Afaf I Meleis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177655 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Afaf I Meleis |
| PRENOMES | Afaf I |
| SOBRENOME | Meleis |
| ASSINATURA | MELEIS A I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6890-6616 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Situation Specific Theories
Sex and gender matters
Sex and gender matters: The health of women and girls determines the health of our modern world." Health Care for Women International, 37(8), p. 817
The Stars are Aligned
The author develops in this editorial a claiming discourse whose purpose is to draw attention to the nurses to make their voices heard at a particularly propitious time for it (the stars are aligned). Afaf Meleis describes the current situation as the ideal for the nursing profession, finally, exercise your voice and contribute to optimizer health care through greater presence of nursing in all areas related to health. Demographic, educational, s…
Improving Women's Cardiovascular Health
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of women worldwide, and it remains the primary cause of death and disability in both developed and developing countries. The International Council on Women's Health Issues is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goals of promoting the health, health care, and the well-being of women. Based on the outcomes of a facilitated discussion at its 18th biannual meeting, delegates ai…
Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo
Profesionales de la salud para el nuevo siglo
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
Health professionals for a new century
Trapped in Circle of Threats
Most researchers studying sex work have focused on the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, predominantly HIV, for sex workers, their clients, and subsequent partners. Violence against these women often goes undocumented and unnoticed. Consequently, few researchers have addressed violence against sex workers, and these few have generated limited evidence about the nature of violence from the sex-worker perspective--especially the street sex wo…
Integrating Cultural Competence Into Nursing Education and Practice
Safe Womanhood Is Not Safe Motherhood
The world continues to be unsafe for girls and women. Although natural disasters and man-made disasters make the world unsafe for all people, the gender divide further compromises safety of women. In addition to being at higher risk for violence, rape, trafficking, and abuse, women's injury and mortality increase because of the limited definition of the nature and type of work they do, the conditions that expose them to such infections as HIV/AID…
Multiple Role Stress and Patterns of Coping of Egyptian Women in Clerical Jobs
Egyptian women are increasingly becoming a significant work force; however, many of these women continue to occupy low-income jobs. In the study reported here, 190 women in Egypt employed in clerical jobs were asked about the satisfaction and stress they experience in their work and maternal roles. They were also asked about their coping approaches and the demands in their daily lives. The Women’s Role Interview Protocol was used to collect data.…
Caregiving between Two Cultures
In 1995, more than half of elderly immigrants to the United States were born in Asia or the Pacific region. The purpose of this study was to describe the process of caring for elderly parents by Asian American women. Forty-one women (22 Chinese American and 19 Filipino American) caring for elderly parents were interviewed in a study based on Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory methodology (1990). Although the women were moderately acculturated, …
Grandmothers and Women's Health
There is a paucity of models that drive integrated research agendas, and coherent approaches to development and progress of knowledge about women's health. In this article, we review four major models of women's health, present conditions supporting more integrative and coherent models of women's health based on the recommendations by two international conferences, and address major paradoxes inherent in women's health areas. For integrative and …
Man Works From Sun to Sun, but Woman's Work Is Never Done
Gender equity and equality in health and human development are key national and international goals. To achieve these goals, the androcentric definition of work needs to be addressed. The current definition is driven by the globalized capitalistic model, which equates "work" with generating income or the production of goods. Indeed, employment in the formal labor force has become the de facto definition of work. Women's work, unpaid and reflectin…
Small Steps and Giant Hopes
Culturally Competent Care
Auxiliary nurses in Mexico
As more women worldwide enter the labor force, debate has been generated over how this additional work role influences women's health. In this study, we explored the work, maternal, and spousal roles of 59 auxiliary nurses in two university-affiliated Mexican hospitals. Participants completed questionnaires that included demographics, a women's roles interview protocol, a self-rating of health status, and the Cornell Medical Index (CMI). No signi…
Defining and Redefining Work
