Iccha Basnyat
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 188336 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Iccha Basnyat |
| PRENOMES | Iccha |
| SOBRENOME | Basnyat |
| ASSINATURA | BASNYAT I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5051-2317 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Birthing Experiences of Black Mothers within the U.S. Healthcare System
Disparities in Black maternal mortality in the United States are a health injustice. To understand Black women's communicative experiences of birthing with their providers, we interviewed 20 Black women who had given birth within the past three years. Our analysis reveals how interconnected domains of power shape Black women's uncertainty, fear, and experiences during reproductive healthcare interactions. Participants described racializing encoun…
Doing Gender, Doing Race
This article examines how second-generation Vietnamese American women negotiate gender within the diasporic home. Drawing on 28 in-depth interviews and guided by a Doing Gender through Intersectionality framework, the study analyzes how speech, silence, labor, and embodied comportment function as sites where gender is enacted, policed, and resisted under intersecting forces of race, migration, and family hierarchy. Thematic analysis identifies th…
Sharing Culture and Management of Sex Work Information on Mobile Phones by Female Sex Workers in Nepal
Female sex workers (FSWs) in Nepal continue to be disproportionately at risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV. Due to stigma related to sex work and HIV, FSWs keep their sex work information hidden, which poses a barrier to seeking health services. Emerging research indicates a high uptake of mobile phones among FSWs in Nepal. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions can provide health information and linkage to care. Howeve…
Culture-centered narratives of support and stigma
This study explores how second-generation Vietnamese American youth in the US Northeast make meaning of mental illness amid intergenerational stigma and structural marginalization. Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), we analyze 30 in-depth interviews to examine how cultural discourses, family dynamics, and migration histories shape experiences of mental distress and barriers to help-seeking. Findings reveal that mental illness is fram…
Oh! She works in such a place”
Social Media Health Promotion and Audience Engagement
Social media have become an important platform for health promotion. Based on the Information-Community-Action Framework, we conducted a content analysis of 1,481 Facebook postings by Singapore's Health Promotion Board. Results showed that organizational information and health benefit information dissemination were positively associated with online audience engagement. Also, organization-audience interaction had a positive relationship with onlin…
Online information and support seeking during Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan
The lockdown that was deployed in Wuhan, China to combat the COVID-19 pandemic curbed the infection but also created great information challenges for people in social isolation. This resulted in surge in online health information seeking (OHIS) behaviors of the patients and their families. While the Internet has been widely used by Chinese public to access and search health information, there is relatively little research in the context of pandem…
The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication
The definitive collection of topics currently being studied in the rapidly growing field of health communication The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication presents a thorough overview of a dynamic field, bringing together entries by an international panel of contributors that address a comprehensive range of recent and emerging topics. With a global and interdisciplinary focus, this timely resource addresses cutting-edge digital tech…
Decolonizing Open Science
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Gendered social practices in reproductive health
China's family planning policy has historically silenced the voices of women, especially unwed single mothers at the expense of their reproductive health and overall wellbeing. Further, reproductive decisions in China are closely intertwined with marriage decisions and intergenerational dynamics, highlighting the relevance of gender in women's reproductive health experiences. Chinese unwed single mothers are in particular penalized for violating …
Stigma, agency, and motherhood
Drawing upon the lived experiences of 35 female sex workers (FSW) in Kathmandu, Nepal, this article explores the performativity of sex work–mother dual identities. Performativity presents a way to rupture proscribed singular identities of being a sex worker and highlight agency through the act of expressing dual identities. Global South research has established a link between mothers’ vulnerability and the likelihood of sex work becoming the mean…
Exploring the Interlinkages Between Gender, Power, and Health in the Entertainment Establishment Settings in Kathmandu Nepal
This article explores the ways in which gender inequalities are reproduced and reinforced within entertainment establishments, and in turn the ways in which it affects health of the women working in these establishments. Specifically, this article is based on 35 in-depth interviews with women working in entertainment establishments in Kathmandu, Nepal. The findings highlight daily encounters of harassment by customers demanding engagement and acc…
Theorizing the Relationship Between Gender and Health Through a Case Study of Nepalese Street-Based Female Sex Workers
The environmental-structural communication approach attempts to reduce the prevalence of individual health risks to female sex workers’ (FSW) through community-level interventions. However, I argue that this approach narrowly defines health and such communication efforts are focused on changing the work environment to facilitate the reduction of individual risk prevalence. Based on 35 in-depth interviews, I use lived experiences of FSWs as a case…
Structural Violence in Health Care
Thirty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with female, street-based, commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal. The framework of structural violence guided this study in identifying the structural context that impacts the female sex workers' lives and may cause harm to their health. Structural violence in health care was revealed through thematic analysis as (a) discrimination, (b) forced choice, and (c) limitations to heal…
Negotiating Biomedical and Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatments Among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women
In this article we examine how elderly Chinese Singaporean women navigated between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine in their practices of maintaining well-being. We interviewed 36 elderly women to understand their negotiation of medical choices in the interplay of structure, culture, and personal agency. Our findings show that participants made situational decisions under structural and cultural influences, such as family members' cha…
