Jenkins, Katy (2011) Peruvian community health promoters: Expanding the spaces of health voluntarism. Health & Place, 17 (1). pp. 17-23. ISSN 1353-8292
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Abstract
This paper emphasises the importance of recognising the global South as a key site for understanding the patterning of geographies of health voluntarism. Feeding into a broader critique of neoliberal health and development policies, the paper explores what a case study of health promoters in a popular settlement in Lima, Peru, can add to our understanding of practices of health voluntarism rooted in distinct places, emphasising the uneven and gendered nature of such voluntary activity. In particular, the paper considers the ways in which urban community spaces are negotiated, inhabited and shaped by volunteer women health workers, arguing that an exploration of these everyday practices provides a more nuanced picture of the role of voluntarism in healthcare provisioning under neoliberal regimes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | health promotion, gender and voluntarism |
Subjects: | L300 Sociology L400 Social Policy L700 Human and Social Geography L900 Others in Social studies |
Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Katy Jenkins |
Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2013 15:52 |
Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2019 19:31 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/14753 |
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