Hanne Jensen Haricharan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93175 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hanne Jensen Haricharan |
| PRENOMES | Hanne Jensen |
| SOBRENOME | Haricharan |
| ASSINATURA | HARICHARAN H J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7688-248X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
‘Accept the fact that we get older’
Pregnancy rates among adolescents and young people in South Africa remain high despite the widespread availability of sexual and reproductive health information and contraception being free of charge. Knowledge gaps, misconceptions, and insufficient attention to youth voices are critical barriers to informed decision-making. Support for adolescents and young people is often negatively framed, focusing on sexual abstinence before marriage. This pa…
Rights-Based Training Enhancing Engagement of Health Providers With Communities, Cape Metropole, South Africa
Community participation, the central principle of the primary health care approach, is widely accepted in the governance of health systems. Health Committees (HCs) are community-based structures that can enable communities to participate in the governance of primary health care. Previous research done in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa, reports that HCs' potential can, however, be limited by a lack of local health providers' (HPs) understan…
Health promotion via SMS improves hypertension knowledge for deaf South Africans
The research was registered with the Pan African Clinical Trial Registry on December 1, 2015. Identification number: PACTR201512001353476
Public and Patient Involvement and the Right to Health
In this paper we reflect on public and patient involvement (PPI), the right to health and how human rights principles provide values for implementing mechanisms of participation and accountability. Globally, new models of formalized participation, imposed top-down by State institutions, have emerged in recent health system reforms. There is an on-going challenge to ensure that the prescribed mechanisms, or procedural rights, for implementing the …
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
Anthropologist to activist
This paper outlines shifting perspectives in Paul Farmer's work with regard to cultural difference and human rights. It describes Farmer's critique of medical anthropology's focus on culture to the detriment of economic factors, and his critique of cultural relativism being used as an alibi for different standards of medical care. The paper uses Farmer's work to discuss the relevance of cultural analysis in medical anthropology and argues for an …
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
Anthropologist to activist
This paper outlines shifting perspectives in Paul Farmer's work with regard to cultural difference and human rights. It describes Farmer's critique of medical anthropology's focus on culture to the detriment of economic factors, and his critique of cultural relativism being used as an alibi for different standards of medical care. The paper uses Farmer's work to discuss the relevance of cultural analysis in medical anthropology and argues for an …
Can we talk about the right to healthcare without language? A critique of key international human rights law, drawing on the experiences of a Deaf woman in Cape Town, South Africa
A case study in Cape Town, South Africa, explores the right to health for signing Deaf patients attending health services and who are unable to communicate in a language they understand. It argues that, without language, Deaf South Africans dignity and right to health is violated, resulting in serious consequences such as incorrect diagnosis, improper treatment and standard of care not being applied. It critiques the provisions of the Convention …
Health promotion via SMS improves hypertension knowledge for deaf South Africans
The research was registered with the Pan African Clinical Trial Registry on December 1, 2015. Identification number: PACTR201512001353476
Public and Patient Involvement and the Right to Health
In this paper we reflect on public and patient involvement (PPI), the right to health and how human rights principles provide values for implementing mechanisms of participation and accountability. Globally, new models of formalized participation, imposed top-down by State institutions, have emerged in recent health system reforms. There is an on-going challenge to ensure that the prescribed mechanisms, or procedural rights, for implementing the …
Rights-Based Training Enhancing Engagement of Health Providers With Communities, Cape Metropole, South Africa
Community participation, the central principle of the primary health care approach, is widely accepted in the governance of health systems. Health Committees (HCs) are community-based structures that can enable communities to participate in the governance of primary health care. Previous research done in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa, reports that HCs' potential can, however, be limited by a lack of local health providers' (HPs) understan…
‘Accept the fact that we get older’
Pregnancy rates among adolescents and young people in South Africa remain high despite the widespread availability of sexual and reproductive health information and contraception being free of charge. Knowledge gaps, misconceptions, and insufficient attention to youth voices are critical barriers to informed decision-making. Support for adolescents and young people is often negatively framed, focusing on sexual abstinence before marriage. This pa…
Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Human rights (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Public health (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Family medicine (2 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 obras)