From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements

Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis investigates community health workers' negotiation between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how prescriptions of public health are reappropriated through the micro-politics of everyd...

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Main Author: Vale, Beth
Other Authors: Posel, Deborah
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11340
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-113402021-01-17T05:11:43Z From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements Vale, Beth Posel, Deborah Hodes, Rebecca Sociology Includes bibliographical references. This thesis investigates community health workers' negotiation between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how prescriptions of public health are reappropriated through the micro-politics of everyday practice. What inventiveness, agency and tactical manoeuvres are woven between abstract ideals and situational demands? And how are these shaping the content of care? Community health work has been established as the model for health service delivery in resource-poor settings, particularly those hard-hit by AIDS. While its outcomes are widely celebrated, what this success looks like in practice remains under-explored. This dissertation investigates the messy application of this abstract model of care within a specific social context, exploring the place of care in the lives of carers, and how circumstantial pressures shape care delivery in unintended ways. 2015-01-05T06:44:06Z 2015-01-05T06:44:06Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11340 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Humanities Department of Sociology
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From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
description Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis investigates community health workers' negotiation between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how prescriptions of public health are reappropriated through the micro-politics of everyday practice. What inventiveness, agency and tactical manoeuvres are woven between abstract ideals and situational demands? And how are these shaping the content of care? Community health work has been established as the model for health service delivery in resource-poor settings, particularly those hard-hit by AIDS. While its outcomes are widely celebrated, what this success looks like in practice remains under-explored. This dissertation investigates the messy application of this abstract model of care within a specific social context, exploring the place of care in the lives of carers, and how circumstantial pressures shape care delivery in unintended ways.
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title From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
title_short From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
title_full From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
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title_full_unstemmed From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
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