Health, religion, and meaning: a culture-centered study of Druze women.
Qual Health Res
; 20(6): 845-58, 2010 Jun.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20181823
ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of contesting the mainstream biomedical models of health communication, the culture-centered approach suggests dialogic research methodologies to coconstruct meanings of health through direct engagement with cultural communities. In this project, we engaged in in-depth interviews and informal conversations with elderly Druze women and their caregiver daughters to develop an understanding of the intersections of religion and health meanings in the context of aging women in this Lebanese community. Attending to the cultural constructions of health, particularly in religious contexts, opens up the discursive spaces of health communication to alternative cosmologies of health, illness, healing, and curing. Four themes emerged as a result of our grounded theory analysis:
health as faith; mistrust, privacy, and modern medicine; polymorphic health experiences; and health as structure. These themes serve as the backdrop for playing out the competing tensions between the local and the global in the realm of interpretations of health meanings.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Religião
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Saúde da Mulher
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Características Culturais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Qual Health Res
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos