Leah Gilbert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3668064 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leah Gilbert |
| PRENOMES | Leah |
| SOBRENOME | Gilbert |
| ASSINATURA | GILBERT L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0580-0141 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 225 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
A two-item screening of maternal or infant perceived life threat during childbirth prospectively associated with childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms up to six months postpartum
The type of perceived threat differently influences maternal CB-PTSS and probable CB-PTSD up to 6 months postpartum. These results may be the basis for the development of a short screening instrument after traumatic childbirth in clinical settings. Future studies need to assess the psychometric properties and acceptability of such a brief screening tool
Risky sexual practices and approaches to preventing sexually transmitted infections among urban dwelling older Yoruba men in Southwest Nigeria
Social and cultural norms and beliefs shape how men, as social actors, perceive and engage in sexual activities. Little is known about risky sexual practices and prevention strategies among older Yoruba men. As a growing concern in Nigeria, this paper explores risky sexual behaviours of older Yoruba men living in Ibadan, a metropolitan city, and their strategies for preventing sexually transmitted infections in old age. We held six focus groups a…
South African Jewish Responses to Covid-19
Although the death rate caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa has thus far been much lower than initially feared, the economic and social impact has been severe. The country’s Jewish community, constituting 0.1% of the population with a median age of 45 years, has not escaped its effects. Organizations and individuals have nonetheless been able to mobilize a rapid and wide-reaching series of responses directed towards those most in need…
Intuitive eating is associated with improved health indicators at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
We evaluated the associations between intuitive eating during and after pregnancy with metabolic health at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus and in high-risk gestational diabetes mellitus subgroups. One hundred seventeen women who consented and completed the French intuitive eating questionnaire during and after pregnancy were included. We found an association between intuitive eating during and after pregnancy with lo…
“ The night comes early for a woman ”
(folk fibroid). Older men construe menopause and sexual refusals from their wives as opportunities for extramarital relations. Thus, both older men and women have differentiated perceptions and dispositions toward menopause, which have implications for their sexual health and well-being
NGO laws after the colour revolutions and the Arab spring
How significant were popular mobilizations like the colour revolutions and the Arab Spring in raising legal regulatory barriers for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Eastern Europe and the Middle East? How do different types of nondemocratic regimes approach NGO laws and state-society relations? This paper investigates and provides a comparative analysis of the NGO regulatory environment of nondemocratic regimes in Eastern Europe and the M…
Disabling dissent
State elites in hybrid regimes have increasingly sought to manipulate the legal regulation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as part of the growing backlash against democracy assistance in nondemocratic countries around the world. Sophisticated laws detailing burdensome NGO registration procedures and complex regulations enabling invasive government oversight of NGOs represent upgraded forms of civic curtailment and democracy resistance. T…
An exploratory study of the experience of fibromyalgia diagnosis in South Africa
Within the conceptual framework of 'medically-ill-defined' conditions, this article focuses on the experiences of 'diagnosis' through a narrative analysis of fibromyalgia (a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder) in South Africa. In-depth interviews were used to collect narratives from 15 participants. The findings show how the contested and confusing experience of fibromyalgia diagnosis can be understood, by viewing the interactions that patient…
Crowding Out Civil Society
There is considerable debate about the impact of the 2006 NGO Law and related Kremlin policies on social organisations in Russia. This article uses interviews with members of organisations focusing on human rights, women, and youth to assess the effects of these policies on civil society. It finds that groups that are critical of the regime have been systematically pushed out of the public sphere and supplanted by groups that are either neutral t…
The role of ‘social support’ in the experience of fibromyalgia - narratives from South Africa
This paper focuses on the role of 'social support' in the experience of fibromyalgia (a musculoskeletal pain disorder) in South Africa. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect narratives from 15 participants. Sources of social support constitute important mechanisms for coping with the illness experience of fibromyalgia. In providing a space for consultation and validation of the diagnosis of fibromyalgia, and the person living w…
The mercurial piece of the puzzle
Although stigma and its relationship to health and disease is not a new phenomenon, it has not been a major feature in the public discourse until the emergence of HIV. The range of negative responses associated with the epidemic placed stigma on the public agenda and drew attention to its complexity as a phenomenon and concept worthy of further investigation. Despite the consensus that stigma is one of the major contributors to the rapid spread o…
Exploring the Health Belief Model and first-year students’ responses to HIV/Aids and VCT at a South African university
