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Wagstaff, C J C, QX6462
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/423292Surname: WAGSTAFF. Given Name(s) or Initials: C J C. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: QX6462. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 22960.249807
Item: [2016.0049.55553] "Wagstaff, C J C, QX6462
Interview with C. Wagstaff
No full textFormer nursing sister at the Leicester Royal Infirmary recalls her training as a nurse in the 1930s. Describes life in the nurses' home and aspects of training. Talks about treatment for tetanus, use of sulphonomides, work in the operating theatre, nursing during the Second World War and initial opposition to the National Health Service ( NHS). Recalls fund raising events, nursing on the children's ward, the discipline of nurses, holidays and the relationship between nursing staff and doctors
Leadership in sport organizations
No full textFirst paragraph: The ability to lead, inspire and motivate people is an important human characteristic. Indeed, it has been suggested that leadership is vital for effective organizational and societal functioning (Antonakis, Cianciolo, & Sternberg, 2004), with great or poor organizational, military, or sport performances frequently credited to great leadership or lack thereof. Therefore, it is not surprising that leadership has become one of the most studied topics within the social sciences (Antonakis et al., 2004). Leadership has been studied from a number of different perspectives (e.g., trait, behavioural, contingency, relational, skeptic, information-processing based approaches) which has resulted in a large number of different theories and models of leadership. Indeed, as long ago as 1971, Fiedler (1971) stated that, “there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are theories of leadership - and there almost as many theories of leadership as there are psychologists working in the field” (p. 1)
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G. &C. [picture] /
No full textTitle from part of dedicatory inscription below image.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9281432; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK11141.; U6201
Attitudes to employment in sports organizations.
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link in this record.One of the persistent features of the lives and careers of sports workers employed in professional contexts is its volatile context (Bottenburg, 2010; Rowe, 2011) whether the work is located within a (often privately owned) club setting or within a publicly funded entity such as Olympic or Paralympic teams. This chapter explores sports scientists and sports medics’ attitudes towards employment in these settings placing them within the wider contours of change within the sector and the increasing pressures on athletes and teams to attain and sustain competitive outcomes. In doing so, the main trajectory of thinking is challenged. Rather than conceiving the transformation of organisational strategies, practices and structures of professional sports clubs and their teams into more business-like, professional forms as inherently positive, a counter conceptualization will be put forward which argues that the increasing pressure on competitiveness is contorting the faces of these organisations and has specific emotional and attitudinal outcomes where sports scientists are concerned. Specifically, it will be argued that sports scientists repeated exposure to change is linked to a cycle whereby heightened staff turnover (particularly turnover generated by changes in management personnel) is accompanied by a weakened psychological contract, declining employment engagement, commitment and potentially stalled professional identity. More positively, the cycle also saw sports workers engaging with changes to practices brought about by changes to the management team, assimilating them and reflecting on what had been learned through navigating this cycle. Much of the empirical evidence will draw on developments and experiences within a UK setting but wherever possible, more international perspectives and accounts will be included
6. Renfrew (C.) et Wagstaff (M.), An Island Polity. The archaeology of exploitation in Melos
No full textVial Claude. 6. Renfrew (C.) et Wagstaff (M.), An Island Polity. The archaeology of exploitation in Melos. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 96, fascicule 455-459, Janvier-décembre 1983. pp. 297-298
The port of Patras in the second Ottoman Period. Economy, demography and settlements c.1700-1830
No full textWagstaff Malcolm, Frangakis-Syrett Elena. The port of Patras in the second Ottoman Period. Economy, demography and settlements c.1700-1830. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°66, 1992. Les Balkans à l'époque ottomane, sous la direction de Daniel Panzac . pp. 79-94
Health facility surveys : an introduction
No full textHealth facility surveys come in various guises. One dimension in which they vary is their motivation. Some seek to understand better links between households and providers. Others seek to understand better provider behavior and performance. Still others seek to understand the interrelationships between providers, while yet others seek to shed light on the linkages between government and providers. Health facility surveys differ too in the data they collect, in part due to the different motivations. Surveys also vary in the way they collect data, some relying on direct observation, some on record review, and some on interview. Some quality data are collected through clinical vignettes. Facility data have been put to a variety of uses, including planning and budgeting; monitoring, evaluation, and promoting accountability; and research. Lindel and Wagstaff review some of the literature under each heading and offer some conclusions regarding the current state of health facility surveys.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Public Health Promotion,Health Systems Development&Reform,Early Child and Children's Health,Housing&Human Habitats,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems,Housing&Human Habitats,Health Economics&Finance
Measuring equity in health care financing - reflections on (and alternatives to) the World Health Organization's fairness of financing index
No full textIn its latest World Health Report, The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that a key dimension of a health system's performance is the fairness of its financing system. The report discusses how policymakers can improve this aspect of performance, proposes an index of fairness, discusses how it should be put into operation, and presents a league table of countries, ranked by fairness with which their health services are financed. The author shows that the WHO index cannot discriminate between health financing systems that are regressive, and those that are progressive - and cannot discriminate between horizontal inequity, and progressiveness, or regressiveness. The index cannot tell policymakers whether it deviates from 1 (complete fairness) because households with similar incomes spend different amounts on health care (horizontal inequity), or because households with different incomes spend different proportions of their income on health care (vertical inequity, given the WHO's interpretation of the ability-to-pay principle) - although the two have different policy implications. With the WHO's index, progressiveness, and regressiveness are both treated as unfair. This makes no sense, because policymakers who may be strongly averse to regressive payments (which worsen income distribution) may in the name of fairness be quite receptive to progressive payments (requiring that the better-off, who may be willing to spend proportionately more on health care, are required to pay proportionately more). The author compares the WHO index with an alternative, and more illuminating approach developed in the income redistribution literature in the early 1990s, and used in the late 1990s, to study the fairness of various OECD health care financing systems. He illustrates the differences between the approaches with an empirical comparison, using data on out-of-pocket payments for health services in Vietnam for 1993 and 1998. This analysis is of some interest in its own right, given the large share of health spending from out-of-pocket payments in Vietnam, and the changes in fees, and drug prices over the 1990s.
Socioeconomic Inequality in Malnutrition in Developing Countries
No full textEpidemiological evidence points to a small set of primary causes of child
mortality that are the main killers of children aged less than 5 years: pneumonia,
diarrhoea, low birth weight, asphyxia and, in some parts of the world, HIV and
malaria. Malnutrition is the underlying cause of one out of every two such
deaths. The evidence also shows that child death and malnutrition are not
equally distributed throughout the world. They cluster in sub-Saharan Africa and
south Asia, and in poor communities within these regions. Disparities in health
outcomes between the poor and the rich are increasingly attracting attention from
researchers and policy-makers, thereby fostering a substantial growth in the
literature on health equity. “Socioeconomic inequality” in malnutrition refers to
the degree to which childhood malnutrition rates differ between more and less
socially and economically advantaged groups. This is different from “pure
inequality”, which takes into account all factors influencing childhood malnutrition.
The available literature documenting socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition
focuses mainly on individual countries or regions. At a more global level,
Wagstaff and Watanabe provided evidence on socioeconomic inequality in
malnutrition across 20 developing countries. Other relevant cross-country studies
include those of Pradhan et al., who describe total inequality, and Smith et
al., who describe inequalities between urban and rural populations. The latter
two studies, however, provide no evidence on socioeconomic inequality within
developing countries
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