Zahra Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zahra Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zahra |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1210-5462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring biomedical and traditional care pathways for people with psychosis in Karachi, Pakistan
The results highlight the use of traditional healing practices for psychosis in Pakistan, which, coupled with inadequate referral mechanisms, present an opportunity to bridge the treatment gap between clinical and traditional healing practices through integration of treatment within community structures and systems. Better awareness of psychosis and its treatment methods, alongside interventions that reduce stigma could help facilitate help-seeki…
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
SP6-39 Overcoming barriers of poor perinatal care services in urban slums
Background Making perinatal care accessible to women in marginalised periurban areas poses a public health problem. Many barriers to utilisation of perinatal care can be overcome by social mobilisation and capacity building at the community level. Objectives To determine the existing perinatal practices in two urban slums and to identify barriers to utilisation of health services by mothers. Study design This is a cross-sectional descriptive stud…
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SP6-39 Overcoming barriers of poor perinatal care services in urban slums
Background Making perinatal care accessible to women in marginalised periurban areas poses a public health problem. Many barriers to utilisation of perinatal care can be overcome by social mobilisation and capacity building at the community level. Objectives To determine the existing perinatal practices in two urban slums and to identify barriers to utilisation of health services by mothers. Study design This is a cross-sectional descriptive stud…
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Exploring biomedical and traditional care pathways for people with psychosis in Karachi, Pakistan
The results highlight the use of traditional healing practices for psychosis in Pakistan, which, coupled with inadequate referral mechanisms, present an opportunity to bridge the treatment gap between clinical and traditional healing practices through integration of treatment within community structures and systems. Better awareness of psychosis and its treatment methods, alongside interventions that reduce stigma could help facilitate help-seeki…
Medicine (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)