A5042314132- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Human Rights and Development
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Health and Conflict Studies
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Ursinus College
2017-2023
University of Pennsylvania
2011-2015
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, group four researchers embarked on collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions researching social aspects HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use medium narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our method. The draws attention key features research and, in so doing, highlights explores nature, potential significance, challenges Our discussion points value process way for access portray their...
Task shifting from trained clinicians to community health workers (CHWs) is a central, primary care strategy advocated by global policy planners in resource-poor settings where professionals are scarce. The evidence base for the efficacy of these programs, however, limited—in particular, research that identifies their potential unintended consequences. Based on sustained ethnographic study CHWs working AIDS projects South Africa at height country’s epidemic, this article how structural and...
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence income-generating activities. However, households may compensate losses by reallocating tasks among household members. The data demands measuring these effects high, limiting amount of empirical evidence. In this paper, we utilize unique combination qualitative quantitative data, including biomarkers HIV, collected...
Crowding is a significant challenge for emergency centres (ECs) globally. While South Africa not alone in reckoning with high patient demand and insufficient resources to treat these patients; staff-to-patient ratios are generally lower than the Global North. The study of crowding its consequences care key research priority strengthening quality efficacy Africa. set out understand frontline staff's perspectives on Cape Town public ECs learn how they cope such high- pressure working...
Professionalism is an ideal defined as the norms or values that orient work of occupation. In practice, research derived from country settings in Global North shows how professionalism competes with market and bureaucratic priorities. Less known about nurtured subjugated to institutions postcolonial contexts South. This paper takes up study factors promote constrain one setting by contrasting South African social worker during after apartheid. wake calls for international...
A largely uncoordinated patient safety movement arose in response to the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report on safety, To Err Is Human. Two key outcomes have resulted from that movement: (a) new guidelines enlarge requirements for documenting compliance with data and (b) a obligation health care organizations create “safety culture” based “science” safety. The organizational title officer (PSO) designates member an emerging occupation charged assuming these enlarged responsibilities. This...
Abstract Community health workers (CHWs) are central to the global response crises like AIDS epidemic. Yet community work remains undervalued and undercompensated worldwide owing in large part gendered racialized contexts of care work. This paper investigates possibility occupational security for CHWs by comparing two cases from South Africa's AIDS. The first draws on ethnographic research (2007–2009) rural KwaZulu‐Natal province documents fraught formation a union representing CHWs. second...