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La littérature scientifique a exploré de nombreux aspects relatifs à la notion de « violence », mais elle n’a jamais cherché à l’appréhender, à notre connaissance, en termes de généalogie vis-à-vis des mouvements féministes. Il s’avère par ailleurs que la formulation du concept de « violence obstétricale » est récente alors que l’expérience est ancienne. C’est ce paradoxe que cet article interroge. Plus précisément, cette contribution vise à élucider comment les mouvements féministes ont pu jouer un rôle facilitateur dans l’émergence de ce concept dont la généalogie s’ancre dans la réflexivité hospitalière et les mouvements féministes. En se saisissant de l’observation d’une association féministe engagée dans la pratique des accouchements alternatifs, cette étude vise à appréhender comment les dynamiques militantes ont ouvert la voie à ce nouveau concept. La recherche de terrain a permis d’identifier deux postures à partir d’entretiens mené auprès des usagères du système hospitalier. L’analyse de l’histoire de cette association montre que c’est un compromis interne à la rencontre entre ces deux postures qui a favorisé un espace de parole pour les parturientes et des négociations avec l’hôpital local pour des réalisations concrètes. La discussion analyse ces deux postures au prisme des points de vue féministes universaliste et différencialiste, ainsi que de la sociologie du corps. La conclusion interroge cette dynamique des mouvements sociaux, se demandant si on peut y observer un processus analogue.

In light of global environmental crises and the need for sustainable development, the fields of public health and environmental sciences have become increasingly interrelated. Both fields require interdisciplinary thinking and global solutions, which is largely directed by scientific progress documented in peer-reviewed journals. Journal editors play a critical role in coordinating and shaping what is accepted as scientific knowledge. Previous research has demonstrated a lack of diversity in the gender and geographic representation of editors across scientific disciplines. This study aimed to explore the diversity of journal editorial boards publishing in environmental science and public health. The Clarivate Journal Citation Reports database was used to identify journals classified as Public, Environmental, and Occupational (PEO) Health, Environmental Studies, or Environmental Sciences. Current EB members were identified from each journal’s publicly available website between 1 March and 31 May 2021. Individuals’ names, editorial board roles, institutional affiliations, geographic locations (city, country), and inferred gender were collected. Binomial 95% confidence intervals were calculated for the proportions of interest. Pearson correlations with false discovery rate adjustment were used to assess the correlation between journal-based indicators and editorial board characteristics. Linear regression and logistic regression models were fitted to further assess the relationship between gender presence, low- and middle-income country (LMIC) presence and several journal and editor-based indicators. After identifying 628 unique journals and excluding discontinued or unavailable journals, 615 journal editorial boards were included. In-depth analysis was conducted on 591 journals with complete gender and geographic data for their 27,772 editors. Overall, the majority of editors were men (65.9%), followed by women (32.9%) and non-binary/other gender minorities (0.05%). 75.5% journal editorial boards (n = 446) were composed of a majority of men (>55% men), whilst only 13.2% (n = 78) demonstrated gender parity (between 45–55% women/gender minorities). Journals categorized as PEO Health had the most gender diversity. Furthermore, 84% of editors (n = 23,280) were based in high-income countries and only 2.5% of journals (n = 15) demonstrated economic parity in their editorial boards (between 45–55% editors from LMICs). Geographically, the majority of editors’ institutions were based in the United Nations (UN) Western Europe and Other region (76.9%), with 35.2% of editors (n = 9,761) coming solely from the United States and 8.6% (n = 2,373) solely from the United Kingdom. None of the editors-in-chief and only 27 editors in total were women based in low-income countries. Through the examination of journal editorial boards, this study exposes the glaring lack of diversity in editorial boards in environmental science and public health, explores the power dynamics affecting the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and proposes concrete actions to remedy these structural inequities in order to inform more equitable, just and impactful knowledge creation.

