Religious leaders gain ground in the Jordanian family‐planning movement

Underwood, Carol; Kamhawi, Sarah; Nofal, Ahmad

doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2013.07.006

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“…While some studies show that religious leaders may agree to perform such healthpromoting tasks (Underwood et al 2013), Ruijs et al (2013) found that religious leaders in their Dutch study were unwilling to promote specific health agendas on behalf of the Dutch authorities. This approach has not been extensively discussed in Sweden, neither in the public debate nor in research.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The scientific evidence regarding the content and effects of religious counselling within healthcare institutions globally is, nevertheless, sporadic. While many have argued that religious leaders can help to encourage healthy behaviours among devout patients (Padela et al 2011;AlRawi et al 2012;Underwood et al 2013;Moberg and Ståle 2014), critics claim that it cannot be taken for granted that religious leaders would always agree with policy-makers about the best options for the prevention of disease or medical treatment. Ruijs and colleagues, for instance, found that the views on vaccination among religious leaders in their study varied "from full acceptance to clear refusal" (Ruijs et al 2013, p. 1).…”

Section: Spiritual Counselling In Healthcare: a Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ruijs and colleagues, for instance, found that the views on vaccination among religious leaders in their study varied "from full acceptance to clear refusal" (Ruijs et al 2013, p. 1). Existing evidence shows that, while some religious leaders' ideas regarding a specific query can be compatible with official health policies in one country, other advice may be incompatible with the state's public health interests (Underwood et al 2013). In Sweden, several studies have pointed out that, in the Swedish discourse on multiculturalism, it is often taken for granted that 'cultural diversity' is automatically enriching (Carlbom 2003;Wickström 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Does Religious Counselling on Abortion Comply with Sweden’s ‘Women-Friendly’ Abortion Policies? A Qualitative Exploration Among Religious Counsellors

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Carlbom

Johnsdotter

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Sexuality & Culture

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The abortion discourse in Sweden is marked by historically liberal ideals about women's inviolable right to make autonomous reproductive decisions. However, to respond to the increase in cultural and religious pluralism building up over several decades, religious organizations have been given opportunities to provide so-called spiritual care in affiliation with Swedish hospitals since the 1980s. In this study we asked: in what ways do religious counsellors, affiliated with Swedish hospitals, construct their ideas on abortion, and how well do their ideas comply with Sweden's 'women-friendly' abortion policies? Through interviews with Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, and Buddhist religious counsellors, we wanted to empirically test the presumption underlying the decisions to grant space to religious actors in Swedish healthcare, i.e., that religious counselling serves to complement existing services. We found that it cannot be expected that religious advice on abortion will always comply with Swedish abortion law and with the women-friendly abortion policy that the Swedish state seeks to impose. When policy-makers open up possibilities for diverse norms on abortion to manifest in close affiliation with healthcare institutions, they must be aware that some religious counsellors argue that only God-and not the woman herself-can decide whether a woman can terminate a pregnancy. We argue that the findings in this study speaks to what researchers have referred to as the "diversity-equality paradox", which highlights the tension between the promotion of religious ideas on abortion on the one hand and the promotion of liberal ideas about women's reproductive freedom on the other.

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Section: Spiritual Counselling In Healthcare: a Backgroundmentioning

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Does Religious Counselling on Abortion Comply with Sweden’s ‘Women-Friendly’ Abortion Policies? A Qualitative Exploration Among Religious Counsellors

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Carlbom

Johnsdotter

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“…To ensure internal validity, all questions were informed by research objectives and reviewed literature. Cronbach’s alpha (α) was conducted to check for scale reliability of the 19 Likert scale items on workplace motivating factors and found to be 0.82, which is above the 0.70 rule of thumb [13,14]. Moreover, different cadres of health professionals were interviewed to ensure external validity of the findings.…”

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Association between health worker motivation and healthcare quality efforts in Ghana

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BackgroundGhana is one of the sub-Saharan African countries making significant progress towards universal access to quality healthcare. However, it remains a challenge to attain the 2015 targets for the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) partly due to health sector human resource challenges including low staff motivation.PurposeThis paper addresses indicators of health worker motivation and assesses associations with quality care and patient safety in Ghana. The aim is to identify interventions at the health worker level that contribute to quality improvement in healthcare facilities.MethodsThe study is a baseline survey of health workers (n = 324) in 64 primary healthcare facilities in two regions in Ghana. Data collection involved quality care assessment using the SafeCare Essentials tool, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) accreditation data and structured staff interviews on workplace motivating factors. The Spearman correlation test was conducted to test the hypothesis that the level of health worker motivation is associated with level of effort by primary healthcare facilities to improve quality care and patient safety.ResultsThe quality care situation in health facilities was generally low, as determined by the SafeCare Essentials tool and NHIA data. The majority of facilities assessed did not have documented evidence of processes for continuous quality improvement and patient safety. Overall, staff motivation appeared low although workers in private facilities perceived better working conditions than workers in public facilities (P <0.05). Significant positive associations were found between staff satisfaction levels with working conditions and the clinic’s effort towards quality improvement and patient safety (P <0.05).ConclusionAs part of efforts towards attainment of the health related MDGs in Ghana, more comprehensive staff motivation interventions should be integrated into quality improvement strategies especially in government-owned healthcare facilities where working conditions are perceived to be the worst.

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“…Encouragement at a personal level from opinion leaders seems to be more effective, but opinion leaders are not highly represented in personal networks of rural Bangladeshi women. This casts doubt on the argument given in a growing literature that the involvement of religious leaders in women's family-planning decision making can lead to more positive attitudes to contraception, as suggested by Underwood, Kamhawi and Nofal, (2013), Orubuloye et al, (2011) and AbuMoghli et al, (2010). The influence of the mass media and family welfare assistants is important; as these are conduits where by new ideas can be diffused in to networks.…”

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Sustaining a Regime of Low Fertility

Raeside

Gayen

2016

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<p>In several developing countries, notably Bangladesh, fertility rates fell dramatically in the later part of the twentieth century and have sustained at low levels. Traditional socioeconomic models do not fully explain the profile of fertility fall especially for rural areas where well-being has not sufficiently improved. This paper offers a supplementary explanation that mass media facilitated the diffusion of contraceptive knowledge, leading to an ideological shift to value small families, and social networks especially reciprocal encouragement about contraception practice among network members has helped to sustain this shift. To investigate the role of encouragement of immediate network members in their family planning behaviour, data was gathered using an interview-based survey of 694 women of fertile ages in seven rural Bangladeshi villages. Findings give support to the importance of social networks in maintaining achieved low fertility levels. When there is strong reciprocal encouragement of network members about practicing contraception then using contraception is more likely. This may offer an explanation to sustaining a low fertility regime.</p>

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Religious leaders gain ground in the Jordanian family‐planning movement

Abstract: Culturally appropriate training for RLs can lead to a deeper understanding of, and appreciation for, reproductive health and family planning, with the effects manifesting as increased preaching and/or counseling about these important topics.

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Does Religious Counselling on Abortion Comply with Sweden’s ‘Women-Friendly’ Abortion Policies? A Qualitative Exploration Among Religious Counsellors

Does Religious Counselling on Abortion Comply with Sweden’s ‘Women-Friendly’ Abortion Policies? A Qualitative Exploration Among Religious Counsellors

Association between health worker motivation and healthcare quality efforts in Ghana

Sustaining a Regime of Low Fertility

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