'It Is a Full-time Job to Be Ill': Patient Work Involved in Attending Formal Diabetes Care Among Socially Vulnerable Danish Type 2 Diabetes Patients
| Autor: | Ulla Christensen, Sofie á Rogvi, Gitte Wind, Ann Dorrit Guassora, Nina Tvistholm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Employment Full-time Denmark Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Type 2 diabetes Health Services medicine.disease language.human_language Danish Self Care Health services Work (electrical) Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Diabetes mellitus Ethnography language medicine Humans Social inequality Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative health research. 31(14) |
| ISSN: | 1049-7323 |
| Popis: | Previous research has shown social inequality in type 2 diabetes prevalence and that socially vulnerable type 2 diabetes patients benefit less than average from health services. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between February 2017 and March 2018 in a Danish specialized outpatient clinic, this article focuses on patient work among socially vulnerable type 2 diabetes patients. Through attending to the border zone between formal health care and self-care, we show that patients do a lot of work requiring skills, resources, and initiative, to access and benefit from formal care. This work is complex and implicit in the organization of care. Patients’ social situations, especially their employment situation, complicate getting patient work done. Attending to patient work and implicit tasks in care organization may help us to see how social inequality in type 2 diabetes outcomes develops, and may be combated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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