Sydney A Spangler
Biographic Data
| ID | 102696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sydney A Spangler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sydney A |
| FAMILY NAME | Spangler |
| SIGNATURE | SPANGLER S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Eco this and recycle that’: An ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game
This article presents an ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game, Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012). As the popularity and immersive capability of digital gaming continues to expand, there is need for investigations of how digital games may either perpetuate ecologically destructive ideologies, practices, and identities or promote and cultivate more ecologically sustainable options. The simulation game genre is of particular in…
Health, Maternal and Child
Like other focal areas of medical anthropology, the study of maternal and child health includes examination of wellness and prevention, illness recognition, disease etiology, care seeking, treatment modalities, and the effectiveness of public health interventions. Common cross‐cutting topics include power, gender, and particularly inequality, as demonstrated by ethnographic works that reveal specific pathways through which uneven maternal and chi…
From ‘half-dead’ to being ‘free’: Resistance to HIV stigma, self-disclosure and support for PMTCT/HIV care among couples living with HIV in Kenya
In sub-Saharan Africa, self-disclosure of HIV-positive status may be a pivotal action for improving access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. However, understanding of HIV stigma and disclosure, and their effects on demand for care remains incomplete - particularly in the current context of new antiretroviral therapy guidelines. The purpose of this study was to explore these issues among self-disclosed couples living in south…
Health facility challenges to the provision of Option B+ in western Kenya: A qualitative study
Current WHO guidelines recommend lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV-positive individuals, including pregnant and breastfeeding women (Option B+) in settings with generalized HIV epidemics. While Option B+ is scaled-up in Kenya, insufficient adherence and retention to care could undermine the expected positive impact of Option B+. To explore challenges to the provision of Option B+ at the health facility level, we conducted forty in…
Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Both Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Risk Behaviors in Women Living with HIV
Assessing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The Inadequacy of Using Global Standards and Indicators to Measure Local Realities
Current efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings often depend on global standards and indicators to assess obstetric care, particularly skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care. This paper describes challenges in using these standards to assess obstetric services in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania. A health facility survey and extensive participant observation showed existing services to be complic…
"To Open Oneself Is a Poor Woman's Trouble": Embodied Inequality and Childbirth in South-Central Tanzania
Various theories exist for the ways in which social and material disparities are incorporated within human bodies and then expressed as health outcomes with uneven distributions. From a political economy perspective, one pathway involves processes of social exclusion that take place on articulating local and global fields of power. This study explores such situated processes as they produce and perpetuate embodied inequality at childbirth in the …
Use of biomedical obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The role of social and material inequalities
"To Open Oneself Is a Poor Woman's Trouble": Embodied Inequality and Childbirth in South-Central Tanzania
Various theories exist for the ways in which social and material disparities are incorporated within human bodies and then expressed as health outcomes with uneven distributions. From a political economy perspective, one pathway involves processes of social exclusion that take place on articulating local and global fields of power. This study explores such situated processes as they produce and perpetuate embodied inequality at childbirth in the …
Use of biomedical obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The role of social and material inequalities
Assessing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The Inadequacy of Using Global Standards and Indicators to Measure Local Realities
Current efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings often depend on global standards and indicators to assess obstetric care, particularly skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care. This paper describes challenges in using these standards to assess obstetric services in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania. A health facility survey and extensive participant observation showed existing services to be complic…
Eco this and recycle that’: An ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game
This article presents an ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game, Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012). As the popularity and immersive capability of digital gaming continues to expand, there is need for investigations of how digital games may either perpetuate ecologically destructive ideologies, practices, and identities or promote and cultivate more ecologically sustainable options. The simulation game genre is of particular in…
Health facility challenges to the provision of Option B+ in western Kenya: A qualitative study
Current WHO guidelines recommend lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV-positive individuals, including pregnant and breastfeeding women (Option B+) in settings with generalized HIV epidemics. While Option B+ is scaled-up in Kenya, insufficient adherence and retention to care could undermine the expected positive impact of Option B+. To explore challenges to the provision of Option B+ at the health facility level, we conducted forty in…
Use of biomedical obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The role of social and material inequalities
"To Open Oneself Is a Poor Woman's Trouble": Embodied Inequality and Childbirth in South-Central Tanzania
Various theories exist for the ways in which social and material disparities are incorporated within human bodies and then expressed as health outcomes with uneven distributions. From a political economy perspective, one pathway involves processes of social exclusion that take place on articulating local and global fields of power. This study explores such situated processes as they produce and perpetuate embodied inequality at childbirth in the …
Assessing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The Inadequacy of Using Global Standards and Indicators to Measure Local Realities
Current efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings often depend on global standards and indicators to assess obstetric care, particularly skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care. This paper describes challenges in using these standards to assess obstetric services in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania. A health facility survey and extensive participant observation showed existing services to be complic…
Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Both Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Risk Behaviors in Women Living with HIV
Health facility challenges to the provision of Option B+ in western Kenya: A qualitative study
Current WHO guidelines recommend lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV-positive individuals, including pregnant and breastfeeding women (Option B+) in settings with generalized HIV epidemics. While Option B+ is scaled-up in Kenya, insufficient adherence and retention to care could undermine the expected positive impact of Option B+. To explore challenges to the provision of Option B+ at the health facility level, we conducted forty in…
Health, Maternal and Child
Like other focal areas of medical anthropology, the study of maternal and child health includes examination of wellness and prevention, illness recognition, disease etiology, care seeking, treatment modalities, and the effectiveness of public health interventions. Common cross‐cutting topics include power, gender, and particularly inequality, as demonstrated by ethnographic works that reveal specific pathways through which uneven maternal and chi…
From ‘half-dead’ to being ‘free’: Resistance to HIV stigma, self-disclosure and support for PMTCT/HIV care among couples living with HIV in Kenya
In sub-Saharan Africa, self-disclosure of HIV-positive status may be a pivotal action for improving access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. However, understanding of HIV stigma and disclosure, and their effects on demand for care remains incomplete - particularly in the current context of new antiretroviral therapy guidelines. The purpose of this study was to explore these issues among self-disclosed couples living in south…
Eco this and recycle that’: An ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game
This article presents an ecolinguistic analysis of a popular digital simulation game, Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012). As the popularity and immersive capability of digital gaming continues to expand, there is need for investigations of how digital games may either perpetuate ecologically destructive ideologies, practices, and identities or promote and cultivate more ecologically sustainable options. The simulation game genre is of particular in…
Medicine (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (3 works)