Cultural Capital and Self-Rated Health in Low Income Women: Evidence from the Urban Health Study, Beirut, Lebanon

Khawaja, Marwan; Mowafi, Mona

doi:10.1007/s11524-006-9051-8

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“…The difference in the training of healthcare providers is noted throughout the interviews, as interviewees who used private healthcare typically used physician-specific terms such as 'gynaecologist' or 'General Practitioner', while the women accessing public care typically referred to providers as 'nurse', 'sister' or 'tester'. Most studies on healthcare and cultural capital have focused on the cultural capital of patients (Khawaja and Mowafi 2006;Shim 2010). However, in settings such as South Africa, where there is significant disparity between healthcare facilities (McIntyre et al 2008) and patients have such varying experiences, the cultural capital of healthcare providers is also important to consider.…”

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“…However, evidence exists that cultural capital is associated with health status, even within populations of similar socioeconomic standing. For instance, a study in Lebanon found that women with low cultural capital were significantly more likely to report poor general and mental health compared to those with high cultural capital, even when participants were of the same socioeconomic status (Khawaja and Mowafi 2006).…”

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Healthcare experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Cape Town, South Africa

Smith

2014

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Understanding the health needs and experiences of South African lesbian and bisexual women is imperative for implementing effective and inclusive public health strategies. Such understanding, however, is limited due to the exclusion of these women from most existing research on healthcare access in the region. This paper bridges that gap by investigating the healthcare experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Cape Town. Data were gathered from 22 interviews with self-identified lesbian and bisexual community members and university students in the Cape Town area. Interviews explored obstacles women face in accessing affirming services, different experiences with public and private healthcare, fear of stigma/discrimination, availability of relevant sexual health information and suggestions to improve existing programmes. Findings suggest that South African lesbians and bisexual women may have a range of both positive and negative experiences in public and private health services, that they use protective strategies when 'coming out' and that they find that sexual health information pertinent to them is largely unavailable. These discussions contribute to a more inclusive understanding of the experiences of lesbian and bisexual women accessing healthcare and other services and help to inform providers, thereby enabling them to deliver more meaningful care to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in South Africa.

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Healthcare experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Cape Town, South Africa

Smith

2014

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…Social capital in urban areas plays an important role in determining individual health risks and outcomes (49,56). Network social capital refers to resources accessed through one's social connections and can be measured using a position generator instrument.…”

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Metrics in Urban Health: Current Developments and Future Prospects

Prasad¹,

Gray²,

Ross³

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Annu. Rev. Public Health

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The research community has shown increasing interest in developing and using metrics to determine the relationships between urban living and health. In particular, we have seen a recent exponential increase in efforts aiming to investigate and apply metrics for urban health, especially the health impacts of the social and built environments as well as air pollution. A greater recognition of the need to investigate the impacts and trends of health inequities is also evident through more recent literature. Data availability and accuracy have improved through new affordable technologies for mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing. However, less

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“…Following Abel (2008), cultural activities such as arts attendance may also reflect socioeconomic status, and it is well-known that individuals with higher incomes or better education tend to be healthier than others (for a review, see Cutler et al, 2011). Similarly, Khawaja and Mowafi (2006) argue that cultural activities could reflect social stratification in society. To maintain and accumulate their social status, individuals invest accordingly in cultural capital, for example via visits to arts events.…”

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“…Cultural activities can thus be seen as a form of social capital that can be used as inputs in health production (e.g. Folland, 2008) Several empirical studies using individual-level survey data have found a positive association of cultural-event attendance with perceived health in various populations (Cuypers et al, 2012;Johansson et al, 2001;Khawaja and Mowafi, 2006;Renton et al, 2012;Wilkinson et al, 2007). It is questionable, however, whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of arts participation on health.…”

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Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

Thiel

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThe aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of cultural participation on health status. Cultural activities may directly impact upon health through palliative coping or substituting health-compromising behaviors. Cultural engagement may also facilitate the development of social networks, which can improve health via social support and the dissemination of social health norms. Previous estimates on the arts-health relationship are potentially biased due to reverse causality and unobserved heterogeneity. Using individuallevel data from Germany, we employ propensity-score matching methods. The treatment group is confined to individuals that visit cultural events at least once a month. The participation equation includes a rich set of personal characteristics that cover the respondents' demographic and social background, social capital and leisure-time activities, health-related lifestyle, personality and childhood environment. We explicitly consider reverse causality by including the pre-treatment trends in health outcomes am...

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Cultural Capital and Self-Rated Health in Low Income Women: Evidence from the Urban Health Study, Beirut, Lebanon

Cited by 51 publications

References 53 publications

Healthcare experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Cape Town, South Africa

Healthcare experiences of lesbian and bisexual women in Cape Town, South Africa

Metrics in Urban Health: Current Developments and Future Prospects

Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

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