Lessons learned from Australian case studies of sex workers engaged in academic research about sex worker health, well-being and structural impediments

2021 ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Roanna Lobo ◽  
Kahlia McCausland ◽  
Julie Bates ◽  
Linda Selvey ◽  
Jesse Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
Australian Case

scholarly journals Reimagining Sex Work Venues: Occupational Health, Safety, and Rights in Indoor Workplaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Brooke S. West ◽  
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Anne M. Montgomery ◽  
Allison R. Ebben
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Safety Standards

AbstractThe setting in which sex workers live and work is a critical element shaping health outcomes, in so far that different venues afford different sets of risk and protective factors. Understanding how contextual factors differ across venue types and influence health outcomes is thus essential to developing and supporting programmes promoting the rights and safety of people in sex work. In this chapter, we focus primarily on indoor workplaces, with the goals of: (1) elucidating unique social, economic, physical, and policy factors that influence the well-being of sex workers in indoor workplaces; (2) highlighting sex worker-led efforts in the Thai context through a case study of the organisation Empower Thailand; (3) describing best practices for indoor settings; and (4) developing a framework of key factors that must be addressed to improve the rights and safety of sex workers in indoor workplaces, and to support their efforts to organise. The chapter draws attention to convergences and divergences in key challenges that sex workers encounter in indoor venues in different global contexts, as well as opportunities to advance comprehensive occupational health and safety programmes. Indoor venues pose important potential for establishing and implementing occupational health and safety standards in sex work and also may provide substantial opportunity for collective organising given the close proximity of people working together. However, any efforts to improve the health and safety of sex workers must explicitly address the structural conditions that lead to power imbalances and which undermine sex worker agency and equality.

scholarly journals Sex Worker Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries of Varied Regulatory Environments: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 3956
Author(s):  
Jessica McCann ◽  
Gemma Crawford ◽  
Jonathan Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
High Income ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Industry Regulation ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Regulatory Models

There is significant debate regarding the regulation of the sex industry, with a complex range of cultural, political and social factors influencing regulatory models which vary considerably between and within countries. This systematic review examined the available evidence on the relationship between different approaches to sex industry regulation in high-income countries, and associated effects on sex worker health status. Objectives included identification of sex worker health outcomes, including sexual health, substance use and experience of stigma and violence. A search was performed electronically in eight scholarly databases which yielded 95 articles which met the criteria for inclusion. Findings suggested that sex workers in legalised and decriminalized countries demonstrated greater health outcomes, including awareness of health conditions and risk factors.

scholarly journals An Exploratory, Qualitative Study of How Organizations Implement the Hierarchy of Controls Applied to Total Worker Health®

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10032
Author(s):  
Heidi L. Hudson ◽  
Anita L. Schill ◽  
Reid Richards
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Implementation Climate ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
Total Worker Health

Understanding of how Total Worker Health® (TWH) guidelines are implemented in employment organizations in the USA is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to explore how the principles of the Hierarchy of Controls Applied to NIOSH Total Worker Health (TWH HoC), have been implemented among organizations featured as Promising Practices for TWH between 2012–2019, with special focus on the work-related issues of fatigue, stress, sedentary work, and tobacco control. We also sought to identify benefits, obstacles, and lessons learned in the implementation of the TWH HoC. Eighteen organizations were identified to be included in the study. Using a qualitative cross-sectional design and purposive sampling, seven in-depth interviews were conducted with thirteen key informants. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research was used to guide the thematic analysis and interpretation of qualitative data. Four themes identified include recognition of the TWH approach and TWH HoC, implementation of the TWH HoC, barriers and facilitators in addressing specific work-related issues, and implementation climate primes benefits, obstacles, and lessons learned. The inner setting (i.e., culture, implementation climate, readiness for implementation) of organizations was a prominent determinant of the implementation of integrated worker safety, health, and well-being interventions.

scholarly journals Best Practices and Challenges to Sex Worker Community Empowerment and Mobilisation Strategies to Promote Health and Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Cynthia Navarrete Gil ◽  
Manjula Ramaiah ◽  
Andrea Mantsios ◽  
Clare Barrington ◽  
Deanna Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Policy Environments

AbstractSex workers face a number of health and human rights challenges including heightened risk for HIV infection and suboptimal care and treatment outcomes, institutional and interpersonal violence, labour rights violations, and financial insecurity. In response, sex worker-led groups have been formed and sustained across geographic settings to address these challenges and other needs. Over the last several decades, a growing body of literature has shown that community empowerment approaches among sex workers are associated with significant reductions in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Yet legal and policy environments, as well as funding constraints, have often limited the reach, along with the impact and sustainability, of such approaches.In this chapter, we first review the literature on community empowerment and mobilisation strategies as a means to collectively address HIV, violence, and other health and human rights issues among sex workers. We then utilise two case studies, developed by the sex worker-led groups APROASE in Mexico and Ashodaya Samithi in India, to illustrate and contextualise community empowerment processes and challenges, including barriers to scale-up. By integrating the global literature with context-specific case studies, we distil lessons learned and recommendations related to community empowerment approaches among sex workers.

