Social Work Bulletin

Social Work

University of Kashmir

Online ISSN: 2582-7790

Social Work profession follows humanitarian philosophy but is often criticized for operating in a conformist framework that does not challenge gender injustice within the professional organizational set-up or family-based practice. Consequently, women suffer as service providers as well as service users. This paper attempts to describe classroom experiences with Social Work trainees where gender is sought to be integrated with Social work education. Formatted on inquiry-based learning and promoting self-directed learning, this work uses dialogical teaching to problematise gender. Deconstruction of gender using historical narratives and various feminist perspectives is used to sensitize trainees towards gender issues. The module involving quizzes, questionnaires, case studies and narratives followed by conversations is applied in integrating gender with Social Work in the classroom. The outcome of this approach is more sensitized and well-informed trainees who are expected to question gender inequality in their practice and challenge the hierarchies within their organizations.

This article draws the analysis between the first and second Corona waves in India and seeks to find the explanations for the surge of the second wave in India. The present study design is guided by Literature review and synthesis. Based on the secondary data, four important metrics were identified for present study which include; 1) Awareness, 2) Lockdown, 3) Health Infrastructure, and 4) Socio-religious, Political and Economic Institutions. The data was analysed to explicit the reasons for the surge of Covid-19 second wave in India. The analysis of the metrics suggests that there has been considerable knowledge about the awareness levels of the spread and contamination of Corona virus in the first wave of the Covid-19. The cases went down as a result of the lockdown policy. The unlock policy, on the other hand, culminated in the systemic cave in of social and political systems, resulting in the surge of the second Covid-19 wave in India. The second wave spread even more than the first wave as a result, prompt and immediate institutional action is needed to halt the pandemic's rapid spread.

The discussions on issues and experiences of children in armed conflicts and the diverse debates and perspectives on childhood in academia have been coincidental with the rising interest of researchers towards critically understanding the humanitarian aid system. The focus has been its underlying political, economic and cultural forces and factors that influence aid interventions and more specifically that how the ‘ingrained politics’, mainly Western, determines the international policy towards children in armed conflicts. The current article locates and analyses the international policy response concerning children in conflict situation in these debates. In this background, it briefly attempts to critically evaluate the role of humanitarian organizations and international chid-rights agencies in complex emergencies like that of an armed conflict.

Women in general, and marginalized women in particular, in developing countries, are generally less educated and less informed about reproductive health, including family planning and contraception usage. In this condition, women's poor contraceptive use, marginalization of women, and variables such as education, poverty, and resources that obstruct family planning uptake are relevant, and there needs to be more attention required. The goal of this study was to investigate the prevalence and marginalization of family planning methods among women in general and Muslim women in particular. This paper is based on secondary data, which includes Census 2011, and post-MDGs achievements and NFHS-3 (2005-06) & NFHS-4 (2015-16) & NFHS-5(2019-20) and various government reports. It was found that the prevalence of contraceptive use among Muslim women is low as compared to other religious groups. Contraceptive use among Muslim women is constrained by the lack of information, illiteracy, and accessibility, and as a result, women from specific sections have suffered greatly in terms of reproductive health.

Increasing life expectancy in Kashmir region has brought forth a change in the spread of chronic diseases in the population. However, the area has remained largely under-researched. The aim of this paper is to explore the prevalence of chronic diseases in the elderly population. The data was collected from the four districts of Kashmir i.e., Srinagar, Budgam, Anantnag and Bandipora with a sample size of 200 participants. From each district participants belonging to the age group of 60 and above were randomly selected for the interview. The data was collected using Interview Schedule. It emerged that the most common chronic disease set prevalent among the elderly was that of bone and joint issues which accounted for 54.8% of the total number of participants. It was followed by hypertension prevalent among 52.6%, cataract among 43.4% participants, diabetes among 19.8%, cardiovascular issues among 16.8%, hearing loss among 15.2%, COPD among 8.4%, immobility among 7.8%, renal issues among 6%, Asthma among 4.8% and UTI was prevalent among 4.2% of the participants.

