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Learning lessons and moving forward: how to reduce financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income contexts
Get PDFIn 'Reducing financial barriers to access to obstetric care', edited by Richard, F., Witter, S. and De Brouwere, V. Studies in Health Services Organisation and Policy series. Antwerp: ITG Press.sch_iih24pub2730pu
National fee exemption schemes for delivieries: comparing the recent experiences of Ghana and Senegal
Get PDFChapter in 'Reducing the financial barriers to access to obstetric care', edited by Richard, F., Witter, S. and De Brouwere, V. Studies in Health Services Organisation and Policy series. Antwerp: ITG Press.Continuing high maternal mortality ratios, especially in Africa, and high
discrepancies between richer and poorer households in relation to access to
maternal health care and maternal health status have focussed attention on
the importance of reducing financial barriers to skilled care.
This article compares the findings of two studies on national policies
exempting women from user fees for deliveries, conducted in Ghana in
2005-6 and in Senegal in 2006-7. The evaluations used a combination of
research methods, including key informant interviews, household surveys,
financial flows tracking, health worker incentive surveys, confidential
enquiry, clinical case note record extraction, community level interviews and
focus group discussions.
The detailed findings from each evaluation are presented, followed by
the broad lessons learnt from these similar (but not identical) policies. The
policies shared goals, and both were implemented in poorer regions initially
but then scaled up, using national resources. They demonstrate the potential
of fee exemption policies to increase utilisation. The cost per additional
assisted delivery was 21 (normal delivery) and
$467 (caesarean section) in Senegal. There was also some evidence of
reductions in inequalities of access.sch_iih24pub2731pu
Les systèmes nationaux d'exemption des coûts liés à l'accouchement: comparaison des expériences récentes du Ghana et du Sénégal
No full textLes leçons apprises pour mieux intervenir dans le futur: comment réduire les barrières financières aux soins obstétricaux dans les pays à faibles ressources
No full textRéduire les barrières financières aux soins obstétricaux dans les pays à faibles ressources: il est temps d'agir!
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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
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