Department of Social Work and Social Policies, University of Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Jul 27;21(8):985. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21080985.
The scientific literature has evidenced the stereotypes that affect the Roma people, which are detrimental to their access to the health systems in various countries. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation has been aggravated by falsely blaming, on many occasions, the Roma people as spreaders of the virus for supposedly not complying with the norms established by the health authorities. However, it has not been explored in depth what actions have been carried out by the Roma people during the pandemic to cope with this aspect. The aim of this article is to learn about the leadership of Roma women in relation to maintaining the health of their community during the pandemic. The research has been conducted through focus groups and life stories with a total of 47 Roma women and 24 Roma men participants, as well as interviews with 40 professionals from education, social services, health services, and civic organizations. The results show how the reality of the studied contexts was different to those stereotypes, that the Roma women in the contexts studied have led actions that preserved the health of their communities, that the established measures were strictly followed, breaking with the extended stereotype about the Roma people.
科学文献证明了影响罗姆人的刻板印象，这些刻板印象不利于他们在不同国家获得卫生系统的服务。随着 COVID-19 大流行，这种情况因多次错误地指责罗姆人是病毒的传播者而加剧，据称他们不遵守卫生当局制定的规范。然而，人们并没有深入探讨罗姆人在大流行期间为应对这一方面采取了哪些行动。本文旨在了解罗姆妇女在大流行期间领导维护社区健康方面的作用。这项研究是通过焦点小组和生活故事进行的，共有 47 名罗姆妇女和 24 名罗姆男子参与者，以及对 40 名来自教育、社会服务、卫生服务和公民组织的专业人员进行的访谈。研究结果表明，研究背景中的现实情况与这些刻板印象不同，研究背景中的罗姆妇女领导了保护其社区健康的行动，严格遵守既定措施，打破了关于罗姆人的长期刻板印象。
