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The document summarizes a workshop on person-centered care led by Jeremy Taylor of National Voices. The workshop covered definitions of person-centered care, the case for it, examples of good practice, barriers to implementation, and the leadership required to overcome those barriers. Participants engaged in group exercises to identify actions that minimize engagement and barriers in their own organizations. The workshop emphasized that person-centered care requires both techniques like shared decision making and a leadership approach of listening, collaboration, and empowering staff and patients.
This document discusses key terms in health promotion and factors affecting health and wellness. It outlines the goals of Healthy People 2030 to promote health and well-being across all life stages. Physical activity objectives include aerobic activity, muscle strengthening, and reducing screen time for all ages. Physiotherapists can play a role in health promotion through screening, education, exercise interventions, and fall prevention programs. Measures for assessing health, wellness, and behaviors include clinical measures like BMI and self-reported surveys. Recommendations for physical activity include age-appropriate aerobic and resistance exercise for infants through older adults.
This document discusses improving maternal health in Lesotho. Maternal mortality in Lesotho is one of the highest in the world at 674 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2003. Rural and isolated areas have particularly high mortality due to long distances to health centers and lack of transportation for pregnant women. Several challenges must be addressed including increasing the supply of skilled health professionals in deprived areas, expanding access to universal health facilities, and educating women and girls. Solutions proposed include training more birth attendants and using the MDG Acceleration Framework to prioritize key issues. Improving maternal health supports achieving other MDGs like reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS.
This document summarizes a presentation on improving maternal mortality through policy perspectives. It discusses the high maternal mortality ratio in countries like Sierra Leone compared to low ratios in countries like Grenada. The root causes of maternal mortality are identified as inequality, low socioeconomic status, lack of healthcare access, and cultural practices. Effective policies to reduce mortality ratios include increasing access to skilled healthcare workers, emergency services, transportation, and community health programs.
The document discusses children's hospice care and support for families, focusing on an open systems theory approach to operating children's hospices which aims to provide holistic support through various care, activities, education and bereavement services while also addressing challenges for maintaining staff well-being. It reflects on research opportunities to further understand family experiences and hospice operations as well as comparing leadership issues across different hospices.
This document provides an overview of home visits by community health nurses. It defines home visits as the delivery of specialized nursing care in the home setting. The main purposes of home visits are to provide treatment, comfort, health education, and respect cultural beliefs. Key principles include planning visits, making them educational and convenient for patients. Home visits allow nurses to implement the nursing process in the home environment and develop relationships with families. Challenges include time consumption and language barriers, but advantages are convenient care and education for patients. The roles and responsibilities of community health nurses at different levels are also outlined.
The document summarizes a workshop on person-centered care led by Jeremy Taylor of National Voices. The workshop covered definitions of person-centered care, the case for it, examples of good practice, barriers to implementation, and the leadership required to overcome those barriers. Participants engaged in group exercises to identify actions that minimize engagement and barriers in their own organizations. The workshop emphasized that person-centered care requires both techniques like shared decision making and a leadership approach of listening, collaboration, and empowering staff and patients.
This document discusses key terms in health promotion and factors affecting health and wellness. It outlines the goals of Healthy People 2030 to promote health and well-being across all life stages. Physical activity objectives include aerobic activity, muscle strengthening, and reducing screen time for all ages. Physiotherapists can play a role in health promotion through screening, education, exercise interventions, and fall prevention programs. Measures for assessing health, wellness, and behaviors include clinical measures like BMI and self-reported surveys. Recommendations for physical activity include age-appropriate aerobic and resistance exercise for infants through older adults.
This document discusses improving maternal health in Lesotho. Maternal mortality in Lesotho is one of the highest in the world at 674 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2003. Rural and isolated areas have particularly high mortality due to long distances to health centers and lack of transportation for pregnant women. Several challenges must be addressed including increasing the supply of skilled health professionals in deprived areas, expanding access to universal health facilities, and educating women and girls. Solutions proposed include training more birth attendants and using the MDG Acceleration Framework to prioritize key issues. Improving maternal health supports achieving other MDGs like reducing child mortality and combating HIV/AIDS.
