The role of social geography on Lady Health Workers' mobility and effectiveness in Pakistan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-57

  Mumtaz, Zubia ^a   Salway, Sarah ^b   Nykiforuk, Candace ^a   Bhatti, Afshan ^c   Ataullahjan, Anushka ^a   Ayyalasomayajula, Bharati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Real Medicine Foundation Pakistan   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Caste; Community; Door step services delivery; Family planning; Gender; Lady Health Workers; Pakistan; Women's mobility

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; GENDER ISSUE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; RURAL AREA; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTRACEPTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY;

CASTE; COMMUNITY; DOOR-STEP SERVICES DELIVERY; FAMILY PLANNING; GENDER; LADY HEALTH WORKERS; PAKISTAN; WOMEN'S MOBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

EID: 84880350767     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Agha S., Carton T.W. Determinants of institutional delivery in rural Jhang, Pakistan. International Journal for Equity in Health 2011, 10.
2. Bhutta Z.A., Soofi S., Cousens S., Mohammad S., Memon Z.A., Ali I., et al. Improvement of perinatal and newborn care in rural Pakistan through community-based strategies: a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial. Lancet 2011, 377:403-412.
3. Campbell M.L., Gregor F.M. Mapping social relations: A primer in doing institutional ethnography 2002, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc, Lanham.
4. Daviauda E., Chopra M. How much is not enough? Human resources requirements for primary health care: a case study from South Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008, 86:46-51.
5. Donna H., Selier F. Family and gender in Pakistan: Domestic organization in a Muslim society 1997, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, New York.
6. Durrant V.L., Sathar Z.A. Greater investments in children through women's empowerment: The key to demographic change in Pakistan? 2000, Population Association of America, Los Angeles.
7. Hafeez A., Mohamud B.K., Shiekh M.R., Shah S.A.I., Jooma R. Lady health workers programme in Pakistan: challenges, achievements and the way forward. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2011, 61:210-215.
8. Haines A., Horton R., Bhutta Z. Primary health care comes of age. Looking forward to the 30th anniversary of Alma-Ata: call for papers. Lancet 2007, 370:911-913.
9. Hammersley M. Reading ethnographic research: A critical guide 1998, Longman Publishing Group, New York.
10. Haq Z., Iqbal Z., Rahman A. Job stress among community health workers: a multi-method study from Pakistan. BMC International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2008, 10.1186/1752-4458-2-15.
11. Kabeer N. Poverty, social exclusion and the MDGs: a the challenge of 'durable inequalities' in the Asian context. IDS Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies 2006, 37:64-78.
12. Kabeer N., Mumtaz K., Sayeed A. Beyond risk management: vulnerability, social protection and citizenship in Pakistan. Journal of International Development 2010, 22(1):1-19.
13. Khan A. Mobility of women and access to health and family planning services in Pakistan. Reproductive Health Matters 1999, 7:39-48.
14. Khan A., Chaudhry A., Muhammad H. Perceived individual and community barriers in the provision of family planning services by lady health workers in Tehsil Gujar Khan. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2012, 62(12):1318-1322.
15. Mason M. Sample size and saturation in PhD studies using qualitative research. Forum: Qualitative Research 2010, 11(3). Art. 8.
16. Miles M.B., Huberman M. Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook 1994, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks.
17. Mohmand S., Gazdar H. Social structures in rural Pakistan 2007, Asian Development Bank, Islamabad.
18. Mumtaz Z., Salway S. 'I never go anywhere': extricating the links between women's mobility and uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan. Social Science & Medicine 2005, 60:1751-1765.
19. Mumtaz Z., Salway S., Shanner L., Bhatti A., Laing L. Maternal deaths in Pakistan: intersection of gender, caste, and social exclusion. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011, 11.
20. Mumtaz Z., Salway S., Waseem M., Umer N. Gender-based barriers to primary health care provision in Pakistan: the experience of female providers. Health Policy and Planning 2003, 18:261-269.
21. Oxford Policy Management Group (OPMG) Lady health worker programme: Third party evaluation of performance 2009, On line at. http://www.opml.co.uk/sites/opml/files/LHW_%2520Quantitative%2520Report_1.pdf, O.P.M. Group (Ed.).
22. Population Action International Very young age structures countries in profile: Pakistan a youthful population, beginning to mature 2007, Population Action International, Washington.
23. Qadir F., Khan M., Medhin G., Prince M. Male gender preference, female gender disadvantage as risk factors for psychological morbidity in Pakistani women of childbearing age - a life course perspective. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:745.
24. Ramirez-Valles J. Promoting health, promoting women: the construction of female and professional identities in the discourse of community health workers. Social Science & Medicine 1998, 47:1749-1762.
25. Rifkin S.B., Muller F., Bichmann W. Primary health care-on measuring participation. Social Science & Medicine 1988, 26:931-940.
26. Spradley J.P. The ethnographic interview 1979, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York.
27. Wayland C., Crowder J. Disparate views of community in primary health care: understanding how perceptions influence success. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2002, 16:230-247.
28. Winkvist A., Akhtar H.Z. God should give daughters to rich families only: attitudes towards childbearing among low-income women in Punjab, Pakistan. Social Science & Medicine 2000, 51:73-81.