scholarly journals The Role of Culture in Health Reporting Bias

2021 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Xiaoxuan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Reporting Bias ◽  
Health Reporting

scholarly journals Constructing im/migrants and ethnic minority groups as ‘carriers of disease’: Power effects of categorization practices in tuberculosis health reporting in the UK and Germany

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-534
Author(s):  
Hella von Unger ◽  
Penelope Scott ◽  
Dennis Odukoya
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
The Uk

Migration- and ethnicity-related categories are a core feature of public health systems internationally, particularly in health reporting on communicable infectious diseases. The specific categories and classifications used differ from country to country and are subject to controversy and change. The article compares categorization practices in health reporting in the UK and Germany with regard to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis has been framed as a ‘migrants’ disease’ in recent decades and new categories were introduced to collect and report epidemiological data. We reconstruct the genesis, change and power effects of categories related to im/migrants and ethnic minority groups. In both countries, migration-related categorizations entail constructions of im/migrants as ‘carriers of disease’. However, the categories also connect with discourses on human rights, prevention, treatment and care for migrants as vulnerable groups. While this ambivalent role of migration-related categories is not unique to health statistics, the potential contribution to processes of ‘othering’ and politics of exclusion seem particularly imminent in the context of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis. Ethnicity categories used in the UK, but not in Germany, also contribute to othering through racialization and culturalization, yet at the same time provide opportunities for community participation in the discourse.

scholarly journals A re-assessment of reporting bias in event-based violence data with respect to cell phone coverage

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205316801773068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian M. Hollenbach ◽  
Jan H. Pierskalla
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Reporting Bias ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Violent Event ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the issue of possible reporting bias in media-based violent-event data and its relation to the role of communication technology in fostering collective action. We expand the work of Weidmann (2016), presenting several sensitivity analyses to determine the degree to which reporting bias may confound the relationship between communication technology and violence in a recent study that relies on event data for Africa. We find no strong evidence that suggests results on the positive relationship between communication technology and collective action in the study by Pierskalla and Hollenbach (2013) are wholly an artifact of reporting bias.

scholarly journals Mental health, reporting bias and economic transitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Brown ◽  
Mark N Harris ◽  
Preety Srivastava ◽  
Karl Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Reporting Bias ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Economic Transitions

Health reporting system in two subdistricts in Eastern Indonesia: Highlighting the role of village midwives

Midwifery ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 809-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederika Rambu Ngana ◽  
Bronwyn A. Myers ◽  
Suzanne Belton
Keyword(s):  
Reporting System ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Eastern Indonesia

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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