This document summarizes a presentation on improving maternal mortality through policy perspectives. It discusses the high maternal mortality ratio in countries like Sierra Leone compared to low ratios in countries like Grenada. The root causes of maternal mortality are identified as inequality, low socioeconomic status, lack of healthcare access, and cultural practices. Effective policies to reduce mortality ratios include increasing access to skilled healthcare workers, emergency services, transportation, and community health programs.
The document discusses children's hospice care and support for families, focusing on an open systems theory approach to operating children's hospices which aims to provide holistic support through various care, activities, education and bereavement services while also addressing challenges for maintaining staff well-being. It reflects on research opportunities to further understand family experiences and hospice operations as well as comparing leadership issues across different hospices.
This document provides an overview of home visits by community health nurses. It defines home visits as the delivery of specialized nursing care in the home setting. The main purposes of home visits are to provide treatment, comfort, health education, and respect cultural beliefs. Key principles include planning visits, making them educational and convenient for patients. Home visits allow nurses to implement the nursing process in the home environment and develop relationships with families. Challenges include time consumption and language barriers, but advantages are convenient care and education for patients. The roles and responsibilities of community health nurses at different levels are also outlined.
This document discusses home visits by community health nurses. It defines home visits as the delivery of specialized nursing care in the home setting. The purposes of home visits include providing treatment, comfort, health education, and respecting patient beliefs. Principles of home visits include planning, having a clear purpose to meet patient needs, being regular, flexible, educative, and respecting hygienic principles. Home visits have advantages like implementing nursing process, studying home situations, and rendering services in a familiar setting. The roles and qualifications of community health nurses who perform home visits are also outlined.
impact of socio-cultural belief of food choice on female menstruation.mahee tori
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- It will examine how beliefs about "hot" and "cold" foods according to traditional Chinese medicine influence what girls eat during menstruation.
- It will also look at how local herbal remedies and cultural practices in Gilgit Baltistan are used to minimize menstrual pain.
- The theoretical framework discusses indicators like the hot/cold food dichotomy, herbalism, and cultural practices that will be used to analyze the relationship between beliefs
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This document outlines Patrick Seeco Faley's experiences as the president of the National Ebola Survivors Network of Liberia during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. It discusses the clinical care provided in Ebola treatment units, lessons learned about overcoming fear, rumors and stigma, the important role of research during the outbreak, and how research can best address survivors' concerns. Specifically, research was essential because there were no approved treatments, but it had to address fears and establish trust. Future research should include more awareness, counseling, economic support, and be integrated into the local health system to avoid stigma.
The document discusses a training organized by the Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA) on menstrual hygiene management for community educators. CSA is a non-profit organization established in 1988 committed to adolescent health. The training aims to improve knowledge of menstrual hygiene, create a supportive environment, and improve access to services for girls in Bungoma County, Kenya. It will involve training educators, girls, and boys to address challenges faced by menstruating girls like lack of supplies and private sanitation facilities in schools.
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This document discusses several cultural assessment models that can be used by nurses to provide culturally competent care. It describes Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Nursing Theory and Cultural Assessment Model, which focuses on understanding a patient's culture and incorporating cultural considerations into the nursing diagnosis and care plan. It also outlines Rachel Spector's Cultural Assessment Model, which views health, illness, and healing as balance within the physical, mental, spiritual, social, and environmental dimensions. Finally, it summarizes Joyce Giger and Ruth Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, which sees individuals as culturally unique and emphasizes developing cultural competence to provide meaningful care for all patients.
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Madeleine Leininger developed the theory of Transcultural Nursing to improve healthcare for diverse cultures. Her theory focuses on understanding how culture influences peoples' health beliefs and practices. She introduced concepts like culture care, cultural and professional competence, and three modes of nursing care decisions to preserve, accommodate, or restructure care according to a culture's values. Leininger's work emphasized delivering respectful care through knowledge of patients' cultural backgrounds.
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Madeleine Leininger developed the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality to understand how culture influences people's health, illness, and care needs. The theory posits that care is influenced by cultural and social factors and varies between cultures, while some aspects of care are universal. Leininger used ethnographic research methods to understand emic and etic perspectives on care and developed the Sunrise Enabler model to guide culturally congruent nursing care practices. The theory emphasizes understanding a person's worldview and providing care, preservation, accommodation, or restructuring of cultural practices.
