Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European Settings
Healthcare has long been a gendered enterprise, with women taking responsibility for maintaining health and engaging with service providers. Universal healthcare provision notwithstanding, women nonetheless undertake a range of healthcare work, on their own account and on behalf of others, which rem...
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| description | Healthcare has long been a gendered enterprise, with women taking responsibility for maintaining health and engaging with service providers. Universal healthcare provision notwithstanding, women nonetheless undertake a range of healthcare work, on their own account and on behalf of others, which remains largely invisible. As part of a multi-method comparative European study that looked at access to healthcare in diverse neighbourhoods from the point of view of people’s own health priorities, the concept of ‘healthcare bricolage’ describes the process of mobilizing resources and overcoming constraints to meet particular health needs. Bricolage mediates between different kinds of resources to meet particular challenges and describing these processes makes visible that work which has been unseen, over-looked and naturalised, as part of a gendered caring role. Drawing on 160 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 1,755 residents of highly diverse neighbourhoods in Germany, UK, Sweden and Portugal, this article illustrates the gendered nature of healthcare bricolage. The complex variations of women’s bricolage within and beyond the public healthcare system show how gendered caring roles intersect with migration status and social class in the context of particular healthcare systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f43cf6edf2184281b02fddb222fe211e2022-12-22T02:08:03ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032019-06-0172334310.17645/si.v7i2.19621039Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European SettingsHannah Bradby0Jenny Phillimore1Beatriz Padilla2Tilman Brand3Sociology Department, Uppsala University, SwedenSchool of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UKSociology Department, University of South Florida, USA / CIES-IUL, ISCTE–University Institute of Lisbon, PortugalLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, GermanyHealthcare has long been a gendered enterprise, with women taking responsibility for maintaining health and engaging with service providers. Universal healthcare provision notwithstanding, women nonetheless undertake a range of healthcare work, on their own account and on behalf of others, which remains largely invisible. As part of a multi-method comparative European study that looked at access to healthcare in diverse neighbourhoods from the point of view of people’s own health priorities, the concept of ‘healthcare bricolage’ describes the process of mobilizing resources and overcoming constraints to meet particular health needs. Bricolage mediates between different kinds of resources to meet particular challenges and describing these processes makes visible that work which has been unseen, over-looked and naturalised, as part of a gendered caring role. Drawing on 160 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 1,755 residents of highly diverse neighbourhoods in Germany, UK, Sweden and Portugal, this article illustrates the gendered nature of healthcare bricolage. The complex variations of women’s bricolage within and beyond the public healthcare system show how gendered caring roles intersect with migration status and social class in the context of particular healthcare systems.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1962bricolagediversityEuropen welfaregenderhealthcaremigration |
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| title | Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European Settings |
| title_full | Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European Settings |
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| title_short | Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European Settings |
| title_sort | making gendered healthcare work visible over looked labour in four diverse european settings |
| topic | bricolage diversity Europen welfare gender healthcare migration |
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