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Harnessing Social Capital: Empowering Barangay Health in Health Promotion Governance
No full textBarangay Health Workers (BHWs) play a critical role in health promotion governance within local government settings. Using the Institutional Collective Action Framework, Social Capital Theory, and reflexive thematic analysis, this research examined the potential self-organizing systems of BHWs in Malabon LGU through the lens of purposively selected BHWs. The study focused on the formation and impact of bonding and bridging social capital among BHWs, the influence of these networks on health promotion efforts, and the mechanisms through which BHWs overcome collaboration risks and institutional collective action dilemmas. Results indicated that BHWs leverage bonding social capital, formed through shared experiences and values, to foster trust, commitment, and cohesion. Bridging social capital, facilitated by the BHW President and the BHW Association of Malabon, Inc., helped integrate new BHWs and supported the continuity of health promotion activities despite political and organizational challenges. These networks helped mitigate collaboration risks, enhance decision-making capacity, and ensure effective health promotion governance. Policy recommendations include formalizing support for the BHW Association, providing incentives for BHWs, and promoting stable employment to strengthen these networks and sustain health promotion efforts
Dilemma and Decision Space: The (Un)Collective Action of DOH-MMCHD and Malabon LGU in Health Promotion
No full textThe Universal Health Care Act emphasizes health promotion’s role in implementing devolved health programs and policy coordination across government instrumentalities. Post-COVID-19 pandemic, health promotion was in full swing in its institutionalization across all government levels. However, Institutional Collective Action (ICA) dilemmas hinder effective health promotion implementation. This qualitative cross-sectional study utilized health-related laws, policies, and semi-structured interviews with key technical and political actors. Data were triangulated and analyzed through open coding to identify patterns, guided by the ICA Framework, to assess Malabon LGU’s utilization of decision space in health promotion initiatives. ICA dilemmas between DOH-MMCHD and Malabon LGU in the implementation of health promotions were identified, such as opportunism hazards, action incoherence, defection and unfair division of duties, lack of contracts, non-execution of policies, hidden information on duties and responsibilities, and enforcement costs such as budgetary, political, and resource constraints, among others. The Institutional Collective Action Framework and Bossert’s Concept of Decision Space and Capacity were used to resolve ICA dilemmas by empowering DOH-MMCHD through the enforcement of accountability mechanisms and supervisory intervention and by maximizing decision space through procedural policy instruments such as the formation and proper execution of local health committees and local health boards, health promotion ordinances, creation of HEPO units, capacitating HEPOs and BHWs, institutional reformation of duties and responsibilities of HEPOs and BHWs, and optimization of LGU autonomy to advance health promotions
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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