“Of and beyond medical consequences”: Exploring health information scanning and seeking behaviors of Filipino domestic service workers in Hong Kong

Bernadas, Jan Michael Alexandre C.; Jiang, Li

doi:10.1080/07399332.2015.1107071

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“…They are normally considered as the most competent hospitals in providing medical service, medical education and scientific research.] Bernadas and Jiang's (2016) research on the health of FDWs in Hong Kong SAR of China suggests that employers normally serve as an important resource that FDWs would turn to [20]. Nonetheless, in our study, FDWs in mainland China are reluctant to ask for help from their employers.…”

Section: Limited Access To Healthcare Informationmentioning

confidence: 55%

“…Bernadas and Jiang’s (2016) research on the health of FDWs in Hong Kong SAR of China suggests that employers normally serve as an important resource that FDWs would turn to [ 20 ]. Nonetheless, in our study, FDWs in mainland China are reluctant to ask for help from their employers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing studies have shown that social and ethic networks play important and positive roles in the healthcare-seeking behaviors of FDWs in Hong Kong SAR of China [ 20 ]. However, apart from highlighting that FDWs rely significantly on social networks to seek healthcare and share health-related information, we have also illustrated how ethnic networks can serve as a double-edged sword that may facilitate and misguide FDWs’ health-seeking behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research has shown that foreign domestic workers face inequitable access to healthcare [ 19 ]. Factors such as the lack of knowledge or information about the receiving country’s healthcare system [ 20 ], time flexibility [ 21 ], lack of insurance, and cultural and language barriers [ 22 ] impede them from seeking health services. Even though legal foreign domestic workers have insurance, some of them are unaware of their right to request that their employers provide healthcare treatment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Irregular Migrant Workers and Health: A Qualitative Study of Health Status and Access to Healthcare of the Filipino Domestic Workers in Mainland China

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In public health research, the health issues of irregular and vulnerable migrant populations remain under-explored. In particular, while mainland China has become a new and popular job-seeking destination for Filipino domestic workers (FDWs), the health status of FDWs and their access to healthcare have been invisible to public and academic concerns. This paper fills this lacuna by conducting a qualitative study that investigates FDWs’ self-reported health status and their healthcare-seeking behaviors. The results show that: (1) respondents do not report significant abusive and exploitative experience because the scarcity of FDWs in China in relation to the high demand enables them a certain degree of agency in labour market; (2) while FDWs do report some health problems, they tend to resort to self-medication and food-healing; (3) the main factors influencing health-seeking behavior include the fear of deportation, language gaps, the lack of knowledge of the local healthcare system and dependence on co-ethnic networks which serves as a double-edged sword; (4) these factors also lead to hesitation in health-seeking choice between public and private hospitals, which sometimes result in delayed treatment. This paper contributes to revealing the health conditions of FDWs in mainland China and calls for more inclusive health policy to enroll foreign domestic workers into the local health system in China.

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“…The literature also shows some analysis done by experts on the information seeking behaviours of migrants. Interestingly, the majority of the studies conducted on information seeking behaviour of migrants focuses on health information (Bernadas and Jiang, 2016;Galeshi et al, 2018;Nölke et al, 2015;Oh et al, 2014). For instance, how immigration status exerts a profound influence on the behaviours of Korean American and Native Koreans seeking health information have been explored by (Oh et al, 2014).…”

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Information culture of Ghanaian immigrants living in New Zealand

Boamah

2018

Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the information culture of Ghanaian immigrants living in New Zealand. The values, beliefs and behaviours that influence the ways information is identified, accessed, used, shared and preserved, defines people's information culture. Some Ghanaians have migrated to New Zealand for different reasons, including studies, work and resettlement. To live successfully and peacefully in a foreign country, they need specific information and to understand where to find, use and share it. This paper investigated the factors that influence the beliefs and perspectives Ghanaians hold around information the information they use in New Zealand.Design/methodology/approach -A qualitative approach was adopted. Both questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data from 27 Ghanaians living in different regions of New Zealand. Basic questionnaire analysis was done in survey monkey. Interview transcripts were analysed manually by reading through severally using colour patterns to identify key concepts and themes and using tables to organise them.Findings -The main areas Ghanaians are interested in using information about in New Zealand include education, health, information on environmental issues, New Zealand politics and sports. Few Ghanaians are interested in information about entertainment and religion and agriculture as these areas do not have much impact on the purposes for their lives in New Zealand. Although most Ghanaians consider themselves poor record-keepers, they accord high value to the information they seek and use in New Zealand. Their preferred information source is the World Wide Web, although other sources such as libraries and academic databases are also considered useful. The most preferred and trusted approach of sharing information is face-to-face is considered. Social media, WhatsApp, mobile phones, etc. are also considered reliable ways of communicating information.Research limitations/implication -Only 27 Ghanaians participated in the study, their circumstances surrounding the life in New Zealand may be completely different from other Ghanaians. So their views may not fully reflect the situations of all Ghanaians in New Zealand. Also, the fact that most participants were familiar with the researcher could impact their responses.Practical implication -This paper provides a useful understanding of the information cultural patterns of Ghanaians and can provide a useful basis for further investigations of Ghanaians and other immigrants' life patterns in New Zealand.

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Health inequities faced by Ethiopian migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

Fernandez

2018

Health & Place

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This paper investigates the healthcare needs, access to healthcare, and healthcare strategies of Ethiopian migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Lebanon, drawing on qualitative empirical research. The analysis focusses on four types of health care needs: minor illnesses, pregnancies, serious illnesses (such as cancer, tuberculosis or heart problems), and emergencies (due to accidents, suicide attempts or assaults). Predictably, access to healthcare is distinctly differentiated according to an MDW's status as a documented, freelancer, or undocumented worker. Drawing on the concepts of systemic health inequities and inter-personal racial discrimination, the paper provides evidence for inequitable access to healthcare experienced by Ethiopian women in Lebanon. I identify the specific forms of exclusion they experience and develop a matrix for analysis of systemic inequities in access to healthcare differentiated by migrant status.

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“Of and beyond medical consequences”: Exploring health information scanning and seeking behaviors of Filipino domestic service workers in Hong Kong

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Irregular Migrant Workers and Health: A Qualitative Study of Health Status and Access to Healthcare of the Filipino Domestic Workers in Mainland China

Irregular Migrant Workers and Health: A Qualitative Study of Health Status and Access to Healthcare of the Filipino Domestic Workers in Mainland China

Information culture of Ghanaian immigrants living in New Zealand

Health inequities faced by Ethiopian migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

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