The Health Belief Model (HBM) is a psychosocial framework that attempts to explain health behaviour. It is determined by an individual's personal beliefs or perceptions about a disease and the options available to decrease its occurrence. In the context of sexual risk behaviours, literature reveals that knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) are key strategies in the management and prevention of HIV. This study was c…
Improving Maternal Mental Health Following Preterm Birth Using an Expressive Writing Intervention
“My Legs Affect Me a Lot. … I Can No Longer Walk to the Forest to Fetch Firewood”
Compromised health negatively impacts older persons' ability to participate in expected social roles. Researchers have published little empirical work, however, to explore these issues in HIV endemic African settings. Qualitative interviews with 30 women, aged 60-plus, in rural South Africa, provide insight into the relationship between health and daily activities, with attention to the fulfillment of social roles. In this poor HIV endemic contex…
Sex Trading and Other HIV Risks among Drug-Involved Men
This study examined the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), sex trading, and other HIV risks among a random sample of 356 men in heterosexual relationships who were enrolled in methadone treatment in New York City. Mediational analyses were performed to test a hypothesis that selected dimensions of substance use history and psychopathology mediate the relationship between CSA and sex trading and HIV risks. Thirty-eight percent ( n = 135) …
‘Re-Engineering the Workforce to Meet Service Needs’
This article explores the major trends in the South African health workforce in the context of HIV/AIDS and analyses their potential impact on the professional work and status of nurses and doctors. The Human Resources for Health Strategy for the Health Sector 2012/13-2016/17 document, in addition to a wide range of secondary material, is used to depict the shifts that have taken place in the SA health workforce as a response to the unmet health …
“Even if I were to consent, my family will never agree”
CONTEXT: In the South African mining sector, cardiorespiratory-specific autopsies are conducted under the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (ODMWA) on deceased mineworkers to determine eligibility for compensation. However, low levels of autopsy utilisation undermine the value of the service. OBJECTIVE: To explore enablers and barriers to consent that impact on ODMWA autopsy utilisation for posthumous monetary compensation. METHODS: In…
If the doctors see that they don't know how to cure the disease, they say it's Aids’
South Africa, like other sub-Saharan African countries, is in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Older women, here defined as aged 60 years and older, while at lower risk of infection than those aged 20–50, are amongst those deeply ‘affected’ by the epidemic. In rural areas, older women, who have always played central roles in social reproduction in South African households and families, bear the brunt of care giving for the sick and dying. For this…
‘Upstream/downstream’ – locating the ‘social’ in health promotion and HIV/Aids in south africa
Strengthening HIV prevention remains an urgent global health priority. The problem is that ‘advancement’ in HIV prevention often stands for the development of biomedical technologies or interventions. Theories and practices of health promotion have been advocating a shift from a biological/medical preventive focus to a more social one; from the level of individuals to organisations, communities and broader social policy. It seems, however, that i…
The epidemic in this country has the face of a woman’ 1
Epidemiological data clearly show that the highest levels of HIV prevalence occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Less visible, however, is the complex combination of forces that fuel HIV epidemics in this region - these have been dubbed 'the lethal cocktail.' It is this 'cocktail' that creates an enabling environment for the spread of HIV. The HIV epidemic in the region is increasingly 'feminised' as a growing proportion of new infections occurs among an…
My heart is very painful”
The meanings of health and illness as well as people's beliefs about the required response to illness vary widely according to time and place and represents the culture and society in which people live. A double burden of disease in rural South Africa – an emerging epidemic of non-communicable diseases alongside high HIV-prevalence – defines illness as a ‘normal’ part of older persons' everyday lives. Against this background we analyze qualitativ…
Older Female Caregivers and HIV/Aids-Related Secondary Stigma in Rural South Africa
South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a major public health threat with multi-faceted harmful impacts and 'socially complex' outcomes. While some outcomes relate to structural issues, others stem from society's attitudinal milieu. Due to negative attitudes toward People Living with HIV/AIDS, stigmatisation mars their own experience and often extends to those close to them, in particular their caregivers. Many of the caregivers in South Africa ar…
Beyond Authoritarianism
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
A Cross-National Comparison of the Internal Effects of Participation in Voluntary Organizations
This article draws on two recent and largely untapped sources of data to test empirically the Tocquevillian argument about the impact of involvement in civic organizations on individual attitudes and behaviors. Our analysis is based on two related studies – the European Social Survey (ESS) and the US ‘Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy’ (CID) survey – that incorporate innovative and detailed measures about respondents' involvement in voluntary a…
Treading the path of least resistance
Beyond Authoritarianism
Disabling dissent
