Contextual Analysis

Iversen, Gudmund R.

doi:10.4135/9781412983785

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“…Through personal accounts across a 20-year period in Northern Ireland, it became apparent that people experience the effects of trauma many years after the events. Considering the reasons for long-term effects of trauma and to bridge the gap between this kind of individualistic microlevel analysis and a more general macrolevel analysis, we used a contextual analysis framework (Iversen, 1991;Kawachi, Kennedy, & Glass, 1999) developed by Dillenburger and Keenan (2005) that included trauma-related factors, individual variables, level of social support, and cultural/societal factors.…”

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Long-Term Effects of Political Violence: Narrative Inquiry Across a 20-Year Period

2008

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The study of long-term effects of political violence generally concentrates on effects of a single event or period of violence on individuals or groups of individuals and commonly relies on recollections from those who experienced violence a long time after the event. Against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's Troubles, in this article we use narrative inquiry methodology to explore the long-term effects of violence across a 20-year period on a different level. Using two sets of interview data, one collected 20 years ago during a period of intense violence and the other collected recently, after the ceasefires when levels of community violence had decreased, we allow for comparisons of contemporaneous experiences and personal narratives that illustrate differences and similarities across a 20-year period. Personal accounts of violent experiences, individual coping and psychological health, social support needs and provision, and political and cultural change mirrored fluctuating levels of community violence across time, showed growing levels of societal awareness of victims' issues and increasing levels of service provision, and illustrated the effects of postceasefire violence.

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Long-Term Effects of Political Violence: Narrative Inquiry Across a 20-Year Period

2008

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“…Individualistic fallacy occurs when population patterns of outcomes of interest are erroneously presumed to be explained only by individual-level characteristics. One strategy to avoid this bias, chiefly used in social science research, is contextual analysis and multilevel or hierarchical models (15,20,38,78). In this approach, models use both individual-and group-level data to examine how each contributes to the individual-level outcome of interest.…”

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Measuring Social Class in US Public Health Research: Concepts, Methodologies, and Guidelines

Krieger

Williams

Moss

1997

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Increasing social inequalities in health in the United States and elsewhere, coupled with growing inequalities in income and wealth, have refocused attention on social class as a key determinant of population health. Routine analysis using conceptually coherent and consistent measures of socioeconomic position in US public health research and surveillance, however, remains rare. This review discusses concepts and methodologies concerning, and guidelines for measuring, social class and other aspects of socioeconomic position (e.g. income, poverty, deprivation, wealth, education). These data should be collected at the individual, household, and neighborhood level, to characterize both childhood and adult socioeconomic position; fluctuations in economic resources during these time periods also merit consideration. Guidelines for linking census-based socioeconomic measures and health data are presented, as are recommendations for analyses involving social class, race/ethnicity, and gender. Suggestions for research on socioeconomic measures are provided, to aid monitoring steps toward social equity in health.

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“…33 This perspective seeks to extend epidemiologic frameworks beyond the "individualization of risk" (i.e., the attribution of risk to behavioral, attitudinal, personality, or other traits of individuals) to environmental or social context influences affecting populations. [34][35][36] An important example of contextual analysis in HIV prevention research among IDUs is Kaplan and Heimer's 37,38 circulation theory, which posits and has found evidence supporting the hypothesis that the shorter the time a syringe remains in circulation on the street, the less likely it will transmit HIV or hepatitis. Susser 39 has termed this type of approach a mixed study because it investigates the effects of independent context variables on individual-level dependent variables (e.g., HIV infection).…”

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Neighborhood Differences in Patterns of Syringe Access, Use, and Discard Among Injection Drug Users: Implications for HIV Outreach and Prevention Education

Buchanan

Shaw

Teng

et al. 2003

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Me

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Contextual Analysis

Cited by 88 publications

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Long-Term Effects of Political Violence: Narrative Inquiry Across a 20-Year Period

Long-Term Effects of Political Violence: Narrative Inquiry Across a 20-Year Period

Measuring Social Class in US Public Health Research: Concepts, Methodologies, and Guidelines

Neighborhood Differences in Patterns of Syringe Access, Use, and Discard Among Injection Drug Users: Implications for HIV Outreach and Prevention Education

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