We Only Escort Women to the Health Facility
Traditional birth attendants and the performance of indicator-driven care in rural Tanzania
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2289306 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Megan D Cogburn (0000-0001-7022-303X, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law University of Florida Gainesville USA, autor de correspondencia), Mohamed Yunus Rafiq (0000-0001-6652-6660, New York University Shanghai People's Republic of China) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 39 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | e12917-e12917 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-02-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/maq.12917 |
| PMID | 39955786 |
| OpenAlex | W4407606920 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 28 |
Global health regimes have reversed the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) from partners in the fight against maternal and child mortality to barriers to indicator-driven care. In rural Tanzania, widespread fear of government surveillance and punishment for non-compliant individuals and organizations that climaxed during the presidency of the late John Magufuli (2015-2021) put increased pressure on TBAs. To negotiate tensions, TBAs adopted the position that they only escort women to health facilities for birth. We argue that TBAs' insistence on this only both occludes and protects their multiple caring roles and responsibilities in a context of harsher home birth penalties, yet limited efforts to improve systemic shortages in the rural health system. TBAs' performance of "we only escort women" operates both as the sedimentation of policies, a way to resist them, and means to hold space for TBAs in the wake of ambiguous global and national health policies
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Health facility · Health services · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma
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Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
The scale, scope, coverage, and capability of childbirth care
Unsafe Motherhood
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Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural Northern Uganda
The impact of structural adjustment policies on women's and children's health in Tanzania
Audit Cultures
Enforcing 'Progress
Good, Bad Religious Leaders
Status and the training of traditional midwives
Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania
Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health
Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk
Playing the Numbers Game
A Tale of Three Midwives
Regulating Traditional Mexican Midwifery
"Witchdoctors" in White Coats
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |