{"id":38388,"date":"2016-09-27T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=38388"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:29:58","slug":"examining-catalan-health-policy-new-book-by-bayla-ostrach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/09\/27\/examining-catalan-health-policy-new-book-by-bayla-ostrach\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining Catalan Health  Policy, New Book by Bayla Ostrach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/09\/COM-book-cover-e1474659161705.jpg\" alt=\"COM book cover\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38390\" height=\"348\" width=\"230\" \/>Scholars and students in the field of public health, gender studies, and anthropology, or the general reader interested in the politics of abortion and public health, may be interested in <em>Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access.<\/em> This ethnographic account, forthcoming from Routledge Press in January, captures women and providers\u2019 experiences as they navigated the Catalan health care system to access and provide publicly funded abortion care in the context of the recent global economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The book is authored by Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Medical Anthropology faculty member Bayla Ostrach, PhD, who is also a Fellow of the Society of Family Planning, and \u00a0an applied medical anthropologist by training. Her interest in women\u2019s health and public health brought her to Barcelona, where she pursued international field work revolving around access to safe abortion. During her time abroad, she collected quantitative surveys and conducted qualitative interviews and intensive participant-observation to explore women\u2019s, providers\u2019, and advocates\u2019 perceptions of women\u2019s experiences with the process of navigating the public health system to obtain legal, publicly funded abortion in Catalunya, in the wake of policy changes enacted between 2010 and the first \u00a0half of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Ostrach examines the myriad of logistical, social, and economic obstacles \u00a0women in Catalunya had to overcome to receive care. A closer analysis reveals that inequalities affect poor and marginalized immigrant women disproportionately. However, the women adopted diverse approaches and mobilized social support to overcome obstacles to abortion care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords cannot adequately express my appreciation, empathy, and admiration for the women of Catalunya who did whatever they had to do in order to obtain publicly funded abortion care in the context of economic crisis and policy changes,\u201d Ostrach writes. She stresses that the accounts of the women and \u201chow they overcame obstacles are a constant reminder of why research is not enough \u2013 the findings must be used to improve access, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Sherry Yan, MD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ethnographic account captures women and providers as they navigate the Catalan health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38391,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38388\/revisions\/38391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}