In this article the authors examine the ways in which the definition of work as paid employment has affected women's health research, the knowledge and understanding of the relationships between women's work and health, and health and social policies. The authors argue for research and public policy based on an expanded definition of women's work, a redefinition that goes beyond employment to reflect the multiple contexts and dimensions of women'…
The Paradoxical World of Daily Domestic Workers in Cali, Colombia
An overwhelming majority of domestic workers in most of the world are women, but domestic work is largely invisible and devalued. A women's roles approach was used to describe and analyze the satisfying and stressful aspects of the domestic work role for a randomly stratified sample (N=60) of women who worked as daily domestic workers in Cali, a large metropolitan city in Colombia, South America. Women in these jobs are satisfied with several asp…
Parenting their adolescents
Having their children enter adolescence presents new demands on the role functions of Jordanian immigrant women in the United States. Such demands require modifications in traditional parenting approaches. The authors attempted to uncover and describe the experiences of Jordanian immigrant mothers (N = 30) in parenting their adolescents in the United States. Content and narrative analysis revealed the dynamic processes that the mothers used in ra…
The cultural consultant in mental health care
Limited understanding by mental health providers of an immigrant's cultural background can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. A case involving the psychiatric hospitalization of an adolescent from Iraq is described, as are the role of a cultural consultant in clarifying cultural issues and the positive consequences for diagnosis and treatment. Implications for the training and function of cultural consultants in mental health care …
Between two cultures
Population shifts and migration are increasing worldwide, and with it there is a renewed interest in maintaining uniqueness and cultural heritage. Immigrants are constantly attempting to balance the values of their cultural heritage with those of the new host society. To deal with immigrant women's health-care needs, scientists from the host country need to understand the delicate interplay between several dynamic properties inherent in being a w…
Maternal role of clerical workers
Roles, work, health perceptions and health resources of women
Roles, work, health perceptions and health resources of women
Assessing Arab-American health care needs
Arab Students in Western Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAfaf I. MeleisAfaf I. Meleis is professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Methodological issues in research with immigrants
Defining and Redefining Work
In this article the authors examine the ways in which the definition of work as paid employment has affected women's health research, the knowledge and understanding of the relationships between women's work and health, and health and social policies. The authors argue for research and public policy based on an expanded definition of women's work, a redefinition that goes beyond employment to reflect the multiple contexts and dimensions of women'…
Maternal role of clerical workers
Arab-American patients
Effect of modernization on Kuwaiti women
The health care system of Kuwait
Response Bias and Self-Report of Honesty
(1980). Response Bias and Self-Report of Honesty. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 303-304
Arab Students in Western Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAfaf I. MeleisAfaf I. Meleis is professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Effect of modernization on Kuwaiti women
Women in transition
Women are at the center of all life transitions whether the transitions are within the family, such as maturation, or because of national modernization or a move to an urban center, or because of relocation to another nation. Ironically, women's roles in these transitions are ignored at best and misrepresented at worst. What we need is a raising of consciousness, an awareness of these women among us who are struggling with the being‐versus‐becomi…
Arab-American patients
Stress, satisfaction, and coping
Increasing numbers of women in the work force have prompted researchers to study the health impact of their work satisfactions and stressors. In this study, we examined the quality of the work role as perceived by women who hold clerical jobs. Qualitative data were collected through structured interviews with 87 female clerical workers employed in four organizational settings. All were mothers with one or more children living at home. Work satisf…
Assessing Arab-American health care needs
Methodological issues in research with immigrants
Maternal role of women in clerical jobs in southern Brazil
The number of women in the work force in Brazil is increasing, and a pattern of early work participation and a later decline continues to be manifested. The maternal role is a central role for these women. We investigated the quality of the maternal role as perceived by women who hold clerical jobs in a southern Brazilian city. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from a random sample of 60 women. Thirty-three of these women were moth…
Between two cultures
