BACKGROUND In this article we describe a phenomenological lifeworld study based on the theory of communicative action of 13 women with noncommunicable disease (NCDs) in a rural area in South Africa. The purpose of the study was to generate key concepts of health care access and the management of NCDs in a rural South African context. METHODS The study employed a qualitative methodology with s...

This qualitative study presents an analysis of the experiences a teacher who had recently left working in England state funded primary school. Using reflective lifeworld methodology, this explored teacher’s struggle to be authentic context education. Three prominent themes were identified as: 1) enhancement every learner; 2) systemic oppression; and 3) tensions being teacher. The concludes that...

BACKGROUND Growing old involves many changes in life and implies an increased risks of illness and different forms of disabilities. Life may change in a radical way when a person gets a disease like dementia or moves to a nursing home due to disabilities or needs. In both cases, it often leads to an increased dependency on care where the patient becomes exposed and vulnerable and thereby at a h...

This commentary reflects on the shifts in my personal and political lifeworld across time space by sharing a story of changing awareness about ‘life-in-common’ Australian landscape; landscape that is marked historical, ecological resource struggle injustice. My takes up rethinking differential belonging as part search for alternatives to capitalism way overcome socioecological crises which pays...

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are still working through health systems worldwide, and further reflections about nature disease, how to design implement effective public interventions much needed. For numerous diseases conditions, as well for COVID-19, our knowledge base is rich. We know a lot biology we have plenty statistics that relate socio-economic factors. In this paper, argue ...

Every year, around two thousand Huichol families migrate from their homelands in the highlands of northwestern Mexico to the coastal region of Nayarit State, where they are employed on small plantations to pick and thread tobacco leaves. During their four-month stay, they live, work, eat, and sleep in the open air next to the tobacco fields, exposing themselves to an unknown cocktail of pestici...