Catherine Van De Ruit
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 236020 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine Van De Ruit |
| NOMBRES | Catherine |
| APELLIDO | Van De Ruit |
| FIRMA | VAN DE RUIT C |
| AFILIACIONES | Ursinus College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2388-9861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Defensive decoupling
Physicians have the professional mandate to lead patient safety reform in their local health settings. Yet, research finds physicians may seek to disrupt safety reform and decouple the initiative from clinical work routines. This form of ritualism is attributed to jurisdictional disputes and threats to physician authority between physicians and other frontline occupations. In this article, we set out to examine organizational and professional fac…
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
South African community health workers' pursuit of occupational security
Community health workers (CHWs) are central to the global health response to crises like the AIDS epidemic. Yet community health work remains undervalued and undercompensated worldwide owing in large part to the gendered and racialized contexts of care work. This paper investigates the possibility of occupational security for CHWs by comparing two cases from South Africa's response to AIDS. The first draws on ethnographic research (2007–2009) in …
Surgical Patient Safety Officers in the United States
A largely uncoordinated patient safety movement arose in response to the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on patient safety, To Err Is Human. Two key outcomes have resulted from that movement: (a) new guidelines that enlarge requirements for documenting compliance with patient safety data and (b) a new obligation for health care organizations to create a 'safety culture' based on the 'science' of safety. The organizational title patient safety…
Politics in the Making of HIV/Aids in South Africa
Unintended Consequences of Community Health Worker Programs in South Africa
Task shifting from trained clinicians to community health workers (CHWs) is a central, primary health care strategy advocated by global health policy planners in resource-poor settings where trained health professionals are scarce. The evidence base for the efficacy of these programs, however, is limited-in particular, research that identifies their potential unintended consequences. Based on sustained ethnographic study of CHWs working for AIDS …
Social Work Professionalism During and After Apartheid in South Africa
Professionalism is an ideal defined as the norms or values that orient the work of an occupation. In practice, research derived from country settings in the Global North shows how the ideal of professionalism competes with market and bureaucratic priorities. Less is known about how professionalism is nurtured or subjugated to market and bureaucratic institutions in postcolonial contexts in the Global South. This paper takes up the study of factor…
Politics in the Making of HIV/Aids in South Africa
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
HIV/Aids and time allocation in rural Malawi
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income-generating activities. However, households may compensate for production losses by reallocating tasks among household members. The data demands for measuring these effects are high, limiting the amount of empirical evidence. In this paper, we utilize a uni…
Triangulating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
Unintended Consequences of Community Health Worker Programs in South Africa
Task shifting from trained clinicians to community health workers (CHWs) is a central, primary health care strategy advocated by global health policy planners in resource-poor settings where trained health professionals are scarce. The evidence base for the efficacy of these programs, however, is limited-in particular, research that identifies their potential unintended consequences. Based on sustained ethnographic study of CHWs working for AIDS …
Surgical Patient Safety Officers in the United States
A largely uncoordinated patient safety movement arose in response to the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on patient safety, To Err Is Human. Two key outcomes have resulted from that movement: (a) new guidelines that enlarge requirements for documenting compliance with patient safety data and (b) a new obligation for health care organizations to create a 'safety culture' based on the 'science' of safety. The organizational title patient safety…
Triangulating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty
Triangulating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty
HIV/Aids and time allocation in rural Malawi
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income-generating activities. However, households may compensate for production losses by reallocating tasks among household members. The data demands for measuring these effects are high, limiting the amount of empirical evidence. In this paper, we utilize a uni…
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
Social Work Professionalism During and After Apartheid in South Africa
Professionalism is an ideal defined as the norms or values that orient the work of an occupation. In practice, research derived from country settings in the Global North shows how the ideal of professionalism competes with market and bureaucratic priorities. Less is known about how professionalism is nurtured or subjugated to market and bureaucratic institutions in postcolonial contexts in the Global South. This paper takes up the study of factor…
Politics in the Making of HIV/Aids in South Africa
Unintended Consequences of Community Health Worker Programs in South Africa
Task shifting from trained clinicians to community health workers (CHWs) is a central, primary health care strategy advocated by global health policy planners in resource-poor settings where trained health professionals are scarce. The evidence base for the efficacy of these programs, however, is limited-in particular, research that identifies their potential unintended consequences. Based on sustained ethnographic study of CHWs working for AIDS …
Politics in the Making of HIV/Aids in South Africa
Surgical Patient Safety Officers in the United States
A largely uncoordinated patient safety movement arose in response to the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on patient safety, To Err Is Human. Two key outcomes have resulted from that movement: (a) new guidelines that enlarge requirements for documenting compliance with patient safety data and (b) a new obligation for health care organizations to create a 'safety culture' based on the 'science' of safety. The organizational title patient safety…
South African community health workers' pursuit of occupational security
Community health workers (CHWs) are central to the global health response to crises like the AIDS epidemic. Yet community health work remains undervalued and undercompensated worldwide owing in large part to the gendered and racialized contexts of care work. This paper investigates the possibility of occupational security for CHWs by comparing two cases from South Africa's response to AIDS. The first draws on ethnographic research (2007–2009) in …
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Defensive decoupling
Physicians have the professional mandate to lead patient safety reform in their local health settings. Yet, research finds physicians may seek to disrupt safety reform and decouple the initiative from clinical work routines. This form of ritualism is attributed to jurisdictional disputes and threats to physician authority between physicians and other frontline occupations. In this article, we set out to examine organizational and professional fac…
Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Development economics (3 obras)