State elites in hybrid regimes have increasingly sought to manipulate the legal regulation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as part of the growing backlash against democracy assistance in nondemocratic countries around the world. Sophisticated laws detailing burdensome NGO registration procedures and complex regulations enabling invasive government oversight of NGOs represent upgraded forms of civic curtailment and democracy resistance. T…
Crowding Out Civil Society
There is considerable debate about the impact of the 2006 NGO Law and related Kremlin policies on social organisations in Russia. This article uses interviews with members of organisations focusing on human rights, women, and youth to assess the effects of these policies on civil society. It finds that groups that are critical of the regime have been systematically pushed out of the public sphere and supplanted by groups that are either neutral t…
Urban violence and health-South Africa 1995
My heart is very painful”
The meanings of health and illness as well as people's beliefs about the required response to illness vary widely according to time and place and represents the culture and society in which people live. A double burden of disease in rural South Africa – an emerging epidemic of non-communicable diseases alongside high HIV-prevalence – defines illness as a ‘normal’ part of older persons' everyday lives. Against this background we analyze qualitativ…
Older Female Caregivers and HIV/Aids-Related Secondary Stigma in Rural South Africa
South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a major public health threat with multi-faceted harmful impacts and 'socially complex' outcomes. While some outcomes relate to structural issues, others stem from society's attitudinal milieu. Due to negative attitudes toward People Living with HIV/AIDS, stigmatisation mars their own experience and often extends to those close to them, in particular their caregivers. Many of the caregivers in South Africa ar…
Dispensing doctors and prescribing pharmacists
They (ARVs) are my life, without them I’m nothing”—experiences of patients attending a HIV/Aids clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
Self-assessed health—a case study of social differentials in Soweto, South Africa
To Diagnose, Prescribe and Dispense
The aim of this article is to explore the conflict between pharmacists' attempts to extend their discretionary powers to prescribe and doctors' quest to engage in dispensing of medications. Adopting a global perspective, the article analyses issues such as occupational task boundaries, dominance, jurisdiction and autonomy of the professions. It also contemplates the role of the state in relation to these issues in the current South African transi…
Pharmacy's attempts to extend its roles
Intuitive eating is associated with improved health indicators at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
We evaluated the associations between intuitive eating during and after pregnancy with metabolic health at 1-year postpartum in women with gestational diabetes mellitus and in high-risk gestational diabetes mellitus subgroups. One hundred seventeen women who consented and completed the French intuitive eating questionnaire during and after pregnancy were included. We found an association between intuitive eating during and after pregnancy with lo…
An exploratory study of the experience of fibromyalgia diagnosis in South Africa
Within the conceptual framework of 'medically-ill-defined' conditions, this article focuses on the experiences of 'diagnosis' through a narrative analysis of fibromyalgia (a chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder) in South Africa. In-depth interviews were used to collect narratives from 15 participants. The findings show how the contested and confusing experience of fibromyalgia diagnosis can be understood, by viewing the interactions that patient…
The role of ‘social support’ in the experience of fibromyalgia - narratives from South Africa
This paper focuses on the role of 'social support' in the experience of fibromyalgia (a musculoskeletal pain disorder) in South Africa. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect narratives from 15 participants. Sources of social support constitute important mechanisms for coping with the illness experience of fibromyalgia. In providing a space for consultation and validation of the diagnosis of fibromyalgia, and the person living w…
The mercurial piece of the puzzle
Although stigma and its relationship to health and disease is not a new phenomenon, it has not been a major feature in the public discourse until the emergence of HIV. The range of negative responses associated with the epidemic placed stigma on the public agenda and drew attention to its complexity as a phenomenon and concept worthy of further investigation. Despite the consensus that stigma is one of the major contributors to the rapid spread o…
Sex Trading and Other HIV Risks among Drug-Involved Men
This study examined the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), sex trading, and other HIV risks among a random sample of 356 men in heterosexual relationships who were enrolled in methadone treatment in New York City. Mediational analyses were performed to test a hypothesis that selected dimensions of substance use history and psychopathology mediate the relationship between CSA and sex trading and HIV risks. Thirty-eight percent ( n = 135) …
HIV/Aids in South Africa
This paper presents an overview of the development of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, taking into consideration the social context and analyzing the factors most likely to have influenced its spread as well as the societal response to it. The authors argue that macro factors such as social and political structures, in addition to behavioral ones, have combined to shape the course of the epidemic. Since various factors linked to social inequalities have…
Community pharmacy in South Africa
Attempts at professionalization of pharmacy
Attempts at professionalization of pharmacy
Sociology and the ‘New Public Health’ in South Africa
