Working with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation : what and how

Description of funded research paper for Gates Foundation on the subject of "Patient-Centric Healthcare Supply Chains in sub-Saharan Africa: State of the Art and Possible Implications

Stockout eliminator : the objectives and design of the eZICS technical solution in Zambia

The goal of the eZICS project is the development and pilot testing of a rational, sustainable, transparent and scalable supply chain management system that will improve access to essential drugs at the point of service delivery

Integrating Remote Sensing/GIS Methods in Housing Analysis

This paper develops a methodology for integrating Remote Sensing and GIS techniques to identify low income informal homestead subdivisions (AKA colonias) in peri-urban areas of US metropolitan areas. Unlike their self-build counterparts in Latin American cities, housing production is self-managed (trailers and manufactured homes), situated on poorly or un-serviced lots. Now that we have begun to understand the logic and rationale underpinning their existence, and know where (spatially), and what (physical) “footprints”, to look for, this paper will present data for central Texas in order to report on the methodology adopted to identify and quantify these peri-urban settlement phenomenaPeer Reviewe

Learning from Latin America’s Informal Sector

The essay reviews the following works: Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street. Edited by Jason Corburn and Lee Riley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 315. $34.95, paperback. ISBN: 9780520281073.   Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America. Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 293.$24.95, paperback. ISBN: 9780822355335.   Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City. By Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 334. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822360452.   Housing and Belonging in Latin America. Edited by Christien Klaufus and Arij Ouweneel. CEDLA Latin American Studies, 105. New York: Berghahn, 2015. Pp. xiii, 330.$120 hardcover. ISBN: 9781782387404.   For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010. By Edward Murphy. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 343. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822963110

Adhesion molecules and inflammatory injury

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Towards a process view of adherence

Through a review of adherence literature and thirty qualitative interviews, a theoretical view of the adherence process has been created which enables an understanding of the process from initial awareness of need through to post-consumption assessment. This view is proposed to answer the research question, what is adherence from a process perspective? It builds on Service-Dominant Logic to theorise the act of adherence for the first time. In this it views adherence as a complex relationship of interacting service (eco)systems. This takes the theoretical understanding of adherence beyond existing theories and models and into the act of consumption itself, thus providing theoretical visibility of the end-to-end process of adherence. The literature review and qualitative research identified six factors of adherence and three rules governing the adherence process. Perhaps surprisingly, interviews found little difference in causes of non-adherence between developed and developing worlds. A quantitative survey operationalised these adherence factors and rules through the development of a quantitative process of adherence derived from the qualitative process. However, due to survey limitations this research provided no additional insights. A new viewpoint on adherence is advanced. This considers adherence as a single act and therefore as an individual opportunity to be adherent. This permits a greater focus on the enablers and inhibitors of adherence at a point in time rather than it being averaged over many acts in different situations. It also includes a discussion of managerial implications, proposals for future research, and thoughts on research limitations

Factors affecting adherence in resource-poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa

Once medicine has reached the patient, what is preventing him/her from consuming it? Historically the general view has been that non-adherence is the patient’s fault. However, within the literature are indications that this is not always the case, and Peter’s research in sub-Saharan Africa has confirmed and extended these indications. Some are potentially within the scope of pharmaceutical manufacturers and health supply chains to address. Peter will present his findings, his latest thinking, and propose some ideas for addressing them