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A Comparative Sociology of Gypsy Traveller Health in the UK
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 16, Issue 3, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 3, p 379 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper presents findings from a series of health-related studies undertaken between 2012 and 2017 with Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers living in different locations and in various forms of accommodation in southern England. These set out to develop a sociological understanding of the factors impacting on the health and wellbeing of members of those communities and to consider the extent health status is shaped by ethno-cultural and/or socioeconomic factors, and the interplay and direction of causal processes between them. The relative influences of cultural and structural factors in generating health inequalities have important implications for engaging marginalised populations in health services and preventative programmes. This paper will present survey and qualitative data on Gypsies&rsquo<br />and Travellers&rsquo<br />health beliefs and practices to understand how those beliefs and practices have developed in different social contexts as responses to deeper social mechanisms, and share commonalities with other marginalised and excluded social groups. In policy terms this indicates the need for health interventions that are applied proportionate to the level of disadvantage experienced thus ensuring equality and fairness while accounting for diversity and difference.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
accommodation
Roma
Adolescent
Health Status
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Psychological intervention
lcsh:Medicine
Qualitative property
Romany Gypsy
Article
Comparative sociology
Social group
Irish Traveller
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Sociology
Socioeconomic status
Disadvantage
Aged
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Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
comparative sociology
Middle Aged
Public relations
England
Socioeconomic Factors
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
social determinants of health
Female
business
Ireland
Diversity (politics)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7a911b674ffc018325ef4cd02024ea38
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030379