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Rebel health services in Nepal
No full textThe Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist established its own health services within its bastion areas during the decade long (1996-2006) conflict. This study captured a fresh opportunity to examine the Maoist health workers and their services, to explore their numbers, motives and trajectories, and to assess perspectives and responses of the key actors for their assessment, rehabilitation and integration within the primary health system. The study used a mixed methods approach. Data were obtained by using self-administered questionnaires (n=197), semi-structured interviews (n=32) and key informant interviews (n=20). The Maoist health workers regard themselves as capable of delivering health services in rural communities. They claim that their movement was decisive in overthrowing the previous repressive regime and in establishing a republic opening up avenues for people’s democracy, state restructuring and progressive health reforms in the country. The government of Nepal however lacks information on their number, qualities career motivation and integration incentives. Their limited skills and partisan interests could be an obstacle for their recognition and absorption. The military and political agenda has prevailed over the issue of optimal absorption of the Maoist health workers and health services redevelopment. Despite having some institutional provisions for health worker assessment and accreditation and capacity for absorption, there has been no national discussion of what kind of rehabilitation and integration model is appropriate for them. This study suggests that the post-conflict settlement of the Maoist health services provides an opportunity to reorient Nepal’s health services and to recognise the role of the health sector as a bridge for peace.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
¿Por qué se sumaron? Exploración de las motivaciones de los trabajadores sanitarios rebeldes de Nepal
No full textS'han fet molt pocs estudis sistemàtics sobre els factors que motiven les persones a convertir-se en treballadors sanitaris rebels. Aquest estudi explora els factors de motivació dels individus que es van unir als maoistes com a treballadors sanitaris al Nepal. Aquest treball presenta les troballes basades en entrevistes semiestructurades fetes als treballadors sanitaris maoistes formats i mobilitzats pel Partit Comunista Unificat del Nepal (maoista) durant la lluita armada amb el Govern (1996-2006). Els motius per a unir-se als serveis sanitaris rebels van ser la ideologia maoista, l'actitud de servei, la injustícia estatal, la implicació d'un membre de la família en el conflicte armat, les queixes per uns serveis sanitaris deficients i la millora de l'estatus. Els motius es categoritzen en factors (a) individuals, (b) polítics i (c) socioculturals. La política social del Nepal posterior al conflicte hauria de tenir en compte els motius pels quals aquests individus es van unir a la rebel·lió i hauria d'escoltar-los per ajudar-los a fomentar una pau sostenible i a millorar els serveis d'atenció sanitària a les comunitats afectades pel conflicte.There has been little systematic research on the factors that motivate people to become rebel health workers. This study explores the motivating factors of individuals who joined the Maoists as health workers in Nepal and presents the findings based on semi-structured interviews conducted with the Maoist health workers trained and mobilised by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist during the armed struggle with the government (1996-2006). Maoist ideology, service attitude, state injustice, involvement of a family member in the armed conflict, grievance over poor health services and gaining status were the motives for joining the rebel health services. Their motives are categorised as: (a) individual; (b) political and (c) socio-cultural factors. Post-conflict social policy in Nepal should take into consideration the reasons individuals joined the rebellion and listen to their voices to help promote sustainable peace and improve health care services in communities affected by the conflict. Existen muy pocos estudios sistemáticos sobre los factores que motivan a las personas a convertirse en trabajadores sanitarios rebeldes. Este estudio explora los factores de motivación de los individuos que se unieron a los maoístas como trabajadores sanitarios en Nepal. Este trabajo presenta los hallazgos basados en entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a los trabajadores sanitarios maoístas formados y movilizados por el Partido Comunista Unificado de Nepal (maoísta) durante la lucha armada con el gobierno (1996-2006). Los motivos para unirse a los servicios sanitarios rebeldes fuero la ideología maoísta, la actitud de servicio, la injusticia estatal, la implicación de un miembro de la familia en el conflicto armado, las quejas por unos servicios sanitarios deficientes y la mejora del estatus. Sus motivos se categorizan en factores (a) individuales, (b) políticos y (c) socioculturales. La política social de Nepal posterior al conflicto debería tener en cuenta las razones por las que estos individuos se unieron a la rebelión y escuchar sus voces para que les ayuden a fomentar una paz sostenible y a mejorar los servicios de atención sanitaria en las comunidades afectadas por el conflicto
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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