Urban advantage or Urban penalty? A case study of female-headed households in a South African city

Goebel, Allison; Dodson, Belinda; Hill, Trevor

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.01.002

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“…The primary reasons for female-headship have traditionally included male labour migration and non-marriage as stipulated by Posel (2001). However, Goebel, Dodson and Hill (2010) accentuated that although female headship in this context is connected to historically patterns of patriarchy and apartheid that are unique to South Africa; female headship increasingly is connected to contemporary macro-economic conditions. Gilbert, Seliko and Walker (2010) further suggest that premature death brought on by HIV and AIDS is a contributor too.…”

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The Intended Consequences of the Social Assistance Grants in South Africa

Gutura

Tanga

2014

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The Intended Consequences of the Social Assistance Grants in South Africa

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Tanga

2014

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“…6 This is congruent with the perspectives of urban planners and other urban scholars. 10 The complexity is framed as both positive and negative, 6,7,9 with scholars articulating both urban health advantages and penalties, [11][12][13][14][15] and ordered complexity 16 and disorder and chaos. 17 Scholars from a variety of disciplines have long conceptualized cities as systems.…”

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Complexity and Dynamism from an Urban Health Perspective: a Rationale for a System Dynamics Approach

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Ompad

2015

J Urban Health

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In a variety of urban health frameworks, cities are conceptualized as complex and dynamic yet commonly used epidemiological methods have failed to address this complexity and dynamism head on due to their narrow problem definitions and linear analytical representations. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have also long conceptualized cities as systems, but few have modeled urban health issues as problems within a system. Systems thinking in general and system dynamics in particular are relatively new approaches in public health, but ones that hold immense promise as methodologies to model and analyze the complexity underlying urban processes to effectively inform policy actions in dynamic environments. This conceptual essay reviews the utility of applying the concepts, principles, and methods of systems thinking to the study of complex urban health phenomena as a complementary approach to standard epidemiological methods using specific examples and provides recommendations on how to better incorporate systems thinking methods in urban health research and practice.

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“…Bien que relevant à l'origine d'une catégorie statistique, les femmes chefs de ménage sont souvent envisagées comme constituant un groupe social. Ce groupe doit alors être défini historiquement et géographiquement, car il ne saurait y avoir de conception universelle et définitive des ménages dirigés par une femme (Goebel, Dodson et Hill, 2010 ;Stewart-Withers, 2011).…”

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“…Elle dépend des mécanismes de prise en charge des systèmes de solidarité de la parenté élargie, mais aussi des croyances religieuses ou encore de la perception négative ou non des mères célibataires dans la société (StewartWithers, 2011). Selon les contextes, les ménages de veuves et de mères célibataires peuvent ne pas être dans des situations économiques ou sociales plus vulnérables que d'autres types de ménage (Debdulal et Rafi, 2010 ;Goebel, Dodson et Hill, 2010). Kebe et Charbit (2007) rapportent par exemple qu'au Sénégal, les chefs de ménage monoparentaux, majoritairement composés de femmes, sont les moins affectés par la pauvreté moné-taire.…”

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Inégalités entre les ménages dirigés par les hommes et ceux dirigés par les femmes à Ouagadougou : entre déterminisme et spécificités

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Moussa

2015

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Dans cette étude, nous examinons le lien entre le sexe du chef de ménage et la relation à la pauvreté du ménage à Ouagadougou. L’analyse en composantes principales et la two step cluster analysis ont été appliquées aux données du Recensement général de la population et de l’habitat du Burkina Faso de 2006. Elles ont permis de comparer les caractéristiques socioéconomiques du groupe des hommes et du groupe des femmes chefs d’un ménage et de distinguer différents sous-groupes les composant. Les résultats indiquent que les femmes jeunes, actives et célibataires ou mariées affichent la plus grande proximité avec le niveau de vie « élevé ». Le groupe des femmes âgées, inactives et principalement veuves présente les conditions de vie les plus médiocres. Les ménages dirigés par un homme tendent eux à se situer plus au milieu, dans la classe moyenne. La situation des femmes chefs de ménage à Ouagadougou se révèle être à l’intersection de la classe sociale et du cycle de vie.Using principal component analysis and cluster analysis on census data, the paper examines the relationship between the gender of the household head and poverty in Ouagadougou. First, we investigated whether the distinction of households based on the sex of the household head sufficiently explains the differences between female and male headed households. Second, we investigated whether households headed by women were systematically more impoverished than those headed by men. The results indicated that of the different sub-categories of household heads identified in the analyses, the sub-group of young, active women, married or single, is the most closely associated with “high standard of living” households. The group composed of elderly, inactive widows has the most unsatisfactory living conditions. These results underline the importance of social class and life cycle in the relationship between poverty and female headed households

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Urban advantage or Urban penalty? A case study of female-headed households in a South African city

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

The Intended Consequences of the Social Assistance Grants in South Africa

The Intended Consequences of the Social Assistance Grants in South Africa

Complexity and Dynamism from an Urban Health Perspective: a Rationale for a System Dynamics Approach

Inégalités entre les ménages dirigés par les hommes et ceux dirigés par les femmes à Ouagadougou : entre déterminisme et spécificités

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