The community health nurse performs various roles in caring for communities, including as a care provider, health educator, counselor, and resource person. As a care provider, the nurse provides continuous comprehensive care to families and communities, emphasizing preventive healthcare. As a health educator, the nurse educates individuals, families, and communities on topics like disease transmission and nutrition. The nurse also acts as a counselor, advisor, planner, care manager, medical assistant, collaborator, advocate, researcher, evaluator, and consultant in serving the healthcare needs of the community.
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The document discusses the importance of social support for patients from Indonesian culture based on evidence. It describes how Indonesian patients often receive large numbers of visitors in the hospital, which can cause problems by disrupting routines and increasing stress. The document recommends that nurses provide clear explanations of rules, enforce visiting hours, and give health education to patients and families to help them understand the risks of things like nosocomial infections from overcrowding. This will help nurses provide culturally appropriate care that acknowledges the social support needs of Indonesian patients while also maintaining a safe hospital environment.
The document provides a biography and overview of Madeleine Leininger's Theory of Transcultural Nursing. Some key points:
- Leininger observed differences in patient behaviors from diverse cultures and questioned how culture impacts care. This led her to establish the theory of culture care.
- The theory is based on the assumptions that care is essential to health and culture influences all aspects of life, including views of health and illness.
- Leininger developed the Sunrise Model and three care modalities to guide culturally congruent nursing care: preservation, accommodation, and repatterning.
- The goal of the theory is for nurses to incorporate a patient's cultural beliefs, values and preferences
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This document discusses home visits by community health nurses. It defines home visits as the delivery of specialized nursing care in the home setting. The purposes of home visits include providing treatment, comfort, health education, and respecting patient beliefs. Principles of home visits include planning, having a clear purpose to meet patient needs, being regular, flexible, educative, and respecting hygienic principles. Home visits have advantages like implementing nursing process, studying home situations, and rendering services in a familiar setting. The roles and qualifications of community health nurses who perform home visits are also outlined.
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This document provides an outline for a research study exploring the impact of socio-cultural beliefs on food choices and female menstruation among girls from Gilgit Baltistan studying in Pakistan. The study will use qualitative methods like interviews and case studies. Some key points:
- It will examine how beliefs about "hot" and "cold" foods according to traditional Chinese medicine influence what girls eat during menstruation.
- It will also look at how local herbal remedies and cultural practices in Gilgit Baltistan are used to minimize menstrual pain.
- The theoretical framework discusses indicators like the hot/cold food dichotomy, herbalism, and cultural practices that will be used to analyze the relationship between beliefs
This document discusses transcultural nursing. It defines transcultural nursing as the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences across groups. The goals of transcultural nursing are to provide culturally congruent care and universal/culture-specific nursing practices. Key components of cultural assessment are also outlined, along with guidelines, barriers, and nursing roles in transcultural care. Two models of transcultural nursing - Leininger's SUNRISE Model and the Geiger and Davidhizer Culturally Unique Individual Model - are also briefly described.
This document outlines Patrick Seeco Faley's experiences as the president of the National Ebola Survivors Network of Liberia during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. It discusses the clinical care provided in Ebola treatment units, lessons learned about overcoming fear, rumors and stigma, the important role of research during the outbreak, and how research can best address survivors' concerns. Specifically, research was essential because there were no approved treatments, but it had to address fears and establish trust. Future research should include more awareness, counseling, economic support, and be integrated into the local health system to avoid stigma.
The document discusses a training organized by the Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA) on menstrual hygiene management for community educators. CSA is a non-profit organization established in 1988 committed to adolescent health. The training aims to improve knowledge of menstrual hygiene, create a supportive environment, and improve access to services for girls in Bungoma County, Kenya. It will involve training educators, girls, and boys to address challenges faced by menstruating girls like lack of supplies and private sanitation facilities in schools.
Transcultural nursing across the life span presentationNighatKanwal
This document provides an overview of transcultural nursing across the lifespan. It begins by defining key concepts like culture and transcultural nursing. It then examines cultural perspectives during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding. Different cultural beliefs and practices are described for activities, foods, and rituals. The document also discusses adolescence and development tasks. Erikson's theory of psychosocial development is explained. Finally, it notes how culture can influence outcomes in domains like academics.
