Carol Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Older Lesbian Experiences of Homophobia and Ageism
Utilizing specific data from a national, online 115-question survey, the authors examined the perceived discrimination experiences of 456 lesbians older than the age of 51. Experiences explored included ageism and homophobia in a variety of relationships and social settings. Quantitative analysis and several open-ended questions provided qualitative descriptions of their experiences with discrimination. The findings indicate that older lesbians h…
Older Lesbians
Older lesbians are, at minimum, a triple threat of marginalization due to ageism, heterosexism, and sexism. A national survey specific to this often-invisible population has not occurred in over 25 years. The present study was completed to reveal the needs, strengths, and experiences of the current cohort of older lesbians. Four hundred fifty-six older lesbians responded to an online survey on topics including sociodemographics, social activity, …
Older Lesbian Sexuality
In response to the very limited and mostly outdated literature on older lesbian sexuality, this exploratory study examined older lesbian sexual identity, romantic relationships, the impact of aging, and experiences of discrimination within these contexts. Utilizing an online survey that recruited via numerous online lesbian communities and snowball sampling, 456 lesbians over the age of 50 responded to closed, Likert scale, and open-ended questio…
Care Arrangement Choices for Older Widows
This research examines how a wide range of care arrangement decisions for frail older women are made. Interviews were conducted with 11 older women (ten of whom are widows), nine of their family members, and six professional service providers. Maintaining the older woman's independence was identified as a major theme. While all decision participants identified it as an explicit or implicit decision-making goal, their meanings of independence were…
Conclusions
Introduction
Half the sky
To address HIV-related problems various governments and donors agreed to coordinate in developing and dispensing a ‘war chest’ of funding. Securing life chances for infected people and protecting others from exposure entails calculation of both social costs and price of social interventions to contain the epidemic. In addition the acceptance of the enormous diversity in human sexuality is required in the process of raising awareness about sexual …
Care Arrangement Decisions for Frail Older Women
This study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how a range of care arrangement decisions for frail older unmarried women are made. Quantitative data from the 1989 National Long-Term Care Survey provides information concerning factors that predict the probability of five categories of care arrangements, including self only care, nursing home care, informal only care, formal only care, and a mix of formal and informal care…
Mental Health Care for Older Persons
We use case study methodology to examine the degree of cooperation and coordination among organizations providing mental health care to older persons. Mail surveys and in‐depth interviews were employed to gather data from human service organizations in one relatively rural county of Upstate New York. We find that organizations that are older and provide larger numbers of services tend to have a higher degree of integration with other organization…
Changing gender relations among young people
The worldwide epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has affected different populations in different countries. Yet, every country has recognized the particular vulnerability of its young people to possible infection. This vulnerability is commonly thought to relate in the main to young people's assumed universal interest in sexual experimentation. Various studies have demonstrated not only both worrying levels of sexual risk-taking among…
Women, Work, and Caregiving
Families provide the bulk of care to the increasing numbers of community dwelling older individuals needing assistance due to functional disabilities. Women, due to traditionally accepted familial and societal roles, often bear a disproportionate share of the responsibility for this caregiving. Data from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households is used to provide descriptive statistics about women who concurrently fill the roles of hom…
Gender in MelanesiaGender and Fertility in Melanesia.Katsuhiko Yamaji
Attenuation of nursing-related ovarian suppression and high fertility in well-nourished, intensively breast-feeding Amele women of lowland Papua New Guinea
Intense, sustained nursing lengthens inter-birth intervals and is causally linked with low natural fertility. However, in traditional settings, the effects of such nursing on fertility are difficult to disentangle from those of nutrition. Results from an prospective, direct observational study of reproductive function in well-nourished Amele women who nurse intensively and persistently but who also have high fertility are here presented. Endocrin…
Fertility and infertility in Papua New Guinea
Fertility levels in selected populations of coastal and highland Madang Province of Papua New Guinea are analyzed from reproductive history data. Changing levels of fertility between 1964 and 1984 are examined using reconstructed censuses. Age‐specific infertility rates are calculated and evaluated with available data on rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and contraceptive usage. These suggest that STD‐associated infertility may be a ma…
The use of ethnography and structured observations in the study of risk factors for the transmission of diarrhea in highland Papua new guinea
Methods that combine anthropological and epidemiological data are needed for the study of behavioral risk factors in communicable diseases, but as yet remain undeveloped. Ethnography is often undervalued as both the preliminary and integrative step in the design and execution of such studies. The analysis of critical methodological issues emerging from a case-control study of the behavioral and environmental risk factors for the transmission of c…
Children in the Field
Dietary change and adolescent growth among the Bundi (Gende‐speaking) people of Papua New Guinea
In the 1960's, the Bundi had a pattern of slow growth, delayed maturation, and small adult body size due to malnutrition. Since then, improved transportation, wage income, cash cropping, and migration have changed dietary patterns for the Bundi. The purpose of our study was to assess the effects of this general increase in protein and energy intakes on adolescent growth. The data were collected in 1984. Subscapular skinfold thicknesses among rura…
