Department of Geography, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Health Place. 2011 Jan;17(1):33-41. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.09.002. Epub 2010 Sep 25.
This paper examines the potential for prevailing Anglo-American perspectives on voluntarism to inform understanding of health and social care internationally. Focusing on the économie sociale et solidaire and its involvement in the secteur médico-social in France, it evaluates the transferability of a theorization about the evolving role of voluntary organizations and volunteers for the purpose of interpreting research on service provision in ageing communities. A case study of local associations is analyzed to uncover their emergence within evolving spaces of care, how they facilitate adjustment and create opportunities for resistance to the dual challenges of ageing and restructuring as well as the complexity underlying their multifaceted responses. The findings contribute to understanding the link between voluntarism, health and place, and address calls to expand the international scope of health geography within the 'voluntary turn' in health policy and research.
本文探讨了流行的英美志愿主义观点对国际健康和社会关怀的理解的启示。本文聚焦于社会经济及其在法国医疗社会部门的参与，评估了一种关于志愿组织和志愿者角色不断变化的理论在解释老龄化社区服务提供研究方面的可转移性。对地方协会的案例研究进行了分析，以揭示它们在不断发展的关怀空间中的出现方式，以及它们如何促进调整并为应对老龄化和重组的双重挑战创造机会，以及它们多方面反应背后的复杂性。研究结果有助于理解志愿主义、健康和地点之间的联系，并回应了在健康政策和研究中的“志愿转向”中扩大健康地理学国际范围的呼吁。
