Peruvian community health promoters: Expanding the spaces of health voluntarism

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
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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