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HSR888244 Supplemental Material2 - Supplemental material for The effectiveness of community-based social innovations for healthy ageing in middle- and high-income countries: a systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, HSR888244 Supplemental Material2 for The effectiveness of community-based social innovations for healthy ageing in middle- and high-income countries: a systematic review by Ioana Ghiga, Emma Pitchforth, Louise Lepetit, Celine Miani, Gemma-Clare Ali and Catherine Meads in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy</p
HSR888244 Supplemental Material1 - Supplemental material for The effectiveness of community-based social innovations for healthy ageing in middle- and high-income countries: a systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, HSR888244 Supplemental Material1 for The effectiveness of community-based social innovations for healthy ageing in middle- and high-income countries: a systematic review by Ioana Ghiga, Emma Pitchforth, Louise Lepetit, Celine Miani, Gemma-Clare Ali and Catherine Meads in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy</p
sj-docx-1-shr-10.1177_20542704231217887 - Supplemental material for Informing the development of a scoring system for National Health Service Clinical Impact Awards; a Delphi process and simulated scoring exercise
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-shr-10.1177_20542704231217887 for Informing the development of a scoring system for National Health Service Clinical Impact Awards; a Delphi process and simulated scoring exercise by Gary Abel, Rob Froud, Emma Pitchforth, Bethan Treadgold, Lucy Hocking, Jon Sussex, Marc Elliott and John Campbell in JRSM Open</p
Delphi Method and Nominal Group Techniques in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Research
No full textBoth the Delphi method and nominal group technique
offer structured, transparent and replicable ways of
synthesising individual judgements and have been used
extensively for priority setting and guideline development
in health-related research including reproductive
health. Within evidence-based practice they provide a
means of collating expert opinion where little evidence
exists.They are distinct from many other methods
because they incorporate both qualitative and quantitative
approaches. Both methods are inherently flexible; this
article also discusses other strengths and weaknesses of
these methods
Getting women to hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh
No full textObjective: To explore what happened to poor women in Bangladesh once they reached a hospital providing comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC) and to identify support mechanisms.
Design: Mixed methods qualitative study.
Setting: Large government medical college hospital in Bangladesh.
Sample: Providers and users of EmOC.
Methods: Ethnographic observation in obstetrics unit including interviews with staff and women using the
unit and their carers.
Results: Women had to mobilise significant financial and social resources to fund out of pocket expenses. Poorer women faced greater challenges in receiving treatment as relatives were less able to raise the necessary cash. The official financial support mechanism was bureaucratic and largely unsuitable in emergency situations. Doctors operated a less formal ‘‘poor fund’’ system to help the poorest women.
There was no formal assessment of poverty; rather, doctors made ‘‘adjudications’’ of women’s need for support based on severity of condition and presence of friends and relatives. Limited resources led to a ‘‘wait and see’’ policy that meant women’s condition could deteriorate before help was provided.
Conclusions: Greater consideration must be given to what happens at health facilities to ensure that (1) using EmOC does not further impoverish families; and (2) the ability to pay does not influence treatment.
Developing alternative finance mechanisms to reduce the burden of out of pocket expenses is crucial but challenging. Increased investment in EmOC must be accompanied by an increased focus on equity
International Public Health Research Involving Interpreters: a Case Study from Bangladesh
Full text linkBackground: Cross-cultural and international research are important components of public health research, but the challenges of language barriers and working with interpreters are often overlooked, particularly in the case of qualitative research.
Methods: A case-study approach was used to explore experiences of working with an interpreter in Bangladesh as part of a research project investigating women's experiences of emergency obstetric care.
The case study: Data from the researcher's field notes provided evidence of experiences in working with an interpreter and show how the model of interviewing was adapted over time to give a more active role to the interpreter. The advantages of a more active role were increased rapport and "flow" in interviews. The disadvantages included reduced control from the researcher's perspective. Some tensions between the researcher and interpreter remained hard to overcome,
irrespective of the model used. Independent transcription and translation of the interviews also raised questions around accuracy in translation.
Conclusion: The issues examined in this case study have broader implications for public health research. Further work is needed in three areas: 1) developing effective relationships with interpreters; 2) the impact of the interpreter on the research process; and 3) the accuracy of the translation and level of analysis needed in any specific public health research. Finally, this paper highlights the importance to authors of reflecting on the potential impact of translation and interpretation on the research process when disseminating their research
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
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