Challenges in sexual and reproductive health of Roma people who live in settlements in Serbia

Sedlecky, Katarina; Rasevic, Mirjana

doi:10.3109/13625187.2014.957825

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“…Due to the difficult access to health care caused by various factors (large distance of the health centre, insufficient hygiene, discrimination against Roma shown in health care institutions, lack of access to prescribed medication due to financial reasons, etc.) a part of the Roma population visits the doctor only in serious health conditions (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18). However, the Roma population prefers births in a hospital or in a healthcare institution.…”

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Risk factors of preterm birth and low birth weight neonates among Roma and non-Roma mothers

Jana

Rimárová

Urdzík

et al. 2018

Cent Eur J Public Health

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Objective: This study analyses the differences in birth outcomes between Roma and non-Roma mothers and investigates the potential causes of such differences.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 1,989 non-Roma and 799 Roma mothers who gave birth in 2014 and 2015 at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic of Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice. Data on mothers and new-born infants have been obtained from the birth book and from the reports on mothers at childbirth. For low birth weight we considered the weight of a new-born weighing less than 2,500 grams and as for premature birth we referred to childbirth before pregnancy week 37. The file was split by ethnicity and statistically processed in IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0.Results: Our results confirmed a lower birth weight among Roma children (-365.4 grams, p < 0.001). The shorter gestation age and higher risk of premature birth were not statistically significant regarding Roma children. Based on the characteristics of Roma mothers, they are at higher risk of giving birth as minor (OR = 23.64; 95% CI = 15.29-36.54; p < 0.001), as single mothers (OR = 7.13; 95% CI = 5.80-8.76; p < 0.001), with basic education or lack of education (OR = 141.31; 95% CI = 100. 47-198.76; p < 0.001). They also have a higher risk of smoking during pregnancy (OR = 23.84; 95% CI = 18.06-31.49; p < 0.001); drinking alcohol (OR = 11.71; 95% CI = 3.36-40.90; p < 0.001) and taking drugs (OR = 8.70; 95% CI = 1.81-42.02; p < 0.001). Roma women attended gynaecologists more rarely.Conclusion: It is therefore important to support the work of community health workers and stimulate collaboration between community health professionals, paediatricians and gynaecologists to overcome institutional barriers in maternity and child care for mothers living in Roma settlement.

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Risk factors of preterm birth and low birth weight neonates among Roma and non-Roma mothers

Jana

Rimárová

Urdzík

et al. 2018

Cent Eur J Public Health

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“…However, scientific studies mostly do not document the whole region, as most are only focused on single countries (e.g. Andreassen et al 2018;Cook et al 2013;Dimitrova et al 2013;Dimitrova et al 2018;Kamberi et al 2015;Kósa et al 2015;Nikolic et al 2015;Sedlecky et al 2015;Walfisch et al 2013;Zeljko et al 2013). Findings on other determinants of health in CEE Roma are even more varied and sparse.…”

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The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

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Segregated Roma are also being oppressed through their self-exclusionary hopes and tastes. Chapter 3 of this thesis 2. Pushed and pulled towards the so-called margins, most segregated Roma become skilled at escaping the relative disadvantages of life standard in the so-called centers. Chapter 4 of this thesis 3. Many people who happen to serve segregated Roma feel that such position gradually forces them to choose between useless burnout and cynical neglect. Chapter 5 of this thesis 4. Trusting segregated Roma with more decision power and resources causes many of them to challenge the local structures that oppress them. Chapter 6 of this thesis 5. It would require a rather explicit selection process to make any risky genes concentrate in any Roma group-much more selective than Roma history could lead to. Chapter 7 of this thesis 6. Antigypsyism drives the poor health status of the Roma, mostly because most people involved, including segregated Roma, do not understand that it is so. Discussion of this thesis 7. We cannot claim to have formulated a convincing denial of the inequality of the human races, so long as we fail to consider the problem of the inequality-or diversity-of human cultures, which is in fact-however unjustifiably-closely associated with it in the public mind. Claude Levi-Strauss 8. We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski 9. We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. John Lennon 10. We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

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“…Peters et al (91) found that Gypsies and Travellers and African Caribbean participants had a higher use of midwife services than participants from the White population and Pakistani Muslim population; though the authors acknowledge that this may be due to higher fertility rates. Evidence relating to Roma women's use of maternity services in Eastern and Central Europe suggests that in general, Roma women engage less with maternity services than non-Roma women (59,82,93,95). For example, in a study in Serbia, 6% of Roma women compared to 1% of non Roma women had no antenatal appointments (95), and in a study in Turkey (66), slightly more non-Roma than Roma women (92.9% and 82.9% respectively) had home visits from midwives.…”

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“…Evidence relating to Roma women's use of maternity services in Eastern and Central Europe suggests that in general, Roma women engage less with maternity services than non-Roma women (59,82,93,95). For example, in a study in Serbia, 6% of Roma women compared to 1% of non Roma women had no antenatal appointments (95), and in a study in Turkey (66), slightly more non-Roma than Roma women (92.9% and 82.9% respectively) had home visits from midwives.…”

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Enhancing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller peoples’ trust: using maternity and early years’ health services and dental health services as exemplars of mainstream service provision

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Challenges in sexual and reproductive health of Roma people who live in settlements in Serbia

Cited by 24 publications

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Risk factors of preterm birth and low birth weight neonates among Roma and non-Roma mothers

Risk factors of preterm birth and low birth weight neonates among Roma and non-Roma mothers

The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

Enhancing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller peoples’ trust: using maternity and early years’ health services and dental health services as exemplars of mainstream service provision

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