عنوان

Understanding Gender and Access to Healthcare for Resettled Women in Post-War Northern Sri Lanka Through Intersectionality

شماره

TL50600

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Understanding Gender and Access to Healthcare for Resettled Women in Post-War Northern Sri Lanka Through Intersectionality

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Radhakrishnan, Bharathi

نام ساير پديدآوران

Sprague, Courtenay

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Massachusetts Boston

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

متن يادداشت

340 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Massachusetts Boston

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

Ensuring human security post-war is essential for effective reconstruction efforts and attaining a sustainable peace. This involves establishing people's access to basic needs, including healthcare, and addressing their health security. Sri Lanka is hailed for its impressive health indicators and public health services. However, its national indicators do not accurately reflect the health context in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. Additionally, research on post-war access to healthcare for resettled, formerly displaced communities, particularly women, is sparse. Given this gap, this study investigated barriers to resettled women's efforts in post-war Jaffna, Sri Lanka to access healthcare. This qualitative study utilized the methodology of phenomenology with the methods of interviews (35 with resettled women; 32 with key informants) and focus groups (four with 19 resettled women) to explore the lived experiences of resettled women of reproductive age (18 to 49) in two villages in the district of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. Participants, who all gave informed consent, were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling. Women were recruited from two contrasting villages - a more rural, predominantly Tamil village, and a predominantly Muslim village closer to the urban center. The conceptual framework used was the socio-ecological model through a gender and intersectionality lens. Two main themes emerged that influence the women's ability to access healthcare: (1) their perceptions of and experiences with public health staff/providers and resources, and (2) their perceptions of and behaviors within their village and home contexts. Various factors within society also affect the women's human security and thus their ability to access healthcare. The main finding from this study indicates that the intersectionality of the women's household income and gender (specifically gender hierarchies, norms, relations, and roles) in the home impacts their ability to access health services in post-war Jaffna, more so than ethnicity. This illustrates the importance of looking beyond solely the influence of ethnicity on people's access to basic needs post-war. This study also demonstrates the key effect of gender dynamics on women's access to and experience of health services in post-war Jaffna, including implications for Sri Lanka's greater reconstruction and sustainable peace efforts.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gender studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Health sciences

اصطلاح موضوعی

Political science

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Radhakrishnan, Bharathi

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sprague, Courtenay

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Massachusetts Boston

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y