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- Title
Health(care) matters: where do the transgender individuals of Kashmir situate themselves?
- Authors
Jahangir, Mohmad Saleem; Gadda, Zakir Hussain; Ganayee, Shameem Ahamad; Kumar, Hilal Ahmad; Ahmad, Mansoor; Shafi, Aneesa
- Abstract
While employing a phenomenological perspective, the present study aimed to explore the varied experiences of transgender individuals in Kashmir, concerning their health-seeking behavior, and the constraints they face while accessing healthcare resources on a day-to-day basis in their life world. Participants were recruited through the purposive and snowball sampling strategies and the sufficiency of sample size was determined by data saturation. Data were collected using face-to-face in-depth interviews and analyzed through Colaizzi's procedure of extracting recurrent themes and their interwoven relationships in qualitative research. Three main themes of awareness and the preferences for healthcare, gender identity and persistent stigmatization in care settings, and intra-community support and the resultant caregiving were prominent. Results of the study revealed that the transgender individuals in Kashmir experience inappropriate health-seeking behaviour primarily due to their unawareness regarding health, diseases and public healthcare programs/schemes, financial constraints, social exclusion, improper support and social stigma. They often prefer treating their health issues, mostly through local pharmacies or patent medicine vendors (PMVs), instead of visiting the medical professionals in the organized sector. Moreover, in many instances, they were also found to delay their decisions to seek care or simply decided to remain far from any medical intervention. As a result, the transgender individuals in Kashmir usually experience underutilization of formal healthcare services, which undermines their right to proper health and well-being.
- Subjects
INDIA; WELL-being; SOCIAL support; HEALTH services accessibility; INTERVIEWING; SOCIAL stigma; HEALTH status indicators; COMMUNITY support; MEDICAL care use; QUALITATIVE research; GENDER identity; HOSPITAL pharmacies; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; HEALTH behavior; HEALTH equity; JUDGMENT sampling; STATISTICAL sampling; THEMATIC analysis; TRANSGENDER people
- Publication
Health Promotion International, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0957-4824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/heapro/daac186