Underground COVID-19 Home Hospitals for Haredim: Non-Compliance or a Culturally Adapted Alternative to Public Hospitalization?
This thematic study analyzed the experiences of Jewish Haredi (Lithuanian) patients in underground home hospitals during the second wave of COVID-19 in Israel. This minority comprises 12.6% of the Israeli population. Participants were 30 members of this hidden population, ages 59-78. Haredi complied...
Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of religion and health |
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
2021
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Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 2021, Band: 60, Heft: 5, Seiten: 3434-3453 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Non-compliance
B Covid-19 B Health-policy B Religious Minority B Government health policy B religious polarization B Trust |
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Zusammenfassung: | This thematic study analyzed the experiences of Jewish Haredi (Lithuanian) patients in underground home hospitals during the second wave of COVID-19 in Israel. This minority comprises 12.6% of the Israeli population. Participants were 30 members of this hidden population, ages 59-78. Haredi complied with community directives rather than with the national directive of hospitalizing COVID-19 patient only at public hospitals. Compliance with community directives was driven by a distrust in health authorities and clinicians at public hospitals; by the preference of patient-centered care, a desired approach of care that public hospitals fail to implement; by the need to sustain beliefs, values, and traditions; by community leadership; and by the need to conserve political power. While health authorities view underground home hospitals as demonstrating non-compliance with the national directive, Haredi leaders view underground home hospitals as demonstrating a self-sufficient, patient-centered care alternative to public hospitalizations. Considering the benefits of patient-centered care and the growth of the multi-cultural global landscape, we call upon health authorities to explore the accommodation of patient-centered care for COVID-19 patients and the designing of an adaptive multi-cultural policy that address multi-cultural aspects of religious minorities as key to health promotion. We propose ways to implement multi-cultural policies. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01407-2 |