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The village health team strategy is a 'Most Innovative Community Practice' award winner: the experience OFA village volunteer programme in Yumbe District, Uganda
Get PDFCommunity participation in health has been an elusive concept since the
days of the Alma Ata Declaration. Many faltering steps have been taken
towards genuine community participation only to be retraced because the
programmes were either ill-conceived or derailed by the loss of the
spirit of voluntarism. In Yumbe District of north-western Uganda,
Village Health Teams (VHT) have been established in line with the
national strategy for community involvement in health. The Yumbe VHT
programme has won an award for innovative support to strengthening
decentralisation. This paper reviews aspects of the programme outlining
its successes and challenges. Its success has been mainly due to
integration of pre-existing volunteer cadres, intersectoral approach to
the monitoring of the teams and involvement of the community in the
selection of the top-up team members. Its challenges include the
relatively young age of the majority of the volunteers and the likely
loss of financial support for the activities of the volunteers. The
paper concludes that the VHT programme is a delicate venture requiring
both programme support through intersectoral inputs to the Community
Action Plans developed by communities and sociological approaches to
educate the communities to support the VHT for its sustainability
Theme two: Managing health information - The curse of league tables: How Uganda missed the point
No full textThis paper examines the criteria used by the Ministry of Health to
determine the performance of the different districts as presented in
the annual National Health Sector Performance Report. Using the winner
of the 2004/2005, it attempts to analyze the health situation in the
district and challenges the reliability of using HSSP input, process
and output indicators as a measure of sector performance. The paper
proposes that outcome indicators, like health status indicators, are a
better measure of sector performance and should be the ones used for
rating district performance. It also suggests that process indicators
be used for technical forums and not political forums like the National
Health Assembly. It ends with a cautionary remark on the likely
misinterpretation of process indicators by the general public in
districts with poor health status
The village health team strategy is a 'Most Innovative Community Practice' award winner: the experience OFA village volunteer programme in Yumbe District, Uganda
No full textCommunity participation in health has been an elusive concept since the
days of the Alma Ata Declaration. Many faltering steps have been taken
towards genuine community participation only to be retraced because the
programmes were either ill-conceived or derailed by the loss of the
spirit of voluntarism. In Yumbe District of north-western Uganda,
Village Health Teams (VHT) have been established in line with the
national strategy for community involvement in health. The Yumbe VHT
programme has won an award for innovative support to strengthening
decentralisation. This paper reviews aspects of the programme outlining
its successes and challenges. Its success has been mainly due to
integration of pre-existing volunteer cadres, intersectoral approach to
the monitoring of the teams and involvement of the community in the
selection of the top-up team members. Its challenges include the
relatively young age of the majority of the volunteers and the likely
loss of financial support for the activities of the volunteers. The
paper concludes that the VHT programme is a delicate venture requiring
both programme support through intersectoral inputs to the Community
Action Plans developed by communities and sociological approaches to
educate the communities to support the VHT for its sustainability
Theme two: Managing health information - The curse of league tables: How Uganda missed the point
No full textThis paper examines the criteria used by the Ministry of Health to
determine the performance of the different districts as presented in
the annual National Health Sector Performance Report. Using the winner
of the 2004/2005, it attempts to analyze the health situation in the
district and challenges the reliability of using HSSP input, process
and output indicators as a measure of sector performance. The paper
proposes that outcome indicators, like health status indicators, are a
better measure of sector performance and should be the ones used for
rating district performance. It also suggests that process indicators
be used for technical forums and not political forums like the National
Health Assembly. It ends with a cautionary remark on the likely
misinterpretation of process indicators by the general public in
districts with poor health status
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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