Appointment of Leader Position: Study on the Regional Government of West Nusa Tenggara

This study aims to develop a model for leadership appointment positions in the Regional Government of Nusa Tenggara Barat. Using Yin multi case study method, data collection was carried out through observation, tracing and document analysis as well as in-depth interviews with informants consisting of two clusters (K-I and K-II). This research found that competence supports meritocracy, because the higher the competence, the better the meritocracy value. Meritocracy get the most dominant element, and political intervention has a negative role on employees and hinders the implementation of meritocracy, however, political functions in policy formulation and political control over the bureaucracy are needed. Local wisdom strengthens values ​​of morality and integrity so as to fortify the unfair competition between civil servants and the discretion of regional heads. Talent management as urgent factor considering that more than half of the human resources are in a critical age. The study recommends developing a model for leadership appointment position with local wisdom and talent management elements that reinforce competence and meritocracy and inhibit political discretion towards superior performing leaders.

Homeopathy and Collective Health: The Case of Dengue Epidemics

This paper describes experiences of the use of homeopathy in the prevention and treatment Dengue fever in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. May 2001, a single dose of the homeopathic remedy Eupatorium perfoliatum 30cH was given to 40% of residents of the most highly affected neighborhood. Thereafter, Dengue incidence decreased by 81.5%, a highly significant decrease as compared with neighborhoods that did not receive homeopathic prophylaxis (p lower 0.0001). Between April and September 2007, a homeopathic complex composed of Eupatorium perfoliatum, Phosphorus and Crotalus horridus 30cH, given to 20,000 city residents. This trial was aborted prematurely due to national political intervention; therefore, only partial and isolated data could be recorded. However, the results suggest that homeopathy may be effective in the prevention and treatment of Dengue epidemics. Keywords: Homeopathy; public health; Epidemic; Dengue.  Homeopatia e Saúde Coletiva: o caso da epidemia de Dengue Resumo Este artigo descreve a prescrição do tratamento homeopático na prevenção e tratamento da Dengue, na cidade de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil. Em Maio de 2001, uma dose única do medicamento Eupatorium perfoliatum 30 cH foi adminstrado a 40% dos moradores de uma das regiões mais afetadas pelo vírus. Observou-se uma redução de 81,5% na incidéncia da Dengue, resultado altamente significativo quando comparado com as regiões vizinhas que não receberam o tratamento homeopático (p menor 0.0001). Entre Abril e Setembro de 2007, foi administrado um complexo homeopático composto de Eupatorium perfoliatum, Phosphorus and Crotalus horridus 30cH, para 20.000 moradores. O tratamento foi interrompido prematuramente devido àintervenção de órgãos oficial da Saúde. Em conseqüéncia disso, apenas dados parciais e isolados puderam ser obtidos. Mesmo assim, estes resultados sugerem que a Homeopatia pode ser efetiva na prevenção e tratamento da epidemia de Dengue. Palavras-chave: Homeopatia, Saúde Pública, Epidemia, Dengue.  Homeopatia y Salud Coletiva: el caso de la epidemia de Dengue. Resumen Este documento describe las experiencias de la utilización de la homeopatía en la prevención y el tratamiento del Dengue en São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil. En mayo de 2001, una sola dosis del remedio homeopático Eupatorium perfoliatum 30cH se dio a 40% de los residentes en los barrios más afectados. Posteriormente, la incidencia de dengue disminuyó en un 81,5%, una disminución muy significativa en comparación con los barrios que no recibiron la profilaxia homeopática (p menor 0,0001). Entre abril y septiembre de 2007, un complejo homeopático compuesto de Eupatorium perfoliatum, Phosphorus y Crotalus horridus 30cH, fue administrado a 20.000 residentes de la ciudad. Este tratamiento fue interrumpido prematuramente debido a la intervención de agencias governamentales de Salud, por lo tanto, sólo datos parciales y aislados pudieron ser registrados. Sin embargo, los resultados sugieren que la homeopatía puede ser eficaz en la prevención y el tratamiento de epidemias de dengue. Palabras-clave: Homeopatía, la salud pública; epidémico; dengue.  Correspondence author: Renan Marino, [email protected] How to cite this article: Marino R. Homeopathy and Collective Health: The Case of Dengue Epidemics. Int J High Dilution Res [online]. 2008 [cited YYYY Mmm DD]; 7(25): 179-185. Available from: http://journal.giri-society.org/index.php/ijhdr/article/view/312/373. ÂÂÂ

Behavior Analysis of Legislators in Health Planning in South Sulawesi Province

Health is political because its social determinants are easily accepted in political intervention. Therefore, the health system of a region mandates that health development will take place well if it is supported by good and targeted planning. The purpose of this study is to analyze the behavior of legislators in planning health services in South Sulawesi Province. The research was conducted in the DPRD of Makassar City and Bantaeng Regency. This type of research is a qualitative research. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, observation and document review. Data processing was carried out using triangulation and content analysis methods. The results showed that based on indicators of knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and actions of legislators were in the poor category. In addition, it was known that there was an interest from legislators in terms of health planning, but this interest was indirectly in the interest of improving public health status.

Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s

This article examines the biopower of non-Han bodies by considering the intersections of anthropology, racial science, and colonial regimes. During the 1930s and 1940s, when extensive anthropometric research was being undertaken on non-Han populations in the south-western borderlands of China, several anthropologists studied non-Han groups under the aegis of frontier administration. Chinese scholars sought to generate the physical characteristics of ethnic minority groups in the south-west of China, through the methodology of body measurement, in order to identify forms of social and political intervention in the management of the non-Han population in wartime. This article examines the global transmission of Western social science in China, highlighting the local reception of Western racial taxonomy. Non-Han bodies were represented as a subcategory of the Mongolian/‘Yellow’ race through anthropometric research. The body measurements of non-Han people were used to demonstrate physical similarities between the Han and various ethnic minority groups in order to evoke a unified Zhonghua minzu (Chinese ethnicity) that embraced both the Han Chinese and frontier ethnic minority groups.

Efektivitas Proses Rekrutmen Pegawai Negeri Sipil di Sekretariat Pendidikan Wilayah Administratif Khusus Oekusi Ambeno – Timor Leste

This research focuses on the process of recruitment of civil servants, referring to the effectiveness that must be carried out properly, provide useful results and achieve goals. Secretariat of Education, Special Administrative Region of Oecusi, Timor Leste conducts recruitment to find, find applicants and produce civil servants who have the quality, ability, competence and knowledge as needed. In examining the effectiveness of the recruitment process, qualitative research types are used which are defined in various ways according to the viewpoints used by experts. There are three findings found in this study, namely a) violations of administrative requirements, b) the recruitment process is ineffective and does not meet recruitment standards, and c) there is compromise and political intervention. Closing the results of the research, this article in addition to providing informative contributions but also as a reference material in conducting or improving an effective recruitment process in the future.

Multisituated

In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology’s myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research.

Wounaan Storying as Intervention: Storywork in the Crafting of a Multimodal Illustrated Story Book on People and Birds

A growing body of scholarship addresses what Indigenous peoples have always known: stories are critically important to who we are and how to be in the world. For Wounaan, an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, ancestors’ stories are no longer frequently told. As part of the Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam (National Wounaan Congress) and Foundation for the Development of Wounaan People’s project on bird guiding, birds and culture, and forest restoration in Panama, we leveraged the publication requirement as political intervention and anticolonial practice in storying worlds. This article is the story of our storying, the telling and crafting of an illustrated story book that honors Wounaan convivial lifeworlds, Wounaan chain döhigaau nemchaain hoo wënʌʌrrajim/Los niños wounaan, en sus aventuras vieron muchas aves/The Adventures of Wounaan Children and Many Birds. Here, we have used video conference minutes and recordings, voice and text messages, emails, recollections, and a conference co-presentation to show stories as Indigenous method and reality, as epistemological and ontological. We use a narrative form to weave together our collaborative process and polish the many storying decisions on relationality, time, egalitarianism, movement, rivers, embodiment, and verbal poetics through an everyday adventure of siblings and birds. Available as a multimodal illustrated story book in digital audio and print, we conclude by advocating for new media to further storying Indigenous lifeworlds.

Publishing more than reviewing? Some ethical musings on the sustainability of the peer review process

Based on our editorial experience, and acknowledging the regular editor grievances about reviewer disengagement at professional meeting and conferences, in this article we argue that the review system is in need of significant repair. We argue that this has emerged because an audit culture in academia and individual incentives (like reduced teaching loads or publication bonuses) have eroded the willingness of individuals to engage in the collective enterprise of peer-reviewing each others’ work on a quid pro quo basis. In response to this, we emphasise why it is unethical for potential reviewers to disengage from the review process, and outline the implications for our profession if colleagues publish more than they review. Designed as a political intervention in response to reviewer disengagement, we aim to ‘politicise’ the review process and its consequences for the sustainability of the scholarly community. We propose three pathways towards greater reviewer engagement: (i) senior scholars setting the right kind of ‘reviewer’ example; (ii) journals introducing recognition awards to foster a healthy reviewer progression path and (iii) universities and accreditation bodies moving to explicitly recognise reviewing in workload models and evaluations. While all three proposals have merit, the latter point is especially powerful in fostering reviewer engagement as it aligns individual and institutional goals in ‘measurable’ ways. In this way, ironically, the audit culture can be subverted to address the imbalance between individual and collective goals.

Searching for sustainable cities: residents’ perceptions on the implementation of sustainable cities in Malaysia

There has been considerable interest in the research of sustainable cities in developing countries such as Malaysia. This paper will review urban residents’ perceptions of the ways that sustainable cities are being planned and produced in Malaysia. In particular, this article analyses urban residents’ perceptions of planners’ roles in the context of diverse aspirations for sustainable cities. Data collected from in-depth interviews and survey revealed that the communication between urban residents and planners tends to be ‘one way’ and there are ‘too many’ unnecessary political intervention in planning for sustainable cities. Although public participation allows urban residents to participate in the planning process, the residents’ opinions tend to be ignored as there is a minority but a powerful and affluent group that dominated the process. Our data also revealed that neighbourhood planning tends to include ‘everything’ under the umbrella of sustainability, but with little practical execution on the ground. Thus, we can conclude that the implementation of sustainable development is still a challenge in Malaysian cities.

Process and Practices of Community Participation in School Education of Nepal

Formally, community participation in schools was started after the establishment of democracy. It has really a good influence on development of physical infrastructure and efficient use of local resources for school development. In this context, this article analyses the existing situation of level of participation and struggle of member of SMC experiences while they are working as authority’s persons. It is a drawing upon a grounded theory. The site and sample both are purposive and information was also collected by open-ended interview with real stakeholders. This article argues that poor language and economic status as well as lack of awareness of community people, political intervention and differences between home and school culture are subjected to what fairer terms of difficulty of community participation within schools for backward society with illustration how such problems influence on participatory decision making practice in school. This article emphasizes the need of education policy; it is obviously based on the society’s socio-economic and intellectual capacity.