Stakeholder Mapping Tool for ARCH

In this article, I introduce and evaluate the use of messy map interviews. Based on messy situational maps, messy map interviews is an interview tool I have developed to facilitate understanding of elements pertinent to interviewees. I present and evaluate how the tool contributes to interview studies that aim to describe and analyse elements pertinent to interviewees. This is done by use of an exemplar of working with messy map interviews, exploring parental decision-making about human papillomavirus vaccination. Based on the results, the study shows that messy map interviews can help keep qualitative research loyal to what interviewees ascribe relevance to. Furthermore, the tool can potentially help nuance the analysis of how elements are understood by interviewees. The article concludes that messy map interviews can be a useful mapping tool that keeps interviewees’ perspectives in focus in interview studies.

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A systematic approach to context-mapping to prepare for health interventions: development and validation of the SETTING-tool in four countries

BMJ Global Health ◽

10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003221 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. e003221

Author(s):

Evelyn A Brakema ◽

Rianne MJJ van der Kleij ◽

Charlotte C Poot ◽

Niels H Chavannes ◽

Ioanna Tsiligianni ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Workers ◽

Rapid Assessment ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

Implementation Fidelity ◽

Chronic Respiratory Disease ◽

Health Interventions ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Mapping Tool ◽

Implementation Failure ◽

Development And Validation

Effectiveness of health interventions can be substantially impaired by implementation failure. Context-driven implementation strategies are critical for successful implementation. However, there is no practical, evidence-based guidance on how to map the context in order to design context-driven strategies. Therefore, this practice paper describes the development and validation of a systematic context-mapping tool. The tool was cocreated with local end-users through a multistage approach. As proof of concept, the tool was used to map beliefs and behaviour related to chronic respiratory disease within the FRESH AIR project in Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam and Greece. Feasibility and acceptability were evaluated using the modified Conceptual Framework for Implementation Fidelity. Effectiveness was assessed by the degree to which context-driven adjustments were made to implementation strategies of FRESH AIR health interventions. The resulting Setting-Exploration-Treasure-Trail-to-Inform-implementatioN-strateGies (SETTING-tool) consisted of six steps: (1) Coset study priorities with local stakeholders, (2) Combine a qualitative rapid assessment with a quantitative survey (a mixed-method design), (3) Use context-sensitive materials, (4) Collect data involving community researchers, (5) Analyse pragmatically and/or in-depth to ensure timely communication of findings and (6) Continuously disseminate findings to relevant stakeholders. Use of the tool proved highly feasible, acceptable and effective in each setting. To conclude, the SETTING-tool is validated to systematically map local contexts for (lung) health interventions in diverse low-resource settings. It can support policy-makers, non-governmental organisations and health workers in the design of context-driven implementation strategies. This can reduce the risk of implementation failure and the waste of resource potential. Ultimately, this could improve health outcomes.

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Insulating Peace: Managerial Coordination in Durable Security Complexes

International Studies Review ◽

10.1093/isr/viab015 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Konstantinos Travlos

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Regional Security ◽

Collective Intentionality ◽

South American ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

The South ◽

Mapping Tool ◽

Region I ◽

The Face ◽

Future Evaluation

Abstract I argue that insulation via managerial coordination is a key element in any explanation about the formation of political regions among states. The key role it plays is as a tool for the maintenance of intra-regional pacific relations in the face of diffusion and contagion processes, resulting from continued security linkages with excluded extra-regional states. In order to explore these dynamics, I propose a new reconceptualization of the concept of managerial coordination based on the basic framework concept mapping tool. This leads to clarity about what managerial coordination does as a dimension of insulation. It also necessitates a revamp of the scale of interstate managerial coordination as a measuring instrument of the intensity of collective intentionality toward insulation among the members of a region. I then map the region concept of durable security complex (DSC) as the scope for the enactment of managerial coordination, based on a review of existing region concepts in the new regionalist literature. I then conduct an ideographic proof-of-concept exercise on three DSCs in the presence or absence of managerial coordination. These are the Scandinavian states, the South Asian regional security complex, and the South American Norther Tier local hierarchy. The exercise provides indicators for a number of theoretical propositions worthy of future evaluation.

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Fragment-centric topographic mapping method guides the understanding of ABCG2-inhibitor interactions

RSC Advances ◽

10.1039/c8ra09789e ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (14) ◽

pp. 7757-7766 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yao Wu ◽

Xin-Ying Gao ◽

Xin-Hui Chen ◽

Shao-Long Zhang ◽

Wen-Juan Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mapping Method ◽

Topographic Mapping ◽

Ligand Interaction ◽

Mapping Tool ◽

Protein Ligand Interaction ◽

Insight Into ◽

Computational Strategy

Our study gains insight into the development of novel specific ABCG2 inhibitors, and develops a comprehensive computational strategy to understand protein ligand interaction with the help of AlphaSpace, a fragment-centric topographic mapping tool.

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