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Healthcare in motion : immobilities in health service delivery and access / edited by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Worlds in motion (Berghahn Books) ; Volume 5.
- Worlds in motion ; Volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health services accessibility.
- Health planning.
- Medical policy--Social aspects.
- Medical policy.
- Minorities--Medical care.
- Minorities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction Healthcare in Motion
- Part I.
- Healthcare and Differential Mobility Empowerments
- Chapter 1 “Stuck in Motion”: Simultaneous Mobility and Immobility in Migrant Healthcare along the US–Mexico Border
- Chapter 2 “It’s Too Risky to Leave the House”: Immigrant Policing and Health-Related Mobility
- Chapter 3 (Im)mobile Populations and Health Rights: Accessing the Healthcare System in Slovenia
- Part II.
- The Effect of Imagination on Mobility as a Resource in the Search for Care and Caring
- Chapter 4 Fluid and Mobile Identities: Travel, Imaginaries, and Caregiving Practices among Families of Deaf Children in Mexico City
- Chapter 5 Egg Donor Social Mobility and Expansion of Czech Reproductive Medicine
- Chapter 6 Governing Mobility of Health Workers across Borders: From Local to Global Policy Tools
- Part III.
- Patient Navigation and Mobile Technologies of Care
- Chapter 7 HIV/AIDS and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Services for Deaf Kenyans
- Chapter 8 Service-Learning Research Projects to Enhance the Information Accompanying Commonly Dispensed Medicines on the Phelophepa Healthcare Trains
- Chapter 9 Community-Led Peer Advocacy for Transgender Healthcare Access in the Southeastern United States: The Trans Buddy Program
- Chapter 10 Leading mHealth in Myanmar’s Smartphone Revolution
- Postscript
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-834-3
- 1-78533-954-0
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