Feminist critiques of health promotion

Daykin, Norma; Naidoo, Jennie

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“…The concept of personal identity situated within a network of moral obligations is also strongly present in many health promotion strategies ( Daykin & Naidoo 1995, Nettleton & Bunton 1995). The individual is responsible for his/her own health (and in the case of women, the health of others), through adopting healthy lifestyles, and using services to maintain health.…”

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Understanding dissatisfied users: developing a framework for comprehending criticisms of health care work

Coyle

1999

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Recent government proposals have underlined the importance of ascertaining users' views of health care. Traditionally these have been obtained through satisfaction surveys. However, researchers argue that the focus of attention should now shift to exploring dissatisfaction because it highlights more clearly any problems in lay-practitioner relationships. Research has shown that dissatisfaction is a complex social construct which is underpinned by a range of values, beliefs, attitudes and experiences. The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the meaning of dissatisfaction by exploring how dissatisfied users attribute cause, responsibility and blame for their untoward experiences. Forty-one people were identified from a household survey of user views as experiencing problems with their health care. They were interviewed in depth, and a grounded theory approach was used to construct a framework inductively from their accounts. This identified a number of normative expectations through which health work was routinely criticized; these included respondents casting aspersions on the professional integrity of health care practitioners and preserving their own moral identity through demonstrating competence, knowledge, rationality, reasonableness and concern for others. Moreover, it is argued that these patterns help practitioners to understand how dissatisfied users' perceive subsequent health care encounters.

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Understanding dissatisfied users: developing a framework for comprehending criticisms of health care work

Coyle

1999

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…connecting residents with institutionalized healthcare). Initially, the model had limited success due to its appropriation of indigenous practices to promote a discourse of individual health and responsibility rather than one that considered the social and cultural dimensions of health care inequities (Daykin & Naidoo, 1995;Hester, 2014 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t liberation theology (Freire, 1970) and social movements for literacy and land reform in Latin America.…”

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Social Design Experiments: Toward Equity by Design

Gutiérrez

Jurow

2016

Journal of the Learning Sciences

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It seems to me that American researchers are constantly seeking to explain how the child came to be what he is; we in the USSR are striving to discover not how the child came to be what he is, but how he can become what he not yet is. -A. N. Leontiev (cited in Cole, 1979) In this paper, we advance an approach to design research that is organized around a commitment to transforming the educational and social circumstances of members of non-dominant communities as a means of promoting social equity and learning. We refer to this approach as "social design experimentation" (Gutiérrez, 2008). This methodology developed over three decades in response to systems of education and learning that were failing immigrant youth, dual language learners, and youth from under-resourced schools and communities (Gutiérrez, Hunter, & Arzubiaga, 2009).

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“…This decontextualised understanding of the health‐related practices of individuals has led to a weighty criticisms of the ideology of individual responsibility that it entails (e.g. Davison and Smith 1995; Daykin and Naidoo 1995). The notion of ‘victim blaming’ is used to highlight the fact that analyses that have an exclusive focus on individual behaviours and lack any reference to or consideration of the social context within which the individual’s behaviour takes place will put an unreasonable amount of responsibility for ‘healthy behaviour’ upon the individual actor (Blaxer 1993; Crawford 1977).…”

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Problems of the Healthy Lifestyle Discourse

Korp

2010

Sociology Compass

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Strategies for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health have a long history of individual‐level interventions with the promotion of ‘healthy lifestyles’ being the primary target. The focus at an individual level devoid of social context has provoked a sociological critique of the prevailing healthy lifestyle discourse. This critique emphasises the social causes of health‐related attitudes and behaviours in society, and the ideology of individual responsibility and ‘victim blaming’ that an individualist approach entails. At the same time, the prevailing notion of ‘health’ has been scrutinised within the framework of health promotion stressing a definition emphasising well‐being and quality of life. This ‘positive’ definition of health broadens the possible reach of ‘healthy lifestyles’. Theoretical models emphasising structural aspects of the lifestyle construct have been produced. In this article, it is argued that while these models are based on the work of Bourdieu and his concept of habitus, they nevertheless overlook the importance of power and symbolic dominance in relation to the construction of ‘healthy’ and the understanding of lifestyles.

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Feminist critiques of health promotion

Cited by 61 publications

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Understanding dissatisfied users: developing a framework for comprehending criticisms of health care work

Understanding dissatisfied users: developing a framework for comprehending criticisms of health care work

Social Design Experiments: Toward Equity by Design

Problems of the Healthy Lifestyle Discourse

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