647 research outputs found
Assessing the health of the poor: towards a pro-poor measurement strategy
No full textThe problems of measuring the health of the poor are now becoming a priority area for development agencies. This is not only because of the consensus on equitable health status as a worthy and agreed goal in itself, but also because of the emerging understanding of the crucial role that health plays in the production of poverty. Furthermore, the current impetus for preparing Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) requires an effective monitoring and evaluation process to be planned as part of each country’s strategy. Much data on the health of the world’s poor is already collected on a regular basis in developing countries by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme. More information on the economic status of individuals in developing countries is also collected, less frequently and with less standardised questionnaires, by the World Bank under the Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) programme. Other data on both health and income or wealth is also available from a range of uncoordinated sources. So far, the only focused attempt to measure the health of the poor uses DHS data to track health indicators for different ‘wealth’ groups, where wealth is measured by calculating household assets and amenities. Using DHS data as the main strategy for measuring health is the best way forward, given that it is the highest quality and most standardised scheme of data collection. The DHS is very unlikely, however, to include income in its questionnaire schedule, so that general agreement needs to be reached on the asset approach as an appropriate way forward, the alternative being a consistent set of health questions being included in LSMS surveys. Apart from undertaking analyses of data which has already been collected, there should also be supplementary data collection undertaken to cover the shortcomings of the DHS in any given setting. According to the country characteristics in any given setting, the following range of techniques should be considered to supplement DHS and LSMS monitoring: poverty mapping from the most recent census; piggybacking poverty studies on already functioning population ‘laboratories’; and undertaking new cluster surveys innew poor areas. It is also advisable to engage in a dialogue for undertaking new standardised surveys in-country such as DHS and LSMS. The latter is particularly amenable to flexibility of subject matter to be included in the questionnaire
Supporting industrial use of probabilistic timing analysis with explicit argumentation2013 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
No full textProbabilistic Timing Analysis (PTA) in general and its measurement-based variant called MBPTA in particular have potential for mitigating the problems that impair current worstcase execution time (WCET) analysis techniques whether as in industrial practice or in state-of-the-art research. MBPTA can compute tight upper bounds on the execution time of software programs, which it expresses as probabilistic exceedance functions, without needing much information on the hardware and software internals of the system. To exploit this capability in practice, some reasoned argument must be constructed to explain why the method is suitable. This paper details our experience with the construction of such an argument, and in particular shows how the structure of the argument allows it to be easily configured for the needs of different industries
sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380231217047 – Supplemental material for Empowering Young People with Special Educational Needs to Recognize and Report Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: A Mixed-Methods Review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380231217047 for Empowering Young People with Special Educational Needs to Recognize and Report Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: A Mixed-Methods Review by Laura E. McMinn, Juliane A. Kloess and Zoe Stephenson in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</p
Author Spotlight: Zoe Larghi Laureiro
No full textZoe Larghi Laureiro is currently at her 4th year of General Surgery Residency at Umberto I Hospital, La Sapienza
University of Rome. She will become a general surgeon following her graduation on December 2021. Her clinical and
research interests include hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery
and liver transplantation
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
Get PDF“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
Get PDF“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
The role of actor associations in understanding the implementation of lean thinking in healthcare
Get PDFPurpose: The importance of networks in effecting the outcomes of change processes is well-established in the literature. Whilst extant literature focuses predominantly on the structural properties of networks, our purpose is to explore the dynamics of network emergence that give rise to the outcomes of process interventions. We show how Actor Network Theory (ANT) may be used as a lens for interrogating the way in which management interventions play out in the complex organisational setting of a UK National Health Service Trust, providing insights for management of process change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: This is a rich qualitative study in the Pathology Unit of a UK National Health Service Trust, using ANT as the theoretical lens for tracking the emergence and transformation of networks of individuals over the course of a management intervention to promote “lean thinking” for performance improvements.Findings: ANT is useful for explicitly tracking how organisational players shift their positions and network allegiances over time, and identifying objects and actions that are effective in engaging individuals in networks enabling transition to a lean process. It is important to attend to the dynamics of the process of change and devise appropriate timely interventions enabling actors to shift their own positions towards a desired outcome.Research limitations/implications: We make the case for using of theoretical frameworks developed outside the operations management to develop insights for designing process interventions.Originality/value: By understanding the role of shifting networks managers can use timely interventions during the process implementation to facilitate the transition to lean processes: e.g. using demonstrable senior leadership commitment and visual communication.<br/
The impact of rural-urban migration on under-two mortality in India
No full textThis paper examines the impact of rural-urban migration on under-two mortality in India, using data from the 1992/93 Indian National Family Health Survey. Multilevel logistic models are fitted for mortality in three age groups: neonatal, early post-neonatal, and late post-neonatal and toddler. Migration status was not a significant determinant of mortality in any of the three age groups. Further analysis shows that a relationship between migration status and mortality exists when socioeconomic and health utilization variables are omitted from the models. The relationship between migration and mortality is thus explained by differences in socioeconomic status and use of health services between rural-urban migrant and nonmigrant groups. The selectivity of rural-urban migrants on socioeconomic characteristics creates mortality differentials between rural-urban migrants and rural non-migrants. Problems faced by migrants in assimilating into urban societies create mortality differentials between rural-urban migrants and urban non-migrants. These results highlight the need to target migrants in the provision of health services, and demonstrate that rural areas continue to have the highest levels of infant-child mortality. Further research is needed to understand the health care needs of rural-urban migrants in order to inform the provision of appropriate health care.<br/
sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076221089778 - Supplemental material for Digital tools to support the maintenance of physical activity in people with long-term conditions: A scoping review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076221089778 for Digital tools to support the maintenance of physical activity in people with long-term conditions: A scoping review by Paul Clarkson, Aoife Stephenson, Chloe Grimmett, Katherine Cook, Carol Clark, Paul E Muckelt, Philip O’Gorman, Zoe Saynor, Jo Adams, Maria Stokes and Suzanne McDonough in Digital Health</p
Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
No full textWhile most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of
the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.
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