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Showing posts with label global health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global health. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Technologies for Development: Project Closing Conference - Nanotechnologies for Development in India, Kenya, and the Netherlands
[ This is a small but interesting interdisciplinary conference - pj ]
December 15-17, 2014. Maastricht University Brussels Campus
What is the challenge of development today? What is the role of science and technology in development? What are the problems and possibilities that emerging technosciences—such as nano-bio-technoscience—pose for development? What institutional and organizational configurations enable development? How can interdisciplinary inquiries into the social studies of science, technology, and innovation contribute to developmental agendas?
The closing conference of the NWO-WOTRO http://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-divisions/wotro sponsored project, *Nanotechnologies for Development* http://fasos-research.nl/nano-dev/, invites proposals that reflect on the relationship between science, technology, development, and innovation.
We are interested in contributions that offer insights into the historical and contemporary principles and practices of development and the role of science and technology therein. These reflections can be empirical, conceptual, or methodological. We also welcome contributions that reflect on collaboration between researchers and development practitioners. We thus invite proposals from a broad range of participants: activists, academics, development practitioners, and beyond.
The conference programme will strive to strike a balance between various approaches and perspectives and consist of keynotes, panel presentations, and a closing roundtable discussion.
The conference will be held at the Brussels campus of Maastricht University (Avenue de l’Armée / Legerlaan 10, 1040 Brussels, Belgium) on December 15-17, 2014. Participation is limited to 50 participants.
To participate, please submit a title, 500-word abstract, a list of 5 keywords, and your CV (max. 400 words) to techdev-conf-fasos AT maastrichtuniversity.nl. The deadline for sending your abstract is September 14, 2014. The conference committee will notify their decision by September 30, 2014.
December 15-17, 2014. Maastricht University Brussels Campus
What is the challenge of development today? What is the role of science and technology in development? What are the problems and possibilities that emerging technosciences—such as nano-bio-technoscience—pose for development? What institutional and organizational configurations enable development? How can interdisciplinary inquiries into the social studies of science, technology, and innovation contribute to developmental agendas?
The closing conference of the NWO-WOTRO http://www.nwo.nl/en/about-nwo/organisation/nwo-divisions/wotro sponsored project, *Nanotechnologies for Development* http://fasos-research.nl/nano-dev/, invites proposals that reflect on the relationship between science, technology, development, and innovation.
We are interested in contributions that offer insights into the historical and contemporary principles and practices of development and the role of science and technology therein. These reflections can be empirical, conceptual, or methodological. We also welcome contributions that reflect on collaboration between researchers and development practitioners. We thus invite proposals from a broad range of participants: activists, academics, development practitioners, and beyond.
The conference programme will strive to strike a balance between various approaches and perspectives and consist of keynotes, panel presentations, and a closing roundtable discussion.
The conference will be held at the Brussels campus of Maastricht University (Avenue de l’Armée / Legerlaan 10, 1040 Brussels, Belgium) on December 15-17, 2014. Participation is limited to 50 participants.
To participate, please submit a title, 500-word abstract, a list of 5 keywords, and your CV (max. 400 words) to techdev-conf-fasos AT maastrichtuniversity.nl. The deadline for sending your abstract is September 14, 2014. The conference committee will notify their decision by September 30, 2014.
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Global Research Nurses competition: win attendance to UK research nursing conference
The Global Research Nurses’ network is pleased to announce the second competition for nurses working in clinical research …
THE WINNER WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING INTERNATIONAL NURSING RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN NOTTINGHAM, UK, 20th – 22nd APRIL 2015, ALL EXPENSES PAID.
SECOND PRIZE – ONE YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO 2 ONLINE JOURNALS:
THE JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING & THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
To enter, research nurses should write a 1,000-1,500 word article to discuss the role of the research nurse: “Using examples from research projects that you have worked on discuss what skills nurses contribute to a clinical research team.”
Full information and criteria, as well as information on how to upload your entry, can be found at https://globalresearchnurses.tghn.org/extra/competition-2015/
Entries must be received by 31st October 2014. Please share this opportunity widely!
