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Repo V. Spatial solidarity among older adults in age-related housing. Soc Sci Med 2024; 358:117264. [PMID: 39208702 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 08/22/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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Ageing-in-place policies encourage older adults to live at home as long as possible; however, this challenges the abilities of both formal care and informal help. Utilizing the results of my research, I introduce the term spatial solidarity to describe the help that older individuals give each other in age-related housing. One starting point for solidarity is the ability to relate to others. In age-related housing people understand the challenges they face because of aging, although giving reciprocal help might not be possible due to a variety of challenges people face including illness. Helping may be exhausting for those who provide the help and furthermore may cause clashes between helpers and authorities. The results show that solidarity is connected to spatiality in many ways. I have introduced three spatial points that have an influence on solidarity and vice versa: relational space, everyday spatialities and affective qualities. In relational space, solidarity can change the spaces we live in but also the spaces can create solidarity. Furthermore, solidarity can change spaces both physically and through social relationships. Through everyday spatialities solidarity creates spatial patterns in everyday life and has an influence on everyday decisions. Solidarity is affective in the sense that it emerges in spaces where discussions are made about values and norms. Furthermore, when people show solidarity towards each other, it may influence others. Spatial solidarity amongst older individuals fills the gap between any inadequacy in the form of the home care and the needs of the residents. However, the spatial solidarity between older adults is precarious and may change due to the physical conditions of the people. Furthermore, the main responsibility for care of older individuals should not lie with other older people.
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- Virve Repo
- Tampere University, Kalevantie 4, 33100, Tampere, Finland.
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Brijnath B, Rao R, Baruah U, Antoniades J, Loganathan S, Varghese M, Cooper C, Kent M, Dow B. Relational Solidarity and Conflicting Ethics in Dementia Care in Urban India. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2024; 79:gbae079. [PMID: 38708694 PMCID: PMC11157626 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbae079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Using the concept of relational solidarity, we examine how autonomy, equality, dignity, and personhood are practiced in the care of people living with dementia at home in urban India. METHODS Video interviews with 19 family carers and 25 health providers conducted in English, Hindi, and Kannada in Bengaluru between March and July 2022. Data were translated into English and thematically analyzed. RESULTS Family carers and providers unanimously agreed that people with dementia should be respected and cared for. Concurrently, they perceived people with dementia as being "like a kid" and used the analogy of a parent-child relationship to understand their care responsibilities. This analogy informed how ethical principles such as personhood and equality were reframed in the relationships between family carers and people with dementia, as well as how carers and providers maintained the safety but undermined the autonomy of people with dementia through restricting their movements inside and outside the home. DISCUSSION There can be relational solidarity in dementia care at home in urban India but also contradictions in the interpretations and applications of the ethical principles of autonomy, equality, dignity, and personhood. As such, a more organic, grassroots model of ethical practice is needed to frame care and provide material support to families in India.
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- Bianca Brijnath
- Social Gerontology Division, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Social Gerontology Division, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Social Gerontology Division, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Director Division, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Vijay D, Koksvik GH. Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India. Med Anthropol 2024; 43:338-352. [PMID: 38753501 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2024.2351066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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We explore the temporalities that shape and alleviate serious health-related suffering among those with chronic and terminal conditions in Kerala, India. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2009 and 2019, we examine the entanglements between waiting for care within dominant institutions and the community organizing that palliates this waiting. Specifically, people navigate multiple medical institutions, experience loneliness and abandonment, loss of autonomy, and delays and denials of recognition as they wait for care. Community palliative care organizations offering free, routine, home-based care provide samadhanam (peace of mind) and swatantrayam (self-determination) in lifeworlds mired with chronic waiting. We document how community care sustains an alternative politics of shared time, untethered from marketized notions of efficiency and productivity toward profits. In so doing, we cast in high relief community healthcare imaginaries that alleviate serious health-related suffering and reconfigure Global North-centric perspectives.
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- Devi Vijay
- Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Kolkata, India
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- Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway
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Coronado-Vázquez MDV, Gómez-Trenado R, Benito-Sánchez B, Barrio-Cortes J, Gil-Salmerón A, Amengual-Pliego M, Grabovac I. Cancer prevention in people experiencing homelessness: ethical considerations and experiences from the CANCERLESS project. Front Public Health 2024; 12:1371505. [PMID: 38655508 PMCID: PMC11036339 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1371505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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The incidence of cancer in Europe has been increasing in recent years. Despite this, cancer prevention has remained a low priority in health policies. Cancer is one of the main causes of mortality among people experiencing homelessness, who continue to have difficulties accessing prevention programs. A strategy that has been tested to favor cancer prevention is the health navigator figure. The objective of CANCERLESS project is to implement this model among populations experiencing homelessness in four European countries to foster the prevention and early detection of cancer. In this perspective, a presentation of CANCERLESS project is made, and its ethical aspects are discussed according to the ethics of public health, the ethics of care, solidarity, relational autonomy, and the social recognition of the virtue of just generosity. The ethical foundations of CANCERLESS project are rooted in social justice and in equity in access to health systems in general and cancer screening programs in particular. The ethics of public health guided by utilitarianism are insufficient in serving the interests of the most disadvantaged groups of the population. Hence, it is necessary to resort to relational bioethics that includes the ethics of care and solidarity and that recognizes the moral identity of socially excluded persons, reaffirming their position of equality in society. Relational autonomy therefore provides a broader conception by including the influence of living conditions in decisions. For this reason, the CANCERLESS project opts for a dialogue with those affected to incorporate their preferences and values into decisions about cancer prevention.
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- María del Valle Coronado-Vázquez
- Healthcare Center Las Cortes, Gerencia 1 Healthcare Center Las Cortes, Gerencia Asistencial de Atención Primaria, Madrid, Spain
- Facultad de Medicina, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain
- B21-20R Group, Instituto Aragonés de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care (FIIBAP), Madrid, Spain
- Health Work Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care (FIIBAP), Madrid, Spain
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- Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care (FIIBAP), Madrid, Spain
- Faculty of Health, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain
- Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain
- Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Prevention and Health Promotion, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom
- International University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- B21-20R Group, Instituto Aragonés de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Chiumento A, Fovargue S, Redhead C, Draper H, Frith L. Delivering compassionate NHS healthcare: A qualitative study exploring the ethical implications of resetting NHS maternity and paediatric services following the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Soc Sci Med 2024; 344:116503. [PMID: 38324977 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 11/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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A distinction can be drawn between healthcare, where compassion is evident, and the functional delivery of health services. Measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, such as personal protective equipment, telehealth, and visiting restrictions created barriers to service delivery and put pressure on healthcare. Through 37 qualitative interviews with NHS senior managers (n = 11), health professionals (n = 26), and 5 focus group discussions with members of the public (n = 26), we explored experiences of the everyday ethical tensions created as services were being re-established following the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Our analysis enriches an understanding of compassionate care as outlined in NHS operational documents - covering the emotional, moral, and relational components of healthcare beyond the functionalities of treatment. From this analysis, we consider the normative standards underpinning NHS healthcare, concluding that, wherever possible, offering compassionate healthcare to patients and their families should be facilitated, and health professionals should themselves be compassionately supported in the workplace. Our findings foreground the need to consider the consequences of the short-term adoption of a functional treatment approach, including strategies that support health professionals and inform the public, to avoid the long-term damage caused by the fracturing of compassionate healthcare.
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- Anna Chiumento
- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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- School of Law, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Department of Law, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Department of Law, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Kieslich K, Fiske A, Gaille M, Galasso I, Geiger S, Hangel N, Horn R, Lanzing M, Libert S, Lievevrouw E, Lucivero F, Marelli L, Prainsack B, Schönweitz F, Sharon T, Spahl W, Van Hoyweghen I, Zimmermann BM. Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2023; 49:511-520. [PMID: 37277183 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the intersection of philosophy, bioethics, social sciences and policy studies, this article explores how the practice-based understanding of solidarity formulated by Prainsack and Buyx helps shed light on these questions. Drawing on 643 qualitative interviews carried out in two phases (April-May 2020 and October 2020) in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK), the data show that interpersonal acts of solidarity are important, but that they are not sustainable without consistent support at the institutional level. As the pandemic progressed, respondents expressed a longing for more institutionalised forms of solidarity. We argue that the medical humanities have much to gain from directing their attention to individual health issues, and to collective experiences of health or illness. The analysis of experiences through a collective lens such as solidarity offers unique insights to understandings of the individual and the collective. We propose three essential advances for research in the medical humanities that can help uncover collective experiences of disease and health crises: (1) an empirical and practice-oriented approach alongside more normative approaches; (2) the confidence to make recommendations for practice and policymaking and (3) the pursuit of cross-national and multidisciplinary research collaborations.
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- Katharina Kieslich
- Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institut des sciences humaines et sociales, CNRS, Paris, France
- SPHERE (Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire), CNRS/Université de Paris/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Life Sciences & Society Lab, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Life Sciences & Society Lab, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalisation and Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Life Sciences & Society Lab, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Lamph G, Nowland R, Boland P, Pearson J, Connell C, Jones V, Wildbore E, L Christian D, Harris C, Ramsden J, Gardner K, Graham-Kevan N, McKeown M. Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review. Syst Rev 2023; 12:194. [PMID: 37833785 PMCID: PMC10571424 DOI: 10.1186/s13643-023-02344-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Establishing and maintaining relationships and ways of connecting and being with others is an important component of health and wellbeing. Harnessing the relational within caring, supportive, educational, or carceral settings as a systems response has been referred to as relational practice. Practitioners, people with lived experience, academics and policy makers, do not yet share a well-defined common understanding of relational practice. Consequently, there is potential for interdisciplinary and interagency miscommunication, as well as the risk of policy and practice being increasingly disconnected. Comprehensive reviews are needed to support the development of a coherent shared understanding of relational practice. METHOD This study uses a scoping review design providing a scope and synthesis of extant literature relating to relational practice focussing on organisational and systemic practice. The review aimed to map how relational practice is used, defined and understood across health, criminal justice, education and social work, noting any impacts and benefits reported. Searches were conducted on 8 bibliographic databases on 27 October 2021. English language articles were included that involve/discuss practice and/or intervention/s that prioritise interpersonal relationships in service provision, in both external (organisational contexts) and internal (how this is received by workers and service users) aspects. RESULTS A total of 8010 relevant articles were identified, of which 158 met the eligibility criteria and were included in the synthesis. Most were opinion-based or theoretical argument papers (n = 61, 38.60%), with 6 (3.80%) critical or narrative reviews. A further 27 (17.09%) were categorised as case studies, focussing on explaining relational practice being used in an organisation or a specific intervention and its components, rather than conducting an evaluation or examination of the effectiveness of the service, with only 11 including any empirical data. Of the included empirical studies, 45 were qualitative, 6 were quantitative, and 9 mixed methods studies. There were differences in the use of terminology and definitions of relational practice within and across sectors. CONCLUSION Although there may be implicit knowledge of what relational practice is the research field lacks coherent and comprehensive models. Despite definitional ambiguities, a number of benefits are attributed to relational practices. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION PROSPERO CRD42021295958.
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- Gary Lamph
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edge Hill University, Lancashire Ormskirk, UK
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
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- IMPlementation and Capacity Building Team (IMPaCT), Applied Health Research Hub (AHRh), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- Criminal Justice Partnership, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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- School of Psychology and Counselling, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- IMPlementation and Capacity Building Team (IMPaCT), Applied Health Research Hub (AHRh), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- Health Technology Assessment Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- School of Psychology and Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- School of Psychology and Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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Adedeji A, Akintunde TY, Metzner F, Idemudia E. Psychological health outcome of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany. ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF GENERAL MEDICINE 2023. [DOI: 10.29333/ejgm/12602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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African migrants living in Europe have an increased risk of adverse psychological health outcomes compared to people without a migration background. The increased vulnerability may be due to their migration experience and possible challenges in adapting and integrating into the host community. This study explores the association between community solidarity and psychological health outcome among Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants in Germany.<br />
The study used data from 518 SSA migrants in Germany collected in a cross-sectional survey across the 16 German federal states. A correlation matrix was computed to evaluate the bivariate relationship between psychological health, community solidarity, and socioeconomic, and demographic features. Furthermore, regression models were calculated to predict the effect of community solidarity on psychological health outcomes and the added predictive effects of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.<br />
Community solidarity shows a moderately significant positive association with psychological health (r=.41; p≤.01). A linear regression model suggests that community solidarity, education and age explained 19% of the variance in psychological health scores for SSA migrants in Germany.<br />
These results confirm community solidarity as a significant but multi-layered determinant of various factors that affect migrants’ psychological wellbeing. It supports implementing policies that promote community solidarity to facilitate SSA migrants’ wellbeing.
