| Narratives of deprivation: Women's life stories around Maori sudden infant death syndrome. | |
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PMID: 20538396 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Maori babies in Aotearoa/New Zealand die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at over five times the rate of their non-Maori peers. Research and health promotion around modifiable risk factors has produced only a small improvement in this situation since the mid-1990s. This paper reports on life story interviews, conducted between 2002 and 2004, with nineteen mothers of Maori infants who have died of SIDS. Potential participants were identified and accessed with the support of the national Maori SIDS Prevention Programme care-workers, in both urban and rural locations throughout both main islands of New Zealand. The paper articulates, in a thematic fashion, the bereaved mothers' experiences of alienation, marginalisation and exclusion, as a testimony of lives lived under conditions of serious deprivation in an affluent society. Constructing these experiences as non-modifiable risk factors hinders the development of policy and health promotion interventions that could improve the conditions in which Maori mothers live and raise their babies. It is argued that new approaches that target those whose lives are described here and build on the WHO Social Determinants of Health framework are vital to the efforts of New Zealanders to attain health equity and stem the tide of devastating and preventable loss of Maori babies to SIDS. |
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Authors:
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Verne McManus; Sally Abel; Tim McCreanor; David Tipene-Leach |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-05-12 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Social science & medicine (1982) Volume: 71 ISSN: 1873-5347 ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-08 Completed Date: 2010-08-11 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303205 Medline TA: Soc Sci Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 643-9 Citation Subset: IM |
Copyright Information:
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Copyright 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
Affiliation:
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Whariki Research Group, Massey University, 90 Symonds St., Auckland, New Zealand. v.m.mcmanus@massey.ac.nz |
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Adult Bereavement Female Health Status Disparities Humans Infant Interviews as Topic Mothers / psychology* Narration New Zealand / epidemiology Oceanic Ancestry Group / psychology*, statistics & numerical data Qualitative Research Risk Factors Self Concept Social Alienation Socioeconomic Factors Sudden Infant Death / ethnology* Young Adult |
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