Why don’t segregated Roma do more for their health? An explanatory framework from an ethnographic study in Slovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00038-018-1134-2.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00038-018-1134-2.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1134-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00038-018-1134-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Why don’t segregated Roma do more for their health? An explanatory framework from an ethnographic study in Slovakia
Original language description
Objectives: The health status of segregated Roma is poor. To understand why segregated Roma engage in health-endangering practices, we explored their nonadherence to clinical and public health recommendations. Methods: We examined one segregated Roma settlement of 260 inhabitants in Slovakia. To obtain qualitative data on local-level mechanisms supporting Roma nonadherence, we combined ethnography and systematic interviewing over 10 years. We then performed a qualitative content analysis based on sociological and public health theories. Results: Our explanatory framework summarizes how the nonadherence of local Roma was supported by an interlocked system of seven mechanisms, controlled by and operating through both local Roma and non-Roma. These regard the Roma situation of poverty, segregation and substandard infrastructure; the Roma socialization into their situation; the Roma-perceived value of Roma alternative practices; the exclusionary non-Roma and self-exclusionary Roma ideologies; the discrimination, racism and dysfunctional support towards Roma by non-Roma; and drawbacks in adherence. Conclusions: Non-Roma ideologies, internalized by Roma into a racialized ethnic identity through socialization, and drawbacks in adherence might present powerful, yet neglected, mechanisms supporting segregated Roma nonadherence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Public Health
ISSN
1661-8556
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
63
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1123-1131
UT code for WoS article
000449945200015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85048528490