Situation Analysis of Disability Resources and Needs of Shantytowns near Lima, Peru

Individuals in shantytowns of Lima, Peru experience unique challenges due to socioeconomic status and perceived inabilities. A situation analysis using rapid ethnographic procedures was conducted to explore life with disability in shantytowns of Lima, Peru. Participants and their caregivers expressed ideas to improve social inclusion of individuals with disabilities in their communities

Exploring the Significance of Bidirectional Learning for Global Health Education

The value of bidirectional learning is emphasized both in global health and local community engagement. Conceptualizations of bidirectional learning for global health education are discussed, including implications when it is defined as mutual learning, codevelopment, or academic partnerships. Additionally, we review the relationship of bidirectional learning to different learning theories. Case studies from the field offer examples of how bidirectional learning can occur in the classroom, through academic partnerships, or both. Finally, recommendations are offered to facilitate bidirectional learning in global health education, including in identifying challenges faced by educators in lower-resourced settings who wish to offer bidirectional learning to their students through partnership with higher-resourced academic institutions

That anthropology was not for us

Special interview - Cadernos de Campo - 25 year

Design, planning and implementation lessons learnt from a surgical multi-centre randomised controlled trial

Background Increasingly, pragmatic randomised controlled trials are being used to evaluate surgical interventions, although they present particular difficulties in regards to recruitment and retention. Methods Procedures and processes related to implementation of a multi-centre pragmatic surgical randomised controlled trial are discussed. In this surgical trial, forecasting of consent rates based on similar trials and micro-costing of study activities with research partners were undertaken and a video was produced targeting recruiting staff with the aim of aiding recruitment. The baseline assessments were reviewed to ensure the timing did not impact on the outcome. Attrition due to procedure waiting time was monitored and data were triangulated for the primary outcome to ensure adequate follow-up data. Results Forecasting and costing ensured that the recruitment window was of adequate length and adequate resource was available for study procedures at multiple clinics in each hospital. Recruiting staff found the recruitment video useful. The comparison of patient-reported data collected prior to randomisation and prior to treatment provided confidence in the baseline data. Knowledge of participant dropout due to delays in treatment meant we were able to increase the recruitment target in a timely fashion, and along with the triangulation of data sources, this ensured adequate follow-up of randomised participants. Conclusions This paper provides a range of evidence-based and experience-based approaches which, collectively, resulted in meeting our study objectives and from which lessons may be transferable

A New Foundation for Sexual Social Justice: The World Health Organization’s Report on Sexual Health, Human Rights, and the Law

Social justice benefits from a unified foundation of shared basic beliefs. There are still too few global, evidence-based documents that provide standardized language and vision through which social justice standards, policy and legal actions can be created, compared and amended. This is a broad, evidence-based public health report on best practices to foster “achievement of the highest attainable standard of sexual health”. It frames this goal as intimately related to the protection of human rights, the right to non-discrimination and to health information and services. While other reports link laws impacting human rights and health, this specific focus on laws impacting human rights and sexual health (across both reproductive and non-reproductive milieus) is unique. This report demands that “states have obligations to bring their laws and regulations that affect sexual health into alignment with human rights and standards” (p. 3) and invokes “the notion of state accountability

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eThe Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia\u3c/em\u3e

Review of: Barrett, Robert. The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eWill to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival\u3c/em\u3e

Review of: Biehl, João. Will to Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2007. xiii + 466pp

Loucas, Agitadas, Doentes, ou Perigosas: Representação e Cotidiano das Internas do Hospital de Juqueri

Este artigo analisa as representações e o cotidiano das internas do Hospital de Juqueri e suas relações com a Instituição