Thanks and kind regards
Tamzin
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
The Global Health Network
HIFA profile (and source): Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk
THE WINNER WILL BE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING INTERNATIONAL NURSING RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN NOTTINGHAM, UK, 20th – 22nd APRIL 2015, ALL EXPENSES PAID.
SECOND PRIZE – ONE YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO 2 ONLINE JOURNALS:
THE JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING & THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
To enter, research nurses should write a 1,000-1,500 word article to discuss the role of the research nurse: “Using examples from research projects that you have worked on discuss what skills nurses contribute to a clinical research team.”
Full information and criteria, as well as information on how to upload your entry, can be found at https://globalresearchnurses.tghn.org/extra/competition-2015/
Entries must be received by 31st October 2014. Please share this opportunity widely!
Thanks and kind regards
Tamzin
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
The Global Health Network
HIFA profile (and source): Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk
Saturday, 9 August 2014
HIFA Voices Database - launched 12 August 2014
The HIFA Voices database will bring together the experiential knowledge of HIFA members: more than 12,000 professionals from over 2500 organisations in 170 countries, ranging from senior executives at the World Health Organization in Geneva to community health workers in rural Gambia. Our common vision is a world where every person and every health professional has access to the information they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are responsible. HIFA Voices will be launched on 12 August 2014.
HIFA Voices harnesses the practical expertise of providers and users of healthcare information, together with relevant health information sciences literature. This helps us to understand the healthcare information needs of different users in different contexts and how these needs can be more effectively addressed. Further information about HIFA Voices.
Read the blog about HIFA Voices on the ElsevierConnect website, and the press release from mPowering Frontline Health Workers and Intel Corporation.
We are currently seeking further financial and technical support to enable us to develop HIFA Voices through 2015 and beyond. Please contact us for details.
My source: HIFA2015 list.
HIFA Voices harnesses the practical expertise of providers and users of healthcare information, together with relevant health information sciences literature. This helps us to understand the healthcare information needs of different users in different contexts and how these needs can be more effectively addressed. Further information about HIFA Voices.
Read the blog about HIFA Voices on the ElsevierConnect website, and the press release from mPowering Frontline Health Workers and Intel Corporation.
We are currently seeking further financial and technical support to enable us to develop HIFA Voices through 2015 and beyond. Please contact us for details.
My source: HIFA2015 list.
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Research Initiative: Test the Impact of a Radio Campaign Addressing Child Mortality
Source:
DEVELOPMENT NETWORKS - The Communication Initiative's Social Networking Space
Introduction and comments:
http://networks.comminit.com/healthcommunication/node/200774
Development Media International (DMI) is conducting a 3-year randomised controlled trial to test the hypothesis that a radio campaign can reduce the large number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Burkina Faso. As detailed at the link below (see Related Summaries), the research involves the broadcast, beginning in March 2012, of health messages using radio spots (60-second adverts) and radio phone-in programmes. With the goal of engaging the public with health issues in order to change behaviours, this is a research initiative to evaluate a public health intervention delivered to 7 randomised geographic areas (clusters) across Burkina Faso with 7 additional clusters being used as controls.
DEVELOPMENT NETWORKS - The Communication Initiative's Social Networking Space
Introduction and comments:
http://networks.comminit.com/healthcommunication/node/200774
Development Media International (DMI) is conducting a 3-year randomised controlled trial to test the hypothesis that a radio campaign can reduce the large number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Burkina Faso. As detailed at the link below (see Related Summaries), the research involves the broadcast, beginning in March 2012, of health messages using radio spots (60-second adverts) and radio phone-in programmes. With the goal of engaging the public with health issues in order to change behaviours, this is a research initiative to evaluate a public health intervention delivered to 7 randomised geographic areas (clusters) across Burkina Faso with 7 additional clusters being used as controls.
Methodologies:
Supervised by 2 people affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), this independent survey is based on interviews with 5,000 mothers in the 7 intervention zones and 7 control zones halfway into the research intervention period (midline data).
Practices:
....
"For a full summary of the midline results please go to this link where there is also a link to the DMI summary paper."
Thursday, 17 July 2014
The Global Health Research Process Map
As a conceptual ready reckoner Hodges' model helps us locate, isolate and contextualise the commonly cited 4Ps. In the h2cm matrix below I have related the 4Ps, as before, to the four care domains:
I raise this learning of a new process oriented resource for global research produced by The Global Health Network.
Think of the relationship of purpose, practice and policy in relation to triage and emergency care? When I reflect on a situation even if the priority, context is process driven I am mindful of the bigger picture.
The Global Health Network has launched a brand new, interactive Global Health Research Process Map, the first digital toolkit designed to enable researchers anywhere in the world to initiate rigorous global health research studies.
As the HIFA community know all too well, health research is often lacking in the regions where evidence to improve health is needed most. Crucial evidence is not being generated because doctors and nurses lack access to training, information, and support. Effort is also regularly duplicated or conducted using different criteria in different territories and studies, and sometimes it falls by the wayside from lack of simple resources and guidance on best practice. The Global Health Research Process Map (http://processmap.org/) is set to change this. It’s an open-access internationally-available online resource that guides every process and method needed to initiate a health research study. For each step researchers and their staff are provided with the information, support and training that they need to successfully run a health study. Researchers will also gain the opportunity to engage with their peers along the way, aiding collaboration and the spread of ideas.
The Process Map was released just over one week ago, and has already generated nearly 2,500 views from around the world. It is the product of four years of best practice gathered and refined by the research community who use the pioneering Global Health Network to guide and support their effort to conduct research in challenging settings. The Global Health Network works like an online science park for exchanging knowledge, sharing research methods and facilitating collaboration among global health professionals to fuel faster and better evidence to improve health. The Global Health Network facilitates global partnerships between researchers allowing researchers in low-resource settings and those with more support to learn from each other and conduct research studies in places where this is difficult and unusual.
The Process Map is a pioneering research tool that centralises the information and resources that researchers anywhere in the world need to develop and initiate rigorous and effective global health studies. It has the potential to revolutionise the current process, speeding the development of new drugs and vaccines, and improving how diseases are managed. With this toolkit, researchers can access the guidance, training and support that they need in order to run their own studies. This is important because there is much evidence that shows that locally-led research rarely happens in low-income settings because health workers lack research skills and any access to training and support. Therefore the Global Health Network is meeting that gap and the Global Health Research Process Map will take them through the process of conducting accurate research, step-by-step.
Visit the tool today, and click on each node to access formally written information, links to eLearning courses, guidance articles, discussions, blogs, up-to-date news, and all sorts of tools and templates which will help you complete each step. As with everything else on the Global Health Network, it’s completely free and open-access, and always will be. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated, so feel free to have a look and leave comments, either here* or on the map itself.
Thank you!
Tamzin
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
The Global Health Network
*My source: HIFA2015
individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group
| PURPOSE | PROCESS |
| PRACTICE | POLICY |
I raise this learning of a new process oriented resource for global research produced by The Global Health Network.
Processes are critical.
Think of the relationship of purpose, practice and policy in relation to triage and emergency care? When I reflect on a situation even if the priority, context is process driven I am mindful of the bigger picture.
+++++++++++++++
The Global Health Network has launched a brand new, interactive Global Health Research Process Map, the first digital toolkit designed to enable researchers anywhere in the world to initiate rigorous global health research studies.
As the HIFA community know all too well, health research is often lacking in the regions where evidence to improve health is needed most. Crucial evidence is not being generated because doctors and nurses lack access to training, information, and support. Effort is also regularly duplicated or conducted using different criteria in different territories and studies, and sometimes it falls by the wayside from lack of simple resources and guidance on best practice. The Global Health Research Process Map (http://processmap.org/) is set to change this. It’s an open-access internationally-available online resource that guides every process and method needed to initiate a health research study. For each step researchers and their staff are provided with the information, support and training that they need to successfully run a health study. Researchers will also gain the opportunity to engage with their peers along the way, aiding collaboration and the spread of ideas.
The Process Map was released just over one week ago, and has already generated nearly 2,500 views from around the world. It is the product of four years of best practice gathered and refined by the research community who use the pioneering Global Health Network to guide and support their effort to conduct research in challenging settings. The Global Health Network works like an online science park for exchanging knowledge, sharing research methods and facilitating collaboration among global health professionals to fuel faster and better evidence to improve health. The Global Health Network facilitates global partnerships between researchers allowing researchers in low-resource settings and those with more support to learn from each other and conduct research studies in places where this is difficult and unusual.
The Process Map is a pioneering research tool that centralises the information and resources that researchers anywhere in the world need to develop and initiate rigorous and effective global health studies. It has the potential to revolutionise the current process, speeding the development of new drugs and vaccines, and improving how diseases are managed. With this toolkit, researchers can access the guidance, training and support that they need in order to run their own studies. This is important because there is much evidence that shows that locally-led research rarely happens in low-income settings because health workers lack research skills and any access to training and support. Therefore the Global Health Network is meeting that gap and the Global Health Research Process Map will take them through the process of conducting accurate research, step-by-step.
Visit the tool today, and click on each node to access formally written information, links to eLearning courses, guidance articles, discussions, blogs, up-to-date news, and all sorts of tools and templates which will help you complete each step. As with everything else on the Global Health Network, it’s completely free and open-access, and always will be. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated, so feel free to have a look and leave comments, either here* or on the map itself.
Thank you!
Tamzin
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
The Global Health Network
*My source: HIFA2015
Sunday, 29 June 2014
"ICU" - Technical Haemorrhage & Chlorophyllic Clots
individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group
 |  |
ICU - Intensive Care Unit
GIS - Geographical Information System
Friday, 27 June 2014
Competition: Win attendance at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting in Oxford, UK - Deadline June 30
In order to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day, Global Health Trials is running a competition. The first prize is attendance of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) Meeting in Oxford, UK, on 25-27 September 2014, covering transport, accommodation, conference registration and living expenses. The winner and two runners-up will also win one-year fellowships with the RSTMH. Please note that the deadline for entries is June 30, 2014.
In order to enter this competition, you must be working in a research role (for example, as an investigator, nurse, field worker, lab technician or data manager, etc) and currently be working in a low or low-middle income country as defined by the world bank.
To enter, you can send us either a two-minute video you have made (you can use your smartphone) OR a photo-board (up to fifteen photos) on one of the following three topics:
Again, please note that the deadline for entries is June 30, 2014.
Please refer to the following link for more information:
https://globalhealthtrials.tghn.org/community/blogs/post/383/2014/05/global-health-trials-international-clinical-tr/
With best regards,
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
www.globalhealthtrials.org
info AT globalhealthtrials.org
The Global Health Clinical Trials ( www.globalhealthtrials.org) is an open collaboration aiming to support clinical trials in resource-limited settings by providing guidance, training, resources and career development. Please do visit and let us know what you think.
HIFA profile: Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk
My source: HIFA2015
In order to enter this competition, you must be working in a research role (for example, as an investigator, nurse, field worker, lab technician or data manager, etc) and currently be working in a low or low-middle income country as defined by the world bank.
To enter, you can send us either a two-minute video you have made (you can use your smartphone) OR a photo-board (up to fifteen photos) on one of the following three topics:
- A day in the life of our clinical trial(s)
- How we are building research capacity in our health facility
- My health research career
Again, please note that the deadline for entries is June 30, 2014.
Please refer to the following link for more information:
https://globalhealthtrials.tghn.org/community/blogs/post/383/2014/05/global-health-trials-international-clinical-tr/
With best regards,
Tamzin Furtado
Project Manager
www.globalhealthtrials.org
info AT globalhealthtrials.org
The Global Health Clinical Trials ( www.globalhealthtrials.org) is an open collaboration aiming to support clinical trials in resource-limited settings by providing guidance, training, resources and career development. Please do visit and let us know what you think.
HIFA profile: Tamzin Furtado is Project Manager of Global Health Trials, UK. Professional interests: Global health, clinical trials. tamzin.furtado AT ndm.ox.ac.uk
My source: HIFA2015
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
MEMO: .health as a top-level domain
m e m o r a n d u m
Please do not try to put a full stop to ongoing efforts to utilise the internet to benefit the true health and well-being of the world's citizens.
