دورية أكاديمية
The Social Construction of Aging Among a Clinic-Based Population and Their Healthcare Workers in Zambia. ...
| العنوان: | The Social Construction of Aging Among a Clinic-Based Population and Their Healthcare Workers in Zambia. ... |
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| المؤلفون: | Sharma, Anjali, Mwamba, Chanda, St Clair-Sullivan, Natalie, Chihota, Belinda V, Pry, Jake M, Bolton-Moore, Carolyn, Vinikoor, Michael J, Muula, Guy K, Daultrey, Harriet, Gittelsohn, Joel, Mulenga, Lloyd B, Siyumbwa, Namasiku, Wandeler, Gilles, Vera, Jaime H |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 610 Medicine & health, 360 Social problems & social services |
| الوصف: | OBJECTIVES We sought to understand the social construction of aging in a clinic-based population, with and without HIV, to address gaps in care for older individuals living with HIV in Zambia. METHODS Our exploratory qualitative study included 36 in-depth interviews with clinic clients and four focus group discussions with 36 professional and lay healthcare workers providing services to the clients. We identified themes based on social construction theory. RESULTS At the individual level, aging was multidimensional, perceived both as an achievement in the HIV era and as a period of cognitive, physical, and economic decline. In social interactions, older individuals were often stereotyped and treated as helpless, poor, and "witches." Those living with HIV faced the additional stigma of being labeled as promiscuous. Some of the participants living without HIV refused to take daily medication for non-communicable diseases to avoid being mistaken for taking antiretroviral therapy for HIV. Older individuals ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606607Test |
| DOI: | 10.48350/196596 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.48350/19659610.3389/ijph.2024.1606607Test https://boris.unibe.ch/196596Test/ |
| حقوق: | open access ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeTest ; cc-by-4.0 ; http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.7CF5B914 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.48350/196596 |
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