Seeking and Processing Information for Health Decisions among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women
Information behavior includes activities of active information seeking, passive acquisition of information, and information use. Guided by the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study explored elderly Singaporean women's health information behavior to understand how they sought, evaluated, and used health information in everyday lives. Twenty-two in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly Chinese women aged 61 to 79. Qualitative analysis of …
Lived experiences of street-based female sex workers in Kathmandu
The lived experiences of women sex workers illustrate that sex work is frequently a manifestation of limited access to education, resources and jobs due to violence, oppression and patriarchy. However, some Nepalese sex workers reconstitute sex work as a viable form of work that provides food and shelter for their families and allows fulfillment of their duties as mothers. Through a culture-centred approach to research, which emphasis the voices …
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
From Press Release to News
Pandemics challenge conventional assumptions about health promotion, message development, community engagement, and the role of news media. To understand the use of press releases in news coverage of pandemics, this study traces the development of framing devices from a government public health agency's press releases to news stories about the 2009 H1N1 A influenza pandemic. The communication management of the H1N1 pandemic, an international news…
Interrogating the Radio Communication Project in Nepal
The use of entertainment platforms such as popular music, radio, and television programming to diffuse information, attitudes, and behaviors has received considerable attention in recent years (Singhal & Rogers, 2001, 2002; Storey et al., 1999; Storey et al., 1996). Of particular relevance is the growth of participatory communication techniques in entertainment education (E-E) programs. The Radio Communication Project (RCP) in Nepal has been cite…
Structural Violence in Health Care
Thirty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with female, street-based, commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal. The framework of structural violence guided this study in identifying the structural context that impacts the female sex workers' lives and may cause harm to their health. Structural violence in health care was revealed through thematic analysis as (a) discrimination, (b) forced choice, and (c) limitations to heal…
Theorizing the Relationship Between Gender and Health Through a Case Study of Nepalese Street-Based Female Sex Workers
The environmental-structural communication approach attempts to reduce the prevalence of individual health risks to female sex workers’ (FSW) through community-level interventions. However, I argue that this approach narrowly defines health and such communication efforts are focused on changing the work environment to facilitate the reduction of individual risk prevalence. Based on 35 in-depth interviews, I use lived experiences of FSWs as a case…
Negotiating Biomedical and Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatments Among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women
In this article we examine how elderly Chinese Singaporean women navigated between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine in their practices of maintaining well-being. We interviewed 36 elderly women to understand their negotiation of medical choices in the interplay of structure, culture, and personal agency. Our findings show that participants made situational decisions under structural and cultural influences, such as family members' cha…
Stigma, agency, and motherhood
Drawing upon the lived experiences of 35 female sex workers (FSW) in Kathmandu, Nepal, this article explores the performativity of sex work–mother dual identities. Performativity presents a way to rupture proscribed singular identities of being a sex worker and highlight agency through the act of expressing dual identities. Global South research has established a link between mothers’ vulnerability and the likelihood of sex work becoming the mean…
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
Gendered social practices in reproductive health
China's family planning policy has historically silenced the voices of women, especially unwed single mothers at the expense of their reproductive health and overall wellbeing. Further, reproductive decisions in China are closely intertwined with marriage decisions and intergenerational dynamics, highlighting the relevance of gender in women's reproductive health experiences. Chinese unwed single mothers are in particular penalized for violating …
Interrogating the Radio Communication Project in Nepal
The use of entertainment platforms such as popular music, radio, and television programming to diffuse information, attitudes, and behaviors has received considerable attention in recent years (Singhal & Rogers, 2001, 2002; Storey et al., 1999; Storey et al., 1996). Of particular relevance is the growth of participatory communication techniques in entertainment education (E-E) programs. The Radio Communication Project (RCP) in Nepal has been cite…
From Press Release to News
Pandemics challenge conventional assumptions about health promotion, message development, community engagement, and the role of news media. To understand the use of press releases in news coverage of pandemics, this study traces the development of framing devices from a government public health agency's press releases to news stories about the 2009 H1N1 A influenza pandemic. The communication management of the H1N1 pandemic, an international news…
Seeking and Processing Information for Health Decisions among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women
Information behavior includes activities of active information seeking, passive acquisition of information, and information use. Guided by the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study explored elderly Singaporean women's health information behavior to understand how they sought, evaluated, and used health information in everyday lives. Twenty-two in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly Chinese women aged 61 to 79. Qualitative analysis of …
Lived experiences of street-based female sex workers in Kathmandu
The lived experiences of women sex workers illustrate that sex work is frequently a manifestation of limited access to education, resources and jobs due to violence, oppression and patriarchy. However, some Nepalese sex workers reconstitute sex work as a viable form of work that provides food and shelter for their families and allows fulfillment of their duties as mothers. Through a culture-centred approach to research, which emphasis the voices …
Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper
This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the public. News articles were analyzed to explore how the global pandemic was framed as a local event, providing a unique exploration of the dynamic involving public health communication, news media and the state. Thematic analysis (n = 309) included the government-issued press …