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- Adekunle Adedeji
- Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Mafikeng, SOUTH AFRICA
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, GERMANY
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, GERMANY
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- Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Mafikeng, SOUTH AFRICA
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Hangel N, Schönweitz F, McLennan S, Fiske A, Zimmermann BM, Buyx A. Solidaristic behavior and its limits: A qualitative study about German and Swiss residents' behaviors towards public health measures during COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. SSM. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HEALTH 2022; 2:100051. [PMID: 35975169 PMCID: PMC9371617 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 01/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Politicians, policymakers, and mass media alike have emphasized the importance of solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic, calling for the need of social cohesion in society to protect risk groups and national healthcare systems. In this study, which is part of an international Consortium, we analyzed 77 qualitative interviews with members of the general public in Germany and German-speaking areas of Switzerland on solidaristic behavior and its limits during the first COVID-19 related lockdown in April 2020. We found interdependencies between the interpersonal, group, and state tiers of solidarity that offer insights into what promotes solidaristic practice and what does not. We argue that because solidarity does not have a necessary and sufficient normative value in itself, those wanting to promote solidarity need to consider these interdependencies to effectively implement policy measures. Our study shows that inter-societal solidarity was based on individual voluntary agency and promoted through recognizing a shared goal, shared values, or other communalities including group effort. It also shows that individuals held state authorities accountable for the same values and expect inter-societal reciprocity from the contractual level. Tensions between those complying or willing to follow recommendations voluntarily and those perceived as not promoting the shared goal, posed challenges for solidarity. Another challenge for solidaristic behavior was when acting in solidarity with others was in direct conflict with the needs of close ones. Our study provides a clearer picture of promoting and limiting factors concerning solidarity which is relevant when communicating health policy measures to individuals and groups.
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- Nora Hangel
- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany,Corresponding author. Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany,Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany,Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Lopez Frias FJ, Thompson DB. Solidarity and Public Health. MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE, AND PHILOSOPHY 2022; 25:371-382. [PMID: 35680703 DOI: 10.1007/s11019-022-10084-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We argue that an unqualified use of the term solidarity in public health is not only equivocal but problematic toward the ends of public health. The term may be deployed normatively by public health advocates to strengthen the bonds among public health practitioners and refer to an ideal society in which the importance of interdependence among members ought to be acknowledged throughout the polity. We propose an important distinction between partisan solidarity and societal solidarity. Because any moralized belief in a vision of a broad societal solidarity will be a contested political ideal, political reality would limit solidarity based on such a vision to partisan solidarity. An idealized vision of societal solidarity is simply not politically feasible in pluralistic, liberal, democratic societies. However, although societal solidarity is unlikely with respect to any particular policy, it might be hoped for with respect to constitutional procedures that provide boundaries for the agon of the political process. We suggest that moralizing assertions of a solidaristic ideal in a pluralistic society might be counterproductive to generating the political support necessary for public health per se and establishing legitimate public health policy. A pragmatic political approach would be for public health advocates to generate sufficient strong political support for those public health policies that are most amenable to the political and social realities of a time and place.
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- Francisco Javier Lopez Frias
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Research Associate, Rock Ethics, 268H Rec Hall, 16802, University Park, PA, United States.
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- Professor Emeritus of Food Science Senior Fellow, Rock Ethics Institute, 407 Rodney A. Erickson Food Science Building, 16802, University Park, PA, United States
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Pot M. Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare. MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE AND PHILOSOPHY 2022; 25:681-692. [PMID: 36045178 PMCID: PMC9430002 DOI: 10.1007/s11019-022-10112-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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In this article, I apply the concept of solidarity to collective knowledge practices in healthcare. Generally, solidarity acknowledges that people are dependent on each other in many respects, and it captures those support practices that people engage in out of concern for others in whom they recognise a relevant similarity. Drawing on the rich literature on solidarity in bioethics and beyond, this article specifically discusses the role that epistemic solidarity can play in healthcare. It thus focuses, in particular, on solidarity’s relationship with justice and injustice. In this regard, it is argued (1) that justice and solidarity are two equally important and complementary values that should both be considered in healthcare practices and institutions and (2) that solidarity often arises in unjust situations and can be a means to bring about justice. I transfer these ‘general’ insights about solidarity to knowledge practices in healthcare and link them to the discussion about epistemic injustices in healthcare and how to overcome them. I argue that epistemic solidarity can play an important role in overcoming epistemic injustices as well as—and independently from its contribution to justice—in knowledge production in medicine more generally. To demonstrate how epistemic solidarity can add to our understanding of collective knowledge practices, I discuss two examples: patients sharing their medical data for research purposes and healthcare professionals’ engagement with patients to better understand their afflictions.
