Ryan I Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 672720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan I Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan I |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Stanislaus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4004-0096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Community Health Workers
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline health workers who typically come from the communities they serve. CHWs provide essential caregiving to bridge gaps in care and to address social determinants of health. These workers, known by many distinct titles, provide caregiving in countries throughout the world and have storied histories stretching back hundreds of years. Despite their unique skillset and their efforts to provide essential care…
Stepping beyond the thresholds of care
Moral Resilience and Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Within Healthcare Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the USA
Combining Anthropology and Geography
In this article, we report on our experience conducting an interdisciplinary project that combined our respective disciplines of anthropology and geography. Our project was conducted as contract research between ourselves (faculty members at California State University, Stanislaus), a local governmental health agency based in Stanislaus County, California, and several undergraduate research assistants. We describe the project, interdisciplinary m…
‘Anthropological Enough?’
In this article, we discuss how fieldwork completed ‘at home’ in the USA presented challenges and resulted in our work being considered not ‘anthropological enough’. Centring our article around our individual projects for which primary data collection was completed prior to COVID-19, we explore a variety of issues related to methodology and structural constraints we experienced as graduate students in anthropology and now as junior scholars. Draw…
‘I Certainly Wasn't as Patient-Centred’
This article explores how a group of paramedics were cross-trained as community health workers (CHWs) in Indiana. Cross-training paramedics as CHWs provided a foundation to better understand the social issues that occur outside of the hospital and clinic, thereby enabling further empathy among paramedics and seeking means to connect patients to other health and social services agencies. I detail how earning a certification as a CHW shifted the mi…
Professionalization as a “Double-Edged Sword”
Community health workers improve health and well-being through, most notably, health education, advocacy, and building individual and community capacity. In spite of these contributions to the health care landscape, these workers are not well integrated within the professional workforce throughout much of the United States. Building on the lens of medical citizenship, I introduce the concept of professional citizenship, which elucidates the belon…
La Fe en Acción
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ryan I. Logan; La Fe en Acción: Faith-Based Activism, Immigration Reform, and Structural Vulnerability. Practicing Anthropology 1 March 2021; 43 (2): 56–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.43.2.56 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Referenc…
Familial Vulnerability
Mental and emotional well-being are intimately entangled with immigration status, personal relationships, and the broader political environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in South Texas including interviews with mixed-status families, this article illustrates the spillover impacts affecting mental and emotional health of family members with different legal statuses. Building on the notion of "structural vulnerability," we propose the conc…
Addressing Health Disparities in the Rural United States
Rural populations in the United States are faced with a variety of health disparities that complicate access to care. Community health workers (CHWs) and their Spanish-speaking counterparts, promotores de salud , are well-equipped to address rural health access issues, provide education, and ultimately assuage these disparities. In this article, we compare community health workers in the states of Indiana and Texas, based on the results of two se…
Being a Community Health Worker Means Advocating
Community health workers (CHWs) participate in advocacy as a crucial means to empower clients in overcoming health disparities and to improve the health and social well-being of their communities. Building on previous studies, this article proposes a new framework for conceptualising CHW advocacy, depending on the intended impact level of CHW advocacy. CHWs participate in three ‘levels’ of advocacy, the micro, the macro, and the professional. Thi…
A poverty in understanding’
Community health workers (CHWs) are crucial intermediaries between marginalised populations and health and social services. Among their unique repertoire of services includes their commitment to advocacy, a crucial skill that aids clients in addressing the social determinants of health that deleteriously affect their wellbeing. However, a plethora of structural barriers encountered by their clients complicates the caregiving of these workers. Dra…
Let the Horse Run”
The use of community health workers (CHWs) as distinct members of the health care workforce has waxed and waned throughout the last fifty years in the United States. As medical laypersons that are often members of the communities they work within, CHWs are poised to create significant health impacts through their primary roles as health educators, advocates, and by serving as a bridge to the biomedical realm for marginalized communities. While se…
Achieving Health Alternatively
Many individuals in the United States continue to seek out complementary and alternative approaches to health. In this exploratory project, I examined the use of complementary and alternative approaches to health from the perspective of several practitioners in Tampa, Florida. I conducted interviews with alternative health practitioners in order to elucidate several of these practices, the main health issues of their clients, and their approaches…
Transcending Differences and Persuading Through Faith
In early June 2013, several of Indiana's largest businesses and prominent religious leaders from various Christian denominations came together to pledge their public support for the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (also known as S.744). Together, these business and religious leaders gathered at the headquarters of Indianapolis' own pharmaceutical giant, Eli Lilly and Company, along with volunteers …
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork:Responses to Menzies, Butler, and Their Students Susan Hyatt (bio), Marcela Castro Madariaga (bio), Margaret Baurley (bio), Molly J. Dagon (bio), Ryan Logan (bio), Anne Waxingmoon (bio), and David Plasterer (bio) Editors' Note: In an effort to encourage dialogue about student fieldwork, we invited two anthropologists to comment on the Gitxaała-UBC field experience—Susan Hyatt and Tim Wallace, whose resp…
Familial Vulnerability
Mental and emotional well-being are intimately entangled with immigration status, personal relationships, and the broader political environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in South Texas including interviews with mixed-status families, this article illustrates the spillover impacts affecting mental and emotional health of family members with different legal statuses. Building on the notion of "structural vulnerability," we propose the conc…