Negotiating Biomedical and Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatments Among Elderly Chinese Singaporean Women
In this article we examine how elderly Chinese Singaporean women navigated between biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine in their practices of maintaining well-being. We interviewed 36 elderly women to understand their negotiation of medical choices in the interplay of structure, culture, and personal agency. Our findings show that participants made situational decisions under structural and cultural influences, such as family members' cha…
Theorizing the Relationship Between Gender and Health Through a Case Study of Nepalese Street-Based Female Sex Workers
The environmental-structural communication approach attempts to reduce the prevalence of individual health risks to female sex workers’ (FSW) through community-level interventions. However, I argue that this approach narrowly defines health and such communication efforts are focused on changing the work environment to facilitate the reduction of individual risk prevalence. Based on 35 in-depth interviews, I use lived experiences of FSWs as a case…
Structural Violence in Health Care
Thirty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with female, street-based, commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal. The framework of structural violence guided this study in identifying the structural context that impacts the female sex workers' lives and may cause harm to their health. Structural violence in health care was revealed through thematic analysis as (a) discrimination, (b) forced choice, and (c) limitations to heal…
Stigma, agency, and motherhood
Drawing upon the lived experiences of 35 female sex workers (FSW) in Kathmandu, Nepal, this article explores the performativity of sex work–mother dual identities. Performativity presents a way to rupture proscribed singular identities of being a sex worker and highlight agency through the act of expressing dual identities. Global South research has established a link between mothers’ vulnerability and the likelihood of sex work becoming the mean…
Exploring the Interlinkages Between Gender, Power, and Health in the Entertainment Establishment Settings in Kathmandu Nepal
This article explores the ways in which gender inequalities are reproduced and reinforced within entertainment establishments, and in turn the ways in which it affects health of the women working in these establishments. Specifically, this article is based on 35 in-depth interviews with women working in entertainment establishments in Kathmandu, Nepal. The findings highlight daily encounters of harassment by customers demanding engagement and acc…
Decolonizing Open Science
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Gendered social practices in reproductive health
China's family planning policy has historically silenced the voices of women, especially unwed single mothers at the expense of their reproductive health and overall wellbeing. Further, reproductive decisions in China are closely intertwined with marriage decisions and intergenerational dynamics, highlighting the relevance of gender in women's reproductive health experiences. Chinese unwed single mothers are in particular penalized for violating …
Online information and support seeking during Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan
The lockdown that was deployed in Wuhan, China to combat the COVID-19 pandemic curbed the infection but also created great information challenges for people in social isolation. This resulted in surge in online health information seeking (OHIS) behaviors of the patients and their families. While the Internet has been widely used by Chinese public to access and search health information, there is relatively little research in the context of pandem…
The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication
The definitive collection of topics currently being studied in the rapidly growing field of health communication The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication presents a thorough overview of a dynamic field, bringing together entries by an international panel of contributors that address a comprehensive range of recent and emerging topics. With a global and interdisciplinary focus, this timely resource addresses cutting-edge digital tech…
Social Media Health Promotion and Audience Engagement
Social media have become an important platform for health promotion. Based on the Information-Community-Action Framework, we conducted a content analysis of 1,481 Facebook postings by Singapore's Health Promotion Board. Results showed that organizational information and health benefit information dissemination were positively associated with online audience engagement. Also, organization-audience interaction had a positive relationship with onlin…
Sharing Culture and Management of Sex Work Information on Mobile Phones by Female Sex Workers in Nepal
Female sex workers (FSWs) in Nepal continue to be disproportionately at risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV. Due to stigma related to sex work and HIV, FSWs keep their sex work information hidden, which poses a barrier to seeking health services. Emerging research indicates a high uptake of mobile phones among FSWs in Nepal. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions can provide health information and linkage to care. Howeve…
Culture-centered narratives of support and stigma
This study explores how second-generation Vietnamese American youth in the US Northeast make meaning of mental illness amid intergenerational stigma and structural marginalization. Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), we analyze 30 in-depth interviews to examine how cultural discourses, family dynamics, and migration histories shape experiences of mental distress and barriers to help-seeking. Findings reveal that mental illness is fram…
Oh! She works in such a place”
Birthing Experiences of Black Mothers within the U.S. Healthcare System
Disparities in Black maternal mortality in the United States are a health injustice. To understand Black women's communicative experiences of birthing with their providers, we interviewed 20 Black women who had given birth within the past three years. Our analysis reveals how interconnected domains of power shape Black women's uncertainty, fear, and experiences during reproductive healthcare interactions. Participants described racializing encoun…
Doing Gender, Doing Race
This article examines how second-generation Vietnamese American women negotiate gender within the diasporic home. Drawing on 28 in-depth interviews and guided by a Doing Gender through Intersectionality framework, the study analyzes how speech, silence, labor, and embodied comportment function as sites where gender is enacted, policed, and resisted under intersecting forces of race, migration, and family hierarchy. Thematic analysis identifies th…
Sociology (13 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Sex work and related issues (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Negotiation (5 obras) · Nursing (5 obras)