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- Mirjam Pot
- Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Sonn CC, Fox R, Keast S, Rua M. Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 69:269-282. [PMID: 35707931 PMCID: PMC9328190 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As we planned this special issue, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, one which brought into sharp focus many of the pre-existing economic, social, and climate crises, as well as, trends of widening economic and social inequalities. The pandemic also brought to the forefront an epistemic crisis that continues to decentre certain knowledges while maintaining the hegemony of Eurocentric ways of knowing and being. Thus, we set out to explore the possibilities that come with widening our ecology of knowledge and approaches to inquiry, including the power of critical reflective praxis and consciousness, and the important practices of repowering marginalised and oppressed groups. In this paper, we highlight scholarship that reflects a breadth of theories, methods, and practices that forge alliances, in and outside the academy, in different solidarity relationships toward liberation and wellbeing. Our desire as co-editors was not to endorse the plurality of solidarities expressed in the papers as an unyielding methodological or conceptual framework, but rather to hold them lightly within thematic spaces as invitations for readers to consider. Through editorial collaboration, we arrived at the following three thematic spaces: (1) ecologies of being and knowledge: Indigenous knowledge, networks, and plurilogues; (2) naming coloniality in context: Histories in the present and a wide lens; (3) relational knowledge practices: Creative joy of knowing beyond disciplines. From these thematic spaces we conclude that through repowering epistemic communities and narratives rooted in truth-telling, a plurality of solidarities are fostered and sustained locally and transnationally. Underpinned by an ethic of care, solidarity relationships are simultaneously unsettling dominant forms of knowledge and embrace ways of knowing and being that advances dignity, community, and nonviolence.
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- School of PsychologyCharles Sturt UniversityWaggaAustralia
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- Institute of Health and SportVictoria UniversityMelbourneAustralia
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- Maori and Psychology Research UnitUniversity of WaikatoHamiltonAotearoaNew Zealand
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Anthony R, De Paula Vieira A. One Health Animal Disaster Management: An Ethics of Care Approach. J APPL ANIM WELF SCI 2022; 25:180-194. [PMID: 35272545 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2022.2040360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this article, we consider the One Health framework for orienting guidance for animal disaster management through an ethics of care approach. While One Health was created at the beginning of the 21st century in response to the persistence of emerging infectious diseases and the view that the health of humans and other animals are contiguous, it can be a useful tool for promoting animal welfare and considering animals' experiences during a disaster. However, implementing One Health strategies into animal disaster management is not without its challenges, since ethical judgments are implicit in all decisions and recommendations made about how to conceptualize a "disaster" and their impact on animals and their welfare. Our discussion is divided into three sections. First, we consider the significance of a One Health framework for animal disaster management. Here, we highlight how One Health strategies can be employed in disaster health and natural disaster. Next, we use an ethics of care approach to lay the contours for an interspecies account of relational solidarity, thus offering a vision for how One Health strategies can reimagine the ethical dilemmas involving human-animal conflicts during a disaster. Lastly, we consider the textured nature of our relationship with animals, the moral weight of common vulnerability and interdependency and illuminating insights from animal welfare science.
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- Raymond Anthony
- Department of Philosophy, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA
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Lanceley A. Toward Personalized Informed Consent in Cancer Care. Med Anthropol 2022; 41:210-214. [PMID: 35041570 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2021.2021903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Anne Lanceley
- Department of Women's Cancer, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK
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Slettebø Å, Skaar R, Brodtkorb K. Social Innovation Toward a Meaningful Everyday Life for Nursing Home Residents: An Ethnographic Study. Front Psychol 2021; 12:666079. [PMID: 34899454 PMCID: PMC8656948 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: The literature shows that innovation, which includes culture change, may be important to create a meaningful everyday life for nursing home residents. However, there is a gap in how social innovation practices may contribute to this. The theoretical discourse for the study is person-centered care. Aim: The main aim was to explore phenomena within social innovation that can contribute to improving nursing home residents’ everyday lives. Design and Method: This study uses an ethnographic design with observations and interviews in two nursing homes in Southern Norway. Findings: The main theme was that social innovation within working practices in nursing homes includes phenomena that contribute to a meaningful everyday life for the residents. This main theme includes five subthemes: (1) opening the nursing home to the surroundings; (2) expanding and strengthening the community of practice; (3) facilitating customized activities; (4) ensuring sufficient nutrition and facilitating enjoyable mealtimes; and (5) preventing unrest and disturbing behavior. Conclusion: The study reveals that innovation practices grounded in person-centered care in nursing homes may contribute to opening the nursing home to the community and establishing a common community practice for all members of the nursing home. This enables residents to experience meaningful everyday life through customized activities, sufficient nutrition, and a pleasant milieu during mealtimes. Disturbing behavior is also prevented, making it possible to promote meaningful lives in nursing homes.
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- Åshild Slettebø
- Department of Health and Nursing Science, Centre for Caring Research - Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
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- Department of Health and Nursing Science, Centre for Caring Research - Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
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- Department of Health and Nursing Science, Centre for Caring Research - Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
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Fotaki M. Solidarity in crisis? Community responses to refugees and forced migrants in the Greek islands. ORGANIZATION 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/13505084211051048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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This article examines the question of solidarity in light of recent refugees’ and forced migrants’ arrivals on Greek island shores as the first point of entry to the European Union. It focuses on various community solidarity initiatives emerging in 2015 and how they unfolded over time, until replaced by hostility and indifference following the EU–Turkey deal in March 2016. To account for this transformation, the study, carried out between 2016 and 2018, involved ethnographic work, interviews with local populations, activists, teachers and community leaders, and participant observations primarily in Lesbos, as well as Chios, Leros, and Samos. This article also sheds light on how Greece’s severe economic crisis has compounded anti-migration politics and securitization in recent migratory movements. Drawing on Judith Butler’s ideas of embodied vulnerability and intersubjective relationality, the article theorizes how solidarity evolves when border struggles intersect with deservingness, belonging, and refugees’ and forced migrants’ precarity. It concludes by proposing a psychosocial embodied notion of solidarity as a political strategy to counteract the neoliberal predicament that threatens all life with extinction.
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Cash PA, Moffitt P. Relational and caring partnerships: (re)creating equity, genuineness, and growth in mentoring faculty relationships. Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh 2021; 18:ijnes-2020-0089. [PMID: 33781012 DOI: 10.1515/ijnes-2020-0089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Mentoring in academia has traditionally and currently been prescriptive and institutionally driven. The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct these current mentoring practices with a critical feminist stance. New understandings are shared and gained through dialogue, relevant literature, and performativity to (re)create and name a caring and relational partnership. This caring and relational partnership is grown through a process of mutuality and reciprocity, and based on relational ethics, authenticity, and solidarity. By embracing ideologies of caring and relational ethics, mentoring blurs the lines of mentor/mentee to a perpetual state of walking beside each other in equity to learn and strengthen each other's insights into our worlds. Material realities become illuminated through our shared journeys growing an appreciation and gift of the other. In turn, engaging in meaningful dialogue informs scholarship increasing our understandings of the human condition.
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- Health Research Programs, Aurora College, Yellowknife, Canada
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Wianto E, Sarvia E, Chen CH. Authoritative Parents and Dominant Children as the Center of Communication for Sustainable Healthy Aging. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph18063290. [PMID: 33810112 PMCID: PMC8004678 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18063290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aging population significantly is shifting the center of gravity of the people toward older ages and median age. Indonesia, as one of the most populous countries, needs to prepare for this situation. This study tries to explain whether the elderly’s sedentary lifestyle is the consequence of intergenerational interaction patterns. Filial piety was arguably implemented, as the interaction baseline within a family member affects how the intergeneration communicates. This study uses thematic analysis based on the opinions from 16 respondents’ experiences and values with respect to behavior toward the older generation with a specific inclusion criterion. Sampling structures represented younger-generation adults who interacted daily with the elderly older generation, divided by their marital status, residencies, and living area in Indonesia. Through emerging themes, was is found out that the dominant figure in the family is the communication center in the family. The dominant figure might be an authoritative parent or dominant child. This targeted approach is useful to enhance connectivity within family members, potentially implementing the Internet of Healthy Things (IoHT) for the younger elderly to reduce undesirable sedentary lifestyles and to deliver sustainable healthy aging in Indonesian society.
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- Elizabeth Wianto
- Department of Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
- Bachelor Program in Visual Communication Design, Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Bandung 40164, Indonesia
- Correspondence: (E.W.); (C.-H.C.)
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- Bachelor Program in Industrial Engineering, Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Bandung 40164, Indonesia;
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- Department of Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
- Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
- Correspondence: (E.W.); (C.-H.C.)
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Using community engagement to implement evidence-based practices for opioid use disorder: A data-driven paradigm & systems science approach. Drug Alcohol Depend 2021; 222:108675. [PMID: 33757707 PMCID: PMC8058324 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Community-driven responses are essential to ensure the adoption, reach and sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to prevent new cases of opioid use disorder (OUD) and reduce fatal and non-fatal overdoses. Most organizational approaches for selecting and implementing EBPs remain top-down and individually oriented without community engagement (CE). Moreover, few CE approaches have leveraged systems science to integrate community resources, values and priorities. This paper provides a novel CE paradigm that utilizes a data-driven and systems science approach; describes the composition, functions, and roles of researchers in CE; discusses unique ethical considerations that are particularly salient to CE research; and provides a description of how systems science and data-driven approaches to CE may be employed to select a range of EBPs that collectively address community needs. Finally, we conclude with scientific recommendations for the use of CE in research. Greater investment in CE research is needed to ensure contextual, equitable, and sustainable access to EBPs, such as medications for OUD (MOUD) in communities heavily impacted by the opioid epidemic. A data-driven approach to CE research guided by systems science has the potential to ensure adequate saturation and sustainability of EBPs that could significantly reduce opioid overdose and health inequities across the US.
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Forces including extreme economic inequality, cultural polarization, and the monetizing and privatizing of persons as commodities are undermining the forms of moral recognition and mutuality upon which democratic practices and institutions depend. These underlying factors, together with more direct modes of political corruption, manipulation, and authoritarian nationalism, are undoing Western democracies. This essay identifies and explores some vital underpinnings of democratic citizenship and civic learning that remain open to revitalization and repair. Building care structures and practices from the ground up and developing inclusive and egalitarian modes of solidarity in a pluralistic society are the focus of discussion. The essay argues that solidarity and care are essential relationships and practices of moral recognition upon which democratic political agency and freedom rest. The social-relational lifeworld and the democratic lifeworld are interdependent. Democratic citizenship is itself a relational practice that supports other practices. Democratic governance properly carried out fosters an underlying social solidarity and care and in turn draws moral and political legitimacy upward from them.
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COVID-19 deeply affects many spheres of life. Lockdown measures implemented worldwide have accentuated mental wellbeing changes in the population from the perspectives of space and social relations. These changes leave lasting imprints on individuals and communities. This article draws upon solidarity and care ethics in exploring their role in rebuilding mental wellbeing in the light of constraints arising from lockdown. The diversity of responses to physical and social isolation during the pandemic illuminates the distinctly relational nature of human beings, offering the opportunity for care and solidarity to respond to mental wellbeing challenges in an inclusive and context-sensitive way.
