Please Join Us for the Second SOCUP Brown Bag Lunch Meeting of the Semester!
Presentation Title: "From Global to Local: the International Women's
Human Rights Movement and the International Women's Rights Action Watch."
Presenter: Kasia Polanska(Sociology)
Time: 12:00-13:00, Monday, Feb. 21
Place: 915 Social Sociences Buidling
Kasia will present her work on the diffusion of international law and norms concerning women and women's human rights. It is based on a case study of a nongovernmental organization, the International Women's Rights Action Watch. She will analyze the case within the theoretical framework of neoinstitutionalism and social movements literature.
Please Join Us for the Third SOCUP Brown Bag Lunch Meeting of the Semester!
Presentation Title: "A Trajectory Approach to Study on Work and Health."
Presenter: Reiping Huang (Sociology)
Time: 12:00-13:00, Monday, March 7
Place: 1114 Social Sociences Buidling (*room changed)
Reiping will present her work on the overall trajectory of work status related to health. She analyzed data from the 1975 and 1992/1993 waves of Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In this presentation, she focuses on the gender difference in terms of work. The links below include her presentation file and complete abstract.
Whether the overall trajectory of work status is related to health is
examined, adjusting for gender, health selection, SES, job
characteristics, health behaviors, and family impacts. Analyzing data
from the 1975 and 1992/1993 waves of Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I
identify six patterns of work trajectories----stable full-time,
full-/part-time alternating, intermittent full-time, stable part-time,
diversified part-time, and never employed. Results show that: 1)
Better paid and less demanding jobs tend to present among work
trajectories with higher proportion of full-time employment, more
labor force participation, and higher stability. 2) Trajectory groups
differ in cardiovascular problems, depression, and probability of
self-reported overall health, particularly between stable full-time
and intermittent full-time or never employed trajectories. However,
these variations diminish after health selection, health behavior,
SES, family backgrounds, and family impacts are considered. 3) Women
tend to be in better cardiovascular health, more likely to report
being in excellent overall health, more depressed, and have more
musculoskeletal problems than men. Gender variations in health may
result from that women tend to engage in work trajectories with low
stability, smaller proportion of full-time employment, and more
disruptions. 4) Significant effects are found in health selection,
frequent exercise, BMI, smoking, psychological well-being, asset,
college education, physical job characteristics, farm origin, access
to health insurance, caregiving experience, and work status of spouse,
varying by magnitude and health outcomes.
Please Join Us for the Fourth SOCUP Brown Bag Lunch Meeting of the Semester!
Presentation Title: "Health and Inequality: The Impact of Roads, Tracks and Footpaths on Accessibility to Health Care Facilities in Uganda."
Presenter: Susan Mlangwa (Sociology)
Time: 12:00-13:00, Monday, March 21
Place: 915 Social Sociences Buidling
Susan will present a study, which shows access in form of roads, footpaths and intermediate transport do not make people more mobile, but simply fail to connect them with the services they use. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to health care access the study attempts to throw light on why national transport development has minimal impact on poverty alleviation in rural settings.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present a suggestion that transport and road system is an important health determinant operating at the societal level with significant impact on the socioeconomic position of individuals within the society as regard to their differential accessibility means to health care facilitates. Using the integrated rural accessibility methodological framework and socioeconomic position as a fundamental cause of health theoretical framework, I contribute to the discussion on the role of socioeconomic conditions of societies in shaping individual socioeconomic positions that more directly affect health. There is a great deal of literature on the income, education and diet aspects of inequalities in health. However, the impact of mobility and proximity to health care facilities access has not been explored in this context. Moreover, the body of work, which does explore these elements in relation to health, does not address how they might impact on health inequalities. Drawing on empirical work, I discuss ways in which poverty prioritized transport and road system feed into the dynamic between people's access-related needs and optimum usage of health care facilities in a way which can produce, positive health outcomes. I further argue that the analysis of how changes in transport and roads planning (as a health determinant) in terms of level and distribution could work through into positive changes in health and health inequalities