Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI:10.1177/13678779231173707

Luca Follis, Karolina S. Follis, Nicola Burns

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article proposes a mobilities-informed approach to social science research on healthcare and migration. It engages with evidence gathered during the Covid-19 pandemic that suggests that when confronted with a public health emergency, health systems can be responsive to the needs of mobile populations. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, health resources shifted routine services online, spurring an acceleration of telemedicine. The roll-out of these practices intersected with the phenomenon of digital exclusion, making healthcare partly or completely out of reach for those who could not connect. We argue that these efforts could have been more successful if they grew out of a recognition of healthcare's ‘sedentary bias’. National health systems are configured to serve settled populations. They are not designed for people on the move, with uncertain residential and immigration status. Yet this bias can be alleviated when health interventions are rethought from the point of view of the mobile patient.

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医疗（im）流动性与新冠肺炎大流行：重返现场的注意事项

本文提出了一种流动知情的方法，用于医疗保健和移民的社会科学研究。它采用了在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间收集的证据，这些证据表明，在面临突发公共卫生事件时，卫生系统可以对流动人口的需求作出反应。在Covid-19封锁期间，卫生资源将常规服务转移到网上，刺激了远程医疗的加速发展。这些做法的推出与数字排斥现象交织在一起，使那些无法上网的人部分或完全无法获得医疗保健。我们认为，如果这些努力源于对医疗保健的“久坐偏见”的认识，那么这些努力可能会更成功。国家卫生系统的配置是为定居人口服务。它们不是为居住和移民身份不确定的流动人群设计的。然而，当从流动病人的角度重新考虑卫生干预措施时，这种偏见可以得到缓解。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.