Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India
Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India
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10.1145/3491102.3501950
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2022-04
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Naveen Bagalkot;Syeda Zainab Akbar;Swati Sharma;N. Mackintosh;Deirdre Harrington;P. Griffiths;J. Noronha;N. Verdezoto
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Naveen Bagalkot;Syeda Zainab Akbar;Swati Sharma;N. Mackintosh;Deirdre Harrington;P. Griffiths;J. Noronha;N. Verdezoto
基于母性规范理想的行为改变和提高健康素养是应对孕产妇健康挑战的主导范式。然而，这些理想往往使妇女失去对自己身体的控制，忽视了怀孕的身体体验是如何在社会和文化上形成的。我们报告了对印度南部农村和半城市地区孕妇和哺乳母亲的27次采访，以及6个重点小组的23名一线卫生工作者作为次要数据。我们探讨如何体现怀孕的经验是影响和协商的社会文化背景和现有的护理基础设施。我们的研究结果强调了如何通过经常相互冲突的规范，信仰和医学，营养和护理实践来看待，了解和照顾孕妇身体的方式积极塑造怀孕的经历。我们为数字健康技术开辟了新的机会空间，以增强全球南方妇女的身体体验和孕期护理基础设施。
Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women's control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women's embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.