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Variation in the interpretation of scientific integrity in community-based participatory health research

Kraemer Diaz, Anne E.; Spears Johnson, Chaya R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 134-142

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become essential in health disparities and environmental justice research; however, the scientific integrity of CBPR projects has become a concern. Some concerns, such as appropriate research training, lack of access to resources and finances,...

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“They arrested me for loving a schoolgirl”: Ethnography, HIV, and a feminist assessment of the age of consent law as a gender-based structural intervention in Uganda

Parikh, Shanti A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1774-1782

in ways that may be undetected in conventional public health evaluation techniques but that are crucial for designing and …

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Effects of an HIV peer prevention intervention on sexual and injecting risk behaviors among injecting drug users and their risk partners in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam: A randomized contr...

Go, Vivian F.; Frangakis, Constantine; Le Minh, Nguyen; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 96 (2013) C, pp. 154-164

Globally, 30% of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa involve injecting drug users (IDU) and in many countries, including Vietnam, HIV epidemics are concentrated among IDU. We conducted a randomized controlled trial in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, to evaluate whether a peer oriented behavioral...

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Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala

Berry, Nicole S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 344-351

This article focuses on current trends in scholarly literature concerning the evaluation of short-term medical missions … evaluated, they tend to (1) produce their own criteria for evaluation, and (2) evaluate themselves based on metrics that … created an evaluation environment where critical questions are not asked. Unless these hard questions are addressed, short …

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Exploring complex causal pathways between urban renewal, health and health inequality using a theory-driven realist approach

Mehdipanah, Roshanak; Manzano, Ana; Borrell, Carme; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 266-274

Barcelona's (Spain) most deprived neighbourhoods. We present evidence from two studies on the health evaluation of the … development and evaluation. …

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Maximising health versus sharing: Measuring preferences for the allocation of the health budget

Richardson, Jeff; Sinha, Kompal; Iezzi, Angelo; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1351-1361

Empirical evidence indicates that people consider sharing health resources to be important even in the absence of the attributes usually associated with equity (age, social class, ethnicity, disease severity or geographic location). If government is to take account of these preferences then...

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Realist randomised controlled trials: A new approach to evaluating complex public health interventions

Bonell, Chris; Fletcher, Adam; Morton, Matthew; Lorenc, Theo - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2299-2306

Randomized trials of complex public health interventions generally aim to identify what works, accrediting specific intervention ‘products’ as effective. This approach often fails to give sufficient consideration to how intervention components interact with each other and with local context....

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Agency and implementation: Understanding the embedding of healthcare innovations in practice

May, Carl - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 26-33

An innovation is almost never a thing-in-itself. To be sure, there is often what looks like a thing – a newly invented or modified way of thinking or acting, or an artifact, or a system – that is identified in everyday talk as something new. In healthcare, as in almost every other area of...

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Training traditional birth attendants to use misoprostol and an absorbent delivery mat in home births

Prata, Ndola; Quaiyum, Md. Abdul; Passano, Paige; Bell, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 11, pp. 2021-2027

A 50-fold disparity in maternal mortality exists between high- and low-income countries, and in most contexts, the single most common cause of maternal death is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). In Bangladesh, as in many other low-income countries, the majority of deliveries are conducted at home by...

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A causal loop analysis of the sustainability of integrated community case management in Rwanda

Sarriot, Eric; Morrow, Melanie; Langston, Anne; Weiss, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 147-155

-scale project evaluation to identify factors affecting iCCM sustainability (2011). We then (2012) used causal-loop analysis to …

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