scholarly journals Measuring coordination between women’s self-help groups and local health systems in rural India: a social network analysis

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e028943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Ruducha ◽  
Divya Hariharan ◽  
James Potter ◽  
Danish Ahmad ◽  
Sampath Kumar ◽  
...  

ObjectivesTo assess how the health coordination and emergency referral networks between women’s self-help groups (SHGs) and local health systems have changed over the course of a 2-year learning phase of the Uttar Pradesh Community Mobilization Project, India.DesignA pretest, post-test programme evaluation using social network survey to analyse changes in network structure and connectivity between key individuals and groups.SettingThe study was conducted in 18 villages located in three districts in Uttar Pradesh, India.InterventionTo improve linkages and coordination between SHGs and government health providers by building capacity in leadership, management and community mobilisation skills of the SHG federation.ParticipantsA purposeful sampling that met inclusion criteria. 316 respondents at baseline and 280 respondents at endline, including SHG members, village-level and block-level government health workers, and other key members of the community (traditional birth attendants, drug sellers, unqualified rural medical providers, pradhans or elected village heads, and religious leaders).Main outcome measuresSocial network analysis measured degree centrality, density and centralisation to assess changes in health services coordination networks at the village and block levels.ResultsThe health services coordination and emergency referral networks increased in density and the number of connections between respondents as measured by average degree centrality have increased, along with more diversity of interaction between groups. The network expanded relationships at the village and block levels, reflecting the rise of bridging social capital. The accredited social health activist, a village health worker, occupied the central position in the network, and her role expanded to sharing information and coordinating services with the SHG members.ConclusionsThe creation of new partnerships between traditionally under-represented communities and local government can serve as vehicle for building social capital that can lead to a more accountable and accessible community health delivery system.

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Ruducha ◽  
Xinran Huang ◽  
James Potter ◽  
Divya Hariharan ◽  
Danish Ahmad ◽  
...  

The limitations of individual level interventions in changing behaviors to improve global maternal, newborn and child health have generated more interest in the patterns of social influence and decision making embedded in families, friends and communities. The purpose of this study is to expand the understanding of village dynamics in India and how first degree social and advice networks and cognitive perceptions of 185 recently delivered women (RDW) in areas with and without women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) affect immediate breastfeeding. Data was collected in 6 blocks and 36 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India. The expansion of RDW’s social worlds and creation of social capital through the organization of Self-Help Groups in their villages allowed us to examine basic relationships and advice formation as well as perceptions of interconnectedness of known groups. RDW living in SHG villages and blocks had consistently higher numbers of relationship ties, health advice ties and higher density of health advice networks than RDW living in the non-SHG areas. RDW’s perceived knowing ties were also significantly higher between family and health workers in the SHG areas with related higher immediate breastfeeding rates. These results suggest that SHGs can accelerate community social capital and promote more accountability in the health system to engage with families and support the change from traditional to more evidence-based health practices.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 100522
Author(s):  
Walter S. de Boef ◽  
Samarth Singh ◽  
Pooja Trivedi ◽  
Kripal Singh Yadav ◽  
P.S. Mohanan ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongryeul Kim

  In order to find out the influence of Korean Middle School Students' relationship by science class applying STAD collaborative learning, this study conducted a social network analysis and sought to analyze the communication networks within the group and identified the change process of the type. The subject of this study was 30 students of the second grade at the girls' middle school located in Korea's Metropolitan City. For five weeks, science class applying STAD Collaborative Learning was implemented in the ‘reproduction and generation’ chapter. First, the class social network analysis showed that all the prices of density, degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality have risen after science class applying STAD Collaborative Learning. Also, the classroom's relationship index has improved. In other words, STAD Collaborative Learning encouraged interaction among students. Second, in order to research popularity, students' centrality analysis through the class social network analysis showed that top-ranked students' values of density, degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality appeared commonly high after science class applying STAD Collaborative Learning. Third, the analysis of the communication network change within six groups showed that all channel type appeared most often and circle type also appeared anew after science class applying STAD Collaborative Learning. In other words, it was possible to exchange information freely and communicate with all members of the group through STAD Collaborative Learning.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronel Davel ◽  
Adeline S. A. Du Toit ◽  
Martie M Mearns

Social network analysis (SNA) is being increasingly deployed as an instrument to plot knowledge and expertise as well as to confirm the character of connections in informal networks within organisations. This study investigated how the integration of networking into KM can produce significant advantages for organisations. The aim of the research was to examine how the interactions between SNA, Communities of Practice (CoPs) and knowledge maps could potentially influence knowledge networks. The researchers endeavour to illustrate via this question that cultivating synergies between SNA, CoPs and knowledge maps will enable organisations to produce stronger knowledge networks and ultimately increase their social capital. This article intends to present a process map that can be useful when an organisation wants to positively increase its social capital by examining influencing interactions between SNA, CoPs and knowledge maps, thereby enhancing the manner in which they share and create knowledge.


Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 653
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. McClure

This article investigates the relationship between homophily, the tendency for relationships to be more common among similar actors, and social capital in a social network of religious congregations from eight counties encompassing and surrounding a major metropolitan area in the southeastern United States. This network is inter-congregational, consisting of congregations and the relationships between them. Two types of social capital are investigated: the first involves the extent to which congregations bridge across structural holes, or bridge together otherwise disconnected congregations within the network; secondly, network closure involves the extent to which congregations are embedded in tight-knit clusters. Analyses use two types of homophily (religious and racial) to predict both outcomes, and they test linear and curvilinear relationships between both forms of homophily and the outcomes. Results indicate that congregations with moderate levels of religious homophily are more likely to bridge between otherwise disconnected congregations; however, congregations with low or high religious homophily as well as congregations with high racial homophily are more likely to be embedded in tight-knit relational clusters. This article contributes additional social network research on congregations and evidence of curvilinear relationships between homophily and social capital to the fields of social network analysis and sociology of religion.


Author(s):  
Feriel Amelia Sembiring ◽  
Fikarwin Zuska ◽  
Bengkel Ginting ◽  
Rizabuana Ismail ◽  
Henry Sitorus

Aquaculture of Cage Culture is one of the main activities carried out by the community in the village of Haranggaol to fulfill their economic needs. This cultivation business establishes a relationship between traders and cages in terms of marketing their crops. There are 3 egocentric actors in the Haranggaol area. They are collectors (entrepreneurs/farmers who own capital), namely the Rohakinian group, the Siharo group, and the Paimaham group. Through these three egocentric actors, a social network is formed with several alters. Based on the qualitative approach with use Ucinet software, the mapping of their social networks can be seen as follows: alter actors connected to the Rohakinian group are 12 farmers in the group and 2 farmers outside the group with a density of 0.033. There are 27 alter actors connected to the Siharo group, 21 from the group and 6 from outside the group with a density of 0.014. There are 27 alter actors connected to the Paimaham group, namely 36 farmers from their groups and 10 farmers outside the group with a density of 0.005. The social networks that occur between these actors are intertwined due to the existence of kinship relationships, family or close friends who know each other among them. The relationship between family, family or close friends built with mutual trust make this network integrated.


KRITIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Jos Josia Beeh ◽  
Sri Suwartiningsih ◽  
Elly Esra Kudubun

The village Bokonusan is the location on the Semau Island and the district of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. Norma and refers to the contructual obligations between members of society in accordance with the rules of the costums, trust that refer to expectation and goals together in building in accordance with the values of mutual cooperation of solidarity of the community. As for the porpouse of research to, give me a description of application of the local Dale Esa in the life together in the village Bokonusan, as well as explain the elements of what is contained in the wisdom of Dale Esa as social capital in communities Bokonusan village. The method used is a qualitatve and approach to the contructivism oh the research descriptive aksplanative. Interwoven ily tradition, a marriege, birth, death, a new garden work (teh management of the land) and conflic resolution. The application of valeu to keep in daily life as from of social interaction. In the wisdom of Dale Esa the cooperation between the community refers to social relationships between societies so that, the social network, the obligation, prohibition, the rigth have, between members of the community to help each other as a from social norm, the emergance of the hope and goals together to build together as result the trust.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jumartin Gerung

AbstrakPada kasus HIV dalam skala nasional, menunjukkan bahwa kelompok heteroseks juga termasuk sebagai kelompokutama yang paling berisiko menderita HIV/AIDS. Peningkatan ini mencolok terijadi sejak 2015 angkanya masih di 4.241 kasus, dan meningkat hingga lebih dari dua kali lipat pada 2016 yang mencapai 13.063 kasus. Data pemetaaninteraksi di sosial media khususnya wilayah Kendari terdapat sekitar 800 akun yang memberi interaksi perihal Gay.Hal ini diindikasikan akan mempengaruhi prevalensi kejadian HIV/AIDS di Kota Kendari. Penelitian ini bertujuan untukmemetakan interaksi perilaku berisiko Gay sebagai early warning system kasus HIV/AIDS. Social Network Analysismerupakan studi yang mempelajari tentang hubungan manusia dengan memanfaatkan teori graf. Penerapan SocialNetworkAnalysis dalam suatu aplikasi mampu menggambarkan relasi atau hubungan antar individu denganmelakukan visualisasi terkait centrality (titik pusat), between centrality (jalur pendek), juga closeness centrality yaknirata-rata jalur terpendek dari interaksi akun di laman FB. Untuk platform Facebook berdasarkan pada hasilpenghitungan diketahui bahwa akun yang berpengaruh terhadap interaksi jejaring sosial adalah akun Gay Kendariyang unggul pada nilai degree centrality,betweeness centrality, dan Closeness centrality. Akun Gay Kendari palingberpengaruh dalam interaksi jaringan sosial Facebook. Melalui social network analysis, penelitian ini memberikangambaran relasi perilaku berisiko LSL/Gay sebagai early warning system kasus HIV/AIDS di kota kendariKata kunci: analisis jaringan sosiai, gay, sistem peringatan dini, HIV/AIDS 


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