Health Care Among Street-Involved Women
The Perpetuation of Health Inequity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4648145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vicky Bungay (0000-0001-6440-7182, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1016-1026 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732313493352 |
| PMID | 23761930 |
| OpenAlex | W2126116386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 41 |
I present the findings from a study that explored the experiences and decision making of street-involved women navigating the health care system. Data were drawn from a larger qualitative study situated in a western Canadian inner-city neighborhood that examined the health-management strategies of street-involved women with a history of crack cocaine use. Data were collected over a 17-month period and included ethnographic methods of participant observation, group interviews ( n = 57), and in-depth interviews ( n = 10). Inductive thematic analysis derived two major themes: power and punishment, and organization and delivery of care. The themes illustrate how women's experiences and decision making were located within a nexus of power relations that operated across women's shared social location as downtown eastsiders. Implications of the findings are discussed in relation to supporting women's efforts and improving health outcomes
Environmental health · Health care · Political science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
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Helping Women Suffering from Drug Addiction
Co-designing an Outreach Intervention for Women Experiencing Street-Involvement and Gender-Based Violence
Mothers and Mentors
Homeless persons' experiences of health‐ and social care
Women's experiences in injectable opioid agonist treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada
Exploring the conceptualization, operationalization, implementation, and measurement of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations
Moral Economies of Care and Women Who Use Drugs in Ukraine
Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, and Health of Sex Workers
Hard-to-Reach Populations and Administrative Health Data
Health Care While Homeless
Balance, Capacity, and the Contingencies of Everyday Life
Motivations for PrEP-Related Interpersonal Communication Among Women Who Inject Drugs
First Nations Women’s Encounters with Mainstream Health Care Services
Intersectionality and Women’s Health
Inclusion and Democracy
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Inclusion and Democracy
Black Feminist Thought
Interpretive Description
The Significance of Saturation
Life with jib
Hepatitis C and the limits of medicalisation and biological citizenship for people who inject drugs
Grasping at straws
Medical theories of opiate addiction's aetiology and their relationship to addicts’ perceived social position in the United States
Women's health and use of crack cocaine in context
Revisioning women and drug use
I inject less as I have easier access to pipes”
Harm reduction through a social justice lens
On the Meaning of
Mapping the Margins
The Embodiment of Inequity
The Health of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
Harm reduction, methadone maintenance treatment and the root causes of health and social inequities
Injection Drug Users' Access to a Supervised Injection Facility in Vancouver, Canada
The impact of a police drug crackdown on drug injectors' ability to practice harm reduction
Clinical encounters between nurses and First Nations women in a Western Canadian hospital
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |