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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"care work"”.
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Technoscientific Knowledge Practices of Adolescent Mental Health Care Work
… a technology, shape the diagnostic and treatment work of mental health practitioners? In what ways does Managed Care (MC) shape adolescent mental health care? Social worlds define psychotherapy as an art and science, resist biomedicine and embrace eclectic theoretical orientations to treatment. …
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Care Work and Nursing in Royal Greenwich Hospital, 1705-1714
… it examines the experiences of nurses who cared for disabled ex-servicemen in Greenwich, a hospital for former sailors, in the early eighteenth century. Early modern naval nursing developed out of complex intersections of gendered ideas about care work, contemporary anxiety about order and …
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A New Design For the Support of Collaborative Care Work in Nursing Homes
Nursing homes are complex healthcare settings that take care of older adults with sever cognitive and physical impairments. Given the conditions of the patients, nursing homes can be considered end-of-life contexts. There, the care work that aim to mitigate and treat the conditions of the patients …
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Ten Cuidado: Gendered Carceral Care Work & Miseducations of Love in Latina/o Youth Intervention
… and community programming, I analyze how the PKP works to redirect youth labeled as “at risk” while simultaneously reproducing forms of surveillance, discipline, and control. Building on scholarship across carcerality, Black feminist thought, juvenile justice, Latino/a Studies, and youth …
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Citizen Professionals: College Women, Care Work, and the Transformation of Middle Class Subjectivity in Post-Bubble Japan
… citizenship is these women's identification of care work as ""professional careers"" (senmonshoku). In this way, these women re-signify and upgrade the notion of ""a job with one's hands"" (te ni shoku) or manual labor. College women take the caring professions' key features---economic …
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Caring from the margins: Community HIV/AIDS care work as social reproduction in the era of HIV/AIDS
… firm to the belief that community HIV/AIDS care work is profoundly deprivational for the women who do it. With a commitment to feminist research, I was interested in exploring what care work meant for gender equality and commensurate development consequences. Employing the theoretical …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
… dramatically increased need and demand for child care, escalating the citys child care crisis. As thousands of poor single mothers were pushed into workfare jobs and the lower reaches of the labour market, the question of Who will care for their children? was thrust to the forefront of New York …
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The political economy of gender inequality in South Africa: Why unpaid care work should be recognised in economic policy
… to present a feminist political economy framework within which to understand the nature of gender inequality in South Africa. Particular attention is placed on the role of unpaid care work as this work is shown to be predominantly undertaken by women and still goes unrecognised, despite its …
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Life sustaining responses and everyday care work during the HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 crises in Cape Town, South Africa
… of household and community capacities to absorb care responsibilities amidst longstanding inequality and gaps in state social protection. In Cape Town, neighbourhood-based Community Action Networks (CANs) rapidly mobilised to meet urgent material, psychosocial and health-related needs. Drawing on …
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“On the Floor” and “At the Table”: Child Care Work, Advocacy, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
… and increasingly precarious providers of care. Drawing on social reproduction theory, it conceptualizes community-based non-profit work as a critical yet persistently undervalued site of social reproduction. Focusing on child care provision and advocacy in Ontario, the dissertation asks: …
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Men, masculinities and HIV care work: A small-scale, exploratory study of the role of community care workers in supporting HIV positive men's health-seeking behaviour
… resulting in women shouldering the burden of care-related work. Health-seeking behaviours are also constructed as feminine and men have poorer health outcomes globally. Employing men as carers may not only improve the health of the men they assist but also be transformative with regard to …
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Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in health care in South Africa and similar countries, but relatively little is known about CHW motivations and experiences in the provision of care. This thesis considers these issues in three parts: 1. A protocol for a study of community …
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Role of Social Media and Computing in Organizations aiding Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in the United States
… border to request asylum. Several groups are working to help migrants by providing them with essential items and services, housing, and legal advice. Drawing on ethnographic findings, this work presents a situated perspective of how citizen responders utilize technological systems to provide …
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Caregiving, Crisis and Coercion in the American Revolutionary War
… the coercive labour dynamics underpinning care work in early America. It examines the Continental Army’s efforts to utilise existing coercive labour regimes (including enslavement, indentured servitude and gendered wage work) and military medical structures inherited from the British Army …
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
… the psychosocial wellness of Family Child Care Providers (FCCPs) using a mixed methods approach.The two main goals of this study were to explore psychosocial influences upon FCC workforce participation and psychosocial influences upon professional development participation. Using an …
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CAREGIVING AND THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE; THE IMPACT OF GENDER EXPECTATIONS ON EMPLOYED PARENT CAREGIVERS
… women differ in how they handle the division of caregiving for aging parents and children and work responsibilities. Previous literature states that gender differences in caregiving exist due to the structure of the workforce and family. The workforce is often inflexible concerning employees’ …
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The impact of race/ethnicity on post acute services
… after hip fractures can inform the health care work force, facilitate future interventions to improve outcomes for patients with hip fractures and inform future health policy. This dissertation reviewed the impact of race/ethnicity and comorbidity on perioperative and subacute hip fracture …
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Three Papers On Home Health Care Services In The United States
… Many seniors will need both short and long-term care services. Home-based care services are often preferred over facilities because of comfort, lower costs, and better health outcomes. Yet, home health care is beset with a number of challenges, including labor shortages and low-paid aides who …
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"The most important thing is that we developed friendships." reciprocity, care, and social support through a microfinance intervention : a case study from Uganda
… in southwest Uganda impacted social support networks. We interviewed 30 women after their participation in an intervention that supplied them with materials to begin a poultry business with no interest loans. Specifically, this study sought to describe how relationships between project …
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Living bereavement : an exploration of health care workers' responses to loss and grief in an NHS continuing care ward for older people
The continuing care for older people is an important but often overlooked area of health care.T his thesis is concerned with how care staff work with residents and their relatives in an NHS continuing care ward. It focuses on the care staff's perceptions and responses to the losses experience by …
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