RT Article
T1 Making Gendered Healthcare Work Visible: Over-Looked Labour in Four Diverse European Settings
JF Social Inclusion
VO 7
IS 2
SP 33
OP 43
A1 Bradby, Hannah 1966-
A1 Phillimore, Jenny ca. 20./21. Jh.
A1 Padilla, Beatriz
A1 Brand, Tilman 1980-
LA English
PB Cogitatio Press
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1788362454
AB Healthcare has long been a gendered enterprise, with women taking responsibility for maintaining health and engaging with service providers. Universal healthcare provision notwithstanding, women nonetheless undertake a range of healthcare work, on their own account and on behalf of others, which remains largely invisible. As part of a multi-method comparative European study that looked at access to healthcare in diverse neighbourhoods from the point of view of people’s own health priorities, the concept of ‘healthcare bricolage’ describes the process of mobilizing resources and overcoming constraints to meet particular health needs. Bricolage mediates between different kinds of resources to meet particular challenges and describing these processes makes visible that work which has been unseen, over-looked and naturalised, as part of a gendered caring role. Drawing on 160 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 1,755 residents of highly diverse neighbourhoods in Germany, UK, Sweden and Portugal, this article illustrates the gendered nature of healthcare bricolage. The complex variations of women’s bricolage within and beyond the public healthcare system show how gendered caring roles intersect with migration status and social class in the context of particular healthcare systems.
K1 European welfare
K1 Bricolage
K1 Diversity
K1 Gender
K1 Healthcare
K1 Migration
DO 10.17645/si.v7i2.1962