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork:Responses to Menzies, Butler, and Their Students Susan Hyatt (bio), Marcela Castro Madariaga (bio), Margaret Baurley (bio), Molly J. Dagon (bio), Ryan Logan (bio), Anne Waxingmoon (bio), and David Plasterer (bio) Editors' Note: In an effort to encourage dialogue about student fieldwork, we invited two anthropologists to comment on the Gitxaała-UBC field experience—Susan Hyatt and Tim Wallace, whose resp…
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork
Walking the Walk in Collaborative Fieldwork:Responses to Menzies, Butler, and Their Students Susan Hyatt (bio), Marcela Castro Madariaga (bio), Margaret Baurley (bio), Molly J. Dagon (bio), Ryan Logan (bio), Anne Waxingmoon (bio), and David Plasterer (bio) Editors' Note: In an effort to encourage dialogue about student fieldwork, we invited two anthropologists to comment on the Gitxaała-UBC field experience—Susan Hyatt and Tim Wallace, whose resp…
Transcending Differences and Persuading Through Faith
In early June 2013, several of Indiana's largest businesses and prominent religious leaders from various Christian denominations came together to pledge their public support for the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (also known as S.744). Together, these business and religious leaders gathered at the headquarters of Indianapolis' own pharmaceutical giant, Eli Lilly and Company, along with volunteers …
Achieving Health Alternatively
Many individuals in the United States continue to seek out complementary and alternative approaches to health. In this exploratory project, I examined the use of complementary and alternative approaches to health from the perspective of several practitioners in Tampa, Florida. I conducted interviews with alternative health practitioners in order to elucidate several of these practices, the main health issues of their clients, and their approaches…
Let the Horse Run”
The use of community health workers (CHWs) as distinct members of the health care workforce has waxed and waned throughout the last fifty years in the United States. As medical laypersons that are often members of the communities they work within, CHWs are poised to create significant health impacts through their primary roles as health educators, advocates, and by serving as a bridge to the biomedical realm for marginalized communities. While se…
Being a Community Health Worker Means Advocating
Community health workers (CHWs) participate in advocacy as a crucial means to empower clients in overcoming health disparities and to improve the health and social well-being of their communities. Building on previous studies, this article proposes a new framework for conceptualising CHW advocacy, depending on the intended impact level of CHW advocacy. CHWs participate in three ‘levels’ of advocacy, the micro, the macro, and the professional. Thi…
A poverty in understanding’
Community health workers (CHWs) are crucial intermediaries between marginalised populations and health and social services. Among their unique repertoire of services includes their commitment to advocacy, a crucial skill that aids clients in addressing the social determinants of health that deleteriously affect their wellbeing. However, a plethora of structural barriers encountered by their clients complicates the caregiving of these workers. Dra…
Addressing Health Disparities in the Rural United States
Rural populations in the United States are faced with a variety of health disparities that complicate access to care. Community health workers (CHWs) and their Spanish-speaking counterparts, promotores de salud , are well-equipped to address rural health access issues, provide education, and ultimately assuage these disparities. In this article, we compare community health workers in the states of Indiana and Texas, based on the results of two se…
Professionalization as a “Double-Edged Sword”
Community health workers improve health and well-being through, most notably, health education, advocacy, and building individual and community capacity. In spite of these contributions to the health care landscape, these workers are not well integrated within the professional workforce throughout much of the United States. Building on the lens of medical citizenship, I introduce the concept of professional citizenship, which elucidates the belon…
La Fe en Acción
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ryan I. Logan; La Fe en Acción: Faith-Based Activism, Immigration Reform, and Structural Vulnerability. Practicing Anthropology 1 March 2021; 43 (2): 56–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.43.2.56 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Referenc…
Familial Vulnerability
Mental and emotional well-being are intimately entangled with immigration status, personal relationships, and the broader political environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in South Texas including interviews with mixed-status families, this article illustrates the spillover impacts affecting mental and emotional health of family members with different legal statuses. Building on the notion of "structural vulnerability," we propose the conc…
‘I Certainly Wasn't as Patient-Centred’
This article explores how a group of paramedics were cross-trained as community health workers (CHWs) in Indiana. Cross-training paramedics as CHWs provided a foundation to better understand the social issues that occur outside of the hospital and clinic, thereby enabling further empathy among paramedics and seeking means to connect patients to other health and social services agencies. I detail how earning a certification as a CHW shifted the mi…
‘Anthropological Enough?’
In this article, we discuss how fieldwork completed ‘at home’ in the USA presented challenges and resulted in our work being considered not ‘anthropological enough’. Centring our article around our individual projects for which primary data collection was completed prior to COVID-19, we explore a variety of issues related to methodology and structural constraints we experienced as graduate students in anthropology and now as junior scholars. Draw…
Combining Anthropology and Geography
In this article, we report on our experience conducting an interdisciplinary project that combined our respective disciplines of anthropology and geography. Our project was conducted as contract research between ourselves (faculty members at California State University, Stanislaus), a local governmental health agency based in Stanislaus County, California, and several undergraduate research assistants. We describe the project, interdisciplinary m…
Community Health Workers
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline health workers who typically come from the communities they serve. CHWs provide essential caregiving to bridge gaps in care and to address social determinants of health. These workers, known by many distinct titles, provide caregiving in countries throughout the world and have storied histories stretching back hundreds of years. Despite their unique skillset and their efforts to provide essential care…
Stepping beyond the thresholds of care
Moral Resilience and Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Within Healthcare Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the USA
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