Broken Heart Stories
Many Aboriginal communities call heart problems, and in particular cardiovascular disease, “White man’s sickness.” At the same time, Aboriginal women present with some of the highest rates of this disease. Against this backdrop, we explored how women with cardiac problems understand their heart heal...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1049732313509407 2023-05-15T16:16:19+02:00 Broken Heart Stories Understanding Aboriginal Women’s Cardiac Problems Medved, Maria I. Brockmeier, Jens Morach, Judy Chartier-Courchene, Lori 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732313509407 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1049732313509407 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1049732313509407 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Qualitative Health Research volume 23, issue 12, page 1613-1625 ISSN 1049-7323 1552-7557 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 2013 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732313509407 2022-07-03T16:07:13Z Many Aboriginal communities call heart problems, and in particular cardiovascular disease, “White man’s sickness.” At the same time, Aboriginal women present with some of the highest rates of this disease. Against this backdrop, we explored how women with cardiac problems understand their heart health and used narrative-discursive methods to analyze interviews conducted with women from two First Nations in North America. The women told stories that were riddled with contradictions, unfolding a complicated personal and cultural reality of living with cardiovascular disease. In many stories, heart disease was described as resulting from a “community imbalance” in the wake of colonialism whereby the women had to take over the traditional roles of men. Their ideas of heart disease risk and healing flowed from this understanding. They derived a sense of strength, however, from their ability to undertake both gender roles. Based on our findings, we provide some recommendations for cardiac care. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Qualitative Health Research 23 12 1613 1625 |
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Many Aboriginal communities call heart problems, and in particular cardiovascular disease, “White man’s sickness.” At the same time, Aboriginal women present with some of the highest rates of this disease. Against this backdrop, we explored how women with cardiac problems understand their heart health and used narrative-discursive methods to analyze interviews conducted with women from two First Nations in North America. The women told stories that were riddled with contradictions, unfolding a complicated personal and cultural reality of living with cardiovascular disease. In many stories, heart disease was described as resulting from a “community imbalance” in the wake of colonialism whereby the women had to take over the traditional roles of men. Their ideas of heart disease risk and healing flowed from this understanding. They derived a sense of strength, however, from their ability to undertake both gender roles. Based on our findings, we provide some recommendations for cardiac care. |
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