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Health(care) matters: where do the transgender individuals of Kashmir situate themselves?
- Source :
- Health Promotion International; Feb2023, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- While employing a phenomenological perspective, the present study aimed to explore the varied experiences of transgender individuals in Kashmir, concerning their health-seeking behavior, and the constraints they face while accessing healthcare resources on a day-to-day basis in their life world. Participants were recruited through the purposive and snowball sampling strategies and the sufficiency of sample size was determined by data saturation. Data were collected using face-to-face in-depth interviews and analyzed through Colaizzi's procedure of extracting recurrent themes and their interwoven relationships in qualitative research. Three main themes of awareness and the preferences for healthcare, gender identity and persistent stigmatization in care settings, and intra-community support and the resultant caregiving were prominent. Results of the study revealed that the transgender individuals in Kashmir experience inappropriate health-seeking behaviour primarily due to their unawareness regarding health, diseases and public healthcare programs/schemes, financial constraints, social exclusion, improper support and social stigma. They often prefer treating their health issues, mostly through local pharmacies or patent medicine vendors (PMVs), instead of visiting the medical professionals in the organized sector. Moreover, in many instances, they were also found to delay their decisions to seek care or simply decided to remain far from any medical intervention. As a result, the transgender individuals in Kashmir usually experience underutilization of formal healthcare services, which undermines their right to proper health and well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WELL-being
SOCIAL support
HEALTH services accessibility
INTERVIEWING
SOCIAL stigma
HEALTH status indicators
COMMUNITY support
MEDICAL care use
QUALITATIVE research
GENDER identity
HOSPITAL pharmacies
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
HEALTH behavior
HEALTH equity
JUDGMENT sampling
STATISTICAL sampling
THEMATIC analysis
TRANSGENDER people
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09574824
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Promotion International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162394061
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac186