Health-endangering everyday settings and practices in a rural segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia: A descriptive summary from an exploratory longitudinal case study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/17:10337932

Result on the web

<a href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-017-4029-x?site=bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com" target="_blank" >https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-017-4029-x?site=bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4029-x" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12889-017-4029-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Health-endangering everyday settings and practices in a rural segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia: A descriptive summary from an exploratory longitudinal case study

Original language description

Research into social root-causes of poor health within segregated Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of this study was to assess the local setup of health-endangering everyday settings and practices over the long-term in one such community. It is the initial part of a larger longitudinal study qualitatively exploring the social root-causes of poor Roma health status through the case of a particular settlement in Slovakia. The study comprised four methodologically distinct phases combining ethnography and applied medical-anthropological surveying. The acquired data consisted of field notes on participant observations and records of elicitations focusing on both the setup and the social root-causes of local everyday health-endangering settings and practices. Across all the examined dimensions -material circumstances, psychosocial factors, health-related behaviours, social cohesion and healthcare utilization -all the settlements&apos; residents faced a wide range of health-endangering settings and practices. How the residents engaged in some of these exposures and how these exposures affected residents&apos; health varied according to local social stratifications. Most of the patterns described prevailed over the 10-year period. Some local health-endangering settings and practices were praised by most inhabitants using racialized ethnic terms constructed in contrast or in direct opposition to alleged non-Roma norms and ways. Conclusions: Our summary provides a comprehensive and conveniently structured basis for grounded thinking about the intermediary social determinants of health within segregated Roma communities in Slovakia and beyond. It offers novel clues regarding how certain determinants might vary therein; how they might be contributing to health-deterioration; and how they might be causally inter-linked here. It also suggests racialized ethnically framed social counter-norms might be involved in the maintenance of analogous exposure setups.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BMC Public Health

ISSN

1471-2458

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

128

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000392915400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85010653050