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Long Distance Truck Drivers and the Structural Context of Health: A Culture-Centered Investigation of Indian Truckers’ Health Narratives.
- Source :
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Health Communication . Feb2016, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p230-241. 12p. 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Long-distance truck drivers (truckers) in India have been identified as a “high-risk” group for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and are consequently the targets of prevention and education-based interventions. While such interventions have addressed risk at the level of individual behavior, little attention has been paid to the structural barriers to health for truckers. Research among truckers in India has ignored the economic, social, and cultural context of health. In this article, I employ the culture-centered approach (CCA) to health communication in documenting truckers’ narratives of health, which are innately connected to social and institutional structures around their lives. The data included 36 narrative interviews that I conducted as part of my fieldwork with Indian truckers, in addition to field notes and a reflexive journal. Through a reflexive analysis of these narratives, I present three themes: (a) the everyday violence of trucking, (b) health as sacrifice, and (c) migration and HIV/AIDS. I discuss how communication interventions can attend to the relationship between trucker health and the structural barriers they encounter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *TRUCK drivers
*INDIANS (Asians)
*LONG-distance trucking
*HEALTH
*AIDS risk factors
*HIV infection risk factors
*RISK of violence
*AUTOMOBILE driving
*CULTURE
*GROUNDED theory
*HEALTH attitudes
*HEALTH status indicators
*INDUSTRIAL hygiene
*INDUSTRIAL safety
*INTERVIEWING
*RESEARCH methodology
*OCCUPATIONS
*RESEARCH funding
*STATISTICAL sampling
*DATA analysis
*FIELD research
*NARRATIVES
*MEDICAL coding
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10410236
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Communication
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110605362
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2014.947466