Culture change and epidemiological patterns among the Hagahai, Papua New Guinea
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Health in the early contact period
Cultural aspects of early childhood growth and nutrition among the Amele of lowland Papua new guinea
Childhood malnutrition in Papua New Guinea has often been attributed to inadequate practices. Combining the methods of ethnography and nutrition, this study assesses the impact of beliefs and practices concerning breast feeding and supplementation on infant and toddler growth among the Amele of lowland Madang Province. Results indicate a clear role for notions about lactation and the proper timing of appropriate foods in growth retardation of you…
Ritual and Resource Flow
The dugu, a complex ancestral feast of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize, is discussed in light of contemporary resource stress. Evidence of malnutrition, declining subsistence activities, and migration lends credence to the argument, presented in this paper, that the increased size and frequency of dugu cermonies provides a strategy for resource redistribution between wealthier migrants and their poorer kin. Simultaneously, the threat of cult…
Patterns of growth and malnutrition among preschoolers in Belize
An anthropometric survey of 750 preschoolers was conducted during 1979 in Belize to assess nutritional status in two districts, one coastal and the other inland. Mothers were interviewed concerning reproductive history, child's health and dietary history, and associated factors. Analysis included the recognition of low arm circumference, weight‐for‐age, stature‐for‐age, and weight‐for‐stature. Survey results indicate that about 25% of the childre…
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Older Lesbian Sexuality
In response to the very limited and mostly outdated literature on older lesbian sexuality, this exploratory study examined older lesbian sexual identity, romantic relationships, the impact of aging, and experiences of discrimination within these contexts. Utilizing an online survey that recruited via numerous online lesbian communities and snowball sampling, 456 lesbians over the age of 50 responded to closed, Likert scale, and open-ended questio…
Patterns of growth and malnutrition among preschoolers in Belize
An anthropometric survey of 750 preschoolers was conducted during 1979 in Belize to assess nutritional status in two districts, one coastal and the other inland. Mothers were interviewed concerning reproductive history, child's health and dietary history, and associated factors. Analysis included the recognition of low arm circumference, weight‐for‐age, stature‐for‐age, and weight‐for‐stature. Survey results indicate that about 25% of the childre…
Ritual and Resource Flow
The dugu, a complex ancestral feast of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize, is discussed in light of contemporary resource stress. Evidence of malnutrition, declining subsistence activities, and migration lends credence to the argument, presented in this paper, that the increased size and frequency of dugu cermonies provides a strategy for resource redistribution between wealthier migrants and their poorer kin. Simultaneously, the threat of cult…
The use of ethnography and structured observations in the study of risk factors for the transmission of diarrhea in highland Papua new guinea
Methods that combine anthropological and epidemiological data are needed for the study of behavioral risk factors in communicable diseases, but as yet remain undeveloped. Ethnography is often undervalued as both the preliminary and integrative step in the design and execution of such studies. The analysis of critical methodological issues emerging from a case-control study of the behavioral and environmental risk factors for the transmission of c…
Health in the early contact period
Older Lesbian Experiences of Homophobia and Ageism
Utilizing specific data from a national, online 115-question survey, the authors examined the perceived discrimination experiences of 456 lesbians older than the age of 51. Experiences explored included ageism and homophobia in a variety of relationships and social settings. Quantitative analysis and several open-ended questions provided qualitative descriptions of their experiences with discrimination. The findings indicate that older lesbians h…
Patterns of growth and malnutrition among preschoolers in Belize
An anthropometric survey of 750 preschoolers was conducted during 1979 in Belize to assess nutritional status in two districts, one coastal and the other inland. Mothers were interviewed concerning reproductive history, child's health and dietary history, and associated factors. Analysis included the recognition of low arm circumference, weight‐for‐age, stature‐for‐age, and weight‐for‐stature. Survey results indicate that about 25% of the childre…
Ritual and Resource Flow
The dugu, a complex ancestral feast of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize, is discussed in light of contemporary resource stress. Evidence of malnutrition, declining subsistence activities, and migration lends credence to the argument, presented in this paper, that the increased size and frequency of dugu cermonies provides a strategy for resource redistribution between wealthier migrants and their poorer kin. Simultaneously, the threat of cult…
Cultural aspects of early childhood growth and nutrition among the Amele of lowland Papua new guinea
Childhood malnutrition in Papua New Guinea has often been attributed to inadequate practices. Combining the methods of ethnography and nutrition, this study assesses the impact of beliefs and practices concerning breast feeding and supplementation on infant and toddler growth among the Amele of lowland Madang Province. Results indicate a clear role for notions about lactation and the proper timing of appropriate foods in growth retardation of you…
Culture change and epidemiological patterns among the Hagahai, Papua New Guinea
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Health in the early contact period
Dietary change and adolescent growth among the Bundi (Gende‐speaking) people of Papua New Guinea
