Mother protection, child survival: narrative perspectives on child mental health services underutilization
| Autor: | Melody J. Slashinski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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African american
medicine.medical_specialty Child survival Public housing business.industry Public health 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Criminology Mental health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ethnography medicine Sociology of health and illness 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine business Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Critical Public Health. 27:394-406 |
| ISSN: | 1469-3682 0958-1596 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09581596.2016.1234708 |
| Popis: | In the United States, increased national attention has generated a wealth of public health and epidemiologic research examining disparities in African American children’s mental health services utilization. Research has not yet been extended to examining the social structural mechanisms that keep these disparities stable and in place. Drawing from a larger urban ethnographic field study exploring the ‘everyday’ of health and illness within and across African American families living in an inner city public housing community, in this article I document the narratives of four African American mothers to illustrate how social structural mechanisms shape their decisions to seek or not mental health services for their children. I frame mothers’ decisions in terms of everyday violence, drawing attention to the institutionalized injustices that are normalized and rendered invisible because of their routine pervasiveness. I conclude with a discussion of integrating structural interventions to modify or re... |
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