The work is a challenge, much has been achieved and there is great promise for the future and not merely through the quantified self, personalised medicine, biotechnology and the virtual healthcare market. ...
The self, indeed this whole effort must be assured, integrated and qualified.
This means of course that the provenance, standards and values vested in health related data, information and knowledge must be of the highest quality.
Then - we can start to think about -
Yours sincerely,
Peter Jones
Additional link:
http://www.jmir.org/2014/3/e73/
| Date: | 20 May 2014 |
| To: | ICANN |
| From: | PETER JONES |
| Subject: |  |
The work is a challenge, much has been achieved and there is great promise for the future and not merely through the quantified self, personalised medicine, biotechnology and the virtual healthcare market. ...
The self, indeed this whole effort must be assured, integrated and qualified.
This means of course that the provenance, standards and values vested in health related data, information and knowledge must be of the highest quality.
Then - we can start to think about -
Yours sincerely,
Peter Jones
Additional link:
http://www.jmir.org/2014/3/e73/
Monday, 19 May 2014
[hifa2015] World Medical Association calls for a moratorium on the sale of the .health top-level domain
Dear colleagues,
The World Medical Association has called for a moratorium on the sale of the .health top-level domain (TLD). This is significant as the WMA 'is an international organization representing approximately 9 million physicians of all specialties and sectors.'
Below are extracts from a letter from the WMA Secretary-General dated 8th March to ICANN (the body that administers internet domains). The full letter is available here:
http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/kloiber-to-chehade-et-al-11mar14-en.pdf
Best wishes,
Neil
-----
[ c/o Neil Pakenham-Walsh ]
Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare knowledge: Join HIFA www.hifa2015.org
The World Medical Association has called for a moratorium on the sale of the .health top-level domain (TLD). This is significant as the WMA 'is an international organization representing approximately 9 million physicians of all specialties and sectors.'
Below are extracts from a letter from the WMA Secretary-General dated 8th March to ICANN (the body that administers internet domains). The full letter is available here:
http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/kloiber-to-chehade-et-al-11mar14-en.pdf
'By now the ICANN Board is aware that .health is one of the ten most opposed new gTLDs...'
'... We, the World Medical Association (WMA), add our voice to recommend that the auction of the .health gTLD not go forward.'
Best wishes,
Neil
-----
[ c/o Neil Pakenham-Walsh ]
Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare knowledge: Join HIFA www.hifa2015.org
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Help Doctoori.net deliver Health Information For All
Doctoori is more than just a website. Whether you want advice on how to get fit, which super foods actually boost your health, or a guide to your pregnancy and keeping your baby healthy, we have it covered. Also if you need to see a clinician face-to-face, our find a clinic healthcare directory will give you the information you need to choose who is best for you.
Our UK based editorial team ensure all our articles are:
- Based on the latest medical evidence
- Rigorously reviewed
- Thoroughly monitored to ensure they are up to date
- In keeping with the high standards set by the Information Standard.
..... with you on your journey to better health
My source: Zain Sikafi CEO and Founder of doctoori.net - info AT doctoori.net
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Interested in writing? [ II ] Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
In the side bar beneath the bibliography (on a desktop) I've listed a few topics worthy of critical attention. The real need is to link practical application of Hodges' model and further some theoretical underpinnings for the model. This is now happening and it's quite a challenge as I chase questionnaires and write up a draft report for next week. This report is set out as a paper using an author's template from a nursing journal.
Trying to get the message out on writing about this free, holistic bandwidth defining, holistic wrangling, (self-) caring info-portal I blogged an appeal of sorts in 2010. Here we are again. The existing topics in that list relate to the original purposes of the model, plus a few 'extras':
Reflection: I'm sure that Hodges' model can complement existing and established approaches to reflection. It would be interesting to compare the use of Hodges' model with a control in clinical reflection, reflective practice with a patient/client, and in clinical or managerial supervision. (You see why this is a challenge, and I appreciate it is easy to generate suggestions!)
Curriculum development: If you need a map that incorporates an academic compass (sat-nav even) look no further. Where are the curricula hot-spots and how are they distributed?