In the 1960's, the Bundi had a pattern of slow growth, delayed maturation, and small adult body size due to malnutrition. Since then, improved transportation, wage income, cash cropping, and migration have changed dietary patterns for the Bundi. The purpose of our study was to assess the effects of this general increase in protein and energy intakes on adolescent growth. The data were collected in 1984. Subscapular skinfold thicknesses among rura…
Children in the Field
Attenuation of nursing-related ovarian suppression and high fertility in well-nourished, intensively breast-feeding Amele women of lowland Papua New Guinea
Intense, sustained nursing lengthens inter-birth intervals and is causally linked with low natural fertility. However, in traditional settings, the effects of such nursing on fertility are difficult to disentangle from those of nutrition. Results from an prospective, direct observational study of reproductive function in well-nourished Amele women who nurse intensively and persistently but who also have high fertility are here presented. Endocrin…
Fertility and infertility in Papua New Guinea
Fertility levels in selected populations of coastal and highland Madang Province of Papua New Guinea are analyzed from reproductive history data. Changing levels of fertility between 1964 and 1984 are examined using reconstructed censuses. Age‐specific infertility rates are calculated and evaluated with available data on rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and contraceptive usage. These suggest that STD‐associated infertility may be a ma…
The use of ethnography and structured observations in the study of risk factors for the transmission of diarrhea in highland Papua new guinea
Methods that combine anthropological and epidemiological data are needed for the study of behavioral risk factors in communicable diseases, but as yet remain undeveloped. Ethnography is often undervalued as both the preliminary and integrative step in the design and execution of such studies. The analysis of critical methodological issues emerging from a case-control study of the behavioral and environmental risk factors for the transmission of c…
Gender in MelanesiaGender and Fertility in Melanesia.Katsuhiko Yamaji
Women, Work, and Caregiving
Families provide the bulk of care to the increasing numbers of community dwelling older individuals needing assistance due to functional disabilities. Women, due to traditionally accepted familial and societal roles, often bear a disproportionate share of the responsibility for this caregiving. Data from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households is used to provide descriptive statistics about women who concurrently fill the roles of hom…
Changing gender relations among young people
The worldwide epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has affected different populations in different countries. Yet, every country has recognized the particular vulnerability of its young people to possible infection. This vulnerability is commonly thought to relate in the main to young people's assumed universal interest in sexual experimentation. Various studies have demonstrated not only both worrying levels of sexual risk-taking among…
Care Arrangement Decisions for Frail Older Women
This study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how a range of care arrangement decisions for frail older unmarried women are made. Quantitative data from the 1989 National Long-Term Care Survey provides information concerning factors that predict the probability of five categories of care arrangements, including self only care, nursing home care, informal only care, formal only care, and a mix of formal and informal care…
Mental Health Care for Older Persons
We use case study methodology to examine the degree of cooperation and coordination among organizations providing mental health care to older persons. Mail surveys and in‐depth interviews were employed to gather data from human service organizations in one relatively rural county of Upstate New York. We find that organizations that are older and provide larger numbers of services tend to have a higher degree of integration with other organization…
Half the sky
To address HIV-related problems various governments and donors agreed to coordinate in developing and dispensing a ‘war chest’ of funding. Securing life chances for infected people and protecting others from exposure entails calculation of both social costs and price of social interventions to contain the epidemic. In addition the acceptance of the enormous diversity in human sexuality is required in the process of raising awareness about sexual …
Care Arrangement Choices for Older Widows
This research examines how a wide range of care arrangement decisions for frail older women are made. Interviews were conducted with 11 older women (ten of whom are widows), nine of their family members, and six professional service providers. Maintaining the older woman's independence was identified as a major theme. While all decision participants identified it as an explicit or implicit decision-making goal, their meanings of independence were…
Conclusions
Introduction
Older Lesbians
Older lesbians are, at minimum, a triple threat of marginalization due to ageism, heterosexism, and sexism. A national survey specific to this often-invisible population has not occurred in over 25 years. The present study was completed to reveal the needs, strengths, and experiences of the current cohort of older lesbians. Four hundred fifty-six older lesbians responded to an online survey on topics including sociodemographics, social activity, …
Older Lesbian Sexuality
In response to the very limited and mostly outdated literature on older lesbian sexuality, this exploratory study examined older lesbian sexual identity, romantic relationships, the impact of aging, and experiences of discrimination within these contexts. Utilizing an online survey that recruited via numerous online lesbian communities and snowball sampling, 456 lesbians over the age of 50 responded to closed, Likert scale, and open-ended questio…
Older Lesbian Experiences of Homophobia and Ageism
Utilizing specific data from a national, online 115-question survey, the authors examined the perceived discrimination experiences of 456 lesbians older than the age of 51. Experiences explored included ageism and homophobia in a variety of relationships and social settings. Quantitative analysis and several open-ended questions provided qualitative descriptions of their experiences with discrimination. The findings indicate that older lesbians h…
Medicine (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ethnology (8 works) · New guinea (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · History (5 works)