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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2017 Over the time since 1990, as the world strive for reducing child mortality, there has been a clustering of child mortality estimates in developing countries.
Siddiqui MB, Ng CW, Low WY
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Cultural imperatives and the ethics of verbal autopsies in rural Ghana
Global Health Action, 2013 Due to a paucity of statistics from vital registration systems in developing countries, the verbal autopsy (VA) approach has been used to obtain cause-specific mortality data by interviewing lay respondents on the signs and symptoms experienced by the deceased prior to death. In societies where the culture of mourning is adhered to, the use of VA could
Raymond Akawire Aborigo +4 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secure and automated sharing of medical information among different medical entities/stakeholders like patients, hospitals, doctors, law enforcement agencies, health insurance companies etc., in a standard format has always been a challenging problem. Current methods for ensuring compliance with medical privacy laws require specialists who are
Imran Khan +5 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2018 Background Deaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information.
Riley H. Hazard +7 more
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Brief report. Validation study of a verbal autopsy method for causes of childhood mortality in Namibia [PDF]
, 1996 C. Mobley
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
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Maternal mortality in rural Varanasi: Delays, causes, and contributing factors
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019 Background: Pregnancy and motherhood are natural processes and considered to be full of positive experiences. However, for various reasons many women end up dying during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Kalpana Kumari +3 more
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Computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies: revolution or evolution? [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Scientific revolution and the clinico-pathological paradigm In this edition of Population Health Metrics, a series of papers describes new, automated methods for analyzing verbal autopsy questionnaires. Are we witnessing a revolution in the computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies?
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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