"They [Doctors] Don't Really Know What We're Actually Experiencing": Undoing Racializing Frames of Heart Health in Singapore by Centering Listening as Method.
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Abstract
The mainstream media and local health campaigns in Singapore racialize heart health disparities. Journalists and campaigners report differences in heart health outcomes from a model of race governance known as the Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others (CMIO) model. This model is then used to frame heart health inequities as an outcome of poor cultural practices and behaviors tied to race. To (un)do the racializing frames of heart health as outcomes of cultural behaviors and practices, I instead center stories of heart health management by Malay participants from lower-income households, identifying the role information asymmetries play in incomplete heart health information retrieval during interactions with providers (social service providers, healthcare workers, doctors, nurses). Cultural and community resources were discussed as critical resources for alleviating urgent heart health episodes or assisting as guides for preventative heart health information. Health campaigners must delve deeper into these findings for more structurally responsive heart health interventions and move away from racializing health disparities based on the CMIO model.
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As an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences, this noteworthy journal seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions and the public. Outstanding editorial board members and contributors from both medical and social science arenas collaborate to meet the challenges inherent in this goal. Although most inclusions are data-based, the journal also publishes pedagogical, methodological, theoretical, and applied articles using both quantitative or qualitative methods.