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Community Adaptation To Malaria And Rift Valley Fever In Baringo County, Kenya
No full textCommunity Adaptation to Malaria and Rift Valley Fever in Baringo County
Malaria and Rift Valley Fever (RVF) are climate sensitive mosquito borne diseases of great public health concern. Baringo County experiences seasonal transmission of malaria during the rainy season while RVF was reported for the first and only time in 2006-2007 during the El-Nino rains. This study sought to establish the extent of community adaptation to malaria and RVF among community members in Baringo County. A mixed methods approach was adopted. Key informant interviews (KII) with veterinary officers, nurses and community members; focus group discussions (FGDs) with community members and observations generated qualitative data while surveys with household members (n=560), livestock traders (n=203) and slaughter facility workers (n=10) produced quantitative data. Analyses for FGDs and KIIs were conducted through content analysis. Quantitative data was analyzed using summary and inferential statistics.
The results indicate that communities had bio-medical and local knowledge of malaria etiology and engaged in socio-cultural practices that influenced their vulnerability to the disease. Communities coped with malaria using both traditional and conventional methods of vector control. At the onset of suspected malaria, 28.9% of respondents sought care from a health facility, 37.2% used painkillers, 26.6% herbal remedies, 2.2% remnant malaria medicines, 2.2% over-the-counter anti-malaria drugs, 1% traditional healers and 1.8% other treatments. Subsequent treatment was sought in health facilities. Their ability to deal with malaria was compromised by lack of or limited bed nets, inconsistent use of bed nets and non-compliance to malaria medicine.
In contrast to malaria, the communities had little knowledge of RVF etiology and seasonality but reported that the main avenues through which an individual could be infected with any zoonotic disease were consumption of meat (79.2%) and milk (73.7%) or contact with blood from sick animals (40%). Ownership of susceptible livestock species, risky consumption patterns of livestock products, and poor handling of sick and dead animals increased community vulnerability to RVF. There were neither community led initiatives towards prevention of human/animal RVF cases nor sensitization campaigns.
In conclusion, communities in Baringo had a better adaptive capacity for malaria than RVF and more action is required to make them resilient to both diseases. The study therefore recommends that continuous health education regarding the importance of adopting prevention and management measures of malaria and RVF infections be provided to community members in appropriate formats. In addition, strengthening of veterinary services and inclusion of communities in participatory disease surveillance will enhance the County’s ability to detect livestock disease outbreaks
Gender and One Health, reflections from two Rift Valley fever research projects
No full textKenya One Health Conference, 6-8 December 202
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
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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