FNIM cultures in Saskatchewan Practical Nursing November 28 2019griehl
This document provides an overview of a presentation on First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) cultures in Saskatchewan. The presentation discusses key concepts like the medicine wheel, cultural competence, reflective practice and land acknowledgments. It encourages learning about residential schools and their impact, as well as Treaty rights and Indigenous health services. Storytelling is used to illustrate concepts. The goal is to help attendees broaden their understanding of applying the Platinum Rule of treating others how they want to be treated when working with diverse clients.
This document discusses several cultural assessment models that can be used by nurses to provide culturally competent care. It describes Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Nursing Theory and Cultural Assessment Model, which focuses on understanding a patient's culture and incorporating cultural considerations into the nursing diagnosis and care plan. It also outlines Rachel Spector's Cultural Assessment Model, which views health, illness, and healing as balance within the physical, mental, spiritual, social, and environmental dimensions. Finally, it summarizes Joyce Giger and Ruth Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, which sees individuals as culturally unique and emphasizes developing cultural competence to provide meaningful care for all patients.
Documentation & Rapid Assessment of Local Health TraditionsDr. Hafeel Ambalath
Local Health Traditions are vital and effective in primary health care of millions of people world over, especially culture rich developing countries. An effective intervention is the need of the hour to protect the erosion and revitalize these traditions for effective health care.
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Madeleine Leininger developed the theory of Transcultural Nursing to improve healthcare for diverse cultures. Her theory focuses on understanding how culture influences peoples' health beliefs and practices. She introduced concepts like culture care, cultural and professional competence, and three modes of nursing care decisions to preserve, accommodate, or restructure care according to a culture's values. Leininger's work emphasized delivering respectful care through knowledge of patients' cultural backgrounds.
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Madeleine Leininger developed the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality to understand how culture influences people's health, illness, and care needs. The theory posits that care is influenced by cultural and social factors and varies between cultures, while some aspects of care are universal. Leininger used ethnographic research methods to understand emic and etic perspectives on care and developed the Sunrise Enabler model to guide culturally congruent nursing care practices. The theory emphasizes understanding a person's worldview and providing care, preservation, accommodation, or restructuring of cultural practices.
The community health nurse performs various roles in caring for communities, including as a care provider, health educator, counselor, and resource person. As a care provider, the nurse provides continuous comprehensive care to families and communities, emphasizing preventive healthcare. As a health educator, the nurse educates individuals, families, and communities on topics like disease transmission and nutrition. The nurse also acts as a counselor, advisor, planner, care manager, medical assistant, collaborator, advocate, researcher, evaluator, and consultant in serving the healthcare needs of the community.
I address the knowledge gap on vision health disparities with a focus on its racialization through qualitative research utilizing patient histories from Tzu Chi Mobile Clinic and my ethnographic findings. I rely on patient narratives primarily and organize my findings into a comprehensive, clarifying figure. I explore the context of our work to uplift underserved communities in an effort to spread our effective model.
‘Falling Through the Cracks’ Adolescent Girls in Tanzania Insights from MtwaraRakesh Rajani
How do you promote the health and well-being of adolescent girls? This presentation provides critical insights and strategic considerations based on conversations with people in Mtwara, Tanzania.
This document provides an introduction to concepts related to family health. It defines family health as more than just the sum of individual health, and also discusses factors that influence family health like living/working conditions, education, and culture. The document also outlines the scope of family health, including reproductive health, child health, gender issues, aging, and mental health. It discusses the roles families and peer groups can play in promoting or hindering health. Finally, it introduces concepts like positive deviance and taking a life cycle perspective when addressing health issues.
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The document discusses the importance of social support for patients from Indonesian culture based on evidence. It describes how Indonesian patients often receive large numbers of visitors in the hospital, which can cause problems by disrupting routines and increasing stress. The document recommends that nurses provide clear explanations of rules, enforce visiting hours, and give health education to patients and families to help them understand the risks of things like nosocomial infections from overcrowding. This will help nurses provide culturally appropriate care that acknowledges the social support needs of Indonesian patients while also maintaining a safe hospital environment.
