Melissa Minor

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Sierra Leone ◽

Humanitarian Aid ◽

Applied Anthropology ◽

Key Factors ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

Men And Women ◽

Social Mobilisation ◽

Multiple Levels

AbstractAs Response and Resilience Team Anthropologist for Oxfam GB, my role was to support an inclusive, community-led Ebola response through a better understanding of gender dynamics in the context of the outbreak. This case study identified stigma and blame of affected people as key factors in the ongoing epidemic. Despite social mobilisation efforts to address these attitudes, they remained ingrained in the Ebola response at multiple levels: in Government of Sierra Leone quarantine policies, in community by-laws and in everyday social interactions. Negative attitudes put pressure on the roles of men and women in ways that produced barriers to acting on Ebola prevention and treatment advice or creating an inclusive Ebola response. Our findings prompted several improvements in Ebola response activities that Oxfam Sierra Leone carried forward in their work, demonstrating the key role applied anthropology can play in creating a reflexive process to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian aid.

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