Healthcare in Motion: Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access

by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (Editor), Ginger A. Johnson (Editor), Anne E. Pfister (Editor)

Overview

How does the need to obtain and deliver health services engender particular (im)mobility forms? And how is mobility experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare access or delivery? Guided by these questions, Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and shedding light on the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785339547
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/17/2018
Series:	Worlds in Motion , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, UK. Her recent publications on mobility include work on children seeking medical care.

Ginger A. Johnson is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University. She has recently worked in West Africa, conducting Ebola-related research with the International Federation of the Red Cross. Her current research projects include addressing adolescent nutritional needs for the World Food Programme in Cambodia and ensuring social accountability for maternal and child health for UNICEF in Malawi.

Anne E. Pfister is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Florida. Her research investigates how deaf youth and their families experience deafness in Mexico City by integrating sociocultural linguistic theory with biocultural medical anthropology analyses.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Healthcare in Motion
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister

PART I: HEALTHCARE AND DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY EMPOWERMENTS
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

Chapter 1. “Stuck in Motion": Simultaneous Mobility and Immobility in Migrant Healthcare along the US-Mexico Border
Heide Castañeda

Chapter 2. “It’s Too Risky to Leave the House:” Immigrant Policing and Health-Related Mobility
Nolan Kline

Chapter 3. (Im)mobile Populations and Health Rights: Accessing the Healthcare System in Slovenia
Uršula Lipovec Čebron, Sara Pistotnik

PART II: THE EFFECT OF IMAGINATION ON MOBILITY AS A RESOURCE IN THE SEARCH FOR CARE AND CARING
Anne E. Pfister

Chapter 4. Fluid and Mobile Identities: Travel, Imaginaries, and Practices of Caregiving among Families of Deaf Children in Mexico City
Anne E. Pfister and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

Chapter 5. Egg Donor Social Mobility and Expansion of Czech Reproductive Medicine
Amy Speier

Chapter 6. Governing Mobility of Health Workers across Borders: From Local to Global Policy Tools
Evgeniya Plotnikova

PART III: PATIENT NAVIGATION AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE
Ginger A. Johnson

Chapter 7. HIV/AIDS and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Services for Deaf Kenyans
Alina Engelman

Chapter 8. Service-Learning Research Projects to Enhance the Information Accompanying Commonly Dispensed Medicines on the Phelophepa Healthcare Trains
Sunitha C. Srinivas and Sharli A. Paphitis

Chapter 9. Community-Led Peer Advocacy for Transgender Healthcare Access in the Southeastern United States: The Trans Buddy Program
E. Kale Edmiston

Chapter 10. Leading mHealth in Myanmar’s Smartphone Revolution
Perrie Briskin and Sara Lucía Gallo

Postscript
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister

Index

Editorial Reviews

“This collection constitutes an important contribution to the study of (im)mobility in healthcare. The mobilities of patients, healthcare professionals, and services, as well as cases in which such mobilities are precluded, critically influence the configurations of therapeutic contexts. The impact of (im)mobilities on healthcare and the ways in which they can intersect with gender, class, migratory status, and (dis)ability are explored over ten chapters. The introductions to the three parts include questions for further reflection, making Healthcare in motion particularly useful for didactic purposes… The scholarly interest of the individual chapters and the broader theoretical framework proposed by the editors make it a useful reference text for (im)mobility and health researchers.” • JRAI

“A beautifully conceived and delivered book.” • Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University

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