Kenneth Maes

The Lives of Community Health Workers

Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic work with a group of Ethiopian women and men who provide home-based care in Addis Ababa during the early roll-out of antiretroviral therapies, this book illustrates what it actually means to become a community health worker in today's global health industry, and considers what motives them to improve the quality of life and death of the most marginalized people in their own communities. It shows us that many of the challenges that community health workers face in their daily lives are embedded in broader social, economic, and political contexts, and it raises a resounding call for further research into their labour, and the health and social systems they inhabit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781611323603
• ISBN-10: 1611323606
• Artikelnr.: 57041061

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Maes is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Oregon State University's School of Language, Culture and Society. He received his PhD from Emory University in 2010, and from 2010-2012 he was a NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University's Population Studies and Training Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The problems facing community health workers at the turn of Ethiopia's
alicha millennium
2. Becoming a community health worker: a biosocial and historical
perspective
3. Some assembly required: community health worker recruitment and basic
training
4. To care and to suffer: community health work amid unemployment and food
insecurity
5. Where there is no labor movement
Conclusion: recommendations for action and research