Case formulation: There is an existing draft that needs to be revisited at some point, but the scope here is huge in terms of disciplines and applications. As mentioned above it is coming up with questions and research methods.
Holistic care: Is it time to revisit this phrase? Break it apart and put it back together if it still fits?
Is this a broken currency as it originally did not include the patient as an active participant? Is it one of several linguistic tropes, said in earnest yet what does it mean? How do we measure it? Could there be a role for Hodges' model in defining or measuring it in theory (through the health record) in practice through outcomes that are demonstrably holistic? Does this make sense...? What is this holistic bandwidth that PJ witters on about? Is an informatics metaphor too far, or this a means to a definition?
To conceptual spaces I need to add threshold concepts and there is a literature here for health and social care, something to build upon and post here....
Trying to get the message out on writing about this free, holistic bandwidth defining, holistic wrangling, (self-) caring info-portal I blogged an appeal of sorts in 2010. Here we are again. The existing topics in that list relate to the original purposes of the model, plus a few 'extras':
- reflection;
- curriculum development;
- case formulation;
- holistic care;
- conceptual spaces
Reflection: I'm sure that Hodges' model can complement existing and established approaches to reflection. It would be interesting to compare the use of Hodges' model with a control in clinical reflection, reflective practice with a patient/client, and in clinical or managerial supervision. (You see why this is a challenge, and I appreciate it is easy to generate suggestions!)
Curriculum development: If you need a map that incorporates an academic compass (sat-nav even) look no further. Where are the curricula hot-spots and how are they distributed?
Case formulation: There is an existing draft that needs to be revisited at some point, but the scope here is huge in terms of disciplines and applications. As mentioned above it is coming up with questions and research methods.
Holistic care: Is it time to revisit this phrase? Break it apart and put it back together if it still fits?
Is it a damaged good(s)?
Is this a broken currency as it originally did not include the patient as an active participant? Is it one of several linguistic tropes, said in earnest yet what does it mean? How do we measure it? Could there be a role for Hodges' model in defining or measuring it in theory (through the health record) in practice through outcomes that are demonstrably holistic? Does this make sense...? What is this holistic bandwidth that PJ witters on about? Is an informatics metaphor too far, or this a means to a definition?
To conceptual spaces I need to add threshold concepts and there is a literature here for health and social care, something to build upon and post here....
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Interested in writing?
Two items can be readily brought together here:
The latest paper on Hodges' model -
Exploring the Dimensions of Recovery and User Experience
- has progressed to the point were I am awaiting contact from the production office of the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine.
In addition to the (Post)-Graduate appeal with IPONS there may be an opportunity through h2cm. If there are any student nurses and other health care learners interested in models of care and the future, I would be pleased to offer some support on a paper. Perhaps there are personal tutors out there who could also engage? I can't offer a prize, but there is surely a prospect with the journal Advances in Nursing Sciences:
With studies of my own I can't write another paper alone, but perhaps I can help others. It's time for me to not just think about the model, but do something with it too. It feels strange finally having questions out there in the field - a small study.
Earlier this week a colleague referred to the model's elegant parsimony. This is definitely a quality of Hodges' model and one that merits exploration with new explorers.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: JS Drummond
To: NURSE-PHILOSOPHY AT JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 18:00
Nursing Philosophy (Post)-Graduate Student Essay Prize
Hi Folks,
To interested parties, there is still time to submit an entry for the (Post)-Graduate Student Essay Prize to the Journal, Nursing Philosophy.
Details are on the IPONS website. http://www.ipons.co.uk
Best Wishes,
John Drummond (IPONS)
Sent on behalf of Derek Sellman, Editor, Nursing Philosophy
The latest paper on Hodges' model -
Exploring the Dimensions of Recovery and User Experience
- has progressed to the point were I am awaiting contact from the production office of the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine.
In addition to the (Post)-Graduate appeal with IPONS there may be an opportunity through h2cm. If there are any student nurses and other health care learners interested in models of care and the future, I would be pleased to offer some support on a paper. Perhaps there are personal tutors out there who could also engage? I can't offer a prize, but there is surely a prospect with the journal Advances in Nursing Sciences:
Models of Care for the FutureI do have form here - two submissions without success - but the very helpful feedback did result in a publication elsewhere.
