Khadka, S., Koirala, B., Baidya, M. et al. (5 more authors) (2023) The health consequences of urbanization in Nepal: perspectives from a participatory photo project with recent rural-urban migrants. The Highlander, 3 (1). ISSN 2632-0541
Abstract
What new challenges to health do recent rural-to-urban migrants in Nepal face? How do newly urbanized individuals navigate and seek healthcare in the city? This photo essay offers a glimpse of the answers to these questions from the perspective of newly urbanized people living in Kirtipur and Pokhara, two rapidly growing urban areas in Nepal. It draws on a nine-month participatory study which used participatory photography, amongst other methods, to better understand the health opportunities and risks faced by new rural-urban migrants. All photographs presented in this essay were taken and selected by research participants and are accompanied by their narrations of what these images represent to them. Consequently, this essay provides insights into how the newly urbanized themselves understand threats to their health, and how they understand the urban health system they are confronted with as service users.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Rural-urban migration; health seeking behaviour; health services; participatory photography; Nepal |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 130103 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2023 12:27 |
Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2023 14:34 |
Published Version: | https://journals.highlandinstitute.org/thehighland... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Edinburgh |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202047 |