The document provides a biography and overview of Madeleine Leininger's Theory of Transcultural Nursing. Some key points:
- Leininger observed differences in patient behaviors from diverse cultures and questioned how culture impacts care. This led her to establish the theory of culture care.
- The theory is based on the assumptions that care is essential to health and culture influences all aspects of life, including views of health and illness.
- Leininger developed the Sunrise Model and three care modalities to guide culturally congruent nursing care: preservation, accommodation, and repatterning.
- The goal of the theory is for nurses to incorporate a patient's cultural beliefs, values and preferences
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Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
6. Describe the flow of current around the heart during the cardiac cycle
7. Discuss the placement and polarity of the leads of electrocardiograph
8. Describe the normal electrocardiograms recorded from the limb leads and explain the physiological basis of the different records that are obtained
9. Define mean electrical vector (axis) of the heart and give the normal range
10. Define the mean QRS vector
11. Describe the axes of leads (hexagonal reference system)
12. Comprehend the vectorial analysis of the normal ECG
13. Determine the mean electrical axis of the ventricular QRS and appreciate the mean axis deviation
14. Explain the concepts of current of injury, J point, and their significance
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
Traditional v. Biomedical Orientation in Maternal Health Care
1. DAI OR
DOCTOR?
•
THIS RESEARCH WAS
FUNDED BY THE
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY
FACULTY RESEARCH
SUPPORT GRANT (2011).
•
IT FOCUSES ON PART OF
THE INTERVIEW DATA.
•
THE RESEARCHER IS
GRATEFUL TO THE WOMEN
AND CHILDREN OF THE
BASTI FOR THEIR
GENEROUS PARTICIPATION.
2. TRADITIONAL V. BIOMEDICAL IN
BIOMEDICAL ORIENTATION IN URBAN
RESETTLEMENT NEIGHBORHOOD IN INDIA
Vinita Agarwal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Salisbury University
3. TRAINING THE TBAS
• 3.7 mill neonatal deaths and 3.3 mill stillbirths globally
• 88% in developing countries
• More than 80% of deliveries by untrained TBAs
• Unclean delivery sheet
• Broken edge of cup to cut umbilical cord
• India’s MMR declined from 254 in 2004—2006 to 212 in 2007—
2009 but high in urban centers (Delhi MMR: 300)
• Efforts to improve access to institutional delivery through cash
incentives, training of TBAs faces challenges
• Gender specific complexity of rural—urban migration
• Gendered access, exclusion, marginalization
• Cost, threat to female modesty
4. RESEARCH GOAL
• Interrogate transitory migrant spaces in urban areas
• Fertile sites for communicative (re)tellings of traditional
knowledge
• Ongoing sense-making in maternal health discourses.
• Communicatively-grounded description
• Traditional and biomedical maternal health beliefs of migrant
women participants in one temporary urban resettlement
community (basti) in India
• To inform reproductive health policy in gendered migration.
5. TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE
• “The sum total of knowledge, skills, and practices based on the
theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different
cultures that are used to maintain health, as well as to
prevent, diagnose, improve, or treat physical and mental
illnesses” (WHO, 2008)
• Integrative balance between nature and human body (GeistMartin, et al., 2008)
• Achieving discursive legitimacy for traditional medicine (Dutta &
Zoller, 2008)
• Challenges in assimilating these in maternity health practices
• Practitioner disapproval
• Goal discrepancies
• Misaligned expectations
6. DAI AND MATERNAL
HEALTH IN THE BASTI
• Traditional as parallel authoritative knowledge form
• Go beyond descriptive, outcome-based evaluations
• Interrogate implicit “authority” of the biomedical over traditional
• Role of everyday processes in maternal health knowledge
• Dai in the women’s lives and meanings of maternal health in the
basti
RQ
• What are the discursive strategies employed by urban migrant
women in a temporary neighborhood basti to legitimize the
traditional maternal health knowledge practices of the dai?
