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Marcela González-Agüero

PhD candidate - Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Australia

01.07.2016-29.07.2016

Becoming a patient: The social implications of the transition to adult care for young Chileans living with diabetes.
Marcela completed her MPH in 2011 at the University of Melbourne and she is currently undertaking the final year of her PhD in Medical Anthropology at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She has a background in nursing, and currently holds a position as associate instructor at the School of Nursing at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Marcela’s PhD thesis aims to improve the understanding of young people’s experiences when living with type 1 diabetes in neoliberal Chile. In 2014, she conducted 12 months of fieldwork in Santiago to explore young people’s everyday life and their engagement – or the lack thereof – with the health care system after the Chilean Health Reform of 2005. Marcela is interested in understanding the impact of such reform in reducing health inequalities and in constructing a new type of citizenship based on the idea that everyone has the right to health. In doing so, she connects the role of the State, the young body, illness, identity and social class.

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