Struggle, bearing, or consensus : experience of passive smoking among women in urban China
Issued Date
2007
Copyright Date
2007
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Language
eng
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
vi, 107 leaves : ill.
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open access
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2007
Suggested Citation
Zhang, Yulin Struggle, bearing, or consensus : experience of passive smoking among women in urban China. Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2007. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/108030
Title
Struggle, bearing, or consensus : experience of passive smoking among women in urban China
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Abstract
Women's passive smoking is a significant public health issue in China. To explore the experience of their husbands' secondhand smoking among urban women, a qualitative study was done in central China. The meanings and the interpretations given by women to husbands smoking were that was an addiction, an uncontrollable bad habit, due to a lack of responsibilities to family, a way of overcoming stress, a male way of combining business and recreation, a small matter, and part of being a man. The form of women's reactions to their husbands' smoking at home and husbands' responses to the reaction are individually and contextually dynamic. They include: movement from a wife's long time struggle to long time bearing, wife's struggle and success, embodied consensus, and consensus with occasional persuasion. Medical knowledge and traditional stereotypes related to couple's gender power relation are considered as two common social and cultural factors influencing women's experience. These two factors exercise their power competitively and dynamically in the individual body. There are also some individual factors which are highly related to the exercise of the two common factors, such as the child's worsening health condition, the traditional stereotype of the elder who is tolerant of the younger partner in the couple, negotiation skills, and IEC materials. Thus, empowerment of women, advocacy of smoke-free rights of female non-smokers, strengthening women's comprehensive understanding of medical knowledge, and providing health consultation to female passive smokers are recommended to guide health promotion practices.
Description
Health Social Science (Mahidol University 2007)
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Degree Discipline
Health Social Science
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University