Astier M Almedom
Biographic Data
| ID | 93591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astier M Almedom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astier M |
| FAMILY NAME | Almedom |
| SIGNATURE | ALMEDOM A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience
Almedom, A. M., D. O’Byrne, and A. Jerneck. 2015. Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience. Ecology and Society 20(3): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07313-200309
Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems
Almedom, A. M. 2015. Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems: Whose understanding matters most? Ecology and Society 20(4):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08195-200440
Resilience
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize coherent theory that identifies and links the cognitive and structural elements in both the psychosocial and organizational dimensions of resilience. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of the author's review of and reflections on the dynamics of resilience in living systems in general, and in humans in particular, drawing on seminal scholarly publications across trans‐discipl…
Traditional Water Resource Management and Water Quality in Rural Tanzania
What is "Famine Food"? Distinguishing Between Traditional Vegetables and Special Foods for Times of Hunger/Scarcity (Boumba, Niger)
Use of ‘Sense of Coherence (Soc)’ Scale to Measure Resilience in Eritrea
An adapted ‘sense of coherence’ scale short form (SOC-13) was administered in nine languages of Eritrea with a total of 265 participants (162 women and 103 men) in order to assess ‘resilience’ in quantitative terms. Statistical analysis yielded significant differences in SOC scores between the displaced and non-displaced: mean=54·84 (SD=6·48) in internally displaced person (IDP) camps, compared with mean=48·94 (SD=11·99) in urban and rural settle…
Postnatal salivary cortisol and sense of coherence (SOC) in Eritrean mothers
This pilot study explores possible physiological correlates of maternal sense of coherence (SOC) by looking at salivary cortisol levels in Eritrean mothers during the immediate pre- and postnatal period. Samples of pre- and postnatal resting whole saliva were obtained from 19 mothers and from 31 controls in Ghinda. Radioimmunoassay results revealed no differences between prenatal and control concentrations of salivary cortisol, but postnatal leve…
Social capital and mental health
Factors That Mitigate War-Induced Anxiety and Mental Distress
The effects of war-induced anxiety and mental distress on individuals and groups can either be mitigated or exacerbated by ‘humanitarian action’. This paper focuses on two key factors that protect the mental well-being of war-affected populations: organized displacement or assisted relocation; and coordinated humanitarian aid operations that are responsive to local needs. Qualitative data from two internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Eritre…
Mental Well-Being in Settings of ‘Complex Emergency’
The mental state of people affected by war and other disasters has been a subject of special interest to academic researchers and practitioners in humanitarian assistance and public health for over two decades. The last decade in particular has seen a rise in the number of papers published in scholarly journals around the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) debate. Anthropologists have rarely engaged in this debate. Nevertheless, some of the mo…
Transferring Anthropological Techniques in Applied Research
A variety of manuals, handbooks, and field research protocols have been developed over the past decade to facilitate the application of anthropological concepts, methods, and techniques to applied settings. These are variously titled depending on their genesis and disciplinary base; they include community diagnoses, needs analyses, rapid anthropological procedures/assessments (RAP/RAA), focused ethnographic surveys (FES), and to some extent, also…
Public Health Engineering
Water and sanitation projects were among the first to which rapid appraisal methods were applied, primarily to monitor or evaluate projects where improved health status had not ensued as expected, following the provision of improved facilities. Qualitative research methods were used to identify perceived social, cultural, and behavioral barriers to full or appropriate use of these facilities. (See, for example, the World Health Organization's Min…
Infant feeding in urban low‐income households in Ethiopia
Data on infant feeding in Ethiopia are analyzed with respect to two distinct features of weaning: the commencement and the completion of the process. Results of analyses using Cox's regression models indicate that infant‐centred factors such as the emergence of primary teeth and infant's appetite significantly hasten the commencement of weaning (p = 0.001, and p = 0.026, respectively). The completion of weaning is largely influenced by mother‐cen…
Infant feeding in urban low‐income households in Ethiopia
Data on infant feeding and weaning among low‐income urban households in Ethiopia are presented. Prolonged breastfeeding remains universal among all ethnic and religious groups represented. Both cultural factors and economic constraints militate against the use of commercial infant foods and against early supplementation. Survival data analysis shows that weaning is initiated at the mean age of 9.2 months, and completed at the median age of 20.0 m…
Constraints on weaning
Evidence on infant weaning processes provided by field research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and among a refugee population of Eritreans in the Sudan is presented. The study in Addis Ababa, where households were economically disadvantaged but the situation was nutritionally stable, allowed the identification of factors constraining weaning, which includes both the introduction of supplementary foods and the termination of breastfeeding. While the ti…
Short-term variations in stature growth in Ethiopian and English children
Two groups of young children, one in Addis Ababa and one in Oxford, were measured every calendar month for 6 months. Changes in their stature variability, as evidenced by increasing measurement interval length, are here compared. There is evidence for substantially greater variability in the Addis Ababa children. When the variability is expressed as coefficients of variation both groups show a marked decline with interval length, presumably as co…
What is "Famine Food"? Distinguishing Between Traditional Vegetables and Special Foods for Times of Hunger/Scarcity (Boumba, Niger)
Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems
Almedom, A. M. 2015. Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems: Whose understanding matters most? Ecology and Society 20(4):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08195-200440
Constraints on weaning
Evidence on infant weaning processes provided by field research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and among a refugee population of Eritreans in the Sudan is presented. The study in Addis Ababa, where households were economically disadvantaged but the situation was nutritionally stable, allowed the identification of factors constraining weaning, which includes both the introduction of supplementary foods and the termination of breastfeeding. While the ti…
Short-term variations in stature growth in Ethiopian and English children
Two groups of young children, one in Addis Ababa and one in Oxford, were measured every calendar month for 6 months. Changes in their stature variability, as evidenced by increasing measurement interval length, are here compared. There is evidence for substantially greater variability in the Addis Ababa children. When the variability is expressed as coefficients of variation both groups show a marked decline with interval length, presumably as co…
Infant feeding in urban low‐income households in Ethiopia
Data on infant feeding in Ethiopia are analyzed with respect to two distinct features of weaning: the commencement and the completion of the process. Results of analyses using Cox's regression models indicate that infant‐centred factors such as the emergence of primary teeth and infant's appetite significantly hasten the commencement of weaning (p = 0.001, and p = 0.026, respectively). The completion of weaning is largely influenced by mother‐cen…
Infant feeding in urban low‐income households in Ethiopia
Data on infant feeding and weaning among low‐income urban households in Ethiopia are presented. Prolonged breastfeeding remains universal among all ethnic and religious groups represented. Both cultural factors and economic constraints militate against the use of commercial infant foods and against early supplementation. Survival data analysis shows that weaning is initiated at the mean age of 9.2 months, and completed at the median age of 20.0 m…
Transferring Anthropological Techniques in Applied Research
A variety of manuals, handbooks, and field research protocols have been developed over the past decade to facilitate the application of anthropological concepts, methods, and techniques to applied settings. These are variously titled depending on their genesis and disciplinary base; they include community diagnoses, needs analyses, rapid anthropological procedures/assessments (RAP/RAA), focused ethnographic surveys (FES), and to some extent, also…
Public Health Engineering
Water and sanitation projects were among the first to which rapid appraisal methods were applied, primarily to monitor or evaluate projects where improved health status had not ensued as expected, following the provision of improved facilities. Qualitative research methods were used to identify perceived social, cultural, and behavioral barriers to full or appropriate use of these facilities. (See, for example, the World Health Organization's Min…
Factors That Mitigate War-Induced Anxiety and Mental Distress
The effects of war-induced anxiety and mental distress on individuals and groups can either be mitigated or exacerbated by ‘humanitarian action’. This paper focuses on two key factors that protect the mental well-being of war-affected populations: organized displacement or assisted relocation; and coordinated humanitarian aid operations that are responsive to local needs. Qualitative data from two internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Eritre…
Mental Well-Being in Settings of ‘Complex Emergency’
The mental state of people affected by war and other disasters has been a subject of special interest to academic researchers and practitioners in humanitarian assistance and public health for over two decades. The last decade in particular has seen a rise in the number of papers published in scholarly journals around the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) debate. Anthropologists have rarely engaged in this debate. Nevertheless, some of the mo…
Postnatal salivary cortisol and sense of coherence (SOC) in Eritrean mothers
This pilot study explores possible physiological correlates of maternal sense of coherence (SOC) by looking at salivary cortisol levels in Eritrean mothers during the immediate pre- and postnatal period. Samples of pre- and postnatal resting whole saliva were obtained from 19 mothers and from 31 controls in Ghinda. Radioimmunoassay results revealed no differences between prenatal and control concentrations of salivary cortisol, but postnatal leve…
Social capital and mental health
Use of ‘Sense of Coherence (Soc)’ Scale to Measure Resilience in Eritrea
An adapted ‘sense of coherence’ scale short form (SOC-13) was administered in nine languages of Eritrea with a total of 265 participants (162 women and 103 men) in order to assess ‘resilience’ in quantitative terms. Statistical analysis yielded significant differences in SOC scores between the displaced and non-displaced: mean=54·84 (SD=6·48) in internally displaced person (IDP) camps, compared with mean=48·94 (SD=11·99) in urban and rural settle…
What is "Famine Food"? Distinguishing Between Traditional Vegetables and Special Foods for Times of Hunger/Scarcity (Boumba, Niger)
Traditional Water Resource Management and Water Quality in Rural Tanzania
Resilience
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize coherent theory that identifies and links the cognitive and structural elements in both the psychosocial and organizational dimensions of resilience. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of the author's review of and reflections on the dynamics of resilience in living systems in general, and in humans in particular, drawing on seminal scholarly publications across trans‐discipl…
Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience
Almedom, A. M., D. O’Byrne, and A. Jerneck. 2015. Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience. Ecology and Society 20(3): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07313-200309
Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems
Almedom, A. M. 2015. Understanding human resilience in the context of interconnected health and social systems: Whose understanding matters most? Ecology and Society 20(4):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08195-200440
Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works)