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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809702203321

Autore

Zelnick Jennifer R.

Titolo

Who is Nursing Them? It is Us : Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses / / Jennifer R. Zelnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-84070-3

1-351-84069-X

1-315-22337-6

0-89503-406-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Work, Health and Environment Series

Disciplina

362.196/979200968

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Nursing - South Africa

AIDS (Disease) - South Africa

Post-apartheid era

Neoliberalism

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Baywood Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover --  Title Page --  Copyright Page --  Table of Contents --  Preface --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction: Understanding a Public Health Crisis from a Work Environment Perspective --  Chapter 1. Globalization and Health in sub-Saharan Africa --  Chapter 2. Neoliberalism in Postapartheid South Africa and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic --  Chapter 3. The Work Environment of Nurses --   Chapter 4. Case Study Setting: Three Public Hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa --  Chapter 5. Staffing, Occupational Health, and HIV/AIDS --  Chapter 6. Nurses Speak --  Chapter 7. Discussion: Breathing Life into Policy: Toward a Labor/Work Environment Perspective on a Global Public Health Crisis --  Appendix: Group Interview Results Summary --  References --  Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African



public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, set against a historical backdrop, this book tells the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period."--