Sociology for Health Professionals

Russell, Lani

doi:10.4135/9781526401922

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“…Women (except for Indigenous women) have had full suffrage in Australia since 1902. For women in many high-income countries, the Second World War was a turning point for women’s equality in Australia as women increasingly became wage earners [ 53 ]. Today, Australia has sexual discrimination legislation that is designed to prevent workplace discrimination on the basis of gender.…”

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“…Access to power and capital flows to those who conform to both the dominant class and gender groups. Other groups to a greater or lesser extent are excluded by class or race or sexuality [ 53 ]. Thus it is certainly true as Risman et al [ 26 ] argue, that gender can be understood as “a system of inequality embedded in all aspects of society” (p. 19) that has diverse implications for women’s and men’s health experiences.…”

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New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals

Baum

Musolino

Gesesew

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Background: Women live longer than men, even though many of the recognised social determinants of health are worse for women than men. No existing explanations account fully for these differences in life expectancy, although they do highlight the complexity and interaction of biological, social and health service factors. Methods: this paper is an exploratory explanation of gendered life expectancy difference (GLED) using a novel combination of epidemiological and sociological methods. We present the global picture of GLED. We then utilise a secondary data comparative case analysis offering explanations for GLED in Australia and Ethiopia. We combine a social determinant of health lens with Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals (economic, cultural, symbolic and social). Results: we confirmed continuing GLED in all countries ranging from less than a year to over 11 years. The Australian and Ethiopian cases demonstrated the complex factors underpinning this difference, highlighting similarities and differences in socioeconomic and cultural factors and how they are gendered within and between the countries. Bourdieu’s capitals enabled us to partially explain GLED and to develop a conceptual model of causal pathways. Conclusion: we demonstrate the value of combing a SDH and Bourdieu’s capital lens to investigate GLED. We proposed a theoretical framework to guide future research.

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New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals

Baum

Musolino

Gesesew

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…This seems to be in line with the current literature, where the implicit expert and authoritarian role of the psychiatrist in the MM is often seen to create a dependent sick role in the patient (eg. Russell, 2014;Tyrer, 2013) and further disempower patients who are already powerless due to their mental health problems and past experiences (Sidley, 2015). Besides the negative implications for the patient in their own medical treatment, this dependent and disempowered attitude also has implications for the psychologist's own work with clients, as they felt it was LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGISTS IN MENTAL HEALTH 20 carried forward into the therapeutic relationship.…”

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The lived experience of psychologists working in mental health services: An exhausting and exasperating journey.

Sciberras¹,

Pilkington²

2018

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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What are the implications for psychologists working in the public mental health services? Does this environment bring along different challenges when compared to their colleagues working in other settings? How do they cope? Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, this study explored the meaning psychologists give to their work with their clients and also looked at how they experience working in their teams within the context of the mental health services in Malta. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with seven registered psychologists who had worked in the Maltese mental health services for at least two years. Common themes across participants included: client-work as a source of satisfaction and a source of stress; the psychologist in the context of the multidisciplinary team; and focus on the self. The quality of the participants' work experience was found to be shaped by the larger context of their work setting. Participants' negative emotions arising from the system were perceived to be more distressing than those arising from client-work. Issues of powerlessness, lack of control and divergent values were identified as the main modulators of this experience and were seen to contribute to distress and reduced job engagement. Personal coping strategies were used as a means to survive in this demanding work place. Implications and recommendations in relation to working with this client-group and also working within a medical model system are highlighted. Public Significance Statement This study advances knowledge about issues faced by psychologists working in multidisciplinary teams in public mental health settings. Although working in such services was seen to bring satisfaction to psychologists, it also brought about negative distressing emotions which LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGISTS IN MENTAL HEALTH 3 seem to be linked more to the system than to the client-work itself. The importance of personal coping strategies emerged as a means of survival.

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“…First, the model gives primacy to biological explanations of health outcomes, focusing on the body as an island unto itself, and defining illness as primarily internal. Research is limited to exploring deterministic factors at the level of the individual body [13,30,31]. Explanations of variations in health are reduced to constructs such as sex and race that are taken to represent biologically innate characteristics and are measured as independent and discrete variables [32].…”

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The odd couple: using biomedical and intersectional approaches to address health inequities

Hankivsky

Doyal

Einstein

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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Background: Better understanding and addressing health inequities is a growing global priority. Objective: In this paper, we contribute to the literature examining complex relationships between biological and social dimensions in the field of health inequalities. Specifically, we explore the potential of intersectionality to advance current approaches to socio-biological entwinements. Design: We provide a brief overview of current approaches to combining both biological and social factors in a single study, and then investigate the contributions of an intersectional framework to such work. Results: We offer a number of concrete examples of how intersectionality has been used empirically to bring both biological and social factors together in the areas of HIV, post-traumatic stress disorder, female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting, and cardiovascular disease. Conclusion: We argue that an intersectional approach can further research that integrates biological and social aspects of human lives and human health and ultimately generate better and more precise evidence for effective policies and practices aimed at tackling health inequities.

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Sociology for Health Professionals

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New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals

New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals

The lived experience of psychologists working in mental health services: An exhausting and exasperating journey.

The odd couple: using biomedical and intersectional approaches to address health inequities

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