Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Neely, Abigail H.; Nading, Alex

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.03.001

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“…Avian influenza is linked with topics related to health care personal, attitude towards pandemic outbreak and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Theme directions are widely discussed in [86], [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [25], [92], [93], [94] and [95] The themes represented by coronavirus is also highly developed and isolated. How are these respiratory and viral diseases affecting humans?…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Corona Pandemic in Social Sciences: A Review of Influential Aspects and Conceptual Structure

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Corona pandemic has affected the whole world, and it is a highly researched area in biological sciences. As the current pandemic has affected countries socially and economically, the purpose of this bibliometric analysis is to provide a holistic review of the corona pandemic in the field of social sciences. This study aims to highlight significant, influential aspects, research streams, and themes. We have reviewed 395 journal articles related to coronavirus in the field of social sciences from 2003 to 2020. We have deployed 'biblioshiny' a web-interface of the 'bibliometrix 3.0' package of R-studio to conduct bibliometric analysis and visualization. In the field of social sciences, we have reported influential aspects of coronavirus literature. We have found that the 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report' is the top journal. The core article of coronavirus literature is 'Guidelines for preventing health-care-associated pneumonia'. The most commonly used word, in titles, abstracts, author's keywords, and keywords plus, is 'SARS'. Top affiliation is 'The University of Hong Kong'. Hong Kong is a leading country based on citations, and the USA is on top based on total publications. We have used a conceptual framework to identify potential research streams and themes in coronavirus literature. Four research streams are found by deploying a co-occurrence network. These research streams are 'Social and economic effects of epidemic disease', 'Infectious disease calamities and control', 'Outbreak of COVID 19,' and 'Infectious diseases and the role of international organizations'. Finally, a thematic map is used to provide a holistic understanding by dividing significant themes into basic or transversal, emerging or declining, motor, highly developed, but isolated themes. These themes and subthemes have proposed future directions and critical areas of research.

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Section: Figure 11 Thematic Mapmentioning

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Corona Pandemic in Social Sciences: A Review of Influential Aspects and Conceptual Structure

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“…In its focus on connections, flows and networks, our paper draws on concepts of place and connection from relational and affective geography scholarship (e.g. Cummins et al, 2007 ; Neely and Nading 2017 ; Thien 2005 ). A relational approach identifies ‘places’ as “nodes in local, regional and transnational ‘flows’ of information and other resources” ( Cummins et al, 2007 : 1832), rather than as geographically bounded, and conceptualises distance/proximity as socio-relational rather than (merely) physical.…”

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Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight both global interconnectedness and schisms across place, context and peoples. While countries such as Australia have securitised their borders in response to the global spread of disease, flows of information and collective affect continue to permeate these boundaries. Drawing on interviews with Australian healthcare workers, we examine how their experiences of the pandemic are shaped by affect and evidence ‘traveling’ across time and space. Our analysis points to the limitations of global health crisis responses that focus solely on material risk and spatial separation. Institutional responses must, we suggest, also consider the affective and discursive dimensions of health-related risk environments.

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“…My approach to data collection has provided me with very broad information on livelihoods, and the tensions between global norms and the aspects of lives that people value themselves (Marsland and Prince 2012). This approach resonates with arguments geographers have made recently in favour of foregrounding "place" in critical debates on global health, rather than the dominant medical anthropological focus on health centres and single interventions, as this is crucial for understanding the broader impact of global health initiatives (see also Herrick 2017;Neely and Nading 2017).…”

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Public Servants as Development Brokers: The Shaping of INGOs’ Reducing Teenage Pregnancy Projects in Malawi’s Primary Education Sector

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2018

Forum for Development Studies

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International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) play an increasingly prominent and multifaceted role in the field of global healthas policy advocates, recipients of donor funds, and implementers of donor-funded programmes. Many such NGOs and their local affiliates have become highly professionalized and oriented towards the priorities of global-level actors, with potential negative consequences for their ability to represent the grassroots and to challenge structures of power and inequality. In this thesis, I examine the dynamics around INGO project implementation in Malawi, within the broader context of overlapping development initiatives, shifting priorities, conditions of scarcity and donor dependence, and poor health outcomes. I draw on ethnographic research conducted in rural Malawi between May 2015 and August 2016, which focused on the implementation of a Save the Children project that aimed to improve maternal health by reducing teenage pregnancies, primarily by keeping girls in school and increasing their use of reproductive health services, notably contraceptives. My ethnographic gaze is on the individuals who serve as intermediaries between donors, northern (I)NGOs and local recipients, who I conceptualise as brokers. They include INGO district staff, primary school teachers, health workers, village heads, and community representatives. Through a focus on their practices, I examine how they translate global norms and aims into programmatic practice. The thesis brings together three peerreviewed articles. The first (in Forum for Development Studies) discusses how primary school teachers deal with, and implement, various overlapping NGO initiatives targeting girls, and the implications for public sector institutions. The second article (in Medical Anthropology) examines how INGOs' programmatic focus on behaviour change interventions inadvertently results in staff blaming culture for teenage pregnancies and school dropout, reinforcing ethnic stereotypes originating in historical inequalities and previous health development initiatives which targeted harmful cultural practices. The third article (in Reproductive Health Matters) analyses the responses of village heads, midwives and women to the reintroduction of userfees for maternal health services resulting from donors' suspension of budget support, shifting national priorities, and unstable service delivery contracts. Overall, I argue that examining the practices of the brokers who implement and reshape health development initiatives can shed light on policy-to-practice gaps and how unintended consequences occur. My ethnographic research thus helps to explain why initiatives might not be sustainable despite the intention of donors and INGOs to strengthen existing public and community structures. 1 This research is led by Professor Sidsel Roalkvam, Co-Investigator Katerini Storeng, and senior researchers at the University of Malawi-Professor Blessings Chinsinga, Peter Mvula and Joseph Chunga. Fieldwork in Malawi has been carried out by three Universit...

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Global health from the outside: The promise of place-based research

Cited by 43 publications

References 71 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis of Corona Pandemic in Social Sciences: A Review of Influential Aspects and Conceptual Structure

A Bibliometric Analysis of Corona Pandemic in Social Sciences: A Review of Influential Aspects and Conceptual Structure

Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers’ experiences of COVID-19

Public Servants as Development Brokers: The Shaping of INGOs’ Reducing Teenage Pregnancy Projects in Malawi’s Primary Education Sector

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