scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Residential Care: A Five-Country Multiple Case-Design Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid James ◽  
Lucas Wilczek ◽  
Juri Kilian ◽  
Eeva Timonen-Kallio ◽  
Amaia Bravo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Case Design

Abstract Background Despite a global policy push toward the advancement of family- and community-based care, residential care for children and youth remains a relevant and highly utilized out-of-home care option in many countries, fulfilling functions of care and accommodation as well as education and treatment. Objective As part of a larger project involving five European countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Spain), the objective was “to map” the context and content of residential care in each country, thereby building a foundation for meaningful comparisons and deepened understanding of each system’s inherent logic. Within the context of global deinstitutionalization efforts, the study also aimed to understand factors that hinder or enhance the transformation of residential care. Method Using an embedded multiple-case design, data was gathered by each country on its residential care macro context as well as salient variables related to three units of analysis–residential care system/program features, residential care training and personnel, characteristics of youth. Cross-case synthesis was used to summarize and compare cases across relevant dimensions. Results The analysis highlighted areas of overlap and singularity, particularly with regard to utilization rates, concepts and methods, workforce professionalization, and characteristics of youth. Conclusions Findings provide a more nuanced understanding of how residential care continues to be viewed and utilized in some countries, challenging the ‘residential-care-as-a-last-resort-only’ rhetoric that is currently dominating the discourse on residential care. It further provides an understanding of historical and sociocultural factors that need to be considered when trying to transform services for children, youth, and their families.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING AIRLINE BRAND EQUITY DRIVERS: LESSONS FROM A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-93
Author(s):  
Kallol Das ◽  
Karman Khanna ◽  
Surankita Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
Brand Equity ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cross Case Analysis ◽  
Case Design

There is increasing consumer involvement and hence, investor interest in the airlines industry, as far as emerging economies is concerned. A study of the literature by the authors did not produce any research paper on the process drivers of brand equity in the context of airlines. Therefore, the present study makes an attempt to address this gap. The primary research question is: What are the driving factors for building brand equity in the case of airline services? This paper uses a “two-case” multiple-case design employing theoretical replication. The cases are based on two Indian organizations, Indigo Airlines and Go Air. Both these businesses are similar in many aspects but have achieved very contrasting outcomes. The primary research question is broken down into following two secondary research questions. How is Indigo Airlines building its brand? How is Go Air building its brand? Data collection involved use of documents, archives, observations, participant-observations, and surveys. Data analysis involved conducting cross-case analysis. The findings have been used to develop a conceptual framework for building brand equity in airlines.

Local Participation in Community Based Development Projects in Ghana

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Local People ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Convenience Sampling

The study critically analyses how the local people in Ga West municipality perceive local participation and socio-cultural factors that influence local participation. The study used the mixed method design. The lottery method of the simple random sampling technique coupled with Neuman and Neuman’s (2006) recommendation on random convenience sampling were used to sample and collect data from 187 respondents. The study revealed that local participation provides the local people employment avenues. It was revealed that developmental projects brought to their communities do not allow the local people to be involved at the planning and implementation phases. The study further revealed that women were of the opinion that projects brought to them were not feminine enough and did not build their capacity. Education, social cohesion, peace and stability were among some of the sociocultural factors that influence participation. The study again recommended that every community member should participate, regardless of their gender, ethnic group or socio-cultural differences.

Formal Service Practitioners' Views of Family Caregivers' Responsibilities and Difficulties

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Guberman ◽  
Jean-Pierre Lavoie ◽  
Jacinthe Pepin ◽  
Sylvie Lauzon ◽  
Maria-Elisa Montejo
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Formal Service ◽  
The Family ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Case Design

ABSTRACTThis article identifies home care practitioners' perceptions of the responsibilities, difficulties, and needs for support of caregivers. It is based on a study undertaken in Quebec with 55 practitioners and 10 administrators from 10 CLSCs located in rural, urban, and metropolitan areas. The study had a qualitative, multiple-case design and used logs recording all contact with caregivers in the space of a week, followed by semi-structured interviews. Analysis reveals that practitioners tend to perceive the work of caregivers as mainly instrumental and clinical, ignoring the family relations that tie them to their relative. Although aware of the difficulties facing caregivers and the negative impacts of caregiving, a majority of practitioners have high expectations of caregiver participation in treatment plans, albeit as quasi-nurse's aides. Our analysis offers an explanation for this apparent contradiction by examining practitioners' values with regard to family responsibility for care.

scholarly journals Analysis of Sustainability in Hospital Laundry: The Social, Environmental, and Economic (Cost) Risks

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Catia Lopes ◽  
Annibal Scavarda ◽  
Mauricio de Carvalho ◽  
Guilherme Vaccaro ◽  
André Korzenowski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Cost ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Chemical Hazards ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Social Environmental

Personal and physical injuries are two of the most relevant costs to hospitals. Hospital laundries are sources of these costs due to the physical and health risks present in the clothes and the activities performed. Energy and environmental risk and infrastructure issues also incur operational costs to these organizations and to the health system. This research analyzes the social, environmental, and economic risk in the hospital laundry process, through a multiple-case-study design. Data collection methods include interviews regarding three hospital laundry services in Brazil. The processes of these laundry services have a high consumption of resources (water and energy) and a substantial generation of solid and liquid wastes. Cost reduction actions include pooled laundry services and material substitution. There are also social and environmental risks, the most frequent being ergonomic, biological, and chemical hazards, and injures from sharp devices inadequately disposed. Hospital laundries need more sustainable operations, not only in the infrastructure, but also mostly in the awareness of leaders and teams about the importance of their engagements to resource management and waste reduction in laundry. It is opportune to convince professionals and users about changing habits that do not prioritize sustainability, especially its social and environmental aspects.

Consumer boycott amid conflict: The situated agency of political consumers in the occupied Palestinian territory

2019 ◽  
pp. 146954051988248
Author(s):  
Aurélie Bröckerhoff ◽  
Mufid Qassoum
Keyword(s):  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
The West ◽  
Individual Motivation ◽  
Potential Consumer ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Consumption ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Palestinian Territory

Participation is central to the success of political consumption movements. To date, consumer research has explored participation from the lens of the individual consumer activist. In this article we argue that such actor-centric approaches that equate individual motivation and willingness of potential consumer activists with likely participation are limited because they imply consumer freedom and agency irrespective of context. By exploring political consumption amid conflict, we illustrate how a particular setting frames the behaviours and decision-making of political consumers. Drawing on findings from a study of consumer boycott as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territory), we outline a set of market and societal barriers that frame the participation of potential boycotters. We show how these political, economic and sociocultural factors influence the range of possible actions for consumers and make participation more problematic, if not impossible. The findings of this study call for a need to re-evaluate how political consumption can be an oppositional or transformational practice, and support recent calls for a consideration of the roles of agency and power in consumption. To this effect, we propose the concept of ‘situated agency’ to analyse participation in political consumption that moves beyond actor-centric explanations. We hope such reconsiderations will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of participation in political consumption across different consumption contexts.

scholarly journals Residential Care Provision in Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Waivers: A National Study of Program Trends

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kitchener ◽  
M. Hernandez ◽  
T. Ng ◽  
C. Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
National Study ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Community Based

A multiple-case design methodology for studying MRP success and CSFs

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S.K Ang ◽  
Chee-Chuong Sum ◽  
Lei-Noy Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Case Design

How to Institutionalize Health Promotion Programs

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Steckler ◽  
Robert M. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Department ◽  
State Health ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Case Design

This article presents six implications for practice that suggest how to optimize the institutionalization of health promotion programs. These six implications were derived from a study of ten health promotion programs funded by the Virginia State Health Department and operated by local schools- and community health agencies. Institutionalization refers to the long-term survival of health promotion programs, i.e., survival well beyond an initial grant funding period. To generate the implications for practice, a multiple case design for cross-case comparisons was applied to the ten health promotion programs. In brief, the six practice implications are: 1) cultivating a “program champion”; 2) favoring organizations with mature “subsystems”; 3) favoring organizations in which health promotion “fits” with the organization's mission; 4) avoiding brokering relationships; 5) altering lengths of funding periods; and 6) funding existing worthy programs. The significance of these practice implications for both funding and implementing agencies is briefly discussed.

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