Structural vulnerabilities and maternal health among Mexican indigenous populations. (360G-Wellcome-103195_Z_13_Z)

£345,811

This research will ask how structural inequalities operate symbolically and through everyday activities to put indigenous people more at risk of harm and explore how this can be addressed through interventions. To address this I will conduct an in-depth study of maternal health in Mexican indigenous communities from the conceptual position of structural violence and develop an intervention strategy. The project will begin with a review of research on structural violence relating to women's h ealth in order to identify a set of structural risk factors and mechanisms. The ethnographic element will centre on in-depth interviews with twenty pregnant women and twenty key informant interviews. I will explore how social, cultural, economic and political structures operate to curtail agency by limiting individual decision making processes. Data will be analysed for theoretical interpretation and will feed into a series of Design Focus Groups through which stakeholders and community members will develop an intervention strategy that addresses the fall-out of structural inequalities on community and structural levels. Goals are: 1)Conduct an ethnography of maternal health from the positionality of structural violence 2) Develop an intervention strategy to address this on community and structural levels.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 345811
Applicant Surname Gamlin
Approval Committee Social Science and Bioethics Interview Committee
Award Date 2013-12-11T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2013/14
Grant Programme: Title Research Fellowship in H&SS
Internal ID 103195/Z/13/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Jennie Gamlin
Partnership Value 345811
Planned Dates: End Date 2018-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London
Sponsor(s) Prof Anthony Costello