Examining the Role of a Community-Led Structural Intervention in Shaping Mothering Among Sex Workers in India

Affilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 088610992093904
Author(s):  
Samira Ali ◽  
Sambuddha Chaudhuri ◽  
Toorjo Ghose ◽  
Smarajit Jana
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Structural Intervention ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Worker Identity

The aim of this study is to explore the ways in which community-led structural interventions (CLSI) shape the mothering experiences of sex workers. In-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with 40 sex worker mothers from Kolkata, India. Participants were recruited from Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a CLSI. Elements of constructivist grounded theory were employed. Results revealed DMSC mobilization (re)shaped mothering for female sex workers through (a) the subjective reorientation about establishing sex work as legitimate labor and disclosing sex worker identity and (b) access to material resources such as safe spaces, childcare networks, and educational opportunities. CLSI have the potential to influence the self-perception of communities that are marginalized and provide them with material resources that ultimately promote family well-being. While working with sex workers, it is imperative to understand their multiple, intersecting roles and co-develop community-based interventions not only with sex workers but their families as well.

scholarly journals Sex Work, Migration, and Human Trafficking in South Africa: From polarised arguments to potential partnerships

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Ntokozo Yingwana ◽  
Dr Rebecca Walker ◽  
Alex Etchart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mobility Model ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
And Migration

In South Africa, the conflation of sex work with human trafficking means that migrant/mobile sex workers are often framed as victims of trafficking while arguments for the decriminalisation of sex work are discounted due to claims about the risks of increased trafficking. This is despite the lack of clear evidence that trafficking, including in the sex industry, is a widespread problem. Sex worker organisations have called for an evidence-based approach whereby migration, sex work, and trafficking are distinguished and the debate moves beyond the polarised divisions over sex work. This paper takes up this argument by drawing on research with sex workers and a sex worker organisation in South Africa, as well as reflections shared at two Sex Workers’ Anti-trafficking Research Symposiums. In so doing, the authors propose the further development of a Sex Work, Exploitation, and Migration/Mobility Model that takes into consideration the complexities of the quotidian experiences of migration and selling sex. This, we suggest, could enable a more effective and productive partnership between sex worker organisations and other stakeholder groups, including anti-trafficking and labour rights organisations, trade unions, and others to protect the rights and well-being of all those involved in sex work.

Beyond worker health: Toward a systems approach to well-being and performance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Ballard ◽  
Matthew J. Grawitch ◽  
Larissa K. Barber ◽  
Lois E. Tetrick
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Worker Health ◽  
And Performance

Economics of Happiness as an Academic Research Discipline

2012 ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Antipina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Research Discipline ◽  
Happiness Economics ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Economics Of Happiness ◽  
Happiness Level

The article contains a review of the contemporary research in the field of economics of happiness. Economics of happiness deals with correlation between the subjective notion of well-being and happiness with ones life (happiness level) and economic indicators. The author considers the correlation of economic and noneconomic factors. The last ones —  such as education and health — also affect the level of happiness. The author dwells upon the following questions: research methodology in economics of happiness, correlation between subjective notion of well-being and happiness with ones life and economic performance on micro- and macrolevels.

SenCity – Evaluating Users’ Experiences of Intelligent Lighting for Well-Being in Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Henrika Pihlajaniemi ◽  
Anna Luusua ◽  
Eveliina Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
System Data

This paper presents the evaluation of usersХ experiences in three intelligent lighting pilots in Finland. Two of the case studies are related to the use of intelligent lighting in different kinds of traffic areas, having emphasis on aspects of visibility, traffic and movement safety, and sense of security. The last case study presents a more complex view to the experience of intelligent lighting in smart city contexts. The evaluation methods, tailored to each pilot context, include questionnaires, an urban dashboard, in-situ interviews and observations, evaluation probes, and system data analyses. The applicability of the selected and tested methods is discussed reflecting the process and achieved results.

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