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- Hui Yun Chan
- Department of Law, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH UK
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Kaye DK. Lay persons' perception of the requirements for research in emergency obstetric and newborn care. BMC Med Ethics 2021; 22:1. [PMID: 33388052 PMCID: PMC7777394 DOI: 10.1186/s12910-020-00568-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Factors that could potentially act as facilitators and barriers to successful recruitment strategies in perinatal clinical trials are not well documented. The objective was to assess lay persons' understanding of the informed consent for randomized clinical trial in emergency obstetric and newborn care. METHODS This was a qualitative study conducted among survivors of severe obstetric complications who were attending the post-natal clinic of Kawempe National Referral Hospital, Uganda, 6-8 weeks after surviving severe obstetric complications during pregnancy or childbirth. The study that involved 18 in-depth interviews was conducted from June 1, 2019 to July 6, 2019. The issues explored included perceptions of the purpose and necessity to conduct such research how research-related information would be disclosed, and what could be the potential benefits and risks of participation. The data was analyzed by thematic analysis. RESULTS Respondents felt that research was necessary to investigate the cause, prevention or complications of an illness, especially as much was known about some pregnancy and newborn complications. Most believed that the emergency contexts affects whether and what prospective participants may understand if information about research was disclosed. Whereas they did not see the value of procedures like randomization, they felt that if these and any other procedures necessary should be done transparently and fairly. The decisions to participate would significantly be influenced by possibility of risk to the unborn baby or the newborn. Solidarity was an important influence on decision-making. CONCLUSIONS Respondents valued participation in RCTs in emergency obstetric and newborn care. However, they expressed concerns and valued openness, transparency and accountability with regard to how clinical trials information is disclosed and the decision-making process for clinical trial participation. While autonomy and solidarity are contradictory values, they complement each other during decision-making for informed consent.
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- Dan Kabonge Kaye
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda.
- Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Deering Hall, 1809 Ashland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
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Rattani A. Interpersonal Racism in the Healthcare Workplace: Examining Insidious Collegial Interactions Reinforcing Structural Racism. THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS : A JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS 2021; 49:307-314. [PMID: 34924056 DOI: 10.1017/jme.2021.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The traumatic stress experienced by our black healthcare colleagues is often overlooked. This work contextualizes workplace racism, identifies some interpersonal barriers limiting anti-racist growth, and calls for solidarity.
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Neuhaus CP. Does Solidarity Require “All of Us” to Participate in Genomics Research? Hastings Cent Rep 2020; 50 Suppl 1:S62-S69. [DOI: 10.1002/hast.1157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Pratt B, Cheah PY, Marsh V. Solidarity and Community Engagement in Global Health Research. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS : AJOB 2020; 20:43-56. [PMID: 32364467 PMCID: PMC7613329 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1745930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Community engagement (CE) is gaining prominence in global health research. A number of ethical goals-spanning the instrumental, intrinsic, and transformative-have been ascribed to CE in global health research. This paper draws attention to an additional transformative value that CE is not typically linked to but that seems very relevant: solidarity. Both are concerned with building relationships and connecting parties that are distant from one another. This paper first argues that furthering solidarity should be recognized as another ethical goal for CE in global health research. It contends that, over time, CE can build the bases of solidaristic relationships-moral imagination, recognition, understanding, empathy-between researchers and community members. Applying concepts from existing accounts of solidarity, the paper develops preliminary ideas about who should be engaged and how to advance solidarity. The proposed approach is compared to current CE practice in global health research. Finally, the paper briefly considers how solidaristic CE could affect how global health research is performed.
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- Bridget Pratt
- Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- The Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) - Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Health promotion involves social and environmental interventions designed to benefit and protect health. It often harmfully impacts the environment through air and water pollution, medical waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and other externalities. We consider potential conflicts between health promotion and environmental protection and why and how the healthcare industry might promote health while protecting environments. After probing conflicts between promoting health and protecting the environment we highlight the essential role that environmental resources play in health and healthcare to show that environmental protection is a form of health promotion. We then explore relationships between three radical forms of health promotion and the environment: (1) lowering the human birth rate; (2) transforming the food system; and (3) genetically modifying mosquitos. We conclude that healthcare and other industries and their institutions and leaders have responsibilities to re-consider and modify their priorities, policies, and practices.
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- Cheryl C Macpherson
- Bioethics Division, Department of Clinical Skills, St George's University, and the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), St George's, Grenada
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- The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), and the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada
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- Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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This article defends 'relational theorizing' in bioethics and public health ethics and describes its importance. It then offers an interpretation of solidarity and care understood as normatively patterned and psychologically and socially structured modes of relationality; in a word, solidarity and care understood as 'practices.' Solidarity is characterized as affirming the moral standing of others and their membership in a community of equal dignity and respect. Care is characterized as paying attention to the moral (and mortal) being of others and their needs, suffering, and vulnerability. The wager of relational theorizing in health care and public health is that substantive ethical visions of solidarity and care will provide support for more just and egalitarian health care and public health policies.
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