8. METHODS
• IRB approval 2011, 14 days in basti daily trips, New Delhi, India
• Video-recorded semi-structured interviews N = 25
• 3—7 pages each, Hindi, transcribed professional agency
• Observer-as-participant: (Lindlof & Taylor, 2002)
• Lived day-to-day understandings, from multiple viewpoints
• Foregrounding participants’ contextual experiences framing the
maternal body in the traditional and biomedical perspectives
• Talking, helping, observing, playing with the children as time
allowed within the daily routines
9. ENTERING THE
SCENE
•
Familiar stranger
•
Approval of the basti dai, also
informal head of basti
•
Informant as teacher (Gubrium &
Holstein, 2001)
•
Privacy concerns
DATA GATHERING
•
Moderately phrased schedule, elicitation interview
•
Probing and structured questions
•
Domain-specific questions combined with probes for meaningful
comparisons
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Complimentary reciprocity experiences (Gubrium & Holstein, 2002)
10. DATA ANALYTIC
STRATEGIES
• Draw on researcher standpoint
• Sensitizing concepts first pass
(Charmaz, 2001)
• Sensitive to local frames and meanings
• Line-by-line data gathering analysis
• Member validation of emerging categories
• Meanings from significant issues (Ellingson & Buzzanell, 1999)
• Implied and explicit meanings
• Codes for comparison of emerging categories across participants
• Codes synthesized into categories representing recurrent themes
12. TRADITIONAL WAYS KEEP THE
BALANCE
• “if we go to the doctor, we will have to eat rice, sometimes they
will put you on a glucose drip, so in our customs, we don’t have
glucose at this time. . . So if they give you so much of all this, so
our balance in the body gets spoilt.”
• Faith, tradition, spirituality
• Herbs, diet, massage with empathetic understanding of gender
sensitivity
• Day-to-day practices
• “we don’t let her have shower with cold water. . .”
• “we give her a potion to drink . . . So our stomachs do not expand”
13. TRADITIONAL WAYS KEEP THE
BALANCE
• Balance between maternal body and fetus
• “Over there medicines do all the work . . .”
• Traditional work of achieving maternal health is based on
knowledge of the natural order of preparation and ingestion, the
properties of herbs, even the material of the cooking vessel.
• “When we take traditional herbs and medicine. . . it cleans out
our stomachs, brings life to our bodies. . . So now when you
have a kid, in that matter you should eat the traditional nutrition
about two months, then it will benefit you in the sense that your
body will be healthful and vital and your child will be full of
life, when he/she drinks her mother’s milk, then the child also
gets life” (# 7)
14. DOCTOR MEANS WELL, BUT
GOOD FOR EMERGENCY
• “What we do, how do they know? They don’t live here, how will
they know what we think?” (# 20)
15. DOCTOR MEANS WELL, BUT
GOOD FOR EMERGENCY
“In my village, women do not go to
the hospital to give birth, they call
the dai and give birth at home. . .
only when there is a big
emergency, then we take the
woman to the hospital, if the baby
is born at home, then we don’t go
to the hospital.” (# 18)
16. DOCTORS TRY TO DO
CESAREAN, ARE INTRUSIVE
• Fundamental, ontological distrust of biomedical community
• Training dais to offer referrals to hospitals
• Offer tetanus toxoid vaccinations helpful
• “They (the medical community) only ask us to go to the hospital
so we can give birth early, they will give us medicines and
injections for that. . . this is in God’s hands, not in our hands, is
it?. . . the medical community will advise everyone to go to the
hospital, but what is our practice, is our practice, everyone has
their own beliefs.”
17. DOCTORS TRY TO DO
CESAREAN, ARE INTRUSIVE
• “In the hospital, they touch your stomach here and
there, and prod you this way and that, with the dai, you
can give birth in the comfort of your home. . . In the
hospital, it is not that advisable to go there, because in the
hospital the doctors may cut you up (Cesarean), they do
different intrusive procedures.”