Everyone, not just marginalized groups, must fight racism and oppression. Members of privileged groups must learn to be allies. Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children developed a series of workshops to teach them how.Summary Oppression and racism are pervasive in the health care environment and directly impact patients, physicians, and other health care practitioners. Fostering and promoting allyship skills can increase inclusion in health care and advance systemic change. The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto developed a foundational allyship workshop to increase awareness and understanding of interpersonal, systemic, and institutional oppression and discrimination in the large pediatric academic center. The workshop emphasizes individual accountability and how to speak up and act against oppression through critical allyship. The authors report promising results around the engagement and desire to practice allyship amongst health care providers.

Discrimination has historically contributed to coercive contraceptive in the United States. We investigated associations between perceived discrimination, or the perception of unequal treatment in everyday life, and contraceptive method use among U.S. women. We analyzed population-based data from a 2013 study of U.S. women who were premenopausal, age 18–50, sexually active with a male partner in the last year and were not attempting pregnancy. Perceived discrimination was measured using the Everyday Discrimination Scale. Contraceptive method use was categorized into five method categories: permanent, highly effective reversible, moderately effective, barrier and no method. We analyzed relationships between perceived discrimination and contraceptive method use with several regression models, controlling for covariates. Among 539 women in our analytic sample, those with high perceived discrimination had lower incomes, less educational attainment and were less likely to be insured. Perceived discrimination was associated with a reduced odds of using any contraceptive method (aOR 0.43, CI 0.21–0.87, p < .001). Contraceptive method users with high perceived discrimination had an increased odds of using highly effective reversible methods versus moderately effective methods (aOR 5.28, CI 1.63–17.07 p = < .001). Women who perceived discrimination were at risk for contraceptive nonuse; however, among contraceptive users, perceived discrimination was associated with the use of more effective reversible methods.

Arrière-plan Le sujet de la santé sexuelle des gays et des lesbiennes semble être très peu étudié, au moins en partie en raison des limites générales inhérentes aux études sur la sexualité ainsi que des préjugés hétéronormatifs et des difficultés à atteindre ces populations. But Examiner de manière critique les études sur la santé sexuelle des gais et des lesbiennes afin d'identifier les lacunes et les préjugés existants dans la portée et la construction générale des recherches publiées. Méthodes L'ensemble de données comprenait 556 articles évalués par des pairs et identifiés grâce à la recherche Medline. Les caractéristiques clés des études ont été extraites selon le livre de codes développé pour cette étude et analysées de manière descriptive. Résultats Les résultats comprenaient : la méthodologie de recherche, la conception de l’étude, l’échantillonnage, le sujet de recherche et l’inclusion de la diversité dans les populations étudiées. Résultats La majorité des études étaient quantitatives (70,5 %), transversales (83,6 %) et utilisaient un échantillonnage de commodité (83,2 %). La plupart des articles portaient sur les comportements à risque en matière de VIH/IST, les vulnérabilités et la gestion des risques (26,3 %). Le sujet le moins souvent abordé concernait la fonction sexuelle des participants gais et lesbiennes plus âgés (0,5 %). Plus de 68 % des articles s'appuyaient sur des échantillons masculins et les études portant sur des échantillons exclusivement féminins en représentaient moins de 13 %. La plupart des études n'ont pas recruté de groupe d'âge spécifique (77,7 %) et incluaient des informations sur l'origine ethnique des participants à l'étude (62 %). Les informations sur l'éducation (58,7 %) ou d'autres indicateurs du statut socio-économique (52,8 %) étaient moins souvent déclarées. Traduction clinique Les limites méthodologiques des conceptions d'étude actuelles, des procédures d'échantillonnage et de la composition des échantillons, ainsi que de nombreuses zones d'omission limitent l'utilité clinique des recherches existantes. Points forts et Limites Cette étude offre un aperçu critique des défis les plus importants associés aux études sur la santé sexuelle des gais et des lesbiennes. La recherche dans la base de données Medline uniquement, l'inclusion exclusive d'articles rédigés en anglais et la portée limitée (sexualité gay et lesbienne uniquement) de la revue constituent les limites les plus importantes. Conclusions La santé sexuelle des gays et des lesbiennes est un domaine peu étudié, caractérisé par une concentration principale sur le VIH/IST et un manque de recherche de meilleure qualité incluant diverses sous-populations.

