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IDEAS project - Private sector health data sharing study in Uttar Pradesh
No full textThe IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. This data collection contains expanded field notes of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews conducted with 48 purposively selected key informants in Lucknow, Allahabad and Hardoi as part of a rapid assessment to determine private sector barriers and enablers associated with the sharing of maternal and newborn health data with the public sector. It also includes photographs of example health records, study tools, and associated documentation
IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Uttar Pradesh case study resources
No full textThe IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in Ethiopia, northeast Nigeria and Uttar Pradesh, India. This data collection contains interview field notes and supporting information produced as part of a case study to document and assess the process by which the State Government of Uttar Pradesh introduced and scaled-up mSehat, a mobile phone application used by community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)) to create and maintain electronic health records
IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Ethiopia case study resources
No full textThe IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in Ethiopia, northeast Nigeria and Uttar Pradesh, India. This data collection contains interview field notes and supporting information produced as part of a case study to determine what had catalysed, helped and hindered the scale-up of antibiotic administration by health extension workers treating newborn sepsis in Ethiopia. This innovation, which had originated from the Community Based Interventions for Newborns in Ethiopia (COMBINE) project and been evaluated through a randomised control trial, had at the time of this study, been scaled-up to 92 woredas as one of nine components of the first phase of the Ethiopian Government’s Community Based Newborn Care package (CBNC)
IDEAS project - Scaling-up innovations to improve maternal and newborn health - Nigeria case study resources
No full textThe IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice in Ethiopia, northeast Nigeria and Uttar Pradesh, India. This data collection contains interview field notes and supporting information produced as part of a case study to investigate how an emergency transport scheme for pregnant women and newborn babies introduced in Gombe state had been scaled up to Adamawa state by Transaid and the Society for Family Health, working with National Union of Transport Workers
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
Claiming the right to health for women who have sex with women: analysing South Africa’s National Strategic Plans on HIV and STIs
Full text linkIntroduction:
Evidence has emerged that women who have sex with women (WSW) in South Africa face
multiple vulnerabilities to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. This health policy
analysis seeks to understand why and how interventions to improve sexual health of WSW
were initially proposed in the HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011,
what was implemented and how issues were reframed in the National Strategic Plan (NSP) on
HIV, STIs and TB 2012-2016.
Methodology:
Qualitative methods were used to analyse changes over time in policy discourse around WSW
sexual health. A conceptual framework considered four factors determining political priority
setting for WSW issues in NSP development processes: actor power, ideas, political context and
issue characteristics. 25 semi-structured key informant interviews were conducted in South
Africa in 2013 and findings were triangulated through document analysis.
Results:
Breakthrough in participation in policy making on HIV/AIDS in 2007 enabled the women’s
sector of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) to present testimony from WSW
affected by HIV. Policy content of the 2007-2011 NSP included WSW issues but no activities
were implemented in the public health system. Policy actors were mandated to redevelop an
evidence based NSP for 2012-2016 and discourse on key populations vulnerable to HIV,
including men who have sex with men (MSM), shaped policy content. Data on HIV and STIs
among WSW existed but resources to disseminate or undertake further research were limited.
The SANAC LGBTI sector, created to represent community interests, became preoccupied with
MSM programming. Focus on WSW was not maintained in the 2012-2016 NSP due to limited
health metrics, limits on participation and growing social conservatism.
Conclusion:
In the future advocates must reiterate rights based arguments on the vulnerabilities of WSW
and call for a revised research agenda on the epidemiology of WSW sexual health
Grant-making foundations for global health: what drives their decision-making?
Full text linkIn recent years, private foundations have gained considerable relevance in global health due to their increasing presence in both financing and policy-making. Despite this, the question of how these actors make decisions on their funding priorities is under researched. The aim of this study is to understand and assess the relative importance of different factors in foundations’ decision-making. This question is important not only for actors in the global health arena, but for foundations that are under increasing pressure to be legitimate, effective and accountable players.
This is a qualitative research study on the decision-making of foundations investing in global health. It applies a multiple case study methodology in the study of three foundations: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. In-depth interviews with forty-six informants represented the main method for data collection. A qualitative thematic content analysis has been applied to both documentary sources and interviewees’ accounts.
A strategic management approach has been used to de-construct the decision-making process into strategic planning and grant-making. As a first area of inquiry, this study sought to understand how foundations’ origins, governance structure and funding ethos are relevant in influencing their decision-making behavior. Second, this study sought to assess the relative importance of different factors (e.g., private partnerships or foundations’ networks) in influencing foundations’ decisions.
Findings suggest influence is an overt objective of foundations' strategies. Leaders and networks are extremely important in both strategic planning and grant-making. By discussing findings through the perspective of major strategic management schools of thought, the study provides an in-depth understanding of foundations’ strategic planning and grant-making processes and recommendations to increase accountability, legitimacy and effectiveness. The analysis also introduces a re-conceptualization of foundations’ decision-making, and offers implications on the role of philanthropy in global health
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