Taking Сare of Family Members’ Health Provided by Women in Low-Resource Conditions
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Khodorenko D.K. Taking Сare of Family Members’ Health Provided by Women in Low-Resource Conditions. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2024. Vol. 16. No. 1. P. 88-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2024.16.1.5 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article analyzes the practices of caring for the health of women from families with low socio-professional status. The study uses the analytical category of “care”, which is understood as a special type of household work aimed at maintaining and preserving one’s health and the health of family members. To analyze health practices, the concept of “health lifestyle”, developed in the sociology of medicine, is used. The empirical basis consists of 16 interviews conducted in St. Petersburg with women from families whose members do not have higher education and are employed in jobs with unfavorable working conditions (according to the informants). The study asked the question in what situations and how women belonging to this group take care of their health. Women with low socio-professional status, caring for loved ones, rarely seek medical help for themselves. Their attitude towards their own health can be described as instrumental. It was found that in the context of the experience of motherhood, the attitude towards health changes, it becomes more self-preserving, without losing its instrumentality, but in the interests of the child.
Keywords:
health care, health inequality, caring practices, limited resources
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Chernova Z.V. (2011) Kto, o kom i na kakikh usloviyakh dolzhen zabotitsya? Gendernyy analiz rezhimov zaboty i semeynoy politiki [Who Should Care for Whom and Under Which Conditions? Gender Analysis of Care Regimes and Family Policy]. Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoy politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies]. Vol. 9. No. 3. P. 295–318. (In Russ.)
Chernova Z.V. (2012) Balans semi i raboty: politika i individual'nye strategii materei [The Work-Family Balance: Policy and Individual Mothers’ Strategies]. Zhurnal issledovanii sotsialnoi politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies]. Vol. 10. No. 3. P. 295–308. (In Russ.)
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Mirowsky J., Ross C.E. (2003) Social Causes of Psychological Distress. New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315129464
Rocheva A.L. (2014) “Ponayekhali tut” v roddomakh Rossii: issledovaniye rezhima stratifitsirovannogo vosproizvodstva na primere kirgizskikh migrantov v Moskve [“A Swarm of Migrants in our Maternity Clinics!”: The Study of Stratified Reproduction Regime in the Case of Kyrgyz Migrants in Moscow]. Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoi politiki [The Journal of Social Policy Studies]. Vol. 12. No. 3. P. 367–380. (In Russ.)
Roshchina Y.M. (2016) Stil zhizni v otnoshenii zdorovya: imeet li znachenie sotsialnoe neravenstvo? [Health-Related Lifestyle: Does Social Inequality Matter?]. Ekonomicheskaya sotsiologiya [Journal of Economic Sociology]. Vol. 17. No. 3. P. 13–36. (In Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/1726-3247-2016-3-13-36
Ross C.E., Mirowsky J. (2011) The Interaction of Personal and Parental Eeducation on Health. Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 72. No. 4. P. 591–599. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.028
Ross C.E., Wu C.L. (1995) The Links Between Education and Health. American Sociological Review. Vol. 60. No. 5. P. 719–745. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2096319
Svalastog A.L., Donev D., Kristoffersen N.J., Gajović S. (2017). Concepts and Definitions of Health and Health-Related Values in the Knowledge Landscapes of the Digital Society. Croatian Medical Journal. Vol. 58. No. 6. P. 431– 435. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3325%2Fcmj.2017.58.431
Shilova L.S. (1999) Transformaciya samosohranitelnogo povedeniya [Transformation of Self-Preservation Behavior]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. No. 5. P. 84–92. (In Russ.)
Shilova L.S. (2000) Transformaciya zhenskoj modeli samosohranitelnogo povedeniya [Changes in the Female Model of Self-Care Behavior]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya. [Sociological Studies]. No. 11. P. 134–140. (In Russ.)
Temkina A.A. (2016) Oplachivaemaya zabota i bezopasnost: chto prodaetsya i pokupaetsya v rodil’nykh domakh? [Paid Сare and Safety: What Is on Purchase in Maternity Hospitals?]. Sotsiologiya vlasti [Sociology of Power]. Vol. 28. No. 1. P. 76–106. (In Russ.)
Temkina A.A., Rotkirkh A. (2002) Sovetskie gendernye kontrakty i ih transformaciya v sovremennoj Rossii [Soviet Gender Contracts and Their Trasformation in Contemporary Russia]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. No. 11. P. 4–14. (In Russ.)
Zdravomyslova E.A., Temkina A.A. (2015) 12 lektsii po gendernoi sociologii: uchebnoe posobie [12 Lectures on Sociology of Gender: a Tutorial]. St. Petersburg: Izdatelstvo Evropeiskogo Universiteta. (In Russ.)
Zhuravleva I.V. (1998) Zdorove i samosokhranitelnoe povedenie [Health and Self-Preserving Behavior]. In: T.D. Ivanova (ed.), Naselenie i obshchestvennoe razvitie [Population and Social Development]. Moscow: Institut socilogii RAN. P. 156–167. (In Russ.)
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Received: 16.08.2023
Accepted: 29.03.2024
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Khodorenko, D. K. (2024). Taking Сare of Family Members’ Health Provided by Women in Low-Resource Conditions. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 16(1), 88-106. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2024.16.1.5
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