Pressure
Ageing, hypertension and social self-care in Kampala, Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21696820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Hawkins (Department of Anthropology, University College London), C J B Hawkins (University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2-4 |
| Pages | 140-156 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13648470.2025.2604016 |
| PMID | 42179159 |
| OpenAlex | W7162286450 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
This article explores hypertension self-management based on ethnographic research with older adults in Kampala, Uganda in 2018-19. Participants described strategies to prevent and manage high blood pressure and related complications, often referred to as pressure and conceptualised in relation to economic stress. The article is grounded in the knowledge of older women, whose extensive care responsibilities are understood as both a cause and consequence of 'pressure'. This knowledge is especially crucial in the context of inadequate health and social security provision, prolonging gendered burdens of care in later life. Pressure can be understood as an embodied concept through which structural injustice and economic stress is named and navigated. This ethnography contributes to feminist literature on chronicity and (self-) care, moral responsibility, and subjectivity. It also has policy implications for the social security of older people living and working in urban Uganda, and for critical global health approaches to hypertension and related syndemics
Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Health care · Injustice · Social security · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Global Maternal and Child Health · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Writing Culture
Gender, ageing and carework in East and Southern Africa
Chronic Psychosocial Stress and Hypertension
Caregiving
The Time of Youth
Looking at non-communicable diseases in Uganda through a local lens
Prevalence and risk factors for self-reported non-communicable diseases among older Ugandans
Social support and arterial pressure in a central Mexican community
Patient patients
Relational chronicities
Idioms of Distress Revisited
Creating social policy to support women's agency in coercive settings
Perceptions and experiences of access to public healthcare by people with disabilities and older people in Uganda
Decolonising the ‘safe space’ as an African innovation
Thinking too much”
Widowed mama-grannies buffering HIV/Aids-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda
Knowing hypertension and diabetes
Understanding the vulnerability of older adults
They ‘don't cure old age’
Beyond the Global Care Chain
The oughtness of care
Can epidemics be noncommunicable
Situated Knowledges
An ethnopsychology of idioms of distress in urban Kenya
Incompleteness
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care
Kamzori
Speaking through Diabetes
Time for School'? School fees, savings clubs and social reciprocity in Uganda
Cultural interpretations of an emerging health problem
Chronicity and control
Sticks and wheelchairs for elderly people in central Uganda
Generations and Access to Land in Postconflict Northern Uganda
Pensando Mucho' ('Thinking Too Much)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |