Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Global-local Divides and Ontological Politics: Feminist Health Workers in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This theoretical paper argues that Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can help advance the emancipatory project in critical Ed Tech research. To support this claim, we deploy Tsing’s concept of ‘scale-making ... -
Service Delivery Transformation for UHC in Asia and the Pacific
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)This article was drafted as part of a review of strategiesfor making progress toward universal health coverage in the coun-tries of Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on strengthening thedelivery of services, in the context ... -
Next Steps Towards Universal Health Coverage Call for Global Leadership
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)Universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as a priority for international development by the G20, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly. Since it was explicitly incorporated into ... -
The role of regional health diplomacy on data sharing. The SADC and UNASUR cases
(Berghahn Books, 2019)English abstract: Health governance has become multi-layered as the combined result of decentralization, regional integration and the emergence of new actors nationally and internationally. Whereas this has enhanced the ... -
Collective Health and Regional Integration in Latin America: An Opportunity for Building a New International Health Agenda
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)From its origins, the Latin American Social Medicine and the Collective Health (LASM/CH) movements have focused on thinking about health from and for the region. After the implementation of neoliberal policies, social ... -
Introduction: Multi-level Health Governance and Health Diplomacy. Regional Dimensions
(Berghahn Books, 2019)This introduction to the special section explores the nexus between global health governance and international health diplomacy. In these dynamic governance spaces, particular aĴ ention is paid ... -
Building a Regional Health Agenda: A Rights-based Approach to Health in South America
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Attention to health policies in Southern regional organisations reveals a new ‘social turn’ in the regional political economy of international cooperation. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, it aims to establish ... -
Global Approaches to Social Policy: a Survey of Analytical Methods
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2018)The broader question addressed by this paper is whether social policy can still be understood as the outcome of sociopolitical forces exclusively rooted in and playing out through domestic spheres of governance. This ... -
Foreign Aid, Cashgate and Trusting Relationships Amongst Stakeholders: Key Factors Contributing to (mal) functioning of the Malawian Health System
(Oxford University Press/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2019)Malawi has a long history of receiving foreign aid, both monetary and technical support, for itshealth and other services provision. In the past two decades, foreign aid has increased, with theaim of the country being able ... -
New Forms of Development: Branding Innovative Ideas and Bidding for Foreign Aid in the Maternal and Child Health Service in Nepal
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2018)Nepal has been receiving foreign aid since the early 1950s. Currently, the country’s health care systemis heavily dependent on aid, even for the provision of basic health services to its people. Globally, the mechanismfor ... -
Policy development: An analysis of disability inclusion in a selection of African Union policies
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Contemporary debates in international development discourse are concerned with the non‐tokenistic inclusion and participation of marginalized groups in the policy‐making process in developing countries. This is directly ... -
Success in Africa: People with Disabilities Share Their Stories
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Whereas most narratives of disability in sub-Saharan Africa stress barriers and exclusion, Africans with disabilities appear to show resilience and some appear to achieve success. In order to promote inclusion ... -
The Impact of an Inclusive Education Intervention on Teacher Preparedness to Educate Children with Disabilities within the Lakes Region of Kenya
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)There has been little empirical study within low- and middle-income countries on how to effectively prepare teachers to educate children with disabilities. This paper reports on the impact of an intervention designed to ... -
Supporting Children with Disabilities in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: Promoting Inclusive Practice within Community-Based Childcare Centres in Malawi through a Bioecological Systems Perspective
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)Given the narrow scope and conceptualisation of inclusion for young children with disabilities in research within low- and middle income countries (LMICs) contexts, we draw on a bioecological systems perspective to propose ... -
The Capacity of Community-based Participatory Research in Relation to Disability and the SDGs
(Disability and the Global South, 2017)This paper has highlighted an alignment between the aims of the 2030 Agenda and the nature of disability-focused CBPR. It has also demonstrated CBPR in practice in the global South and raised tensions and dilemmas that ... -
Health System Innovations: Adapting to Rapid Change
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-09)This paper introduces the Thematic Issue on Innovation in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. -
'We Have the Internet in Our Hands’: Bangladeshi College Students’ Use of ICTs For Health Information
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-20)Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) which enable people to access, use and promote health information through digital technology, promise important health systems innovations which can challenge gatekeepers’ ... -
Introduction to Multimedia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)This is the Introduction to multimedia for IDS Bulletin 49.2, 'Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage'. -
Accountability and Generating Evidence for Global Health: Misoprostol in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in Nepal. Compounded by the remote terrain, endemic poverty, and a lack of access to health facilities, the use of misoprostol has advantages ... -
Key Considerations for Accountability and Gender in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)This article poses questions, challenges, and dilemmas for health system researchers striving to better understand how gender shapes accountability mechanisms, by critically examining the relationship between accountability ...