Population shifts and migration are increasing worldwide, and with it there is a renewed interest in maintaining uniqueness and cultural heritage. Immigrants are constantly attempting to balance the values of their cultural heritage with those of the new host society. To deal with immigrant women's health-care needs, scientists from the host country need to understand the delicate interplay between several dynamic properties inherent in being a w…
Maternal role of clerical workers
Roles, work, health perceptions and health resources of women
The cultural consultant in mental health care
Limited understanding by mental health providers of an immigrant's cultural background can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. A case involving the psychiatric hospitalization of an adolescent from Iraq is described, as are the role of a cultural consultant in clarifying cultural issues and the positive consequences for diagnosis and treatment. Implications for the training and function of cultural consultants in mental health care …
The Paradoxical World of Daily Domestic Workers in Cali, Colombia
An overwhelming majority of domestic workers in most of the world are women, but domestic work is largely invisible and devalued. A women's roles approach was used to describe and analyze the satisfying and stressful aspects of the domestic work role for a randomly stratified sample (N=60) of women who worked as daily domestic workers in Cali, a large metropolitan city in Colombia, South America. Women in these jobs are satisfied with several asp…
Parenting their adolescents
Having their children enter adolescence presents new demands on the role functions of Jordanian immigrant women in the United States. Such demands require modifications in traditional parenting approaches. The authors attempted to uncover and describe the experiences of Jordanian immigrant mothers (N = 30) in parenting their adolescents in the United States. Content and narrative analysis revealed the dynamic processes that the mothers used in ra…
Auxiliary nurses in Mexico
As more women worldwide enter the labor force, debate has been generated over how this additional work role influences women's health. In this study, we explored the work, maternal, and spousal roles of 59 auxiliary nurses in two university-affiliated Mexican hospitals. Participants completed questionnaires that included demographics, a women's roles interview protocol, a self-rating of health status, and the Cornell Medical Index (CMI). No signi…
Defining and Redefining Work
In this article the authors examine the ways in which the definition of work as paid employment has affected women's health research, the knowledge and understanding of the relationships between women's work and health, and health and social policies. The authors argue for research and public policy based on an expanded definition of women's work, a redefinition that goes beyond employment to reflect the multiple contexts and dimensions of women'…
Culturally Competent Care
Small Steps and Giant Hopes
Caregiving between Two Cultures
In 1995, more than half of elderly immigrants to the United States were born in Asia or the Pacific region. The purpose of this study was to describe the process of caring for elderly parents by Asian American women. Forty-one women (22 Chinese American and 19 Filipino American) caring for elderly parents were interviewed in a study based on Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory methodology (1990). Although the women were moderately acculturated, …
Grandmothers and Women's Health
There is a paucity of models that drive integrated research agendas, and coherent approaches to development and progress of knowledge about women's health. In this article, we review four major models of women's health, present conditions supporting more integrative and coherent models of women's health based on the recommendations by two international conferences, and address major paradoxes inherent in women's health areas. For integrative and …
Man Works From Sun to Sun, but Woman's Work Is Never Done
Gender equity and equality in health and human development are key national and international goals. To achieve these goals, the androcentric definition of work needs to be addressed. The current definition is driven by the globalized capitalistic model, which equates "work" with generating income or the production of goods. Indeed, employment in the formal labor force has become the de facto definition of work. Women's work, unpaid and reflectin…
Multiple Role Stress and Patterns of Coping of Egyptian Women in Clerical Jobs
Egyptian women are increasingly becoming a significant work force; however, many of these women continue to occupy low-income jobs. In the study reported here, 190 women in Egypt employed in clerical jobs were asked about the satisfaction and stress they experience in their work and maternal roles. They were also asked about their coping approaches and the demands in their daily lives. The Women’s Role Interview Protocol was used to collect data.…
Safe Womanhood Is Not Safe Motherhood
The world continues to be unsafe for girls and women. Although natural disasters and man-made disasters make the world unsafe for all people, the gender divide further compromises safety of women. In addition to being at higher risk for violence, rape, trafficking, and abuse, women's injury and mortality increase because of the limited definition of the nature and type of work they do, the conditions that expose them to such infections as HIV/AID…
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