Immunization has been one of the most effective interventions in lowering infant mortality rates around the world. Vaccinating children completely and on time protects and benefits them throughout their childhood. The government of India has in vogue the universal Immunization program. A slight disruption in this existing program owes multiple issues in child health care delivery system. The delay in schedules can result in vaccine-preventable illness and related mortality. Covid 19 pandemic has posed substantial challenges, affecting every sphere of life including the public health and routine universal immunization program. Due to disruptions in routine immunization programs in India and around the world a new stage for potentially serious outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases may occur. While data shows that immunization rates have since recovered, there is still a significant gap. A significant percentage of children received delayed vaccination during Covid 19 pandemic. The shortage of supplies of vaccines, disruption in schedules and fear psychosis has made it imperative to gauge the impact of Covid 19 outbreak on routine Universal Immunization.

Development is a positive affair and it is bound to happen in any progressing society, however the process of development can always be a point of debate. Development doesn’t happen in vacuum, it is always attached with the public sphere and as a result some sort of friction is bound to happen. Development induced displacement is one such phenomena where development-oriented practices result in displacement (most of the times forced displacement) of people, PAP’s – Project affected persons. The first segment of this research paper introduces us with the phenomena of Development Induced Displacement, followed by another segment where in the resettlement & rehabilitation activities are analysed in context of DID (Development Induced Displacement). This research paper highlights the pathways and hindrances in the resettlement & rehabilitation process viz-a-viz development induced displacement.

Pull and push factors are attracting people from India to Gulf countries. Male out-migration greatly increases women's work and burdens them, which compounds their difficulties of basic survival. So, the main objective of this paper is to examine how male gulf migration affects the lives of left-behind wives in Gopalganj district of Bihar. Primary data has been collected with an in-depth interview method. Books, journals, published documents, ILO, IOM (International organization of Migration), and Ministry of External Affairs has been used as secondary sources. The result of the study reveals that those women who are left behind after male migration face a lot of challenges and opportunities. Both Challenges and opportunities make them more capable and self-dependent but psycho-social aspects of left-behind women need to be addressed through various social work interventions. To reduce or minimize the psycho-social aspect of the problem intervention in terms of livelihood promotion, counseling as well community support activities required more attention.

In India, Health systems and polices have a critical role in determining the manner in which health services are delivered, utilized and affect health outcomes because of lack of capacity of public health systems to provide access to quality care resulted in a simultaneous evolution of the private health-care systems with a constant and gradual expansion of private health-care services. In order to eradicate this imperative social evil is raised in the public health sector which directly targets the poorest of the poor, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had already started the flagship project named as ‘Mohalla Clinic’ in July 2015 because Delhi needs robust and decentralized primary healthcare subcenters with cost-effective mechanism. The study was conducted in three different areas of Delhi (i.e. Sangam Vihar, Badarpur and Okhla) to know the level of satisfaction among the beneficiaries towards the Mohalla Clinic and its acceptability, affordability, availability and accountability of services for the beneficiaries through Descriptive Research Design with the help of qualitative method that involved theoretical frameworks and the subjective assessment of opinions and behaviour. This study concludes that it is undoubtedly true that migrants who lived in those areas where research is taken place are one of the most vulnerable groups among the unorganized sectors. They work in adverse situations that often put them in difficult situations. Most of these beneficiaries belong to poor families who are in need of care, protection and support for fulfillment of their basic rights to uplift their sustainable life. Also, this study highlighted the issues from Social Work perspective as social workers can play an active role in developing strength based model for such beneficiaries and facilitate adequate policy guidelines at local and national levels.

This study aims to gain a better understanding of impact of social security schemes in J&K. Using primary and secondary data, collected through random sampling techniques, we will analyse the impact of social security schemes on the lives of beneficiaries, considering in particular the impacts of centrally sponsored schemes like Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension scheme (IGNDPS) and National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS), State Sponsored Schemes like Integrated Social Security Schemes (ISSS) and its sub-components, and other schemes like Scholarship Schemes, Financial assistance to Gad hanjis (Fishermen), Grant of Prosthetic Aid for fitting-up/repairing of Artificial Limbs ,Grant in Aid to NGO’s , State Marriage Assistance Scheme, AASRA , HUNAR. This study aims to find out the changes experienced by beneficiaries in the study area as a result of the implementation of social security Schemes. Three blocks from Baramulla were selected as the sample space for the study. The interview schedule was used as a research tool. The findings of the study clearly reveal that schemes were sanctioned to the rural destitute, but all the objectives of the schemes were not fulfilled in the study area.

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