Mai-Lei Woo Kinshella
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 130229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mai-Lei Woo Kinshella |
| NOMBRES | Mai-Lei Woo |
| APELLIDO | Kinshella |
| FIRMA | KINSHELLA M W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Now that the baby is out, I can be vaccinated”
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective in pregnancy, but vaccine hesitancy limits uptake and effectiveness. This study explored COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy in Kilifi, coastal Kenya, to elicit reasons for vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, and to compile misconceptions around vaccination in pregnancy. Twenty-three in-depth interviews were conducted with pregnant women, mothers who had given birth in the previous 2 years and health wor…
Community engagement approaches and lessons learned
Community engagement (CE) has been recommended as an important ethical consideration for health research to enhance informed consent and exchange knowledge between researchers and community members. The purpose of this paper is to describe how CE was developed and delivered for the PRECISE prospective pregnancy cohort study in Kenya. PRECISE enrolled pregnant women in antenatal care, followed them up to the postpartum period, and collected data a…
Methodological Insights, Advantages and Innovations Manuscript Title
With the growth of qualitative health research in low- and middle-income countries, local health professionals are increasingly involved in facilitating interviews with their fellow health workers. Understanding the methodological implications of such situations is required to ensure high-quality study findings and to build capacity and skills for interviewers with clinical backgrounds working with limited resources. This article reports a qualit…
Pregnancy cohorts and biobanking in sub-Saharan Africa
Food insecurity and coping strategies in a marine protected area in southeastern Tanzania
This article examines the perceived food security and coping strategies in coastal communities located in a marine protected area (MPA) in southeastern Tanzania. Drawing on fieldwork concentrated in a representative coastal village, the article illustrates how women in particular understand their food security situation in relation to the MPA. Data from interviews with 120 women suggest that the majority of the households in the study area were f…
Quinoa Buffets and Sugar Devils
With an emphasis on self-management, discourses of cancer survivorship and healthy diets can become an individualizing project, which is contested through the experiences of food told by the people with a history of cancer highlighted in this article. Based on interviews with 38 women and men treated for cancer in Canada, this paper explores the experience of cancer survivorship through food. While most informants endorsed eating more healthily, …
Alimentation et cancers dans le monde
The land is now not fertile
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a coastal village in south-eastern Tanzania, this paper examines how social inequalities and social suffering become embodied in the lived experiences of hunger. The paper explores local meanings of food, fertility and hunger and how these concepts interconnect and materialize on a landscape impacted by two large-scale conservation and development projects, the Mtwara Development Corridor and the Mnazi Bay Ruvum…
The land is now not fertile
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a coastal village in south-eastern Tanzania, this paper examines how social inequalities and social suffering become embodied in the lived experiences of hunger. The paper explores local meanings of food, fertility and hunger and how these concepts interconnect and materialize on a landscape impacted by two large-scale conservation and development projects, the Mtwara Development Corridor and the Mnazi Bay Ruvum…
The land is now not fertile
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a coastal village in south-eastern Tanzania, this paper examines how social inequalities and social suffering become embodied in the lived experiences of hunger. The paper explores local meanings of food, fertility and hunger and how these concepts interconnect and materialize on a landscape impacted by two large-scale conservation and development projects, the Mtwara Development Corridor and the Mnazi Bay Ruvum…
Quinoa Buffets and Sugar Devils
With an emphasis on self-management, discourses of cancer survivorship and healthy diets can become an individualizing project, which is contested through the experiences of food told by the people with a history of cancer highlighted in this article. Based on interviews with 38 women and men treated for cancer in Canada, this paper explores the experience of cancer survivorship through food. While most informants endorsed eating more healthily, …
Alimentation et cancers dans le monde
Food insecurity and coping strategies in a marine protected area in southeastern Tanzania
This article examines the perceived food security and coping strategies in coastal communities located in a marine protected area (MPA) in southeastern Tanzania. Drawing on fieldwork concentrated in a representative coastal village, the article illustrates how women in particular understand their food security situation in relation to the MPA. Data from interviews with 120 women suggest that the majority of the households in the study area were f…
Pregnancy cohorts and biobanking in sub-Saharan Africa
Methodological Insights, Advantages and Innovations Manuscript Title
With the growth of qualitative health research in low- and middle-income countries, local health professionals are increasingly involved in facilitating interviews with their fellow health workers. Understanding the methodological implications of such situations is required to ensure high-quality study findings and to build capacity and skills for interviewers with clinical backgrounds working with limited resources. This article reports a qualit…
Community engagement approaches and lessons learned
Community engagement (CE) has been recommended as an important ethical consideration for health research to enhance informed consent and exchange knowledge between researchers and community members. The purpose of this paper is to describe how CE was developed and delivered for the PRECISE prospective pregnancy cohort study in Kenya. PRECISE enrolled pregnant women in antenatal care, followed them up to the postpartum period, and collected data a…
“Now that the baby is out, I can be vaccinated”
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective in pregnancy, but vaccine hesitancy limits uptake and effectiveness. This study explored COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy in Kilifi, coastal Kenya, to elicit reasons for vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, and to compile misconceptions around vaccination in pregnancy. Twenty-three in-depth interviews were conducted with pregnant women, mothers who had given birth in the previous 2 years and health wor…
Political science (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Biology (2 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 obras) · Food security (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · Global Health and Surgery (2 obras) · Health care (2 obras)