Vol 38:1 - June 2015
Manuscript Due Date: October 15, 2014
As nations worldwide seek to establish models of care that provide quality and efficiency, nurse leaders are emerging to play a significant role in the development of these models. For this issue of ANS we are seeking manuscripts that provide theoretical underpinnings of creative models of care, as well as evidence that supports their implementation. Manuscripts should be clearly grounded in a nursing perspective; the content can include philosophic, theoretic, empirical or ethical aspects related to the model.
With studies of my own I can't write another paper alone, but perhaps I can help others. It's time for me to not just think about the model, but do something with it too. It feels strange finally having questions out there in the field - a small study.
Earlier this week a colleague referred to the model's elegant parsimony. This is definitely a quality of Hodges' model and one that merits exploration with new explorers.
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
International Council of Women's Health; Multidisciplinary Conference - Beyond 2015: What will it take
Dear Colleagues and friends
FUNDISA with SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL as diamond partner, is hosting the -
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUE (ICOWHI) 20th conference
- from 12-14 November 2014 at the ICC in Cape Town. Please note this is a MULTIDISCIPLINARY conference and any discipline working on women's health issues or related topics are invited to submit an abstract. See the call for abstracts.
Please distribute to relevant colleagues in your network.
Kind regards
Hester
Prof Hester C. Klopper (PhD, MBA, FANSA)
President: Sigma Theta Tau International
Chief Executive Officer: FUNDISA
Professor: UWC and NWU
Office tel: +27 (0) 12 333 1415
+27 (0) 12 333 1415Twitter: @klopperhc
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Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Angling for Ideas
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| The Angler by Paul Klee (1879-1940, Switzerland) |
This is just a rock pool I reflect | So is this, even before Pollock just a single drip in the ocean |
Fishing for praise | Here we trawl, as we do we maul. Why owns the holistic ocean? Does it bleed, does it leak? Abs-orbs all angles? just? |
Image source: http://en.wahooart.com/@@/8LT48X-Paul-Klee-The-Angler
Friday, 28 March 2014
Five Fever Tales: Fact-based dramas about malaria, one of the oldest human diseases
The following radio broadcasts may be of interest:
Five Fever Tales by Lavinia Greenlaw
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yzlhk
These brief plays are very interesting as they present history in a docu-drama approach. The science behind the discovery of what the 'fever' was/is and the challenge for those who first saw new 'living' things through the microscope and then convincing the scientific establishment is quite fascinating.
The economic incentives to solving the 'fever' are also salutary and give pause for thought in considering global health today (and tomorrow - global warning) as is recognition of resistance and current genetic research programmes.
I believe these programmes are freely accessible worldwide, for a limited time period.
Five Fever Tales by Lavinia Greenlaw
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yzlhk
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| Five Fever Tales by Lavinia Greenlaw |
These brief plays are very interesting as they present history in a docu-drama approach. The science behind the discovery of what the 'fever' was/is and the challenge for those who first saw new 'living' things through the microscope and then convincing the scientific establishment is quite fascinating.
The economic incentives to solving the 'fever' are also salutary and give pause for thought in considering global health today (and tomorrow - global warning) as is recognition of resistance and current genetic research programmes.
I believe these programmes are freely accessible worldwide, for a limited time period.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
A *prospective* journal issue devoted to the "Health Career - Care Domains - Model"
Last month I was contacted regards the possibility of acting as associate editor for a journal issue devoted to Hodges' model, or a related theme.
At present with part-time studies having started in January and a residential week to following at the end of March I have rather got my hands full. I hope to post in the near future on how these studies are helping to shape my ideas.
One clear 'result' is the prompt to engage with residential and nursing homes in preparation for a 'small research study' I have to complete this northern Spring. I've two meetings organised thus far with home managers.
A journal issue is a great prospect however, a giant step in fact - for the conceptual framework and myself (I'd also contribute an editorial). Perhaps I could share this project with someone similarly minded regards the potential of Hodges' model in health and social care and without in education and informatics? It seems that this invitation will stand even if I can only pick it up in the future, end of 2015-2016...
