Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health

Hammoudeh, Doaa; Coast, Ernestina; Lewis, David; Meulen, Yoke van der; Leone, Tiziana; Giacaman, Rita

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.028

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“…[25,73,86,104]). Most research on menopause has been conducted with white, English-speaking, middle-class, cisgender, heterosexual, married women, with some notable exceptions (e.g., [3,4,21,29,44,71,72,78,98,102]). We use the term women when citing previous research if the samples only included women.…”

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Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The menopause transition involves bodily-rooted, socially-shaped changes, often in a context of medicalisation that marginalises people based on their age and gender. With the goal of addressing this social justice matter with a participatory design approach, we started to cultivate partnerships with people going through menopause. This paper reports on interviews with 12 women and a design workshop with three. Our data analysis highlights their experiences from a holistic perspective that reclaims the primacy of the body and acknowledges the entanglement of the physical and the psychosocial. Participants' design concepts show how design can come close the body to make space for menopause experiences, recognising and transforming them. We discuss how HCI can actively engage with the body to promote appreciation for it during menopause, and call for design that accompanies people in resisting the medicalisation of menopause as an enactment of social justice in everyday life. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design; Participatory design.

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confidence: 99%

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Felice

Søndergaard

Balaam

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Women’s health beyond reproductive ages in LMICs is generally neglected [ 1 ]. We know little about women’s health needs and health service utilization beyond those linked to reproduction [ 2 , 3 ]. Failure to understand and meet women’s health needs beyond their reproductive years is detrimental to health across the lifecourse, especially given the increasing importance of non-communicable diseases at older ages in LMICs [ 4 ].…”

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Women’s health in the occupied Palestinian territories: Contextual influences on subjective and objective health measures

Bates¹,

Leone²,

Ghandour³

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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The links between two commonly used measures of health—self-rated health (SRH) and self-reported illness (SRI)–and socio-economic and contextual factors are poorly understood in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and more specifically among women in conflict areas. This study assesses the socioeconomic determinants of three self-reported measures of health among women in the occupied Palestinian territories; self-reported self-rated health (SRH) and two self-reported illness indicators (acute and chronic diseases). Data were obtained from the 2010 Palestinian Family Health Survey (PFHS), providing a sample of 14,819 women aged 15–54. Data were used to construct three binary dependent variable—SRH (poor or otherwise), and reporting two SRI indicators—general illness and chronic illness (yes or otherwise). Multilevel logistic regression models for each dependent variable were estimated, with individual level socioeconomic and sociodemographic predictors and random intercepts at the governorate and community level included, to explore the determinants of inequalities in health. Consistent socioeconomic inequalities in women’s reports of both SRH and SRI are found. Better educated, wealthier women are significantly less likely to report an SRI and poor SRH. However, intra-oPt regional disparities are not consistent across SRH and SRI. Women from the Gaza Strip are less likely to report poor SRH compared to women from all other regions in the West Bank. Geographic and residential factors, together with socioeconomic status, are key to understanding differences between women’s reports of SRI and SRH in the oPt. More evidence is needed on the health of women in the oPt beyond the ages currently included in surveys. The results for SRH show discrepancies which can often occur in conflict affected settings where a combination of ill-health and poor access to health services impact on women’s health. These results indicate that future policies should be developed in a holistic manner by targeting physical and mental health and well-being in programmes addressing the health needs of women, especially those in conflict affected zones.

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“…Relatedly, our findings point to how sole reliance on the dominant biomedical paradigm to examine the impact of trauma and psychological burdens of armed conflict tends to underestimate the social, political, and cultural determinants of women’s suffering (Klarić et al, 2007; Tegtmeyer & Martin, 2017). It focuses prevalently on the biopsychological functioning of the victims, much more than on the micro and macro ecological dimensions that influence women’s adjustments to ongoing traumatic realities (Hammoudeh et al, 2017). In the case of Palestinian women, individual, biopsychological approaches seem to narrow the opportunity both to deeply understand the political and social determinants of the psychological suffering and competencies for coping and skills of survival rising up from the daily struggle for existence (Barber et al, 2014; Giacaman, 2018; Richter-Devroe, 2011).…”

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Survival and Resilience Among Palestinian Women: A Qualitative Analysis Using Individual and Collective Life Events Calendars

Veronese

Sousa

Cavazzoni

2020

Violence Against Women

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Responding to the need for more information concerning the mental health and psychological well-being of women living amid political oppression and war, this study aimed to explore specific factors that contribute to women’s individual and collective perceptions about war and the associated traumatic life events that occurred during their lives. Moving from a socioecological and culture-informed perspective, we used narrative timelines elicited from 21 Palestinian women in Gaza, both individually and collectively, as a tool for both data collection and intervention. A deductive, top-down, thematic content analysis procedure was used to categorize data. The main events outlined by the women in their historical accounts, both individual and collective, were linked to political events in and surrounding Palestine. The life events’ calendars reflect a constant attempt in balancing and compensating traumatic events with sources of well-being related to social support and family. Individual and collective narrative activities contributed to generate a significant reframing in the attribution of meaning and emotional perceptions of the participants. Women articulated how they build resilience through transgenerational and daily practices of resistance that encompass indigenous strategies of coping and skills of survival.

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Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health

Cited by 9 publications

References 51 publications

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Resisting the Medicalisation of Menopause: Reclaiming the Body through Design

Women’s health in the occupied Palestinian territories: Contextual influences on subjective and objective health measures

Survival and Resilience Among Palestinian Women: A Qualitative Analysis Using Individual and Collective Life Events Calendars

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