La Classification internationale : Modèle de Développement humain – Processus de production du handicap (2018) comprend le schéma conceptuel du MDH-PPH, les définitions des domaines conceptuels « habitudes de vie », « facteurs environnementaux » et « facteurs personnels » et leurs différentes nomenclatures. Ce document de référence se révèle utile pour classer l’information disponible de manière cohérente en respectant le principe d’exclusion mutuelle des concepts, central à l’approche du MDH-PPH.

This article provides an overview on reproductive and sexual health of people with physical disabilities in developed and underdeveloped countries from 1995 to 2011. Based on the metasynthesis approach, the authors reviewed 15 qualitative studies. These studies were searched using Medline, CINAHL, CINAHL (health), ProQuest Central, Google Scholar, Cochrane, Embase, Informit Health, Sciences Direct, Pubmed, Pubmed Health, AAHD (abstracts), ProQuest Journal (sexuality and disability) and were also manually searched. All studies were judged on their qualities using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. Reproductive health, sexual attractiveness and experiences, reproductive and sexual health knowledge, and dealing with reproductive and sexual health issues were four main themes that emerged from these studies. This paper proposes a new model to explain the factors that impacted the reproductive and sexual life of people with physical disabilities: internal and external factors. Implications for health and social care are discussed in light of the findings.

The research reported in this article sought to shed light on the North, Central and South American indigenous moon time teachings related to the menstrual cycle of women. The historical institutionalization, medicalization and colonization of indigenous women's practices have devalued and almost destroyed this knowledge. This study explored the question of whether or not lost indigenous knowledge of women's power can be reclaimed for women's health and well-being. A qualitative participatory research methodology was adopted, based on an indigenous paradigm and scholarly rigour and including protocols acceptable to an Ojibwe grandmother, Isabelle Meawasige, who shared her knowledge and experience. The experiential knowledge gained and the meanings expressed by female participants in a circle sharing facilitated by the principal author are presented and discussed. The results of this research reveal optimistic possibilities to co-create health and well-being for the participants, grounded in what is both visible and invisible within indigenous women's culture.

Informed by intersectionality theory, a tradition that theorizes intersecting power relations of racism, patriarchy, classism and heterosexism, this paper investigates the degree to which race, gender, class and sexuality manifest distinct and interconnected associations with self-reported hypertension in nationally-representative survey data from Canada. Binary logistic regression is used to model the main effects of, and interactions between, race, gender, education, household income and sexual orientation on hypertension, controlling for age, using data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey (n = 90,310). From a main effects (‘additive’) perspective, Black respondents, respondents with less than high school and poorer respondents were significantly more likely than White respondents, university-educated Canadians and wealthier Canadians, respectively, to report hypertension. However, the interactive models indicate that the additive models were poor predictors of hypertension for wealthy Black men, wealthy South Asian women, women with less than a high school diploma and wealthy bisexual respondents, who were more likely than expected to report hypertension, and for poor Black men, poor South Asian women, poor South Asian men and women with a university degree, who were less likely than expected to report hypertension. It appears that, with regard to blood pressure at least, Canadians experience the health effects of education differently by their genders and the health effects of income differently by their identities defined at the intersection of race and gender. This study provides empirical support for the intersectional approach to cardiovascular health inequalities by demonstrating that race, gender, class and sexuality cannot be disentangled from one another as predictors of hypertension.

