Degree Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2018
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Anthropology
Major
Anthropology
First Advisor
Nell Gabiam
Abstract
My research lead me to the Kedougou Region of southeastern Senegal, a rural area struggling for accessible healthcare. This paper explores how neoliberal health reforms have negatively affected access to quality health care in rural Senegal. I used ethnographic research methods, such as in person interviews and participant observation during my fieldwork in Senegal from May through August 2017. In analyzing my interview and observation data, I applied a localist, semi-structured approach and utilized a critical ethnographic perspective. Over 2-months worth of observations and 15 interviews yielded data that illustrates the lasting effects of neoliberal economic reforms from 30 years ago in Senegal. These enduring effects are seen in independent village dispensaries in how they are able to provide basic health services and how community members are able to access those services. This paper tells the story of community members and health workers in their struggle to receive and provide sustainable health care.
Copyright Owner
Samantha Salter
Copyright Date
2018-08
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
105 pages
Recommended Citation
Salter, Samantha, "Neoliberal effects as seen in village health dispensaries within the Kedougou Region of Southeast Senegal" (2018). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 16664.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16664
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