scholarly journals Designing Participatory Needs Assessments to Support Global Health Interventions in Time-Limited Settings: A Case Study From Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110024
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Lynch ◽  
Adeleye D. Omisore ◽  
Olusola Famurewa ◽  
Olalekan Olasehinde ◽  
Oluwole Odujoko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Health Project

Social scientists have advocated for the use of participatory research methods for Global Health project design and planning. However, community-engaged approaches can be time and resource-intensive. This article proposes a feasible framework for conducting a participatory needs assessment in time-limited settings using multiple, triangulated qualitative methods. This framework is outlined through a case study: a participatory needs assessment to inform the design of an ultrasound-guided biopsy training program in Nigeria. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for Nigerian women and most cases in Nigeria are diagnosed at an advanced stage; timely diagnosis is impeded by fractious referral pathways, costly imaging equipment, and limited access outside urban centers. The project involved participant observation, surveys, and focus groups at the African Research Group for Oncology (ARGO) in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Through this timely research and engagement, participants spoke about diagnostic challenges, institutional power dynamics, and infrastructure considerations for program implementation.

A Place for All at the Global Health Table: A Case Study about Creating an Interprofessional Global Health Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 907-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Rowthorn
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Project ◽  
The One

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.

Global Health Project for Maternal Child Health in a Developing Country: Case Study in Tigray, Ethiopia

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Sook Bang ◽  
Insook Lee ◽  
Young-Sook Park ◽  
Sun-Mi Chae ◽  
Hyunju Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Maternal Child Health ◽  
Country Case Study ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Maternal Child

Foster Youth Perspectives: How Foster Youth Navigate and Mobilize Their Rights within the Foster Care System

2021 ◽  
pp. 016059762199154
Author(s):  
Jessennya Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Youth ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Youth Rights ◽  
Care System

This paper explores the grounded realities of how foster youth attempt to improve their own lives by navigating the foster care system. From 2014 to 2016 in southern California, I conducted life history interviews with eight foster youth; interviewed two legal representatives; administered questionnaires to two social workers; and conducted participant observation. Referencing the California Foster Care Bill of Rights and deploying the legal mobilization model, interviews with foster youth focused on their perceptions about rights and how they seek redress for violations to their rights. Their experiences expose the system’s preoccupation with bureaucratic procedures, rather than teaching or acknowledging specific or written rights. Interlocutors aggregately experienced forty rights violations, variously responding with the following modes of action: Doing nothing; Non-Legal action; and Formal-Legal action. In all instances, their knowledge (or lack thereof) about their rights and the foster care system critically informed their actions and revealed their awareness of the power dynamics within the system. This case study centers foster youth perspectives and narratives which are important for identifying effective alternatives that ensure foster youth rights, mobilization for when rights are violated, and ultimately center their voices and power.

Community health needs assessment: a nurses’ global health project in Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Cho ◽  
H. Lee ◽  
S. Yoon ◽  
Y. Kim ◽  
P.F. Levin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Community Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Health Project

Power in the Parish

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-131
Author(s):  
Brett C. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Depth Interviews

Catholic parishes in the United States are complex organizations (where multiple communities coexist and interact). Relying on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a case study approach, this chapter explores three parishes in Southern California that showcase the complexity of interactions among different racial and ethnic communities. These parishes are shared in various configurations by white, Latino, Black, and Asian parishioners, and this chapter illuminates the power dynamics of race and ethnicity as they work themselves out in American life. In shared parishes, the cultural work of constructing Catholic identity necessarily involves deploying distinct cultural expressions of Catholicism shaped by broader power dynamics of race, ethnicity, and language. This chapter lays bare this process as parishes illustrate power-in-action, with parish interactions variously producing, perpetuating, and challenging existing power dynamics and race relations.

“Put the Jesuit Out Front”: How a Catholic, Jesuit University Addresses LGBQ Issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1592-1624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce E. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Catholic Higher Education ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Document Review

The campus climate for LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) communities in higher education has improved, but not necessarily at religiously affiliated institutions. This case study explores how faculty, staff, and students at a Jesuit, Catholic university address LGBQ issues through interviews, participant observation, and document review. Findings revealed that participants employed a variety of tactics adapted for the Catholic higher education context like Safe Space programming, opportunities for intellectual discourse, and leveraging the curriculum. To navigate institutional power dynamics, participants utilized framing issues as congruent with the university’s mission and engaged influential allies like Jesuit priests. This study holds implications for navigating organizational power dynamics in higher education and addressing the tension posed by addressing LGBQ issues on religiously affiliated campuses.

Dreaming partnership, enabling inequality: administrative infrastructure in global health science

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-208
Author(s):  
Johanna T. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Global Health Research ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
International Partnerships ◽  
Fiscal Administration

AbstractThis article examines the fiscal and administrative infrastructures underpinning global health research partnerships between the US and Uganda, and the power dynamics they entail. Science studies scholars and anthropologists have argued for the importance of studying so-called ‘boring things’ – standards, bureaucracies, routinization, codes and databases, for example – as a way to bring to the surface the assumptions and power relations that often lie embedded within them. This article focuses on fiscal administration as an understudied ethnographic object within the anthropology of global health. The first part of the article is a case study of the fiscal administration of a US–Uganda research partnership. The second part describes the institutionalization of some of the administrative norms and practices used by this partnership within the ‘global health enabling systems’ employed by US universities working in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa. I analyse a case study and ‘enabling systems’ to show how these administrative strategies create parallel infrastructures that avoid direct partnership with Ugandan public institutions and may facilitate the outsourcing of legal and financial risks inherent in international partnerships to Ugandan collaborators. In this way, these strategies act to disable rather than enable (or build) Ugandan research and institutional capacity, and have profound implications for African institutions as well as for the dream of ‘real partnership’ in global health.

scholarly journals The Post-Conflict Colombia Public Health Project: A Global Health Diplomacy Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
C. Arbelaez ◽  
P. Soskin ◽  
G. Greenough ◽  
M. Vanrooyen ◽  
J. Snyder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Global Health Diplomacy ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Health Project

Film Marketing: the Case of the New Horizons Association

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Marcin Ptasznik
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Marketing Actions

Approaches to marketing actions in culture are exhibiting rising significance in the modern dynamically changing environment. This paper is focused on the identification of possible applications of marketing in the sphere of culture, with particular reference to the film industry, field of operations of the New Horizons Association. The author’s research was based on a literature study, participant observation, and an online questionnaire, enabling creation of a case study on the New Horizons Association. Empiri-cal research allowed for exploration of the perception of marketing actions of this organization, as well as identifying possible directions for its development. Changes in the needs of modern consumers are related to ongoing virtualization and globalization of culture, and allow for academic discussion about the future of innovative cultural institutions and audio-visual ventures, including within the context of the current global coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

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