Subjective common health complaints, sufferings and help seeking behaviours among Myanmar female migrant workers in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Issued Date
2014
Copyright Date
2014
Resource Type
Language
eng
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
xii, 151 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, 2014
Suggested Citation
Myo, Akari Subjective common health complaints, sufferings and help seeking behaviours among Myanmar female migrant workers in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2014. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/108434
Title
Subjective common health complaints, sufferings and help seeking behaviours among Myanmar female migrant workers in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Author(s)
Abstract
As the migration process is one of the most prominent evolutions in globalization and it offers women new opportunities to improvetheir status within their home and communities, it create a new challenges for the destination countries' health systems and adapt to remain responsive to the diverse needs and social cultural contexts, particularly women health concerns. This study aimed to explore subjective common health complaints and sufferings of Myanmar female migrant workers and to investigate health seeking behaviors and their barriers in seeking health care. Interpretive medical anthropology was used to understand the subjective health complaints in their daily lives, including their health seeking experiences. Ethnographic research design was employed for 4 months in field work in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Twelve Myanmar women migrants working in palm oil and rubber oil farms and 6 key-informants had in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The findings showed that Myanmar female migrant workers experienced a multiple of health complaints and sufferings due to their vulnerable social and cultural contexts that included (1) their hard, dangerous and dirty works, (2) their local beliefs about illnesses, (3) women's role in the family and abuse,(4) inaccessibility to health care services and systems. Despites facing such health problems, they tended to keep quiet due to their lack of knowledge of their rights, fear of authority and they solved problems by (i) self-medication with readymade combined drug packages or herbs and traditional medicines, (ii) spiritual and folk healers, fortune tellers and astrologers, (iii) attending private clinics or larger provincial hospitalsincur debts and unbearable conditions, and (iv) occasionally going back to their home country to find solutions. Given the health complaints and suffering among Myanmar women migrant workers, comprehensive social and health systems protection intervention are needed concerning their subjective complaints and sufferings under their vuln
Description
Health Social Science (Mahidol University 2014)
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