In the sidebar, below the bibliography I've listed a publications to-do list that could be extended:
At present with part-time studies having started in January and a residential week to following at the end of March I have rather got my hands full. I hope to post in the near future on how these studies are helping to shape my ideas.
One clear 'result' is the prompt to engage with residential and nursing homes in preparation for a 'small research study' I have to complete this northern Spring. I've two meetings organised thus far with home managers.
A journal issue is a great prospect however, a giant step in fact - for the conceptual framework and myself (I'd also contribute an editorial). Perhaps I could share this project with someone similarly minded regards the potential of Hodges' model in health and social care and without in education and informatics? It seems that this invitation will stand even if I can only pick it up in the future, end of 2015-2016...
In the sidebar, below the bibliography I've listed a publications to-do list that could be extended:
- Hodges' model, structure, content and applications
- taking the 'career' out of Hodges' model and putting it back;
- curriculum development;
- reflective practice;
- case formulation;
- holistic care (and related perspectives, but in informatics, SOCIO-TECHNICAL);
- the theory - practice gap;
- threshold concepts;
- and conceptual spaces;
- integrated care;
- Nursing theory: future history - why they still matter;
- quality assurance and care values;
- multidisciplinary care and interprofessional education;
- diagrams that care;
- student contribution;
- patient, service user contribution;
- .... ?
Saturday, 8 March 2014
International Women's Day 2014 “Equality for women is progress for all” He for She
8 March is International Women’s Day, #IWD2014!
This year, the theme is “Equality for women is progress for all”.
In order to achieve gender equality, we have to change what it means to be a man. For International
Women’s Day [@UN Women] highlights in its #HeforShe initiative men leaders who stand up for gender equality.
“Women’s empowerment works for men, too. Where men and women have equal rights and opportunities, societies prosper. I am a He for She.”
-Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General.
See what other prominent men from around the world have to say:
http://owl.li/ucuvz #IWD2014
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Rare Disease Day 28 February 2014
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
I am honored to stand, in her graceful place, and shine a light on a delicate group of individuals who, nevertheless, in sheer numbers are a force to be reckoned with. Thank you, Sean Hepburn Ferrer | A disease or disorder is defined as rare in Europe when it affects fewer than 1 in 2000. A disease or disorder is defined as rare in the USA when it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans at any given time. One rare disease may affect only a handful of patients in the EU (European Union), and another touch as many as 245,000. In the EU, as many as 30 million people alone may be affected by one of over 6000 rare diseases existing.
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| In the words of Audrey Hepburn, “We cannot save everyone… but the knowledge that someone is coming to their rescue… that we care as a society is ultimately as important…”. |
group - population
Winwick Hospital remembered
Image source: Metro
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
NW England: Pathways to Health and Wealth 31st March 2014 (4-7pm)
Dear all
As discussed in our meeting, here is the website for the LU Cross Faculty KE event Pathways to Health and Wealth taking place on 31st March 2014 (4-7pm):
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/healthandwealth/
Please let me or Becky Gordon b.gordon AT lancaster.ac.uk know if you have any queries and please pass on to any of your industry connections who you think might be interested to find out what we do, how we do it and how we can help them do it too!
Thanks, Karen
Dr Karen L Wright
Peel Trust Lecturer in Biomedicine
Faculty of Health and Medicine
Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences
Furness College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG
Email: karen.wright AT lancaster.ac.uk
[ Just to note I have not attended these meetings, the post is copied here to help in a small way with local publicity. PJ ]
As discussed in our meeting, here is the website for the LU Cross Faculty KE event Pathways to Health and Wealth taking place on 31st March 2014 (4-7pm):
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/healthandwealth/
Please let me or Becky Gordon b.gordon AT lancaster.ac.uk know if you have any queries and please pass on to any of your industry connections who you think might be interested to find out what we do, how we do it and how we can help them do it too!
Thanks, Karen
Dr Karen L Wright
Peel Trust Lecturer in Biomedicine
Faculty of Health and Medicine
Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences
Furness College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG
Email: karen.wright AT lancaster.ac.uk
[ Just to note I have not attended these meetings, the post is copied here to help in a small way with local publicity. PJ ]
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