Interventions to Address Reproductive Health Disparities among African-American Women in a Small Urban Community: the Communicative Construction of a 'Field of Health Action'

Autor:	Annis G. Golden, Matthew D. Matsaganis
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Economic growth business.industry Communication Psychological intervention Face (sociological concept) Interpersonal communication Social constructionism Language and Linguistics Disadvantaged Intervention (law) Action (philosophy) Sociology business Reproductive health
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Communication Research. 43:163-184
ISSN:	1479-5752 0090-9882
DOI:	10.1080/00909882.2015.1019546
Popis:	Guided by communication infrastructure theory (CIT) and based on analyses of multiple sources of data gathered as part of a four-year intervention to address reproductive health-care disparities among African-American women in a small, disadvantaged urban community in the northeastern USA, this mixed-methods study advances understanding of challenges that such health interventions face in smaller urban settings. Findings suggest that factors in residents’ material environment and their social construction of that environment interact to produce a “field of health action,” within which health-care seeking behavior is enabled and constrained. Four factors emerged as salient: actual availability of and perceptions of access to health-care resources, transportation options, communication resources (including interpersonal, media, and organizational) that aid health-care seeking, and privacy concerns around reproductive health-care seeking. The findings are discussed with regard to their implications for futur...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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