Cultural Competency and Rural Disorder in PNG Health Promotion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2145033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boris Andersen (0000-0002-3478-3205, Massey University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 359-376 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664677.2018.1541787 |
| OpenAlex | W2901146749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
Health workers in Papua New Guinea strongly emphasise their duty to provide services to the country’s rural majority. Trained to see rural communities as lacking modern discipline and order, they worry that rural people will resist, perhaps with violence, if health workers fail to ‘show respect for culture’. Examining cultural improvisation among nursing students on a rural experience practicum in the Eastern Highlands, I show how students and teachers tried to craft culturally respectful health education. However, when difficulties emerged, local people were described as unable or unwilling to harim tok (understand, heed or follow instructions). The capacity to follow instructions, cultivated through education and Christian faith, was cast as incompatible with Highlands culture. Rural health promotion activities, when they fail to foment major transformation, can help reproduce the ideological construction of the people of the hauslain (village, hamlet) as emotionally volatile and ungovernable
Craft · Economic growth · Faith · Health promotion · Ideology · Political science · Public health · Rural area · Sociology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing
Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
Anthropology in the Clinic
Cultural Safety in Nursing
Self-decoration in Mount Hagen
Colonial Pathologies
Village Inventions
Decentralization of health services in Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
Structural competency
Listening to the rural health workers in Papua New Guinea - The social factors that influence their motivation to work
Sorcery Death, Proximity, and the Perception of Out-Groups
Illness Is a Weapon
On Not Knowing Other Minds
A Papuan Perspective on Pollution
The Story Catches You and You Fall Down
Rethinking cultural competence
Careful Words
The Task of the HIV Translator
Stonhet andYelotop
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |