Health and capabilities: a conceptual clarification

Tengland, Per-Anders

doi:10.1007/s11019-019-09902-w

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“…However, socioeconomic inequalities imposed limitations on the access to quality, comprehensive, and adequate health services, limiting the opportunities for seeking health once they cancel the internal features of a person (capabilities). These capabilities are fundamental in determining the degree of freedom for seeking health, such as self-knowledge, skills, and competences [ 47 ]. In such contexts, income appears as a fundamental element for increasing nutritional status [ 26 , 27 , 35 ], and also as an antidote against those inequalities [ 23 ].…”

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The Determinants of Infant Mortality in Brazil, 2010–2020: A Scoping Review

Bugelli

Silva

Dowbor

et al. 2021

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Despite the implementation of social and health policies that positively affected the health of the populations in Brazil, since 2009 the country has experienced a slower decline of infant mortality. After an economic and political crisis, Brazil witnessed increases in infant mortality that raised questions about what are the determinants of infant mortality after the implementation of such policies. We conducted a scoping review to identify and summarize those determinants with searches in three databases: LILACS, MEDLINE, and SCIELO. We included studies published between 2010 and 2020. We selected 23 papers: 83% associated infant mortality with public policies; 78% related infant mortality with the use of the health system and socioeconomic and living conditions; and 27% related to individual characteristics to infant mortality. Inequalities in the access to healthcare seem to have important implications in reducing infant mortality. Socioeconomic conditions and health-related factors such as income, education, fertility, housing, and the Bolsa Família. Program coverage was pointed out as the main determinants of infant mortality. Likewise, recent changes in infant mortality in Brazil are likely related to these factors. We also identified a gap in terms of studies on a possible association between employment and infant mortality.

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The Determinants of Infant Mortality in Brazil, 2010–2020: A Scoping Review

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Silva

Dowbor

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“…More broadly, literacy has been given considerable attention in the work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. According to Maddox (2008), Sen positions literacy within the hard core of 'basic capabilities', while Nussbaum includes literacy within her list of 'central human capabilities'; that is, internal factors that constitute a person's fundamental health (Tengland, 2020). Nowadays, a range of technology-based health tools and a range of devices for online connection and interaction permeate daily life, while the Internet has become an infrastructure for all kinds of services.…”

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eHealth Literacy and Capability in the Context of the Pandemic Crisis

Kokkinakis

2022

International Perspectives on Aging

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The rapidly increasing size of the ageing population, and in particular older adults living alone, requires the incorporation of eHealth into social and healthcare services, in order to choose the best way to manage their needs and demands for health and medical care. The purpose of this brief scoping study is to describe and identify an important dimension in this context, namely eHealth literacy (eHL) and its relation to health-promoting behaviours among older adults within the capability theoretical framework. The chapter examines some aspects of eHL and recent research highlighting the importance of eHL and the direct correlation between eHL and quality of life for older adults within the capability context. To make this more specific and explicit, this study takes into consideration outstanding circumstances, such as those caused by a pandemic crisis, namely the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since the COVID-19 pandemic has required urgent action and rapid containment, it offers a unique opportunity to test and evaluate the readiness of healthcare systems and to rapidly develop, scale up and enhance eHealth for the benefit of older people. However, this comes with a price, which is the necessity to quickly and effectively navigate complex information environments and manage behavioural changes and health.

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“…In this context, ability can be defined as the inner individual dimension or capacity to transform social resources in society into health. Ability is closely linked to, and also overlapping with the concepts of empowerment and capability since it situates a person's prerequisites to act within the complex and mutual construction of an individual person's social life situation [22][23][24]. More precisely, ability involves the executive action of a behaviour that can create health within a specific social context.…”

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Analysing intersecting social resources in young people’s ability to suggest safer sex - results from a national population-based survey in Sweden

2022

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Background Safer sex is one of the most crucial areas in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Drawing on the theory of health promotion where social life generates resources for health our hypothesis is that having control over one’s life situation, affects the ability for safer sex and thereby sexual health. The aim is to explore the association between having control over one’s life and the ability to suggest safer sex among young people aged 16–29, and how this plays out in relation to membership of six constructed social groups based on: gender, transgender experience, sexual identity, economy, being foreign-born, and social welfare recipiency followed by an in-depth analysis of the intersection of gender and sexual identity. Methods The data set comprises cross-sectional survey responses from a stratified random sample of 7755 in the total Swedish population of young people. The SRHR-focused questionnaire was developed within the HIV-monitoring program at the Public Health Agency of Sweden. Data collection was conducted by Statistics Sweden between April 15 and June 8 in 2015. The survey had a response rate of 26%, which was in line with the study design. Statistical analysis was used to explore the self-reported outcome variable ability for safer sex and the exposure variable control over one’s life. The methods used comprise multivariate logistic regression and an intersecting multivariate regression exploring 12 intersecting social positions by gender and sexual identity. Results The results show that young people’s control over their lives is associated with their ability for safer sex. Due to this, control over one’s life can be seen as a resource for safer sex. The associations in the 12 intersecting social positions showed complex patterns. Conclusions The intersections of resources show the complexity and that gender cannot account for all differences in the resources for young people’s ability to suggest safer sex. Implications for policy and practitioners involve both addressing and strengthening the sexual rights of young people from sexual minorities and tailoring interventions in a way that takes the intersections between gender and sexual identity into consideration.

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Health and capabilities: a conceptual clarification

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

The Determinants of Infant Mortality in Brazil, 2010–2020: A Scoping Review

The Determinants of Infant Mortality in Brazil, 2010–2020: A Scoping Review

eHealth Literacy and Capability in the Context of the Pandemic Crisis

Analysing intersecting social resources in young people’s ability to suggest safer sex - results from a national population-based survey in Sweden

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