Provider stereotypes about Muslim women cause them to delay health care.

Evidence

For example, in a qualitative study of Iraqi refugees, participants described health care providers as unhelpful, patronizing, and having stereotypical attitudes toward Muslim women—believing they are excessively pious, have too many children, and are oppressed by their husbands. Religious discrimination is hypothesized to lead to stress, social isolation, reductions in healthpromoting behaviors, discounting of health care providers’ information, and delays in seeking medical care. — Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in the…, 43

Categorization

• QUESTION: The study of Iraqi refugees is described anecdotally without citation details here — worth chasing the original qualitative study for sample size and specifics.
• XREF: Parallels the reader’s earlier coverage of moral panics about ‘immodesty’ — stereotypes about Muslim women (‘oppressed’, ‘excessively pious’) are another instance of outsider judgments shaping policy toward a group.

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