Gitte Wind
Biographic Data
| ID | 194091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gitte Wind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Wind |
| SIGNATURE | WIND G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4907-4225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Older caregivers’ responsibilities and strategies for their cohabiting partners living at home—a qualitative systematic literature review
Background: Ageing-in-place policies have increasingly shifted elder care responsibilities onto family members. Among older cohabiting couples, one's partner's illness significantly impacts the other's daily life and well-being. Aim: To explore the responsibilities and strategies of caregiving partners in older cohabiting couples from the perspectives of cohabiting caregivers. Methods: A qualitative systematic literature review was conducted acro…
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
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 …
It has been fun. Super‐duper fantastic”: Findings from a Danish respite programme to support young carers
Awareness of young carers' experiences and needs is low on governmental and societal levels in Denmark. This article presents findings from the first evaluation of a Danish respite programme, the Buddy Programme, which aims to provide support to young carers aged 5-15 years who experience serious, chronic or mental health problems and/or death of a parent or sibling. Over a four-six month period, volunteer students from University College Copenha…
Recovery from Mental Illness: A Service User Perspective on Facilitators and Barriers
Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings
In this paper I discuss the possibilities and limitations of the ethnographer participating in the different on-going activities and events in highly specialised healthcare systems. The concept of participant observation is based on a number of assumptions, particularly that the ethnographer will become one of 'them' to be able to follow the steps belonging to the accepted ethnographic research practice of doing fieldwork. The character of fieldw…
Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings
In this paper I discuss the possibilities and limitations of the ethnographer participating in the different on-going activities and events in highly specialised healthcare systems. The concept of participant observation is based on a number of assumptions, particularly that the ethnographer will become one of 'them' to be able to follow the steps belonging to the accepted ethnographic research practice of doing fieldwork. The character of fieldw…
Recovery from Mental Illness: A Service User Perspective on Facilitators and Barriers
It has been fun. Super‐duper fantastic”: Findings from a Danish respite programme to support young carers
Awareness of young carers' experiences and needs is low on governmental and societal levels in Denmark. This article presents findings from the first evaluation of a Danish respite programme, the Buddy Programme, which aims to provide support to young carers aged 5-15 years who experience serious, chronic or mental health problems and/or death of a parent or sibling. Over a four-six month period, volunteer students from University College Copenha…
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
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 …
Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings
In this paper I discuss the possibilities and limitations of the ethnographer participating in the different on-going activities and events in highly specialised healthcare systems. The concept of participant observation is based on a number of assumptions, particularly that the ethnographer will become one of 'them' to be able to follow the steps belonging to the accepted ethnographic research practice of doing fieldwork. The character of fieldw…
Recovery from Mental Illness: A Service User Perspective on Facilitators and Barriers
It has been fun. Super‐duper fantastic”: Findings from a Danish respite programme to support young carers
Awareness of young carers' experiences and needs is low on governmental and societal levels in Denmark. This article presents findings from the first evaluation of a Danish respite programme, the Buddy Programme, which aims to provide support to young carers aged 5-15 years who experience serious, chronic or mental health problems and/or death of a parent or sibling. Over a four-six month period, volunteer students from University College Copenha…
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
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 …
Older caregivers’ responsibilities and strategies for their cohabiting partners living at home—a qualitative systematic literature review
Background: Ageing-in-place policies have increasingly shifted elder care responsibilities onto family members. Among older cohabiting couples, one's partner's illness significantly impacts the other's daily life and well-being. Aim: To explore the responsibilities and strategies of caregiving partners in older cohabiting couples from the perspectives of cohabiting caregivers. Methods: A qualitative systematic literature review was conducted acro…
Psychology (4 works) · Health care (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Danish (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Family Support in Illness (2 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works)