48 research outputs found
Social enterprise and the capability approach: examining the quest to humanize business
No full textSocial enterprise is an emerging form of business, yet there is no unifying definition for the concept. Much of the literature on social enterprise consists of conceptual research seeking to define it, limiting theoretical development in the field. This dissertation is the first large-scale empirical study that develops a universal definition for social enterprise. A total of 115 social enterprises throughout the United States are surveyed to examine their social, economic, and legal activities. Using the capability approach, a framework for viewing poverty in respect to multiple dimensions of human development, this study introduces the term social capabilities in reference to the services that social enterprises create to advance different aspects of human development. Data analysis techniques include descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation Analysis, and grounded theory. Results reveal that the more revenue social enterprises generate, the more diverse types of social capabilities they create. In addition, a social enterprise’s legal form influences its revenue sources, creation of social capabilities, and its institutional collaborations. Given the results, this research defines social enterprise as a social intervention that operates under any legal form, but uses commercial business activities to advance human development.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Rasheda L. Weave
Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the author names of Magdalena Janus, Yvonne Schönbeck, Abdullah H. Baqui and Rasheda Khanam, and an error to the affiliations of authors Tarun Dua, Romuald Kouadio E. Anago, Michelle Perez Maillard and Gillian Lancaster. The incorrect author name is: Magdalana Janus. The correct author name is: Magdalena Janus. The incorrect author name is: Yvonne Schonbeck. The correct author name is: Yvonne Schönbeck. The incorrect author name is: Abdullah Baqui. The correct author name is: Abdullah H. Baqui. The incorrect author name is: Rasheda Khanum. The correct author name is: Rasheda Khanam. Authors Tarun Dua and Michelle Perez Maillard should be affiliated to “Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland”, author Romuald Kouadio E. Anago should be affiliated to “Innovations for Poverty Action, IPA Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire”, and author Gillian Lancaster should be affiliated to “School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK”. The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected
“They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, Unwelcomeness, and Protesting Neighborhood Investment
No full textIn some of Camden, NJ’s most underdeveloped neighborhoods, new investment is perceived as a catch-22. Such investment is badly needed, but residents fear gentrification and the creation of white spaces. Our study examines that puzzle, that residents protest badly needed investment, using ethnographic and interview data from residents and Camden, NJ, as a case study for examining community understanding of gentrification. In doing so, we draw upon gentrification literature that focuses on displacement pressure and exclusionary displacement, but argue that the Camden case points towards a different dimension of gentrification. Our findings show how (1) exclusion and “unwelcomeness” created by the development of white spaces is conceptualized by residents as being distinct from the impact such exclusion has on future displacement and (2) that residents internalize that exclusion from white spaces, dampening their support and increasing their resistance for new development. Our findings represent a contribution to the discussion on displacement pressure, which focuses primarily on exclusion through financial and economic pressure on residents, and shows that racialized exclusion is, itself, a fundamental element of residential fear of gentrification. We point to an opportunity to address fears of gentrification not only through economic means but also by focusing on issues of access and exclusion in urban space as a direct response to such residential fears.This is open source, so it should be fine to submit the full PDF.Peer reviewe
A Case Report on Hypocalcemic Seizures Secondary to Maternal and Infant Vitamin D Deficiency
No full textMaternal vitamin D insufficiency is not uncommon. Usual causes of maternal deficiency in vitamin D and or calcium are due to cultural modifications in their diets or clothing habits. Infant born to mothers who are on breastfeeding are also at risk of developing vitamin D deficiency, hypocalcemia and seizure. We present a case of an infant with hypocalcemic seizures secondary to vitamin D deficiency.Hypocalcemic seizure may occur in term or preterm neonates due to maternal vitamin D insufficiency. It is not common to present with hypocalcemic seizures at 4 to 5 months age in an otherwise healthy child with uneventful neonatal period
Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh
No full textThe author is a female relief worker who has seen first-hand how women are more vulnerable than men to natural disasters, and in their aftermath. She explores why women are more likely to die in environmental disasters, and why emergency relief aid often fails to benefit women. Begum makes recommendations for ensuring that women's needs are taken into account when planning and delivering relief work.
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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Among Children Living in Households with Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients
No full textThis multicentre cross sectional analytical study was conducted in 2012 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to evaluate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among children living in households with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patient. Two groups of subjects were selected. Sixty five children of 3-12 years living with selected smear positive TB patient and children of same age living with healthy parents were included. For this purpose, sputum positive adult TB patients were selected. Mantoux test (TST) was done in 130 children. To exclude active TB disease in TST positive children, CXR P/A view was taken. Sociodemographic information were also included. The study found that the prevalence of LTBI among children who have household TB contacts was 41.5%, and Children who did not have household TB contact had the prevalence of LTBI of 9.2%. Parents educational status showed that 74.1% of MT positive children had illiterate father and 63% children had illiterate mother. Ninety two percent of MT positive children were from lower and lower middle class family and only 7.2% were from upper class family. It was found that, mean family members were much higher (4.39±0.77) in MT positive cases comparing with MT negative cases (3.7±0.85). 88.9% of MT positive children were living in the same bed and 55.6% were living in different beds in the same house. The present study found that the prevalence of LTBI among children with household contacts of TB patient was higher than non-contact children Parents illiteracy, lower socio-economic, large family, sharing of same indoor environment further increased the prevalence of LTBI among the contacts.</jats:p
The impact of penalty and subsidy mechanisms on the decisions of the government, businesses, and consumers during COVID-19 ——Tripartite evolutionary game theory analysis
No full textPURPOSE: – Based on the fact that punishment and subsidy mechanisms affect the anti-epidemic incentives of major participants in a society, the issue of this paper is how the penalty and subsidy mechanisms affect the decisions of governments, businesses, and consumers during Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: - This paper proposes a tripartite evolutionary game theory, involving governments, businesses, and consumers, to analyze the evolutionary stable strategies and the impact of penalty and subsidy mechanism on their strategy selection during COVID-19. We then uses numerical analysis to simulate the strategy formation process of governments, businesses, and consumers for the results of tripartite evolutionary game theory. FINDINGS: – This paper suggests that there are four evolutionary stable strategies corresponding to the actual anti-epidemic situations. We find that different subsidy and penalty mechanisms lead to different evolutionary stable strategies. High penalties for businesses and consumers can prompt them to choose active prevention strategies no matter what the subsidy mechanism is. For the government, the penalty mechanism is better than the subsidy mechanism, because the excessive subsidy mechanism will raise the government expenditure. The punishment mechanism is more effective than the subsidy mechanism in realizing the tripartite joint prevention of the COVID-19. Therefore, the implementation of strict punishment mechanism should be a major government measure under COVID-19. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: - Our paper extends the existing theoretical work. We use political economy to make the preference hypothesis, and we explicitly state the effect of subsidy and penalty mechanisms on the decision making of participants and compare their applicability. This is the work that the existing literature did not complete before. Our findings can provide an important theoretical and decision-making basis for COVID-19 prevention and control
Author Correction: Prediction of gestational age using urinary metabolites in term and preterm pregnancies
No full textAuthor Correction to "Prediction of gestational age using urinary metabolites in term and preterm pregnancies
Author response: Reproducible diagnostic metabolites in plasma from typhoid fever patients in Asia and Africa
No full textPoverty and AFI Dataset
No full textData underlying the publication titled, "The relationship between poverty and healthcare seeking among patients hospitalized with acute febrile illnesses in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
