The Elderly and Foreigners: Vulnerability and Intersectionality in Healthcare

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F18%3A43953856" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/18:43953856 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/46-rocnik-19-cislo-2-2018-intersekcionalni-pristup-ve-zkoumani-socialnich-nerovnosti/546" target="_blank" >https://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/46-rocnik-19-cislo-2-2018-intersekcionalni-pristup-ve-zkoumani-socialnich-nerovnosti/546</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/25706578.2018.19.2.427" target="_blank" >10.13060/25706578.2018.19.2.427</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Staré a cizí: Zranitelnost a intersekcionalita ve zdravotní péči

Original language description

This paper seeks to understand what constitutes vulnerability among healthcare users in relations and social interactions with their healthcare providers. While many authors see vulnerability as an intersection of more or less permanent categories, such as gender, sexuality, social class, or ethnicity/race etc., we point to much more subtle and situational forces at play. In particular, we argue that vulnerability results from patients’ situational or contextual in/capability or un/willingness to communicate. We apply an interactional theory, namely a group-centred and relational approach (Choo, Ferree 2010; Giritli-Nygren, Olofsson 2014; McCall 2005) that focuses on particular marginalised groups and studies their relations to dominant groups. We build on ethnographic research with two different groups: (1) elderly patients in a long-term care unit; (2) foreign-born women who received care during their pregnancy and childbirth in Czech healthcare facilities and maternity wards. Our research includes participant observation in hospital settings and ethnographic in-depth and semi-structured interviews with healthcare users as well as providers.

Czech name

Staré a cizí: Zranitelnost a intersekcionalita ve zdravotní péči

Czech description

This paper seeks to understand what constitutes vulnerability among healthcare users in relations and social interactions with their healthcare providers. While many authors see vulnerability as an intersection of more or less permanent categories, such as gender, sexuality, social class, or ethnicity/race etc., we point to much more subtle and situational forces at play. In particular, we argue that vulnerability results from patients’ situational or contextual in/capability or un/willingness to communicate. We apply an interactional theory, namely a group-centred and relational approach (Choo, Ferree 2010; Giritli-Nygren, Olofsson 2014; McCall 2005) that focuses on particular marginalised groups and studies their relations to dominant groups. We build on ethnographic research with two different groups: (1) elderly patients in a long-term care unit; (2) foreign-born women who received care during their pregnancy and childbirth in Czech healthcare facilities and maternity wards. Our research includes participant observation in hospital settings and ethnographic in-depth and semi-structured interviews with healthcare users as well as providers.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-10953S" target="_blank" >GA16-10953S: Migration and maternal health: pregnancy, birth and early parenting</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gender a Výzkum

ISSN

2570-6578

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

75-101

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85061817997