Andrej Belak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1737250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrej Belak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrej |
| FAMILY NAME | Belak |
| SIGNATURE | BELAK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Medical Center Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6634-0137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caring, pragmatic and discriminatory
Healthcare providers may enact discriminatory practices while perceiving themselves as caring and pragmatic. Whilst anti-Roma discrimination in Central and Eastern European healthcare has been documented in hospital and emergency settings in poorer regions, less is known about routine outpatient care in affluent areas. This ethnographic study examines how private paediatric outpatient providers in Slovakia’s most affluent region normalise unequal…
Eirik Saethre, Wastelands
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
Medzi ornamenty a fundamenty? Samo Marec
Social mechanisms behind the poor health of marginalized Roma
Why don't health care frontline professionals do more for segregated Roma? Exploring mechanisms supporting unequal care practices
How Well Do Health-Mediation Programs Address the Determinants of the Poor Health Status of Roma? A Longitudinal Case Study
In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), health-mediation programs (HMPs) have become central policy instruments targeting health inequities between segregated Roma and general populations. Social determinants of health (SDH) represent the root causes behind health inequities. We therefore evaluated how an HMP based in Slovakia addressed known SDH in its agenda and its everyday implementation. To produce descriptive data on the HMP's agenda and every…
Health-endangering everyday settings and practices in a rural segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia
Our summary provides a comprehensive and conveniently structured basis for grounded thinking about the intermediary social determinants of health within segregated Roma communities in Slovakia and beyond. It offers novel clues regarding how certain determinants might vary therein; how they might be contributing to health-deterioration; and how they might be causally inter-linked here. It also suggests racialized ethnically framed social counter-n…
How Well Do Health-Mediation Programs Address the Determinants of the Poor Health Status of Roma? A Longitudinal Case Study
In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), health-mediation programs (HMPs) have become central policy instruments targeting health inequities between segregated Roma and general populations. Social determinants of health (SDH) represent the root causes behind health inequities. We therefore evaluated how an HMP based in Slovakia addressed known SDH in its agenda and its everyday implementation. To produce descriptive data on the HMP's agenda and every…
Health-endangering everyday settings and practices in a rural segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia
Our summary provides a comprehensive and conveniently structured basis for grounded thinking about the intermediary social determinants of health within segregated Roma communities in Slovakia and beyond. It offers novel clues regarding how certain determinants might vary therein; how they might be contributing to health-deterioration; and how they might be causally inter-linked here. It also suggests racialized ethnically framed social counter-n…
Why don't health care frontline professionals do more for segregated Roma? Exploring mechanisms supporting unequal care practices
Social mechanisms behind the poor health of marginalized Roma
Eirik Saethre, Wastelands
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
Medzi ornamenty a fundamenty? Samo Marec
Caring, pragmatic and discriminatory
Healthcare providers may enact discriminatory practices while perceiving themselves as caring and pragmatic. Whilst anti-Roma discrimination in Central and Eastern European healthcare has been documented in hospital and emergency settings in poorer regions, less is known about routine outpatient care in affluent areas. This ethnographic study examines how private paediatric outpatient providers in Slovakia’s most affluent region normalise unequal…
Romani and Gypsy Studies (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (2 works) · Longitudinal study (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)