Les nouvelles technologies de communication, et notamment Internet, ont transformé à la fois les stratégies relationnelles et la transmission et le partage des informations dans toutes les sphères de la vie, incluant le domaine de la santé. Pour les minorités sexuelles qui sont confrontées à de multiples formes de discrimination et de marginalisation, Internet est devenu un puissant moyen de s’organiser, d’informer et d’intervenir dans le champ de la santé. Les associations et organismes communautaires ciblant ces populations proposent aujourd’hui un ensemble de sites et de stratégies de soutien et d’intervention. Ces outils synchrones et asynchrones disponibles en ligne visent l’amélioration de la santé mentale et physique, des relations interpersonnelles et la prévention des ITSS et du VIH/sida. Par contre, les usages qui varient en fonction des populations LGBT peuvent aussi concourir à la prise de risques et à des formes de dépendance. Afin de mieux comprendre les enjeux entourant les usages d’Internet et la santé, cet ouvrage, réalisé grâce à l’appui de l’équipe pancanadienne Sexualités et genres ;: vulnérabilité et résilience (SVR), regroupe les contributions de chercheurs de l’équipe qui ont effectué des travaux sur Internet et la santé ainsi que d’intervenants impliqués dans des organismes communautaires, qui utilisent des sites Internet à des fins de réseautage, de transfert d’informations et d’interventions en ligne dans les contextes québécois et canadien.

Gender is an essential determinant of health and illness. Gender awareness in doctors contributes to equity and equality in health and aims towards better health for men and women. Nevertheless, gender has largely been ignored in medicine. First, it is stated that medicine was ‘gender blind’ by not considering gender whenever relevant. Secondly, medicine is said to be ‘male biased’ because the largest body of knowledge on health and illness is about men and their health. Thirdly, gender role ideology negatively influences treatment and health outcomes. Finally, gender inequality has been overlooked as a determinant of health and illness. The uptake of gender issues in medical education brings about specific challenges for several reasons. For instance, the political-ideological connotations of gender issues create resistance especially in traditionalists in medical schools. Secondly, it is necessary to clarify which gender issues must be integrated in which domains. Also, some are interdisciplinary issues and as such more difficult to integrate. Finally, schools need assistance with implementation. The integration of psychosocial issues along with biomedical ones in clinical cases, the dissemination of literature and education material, staff education, and efforts towards structural embedding of gender in curricula are determining factors for successful implementation. Gender equity is not a spontaneous process. Medical education provides specific opportunities that may contribute to transformation for medical schools educate future doctors for future patients in future settings. Consequently, future benefits legitimize the integration of gender as a qualitative investment in medical education.

Résumé Le Canada et le Québec, sociétés pluriethniques, possèdent des politiques et des programmes de promotion et de prévention pour contrer les violences faites aux femmes, mais reconnaissent que le défi est de taille dans le contexte migratoire. Les immigrantes, confrontées à la violence conjugale, ne disposent souvent pas d’accessibilité culturelle aux services sociaux et de santé ou n’obtiennent pas de réponse adéquate à leurs besoins. Toutefois, certains organismes ont des projets pour leur venir en aide mais ils ne sont pas systématiques. L’article présente les résultats d’une recherche exploratoire, avec approche ethnologique, qui documente la perception de 10 intervenants d’organismes communautaires et institutionnels concernant leurs activités dans le domaine et leur préoccupation pour la promotion et la prévention primaire, même si leurs pratiques concrètes sont surtout centrées sur la prévention secondaire. Maints empêchements les limitent, mais leurs perceptions des réponses promotionnelles et préventives mettent en lumière l’impact de la violence structurelle et de la violence conjugale et orientent les perspectives de renouvellement des pratiques d’intervention sociosanitaire en matière de violence conjugale.

Dans le cabinet de la psychiatre Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve, les patient.e.s se confient et notamment sur les discriminations auxquelles ils doivent faire face. Un miroir nous est tendu, s'y dessine notre société. Stéphane Mercurio nous restitue ces confidences et cet écho du monde.