The paper explores the dimensions of the ‘New Public Health’ in general and in the South African context in particular. Adopting a historical perspective, Sociology’s role in public health research and training is examined. It starts with an examination of changes that have occurred in society, health, and medicine linked to the need for a sociological understanding for health professionals. In this framework, the ‘socio-environmental model’ of h…
Urban violence and health-South Africa 1995
Community pharmacy in South Africa
Dispensing doctors and prescribing pharmacists
Pharmacy's attempts to extend its roles
To Diagnose, Prescribe and Dispense
The aim of this article is to explore the conflict between pharmacists' attempts to extend their discretionary powers to prescribe and doctors' quest to engage in dispensing of medications. Adopting a global perspective, the article analyses issues such as occupational task boundaries, dominance, jurisdiction and autonomy of the professions. It also contemplates the role of the state in relation to these issues in the current South African transi…
Hiv/Aids
A previous version of this paper was presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 4-7 April 2001 This paper engages some aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the complexities associated with it. It outlines the socio-epidemiological patterns of the epidemic and in doing so identifies the groups with the greatest and fastest growing rates of infection. The pattern of the epidemic in South Africa is as…
HIV/Aids in South Africa
This paper presents an overview of the development of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, taking into consideration the social context and analyzing the factors most likely to have influenced its spread as well as the societal response to it. The authors argue that macro factors such as social and political structures, in addition to behavioral ones, have combined to shape the course of the epidemic. Since various factors linked to social inequalities have…
Treading the path of least resistance
Self-assessed health—a case study of social differentials in Soweto, South Africa
Health, Ageing and Social Differentials
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Public health and health professionals in the times of HIV/Aids
This article analyses how HIV/AIDS, particularly in a badly-affected country like South Africa, is challenging traditional understandings of public health and the role of health professionals. The first part focuses on three themes: public health, HIV/AIDS, its disease trajectory, and its impact on health professionals. This section, which prOVides the background and context to the final analysis, is based mainly on secondary sources. The materia…
A Cross-National Comparison of the Internal Effects of Participation in Voluntary Organizations
This article draws on two recent and largely untapped sources of data to test empirically the Tocquevillian argument about the impact of involvement in civic organizations on individual attitudes and behaviors. Our analysis is based on two related studies – the European Social Survey (ESS) and the US ‘Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy’ (CID) survey – that incorporate innovative and detailed measures about respondents' involvement in voluntary a…
‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status…’
Stigma is not a new concept; however, it remains highly significant in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. There is wide consensus that HIV/AIDS-related stigma compromises the well-being of people living with the disease. This paper is part of a larger study that seeks to understand the social and cultural complexity related to the provision and outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa. It explores and analyses how patients o…
They (ARVs) are my life, without them I’m nothing”—experiences of patients attending a HIV/Aids clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
The epidemic in this country has the face of a woman’ 1
Epidemiological data clearly show that the highest levels of HIV prevalence occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Less visible, however, is the complex combination of forces that fuel HIV epidemics in this region - these have been dubbed 'the lethal cocktail.' It is this 'cocktail' that creates an enabling environment for the spread of HIV. The HIV epidemic in the region is increasingly 'feminised' as a growing proportion of new infections occurs among an…
My heart is very painful”
The meanings of health and illness as well as people's beliefs about the required response to illness vary widely according to time and place and represents the culture and society in which people live. A double burden of disease in rural South Africa – an emerging epidemic of non-communicable diseases alongside high HIV-prevalence – defines illness as a ‘normal’ part of older persons' everyday lives. Against this background we analyze qualitativ…
Older Female Caregivers and HIV/Aids-Related Secondary Stigma in Rural South Africa
South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a major public health threat with multi-faceted harmful impacts and 'socially complex' outcomes. While some outcomes relate to structural issues, others stem from society's attitudinal milieu. Due to negative attitudes toward People Living with HIV/AIDS, stigmatisation mars their own experience and often extends to those close to them, in particular their caregivers. Many of the caregivers in South Africa ar…
Beyond Authoritarianism
‘Upstream/downstream’ – locating the ‘social’ in health promotion and HIV/Aids in south africa
Strengthening HIV prevention remains an urgent global health priority. The problem is that ‘advancement’ in HIV prevention often stands for the development of biomedical technologies or interventions. Theories and practices of health promotion have been advocating a shift from a biological/medical preventive focus to a more social one; from the level of individuals to organisations, communities and broader social policy. It seems, however, that i…
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