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Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa
My thesis explores how Mozambican middle-class women perceive official local healthcare services in both their public and private dimensions, within their country, and why they sometimes travel abroad to South Africa in search of healthcare across a range of gynaecological services, ranging from bas...
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| author | Chichava, Marina |
| author2 | Henderson, Patti |
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| description | My thesis explores how Mozambican middle-class women perceive official local healthcare services in both their public and private dimensions, within their country, and why they sometimes travel abroad to South Africa in search of healthcare across a range of gynaecological services, ranging from basic procedures to more complex requirements. I trace the stories of fifteen women to convey their experiences and opinions of the Mozambican health system. I show the women negotiating their way through barriers and limitations within this system, in ways that point out its inadequacies and inefficiency. I investigate how searching for 'quality' healthcare, often abroad, is intertwined with middle-class women's crafting of identities that aspire to a certain demonstration of 'modernity' in which social status is claimed. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10193 Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa Chichava, Marina Henderson, Patti Spiegel, Andrew Social Anthropology My thesis explores how Mozambican middle-class women perceive official local healthcare services in both their public and private dimensions, within their country, and why they sometimes travel abroad to South Africa in search of healthcare across a range of gynaecological services, ranging from basic procedures to more complex requirements. I trace the stories of fifteen women to convey their experiences and opinions of the Mozambican health system. I show the women negotiating their way through barriers and limitations within this system, in ways that point out its inadequacies and inefficiency. I investigate how searching for 'quality' healthcare, often abroad, is intertwined with middle-class women's crafting of identities that aspire to a certain demonstration of 'modernity' in which social status is claimed. 2014-12-27T13:59:55Z 2014-12-27T13:59:55Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSocSci http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10193 eng application/pdf Social Anthropology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Social Anthropology Chichava, Marina Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| title_full | Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| title_short | Journeys to health : middle-class Mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in Mozambique and South Africa |
| title_sort | journeys to health middle class mozambican women assess healthcare service delivery in mozambique and south africa |
| topic | Social Anthropology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10193 |
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