18. IT’S A MATTER OF LITERACY
• “The doctor is also like a kind of god, but the dai also has her
place, she is also right, but nothing compared to the doctor. The
doctor can even revive the dead. The dai cannot do that.” (# 24)
• “Now if we are smart enough and intelligent, then we can also
learn how to do the dai’s work, and if we are able to go out and we
go to the hospital, then we can see what is it that the doctor is
doing?” ( # 7)
20. DISCUSSION
• Traditional orientation embodied the organic relationship
• Myths and rites
• Materiality of traditional practices
• Enactment through maternal health traditions
• Maternal body as life-giving, sustained and protected
• The biomedical tradition
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•
•
•
Pregnancy as a physical “condition” that needed treatment
Violating belief of maternal body and nature connection
Maternal body was an unnatural condition
Assisted through medicines to fulfill its birth-giving goal
21. DISCUSSION
• Center maternal body—nature connection
• Incorporate the dai as the influential opinion leader
• Trust in biomedical approach—
• Situate the maternal body in community traditions
• A support-system that respects traditional home-based care
• Gendered dimensions of urban migrant sites
• Fertile spaces of health knowledge (re)constitution
• (Re)articulations of social roles, stories, frames of
references, metaphors, and community-defining strategies.
22. RECOMMENDATIONS
• To meaningfully assimilate the traditional and the biomedical
approaches, maternal health campaigns:
(a) take steps to incorporate individual food choices and address
issues of modesty with women,
(a) respect decisions made by the dai as legitimate forms of maternal
care (e.g., taking showers),
(a) take steps to nurture trust among the women, particularly through
reassuring care given to protect the newborn (not be stolen),
(b) keep family members center-stage as key publics in decisionmaking for perceived invasive procedures (e.g., Cesarean).
23. LIMITATIONS
• As a mother and researcher seeking to understand maternal
practices
• Allowed full access to the women’s lives and stories along with
my child, who played with the children in the basti.
• The transcripts reflect challenges of staying with a similar set of
question—order
• Unique colloquial manner of responding to questions
• Implicit assumption that I understand and am a part of the same
cultural sense-making landscape
• Many things would not be spelled out unless I explicitly asked.
24. SIGNIFICANCE
• Socially constructed nature of maternal health
• Women’s sense-making practices as they articulate traditional
maternal practices in gendered urban spaces
• Dai as a trusted guide
• The maternal body within the family, basti, and local traditions
• Legitimizing and delegitimizing practices <--> changing
relationships, resources, social norms of urban migrant spaces.
Urban migrant spaces face negative outcomes caused by the avoidable delay in seeking medical help While health care policy initiatives train the dai to advise institutional assistance in a timely manner, such measures also need to address the communicative framing among migrant women of the biomedical orientation as a dependency-inducing step only undertaken during an emergency when all else is failing
Training the TBAs to manage common antenatal, perinatal, and neonatal conditions has seen some success in reducing neonatal mortality in populations with limited access to health care (see Gill, Phiri-Mazala, Guerina, Kasimba, Mulenga, MacLeod, et al., 2011 for Zambia; Goudar, Dhaded, McClure, Derman, Patil, Mahantshetti, et al., 2012 for India). In large part, this reduction in neonatal mortality has been attributed to successful following of best practices such as using a clean delivery kit, a plastic sheet for delivery, a boiled blade to cut the cord, a boiled thread to tie the cord, and use of antiseptic to clean the umbilicus (Seward, Osrin, Li, Costello, Pulkki-Brännströmm, Houweling, et al., 2012). more than half the deliveries continue to be home-based, conducted in the squatting position, with the umbilical cord being cut using the edge of a broken cup
While useful in gaining a descriptive understanding of biomedical practices and TBA profiles, such findings do not enrich our understanding of traditional maternal health practices and their dialogic framing of the maternal body as life-generating and healthful, nurtured through holistic practices in symbolic commune with nature and ultimately undermine the contribution of traditional approaches in health maintenance and construction for the women. By undertaking this descriptive, interpretive examination of the locally situated, emergent meanings of maternal health and the maternal body, this study provides an insight into the socially constructed nature of maternal health and ultimately, how it shapes the choices made by women in the basti.
This theme addressed the framing of tensions between the biomedical and traditional maternal health orientation as being too goal-oriented versus holistic and empowering, e.g., the bio-medical system was described as inducing dependency (upon medicine) and being outcome-based whereas the traditional was described as maintaining the balance of energy in the woman’s body. By framing local knowledge as socially constructed such that it reflects local circumstances and realities, women’s care seeking behavior can be productively illuminated (Petterson, Christensson, Freitas, & Johansson, 2004).
