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Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
Full text linkAbstract Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to the inequities among women that are caused by racism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, and able-bodism, is confronting feminist health researchers and activists. Researchers are seeking new conceptual frameworks that can transform the design of research to produce knowledge that captures how systems of discrimination or subordination overlap and "articulate" with one another. An emerging paradigm for women's health research is intersectionality. Intersectionality places an explicit focus on differences among groups and seeks to illuminate various interacting social factors that affect human lives, including social locations, health status, and quality of life. This paper will draw on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of the processes involved in applying an intersectionality paradigm. We begin with a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. We then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity. In the analysis of these examples, we focus on a largely uninvestigated aspect of intersectionality research - the challenges involved in the process of initiating and developing such projects and, in particular, the meaning and significance of social locations for researchers and participants who utilize an intersectionality approach. The examples highlighted in the paper represent important shifts in the health field, demonstrating the potential of intersectionality for examining the social context of women's lives, as well as developing methods which elucidate power, create new knowledge, and have the potential to inform appropriate action to bring about positive social change.</p
Student experiences of sexual violence at the University of British Columbia through a trauma and violence informed framework
No full textThis study explores the experiences of students who have been impacted by sexual violence at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Students identified their awareness, satisfaction and recommendations for support services on campus.
To recruit participants, posters were hung and advertisements were made on social media platforms such as Facebook. The Graduate Student Society and Alma Mater Society advertised this study. Eight students who were impacted by sexualized violence during their time at UBC participated in this study. Several key themes were identified which included: levels of awareness of resources, mental health support, victim-blaming and rape culture on campus, impact of marginalized identities on experiences with support, and recommendations for support services.
It was found that students had limited awareness of resources regardless if the student was an undergraduate or graduate student; thus students suggested that more educational programs be made available in orientation and resources be outlined on course syllabi. If the service(s) were accessed, experiences varied such that some students believed that their experience was positively impacted by their sex but negatively impacted by racism. Some students experienced institutionalized harm due to the existence of white supremacist and patriarchal frameworks that are embedded in the University. Overall, the students’ experiences with support services were positive, except for the Investigations Office and Counselling Services.Arts, Faculty ofGender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute forGraduat
The place of advanced practice nurses in the community-based health care of children with complex health needs and their families
No full textSocial Transformation and Urban Regeneration:Well-Being and Women's Marginalization in Community Contexts
No full textThe concept of well-being is ambiguous and multifaceted, proving difficult to conceptualize and measure, and being variously viewed as happiness, satisfaction, life fulfilment, and engage-ment. Despite conceptual confusions, well-being is integral to the UK Happiness Agenda, an agenda that is paralleled across Canada. Improving health and well-being has formed a central tenet of UK urban regeneration policy, whereby enhancing well-being through improvements to the environment, housing, and community is highlighted. Yet social transformations in health and well-being are difficult to achieve, particularly through urban renewal in areas of social disadvantage. This is problematic for women living at the margins of society, particularly at the intersections of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity. The research presented here explores the well-being consequences of urban regeneration for women living in disadvantaged community circumstances, asking: In what ways can urban regeneration praxis transform the social and personal well-being of marginalized women in community contexts? An intersec-tional lens is applied, with the focus on three mid-life women of different ethnic origins, residency periods, and situations of social and financial disadvantage. Using a participatory ap-proach, interviews, video diaries, and photo-voice methods were used to capture data, enabling the generation of rich, participant-led, nuanced information. Findings highlight how urban regeneration challenged the women’s sense of home and community. The intricacies, routines, and simple pleasures of everyday life grounded the women as members of their communities, reaffirming their identities and local social value. Faced with the power imbalances and pro-fessional elitism inherent in the regeneration, the women resisted social and environmental transformations that reduced their sense of personal and social well-being, and re-appropriated those places in their communities for themselves and their families. The research concludes that well-being is embedded in women’s experiences of home and community and is imposed on by the socio-structural progress of regeneration and structured through the lens of time and place. Lessons learned from this UK research are considered within the Canadian policy context
Sadhee sehayth (our health) project : health inequity in Canada’s universal healthcare system through the experiences of the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora living with cardiovascular disease
No full textThe Sadhee Sehayth (Our Health) Project investigates how British Columbia’s health authorities support diversity, anti-racism and equity for patients and their families. I selected Post/Colonial, Critical Race and Feminist Theories to analyze the complex and pervasive ideologies that inform institutional structures. Using a Critical Ethnographic approach, I addressed the following research questions: 1. How are institutional diversity discourses and actions constructed, and how do they shape healthcare experience for racialized communities?; 2. How do institutional diversity discourses and actions shape experiences for one racialized diaspora community, the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora when seeking cardiovascular healthcare, and 3. what does this analysis tell us about how systemic structures are conceptualized and might be improved for healthcare delivery for racialized communities? Phase one examined the diversity commitments of health authorities through an analysis of mission statements, visions and values. The analysis revealed that health equity is not prioritized in the institutional statements for 7 of the 8 health authorities. The absence of these markers reaffirms that anti-racist ideologies are not conceptualized into the institutional identities of British Columbia’s healthcare delivery organizations. Phase 2 concentrated on the diversity practices of 4 health authorities. Diversity workers faced numerous obstacles including organizational resistance to maintaining diversity programming, negligible funding and minimal staffing. The most promising finding was the number of informal diversity workers who volunteered to act as diversity liaisons and educators. To gain a patient perspective, Phase 3 focused on Punjabi Sikh Diaspora patients who had experienced a myocardial infarction and recently discharged from a local hospital. Despite the availability of diversity, spiritual care, interpreter and cardiac rehabilitation programming, these participants were not asked about their cultural or religious needs; not offered spiritual care services; interpreter support was minimal to non-existent; post-surgery treatment and care plans were not adequately communicated; and they were not offered information or referrals to cardiac rehabilitation programs. The dissertation concludes with a list of recommendations to improve health equity for racialized communities.Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesGraduat
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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