Traditional privileges an intimately connected, organic view of the maternal body and nature-as-nourishment.Institutional care seen as ignoring the meanings of maternal health embodied in daily rituals leading to such symptoms of ill-health as flabby stomachs and a post-pregnancy body dependent on Western forms of medicine. Meaningful integration of the biomedical orientation requires embodying local customs and norms in practice, for example, for maternal practices this emphasizes (re)defining maternal care around the woman’s comfort with discussing issues of modesty (Saravanan et al., 2012), accepting that childbearing and childbirth are located within the sphere of women’s experiences.
Although it has been advocated that TBA training should involve different stakeholders including consumers and traditional caregivers to improve MMR outcomes, there is a need to remove the TBA from its present perception of being circumstance driven, marginal, and high-risk health care practice (Sharma, Johansson, Prakasamma, Mayalankar, & Christensson, 2012). In its present status, there is a large variation in the training, education, and competencies of the dai as well as an absence of national legislation recognizing midwifery as an autonomous profession in South Asian countries (Bogren, Wiseman, & Berg, 2012). In their critical ethnography Hilton et al. (2001) note that western medicine was seen as a more defined domain practiced primarily by trained physicians whereas traditional medicine included home remedies, dietary practice, healing practices, and the use of healers considered to be knowledgeable such as veds, homeopaths, babaji’s, and pundits and had a spiritual dimension.
Although it has been advocated that TBA training should involve different stakeholders including consumers and traditional caregivers to improve MMR outcomes, there is a need to remove the TBA from its present perception of being circumstance driven, marginal, and high-risk health care practice (Sharma, Johansson, Prakasamma, Mayalankar, & Christensson, 2012). In its present status, there is a large variation in the training, education, and competencies of the dai as well as an absence of national legislation recognizing midwifery as an autonomous profession in South Asian countries (Bogren, Wiseman, & Berg, 2012). In their critical ethnography Hilton et al. (2001) note that western medicine was seen as a more defined domain practiced primarily by trained physicians whereas traditional medicine included home remedies, dietary practice, healing practices, and the use of healers considered to be knowledgeable such as veds, homeopaths, babaji’s, and pundits and had a spiritual dimension.
Health-seeking behavioral outcomes have been assessed through biomedically-driven criteria (e.g., hemoglobin levels or compliance with iron supplements) In traditional orientation the maternal-child life-body balance and life-vitality are seen as health outcomes TBA-based family planning services reflect a biomedical bias in their focus (recruiting, escorting women to health centers, and supplying maternity kits) “If you are illiterate you think differently from those who are literate, those who are illiterate try to draw on their own traditional knowledge, and are very superstitious, they feel we will go to the hospital, we don’t know what they will do to us there, they will do an operation, they will kill us, many people will say that they will swap your baby for a dead one and sell your child, many illiterate people think like this” (# 13)Need to address the local perceptions of the women About four women in the sample of 25 women interviewed for this study felt differently. Increase skilled TBAs to manage maternal complicationsIntegrate traditional and biomedical in women’s lives
Dai is one of our own A basti mother or an elder A repository of traditional knowledge Recent interest in holistic health practices alludes to the blending of faith, the body, and healthfulness as one seamless concept, whereby the individual is treated along with their condition. Articulating shared understandings of maternal health How traditional approaches are discursively legitimized in the face of urban transition and migrationBelief that traditional practices maintain the delicate, dynamic balance between the maternal body and the food it consumes Traditional maternal health orientation as holistic and empowering, life-giving, nurturing, and protective Fear that such a frame encouraged dependency on medicineBiomedical frame ignorant of the nurturing properties of food and its intimate relationship with the maternal body
Framing of the biomedical profession as favoring Cesarean and intrusive Tensions of navigating the maternal body as an unnatural condition. Sensitivity in recognizing women’s feelings of modestyA quarter of the women interviewed women perceived the bias against the biomedical tradition as a product of illiteracyBias against TBAs The women started with communicating a deep regard for the biomedical tradition and the medical practitioner. Yet, they would move on to describing why that point of view was not appropriate for them. If the pregnancy went wrong, and the dai recommended seeking emergency assistance, they would approach a healthcare institution.
By undertaking this descriptive, interpretive examination of the locally situated, emergent meanings of maternal health and the maternal body,