Bedirhan Ustun
Biographic Data
| ID | 170325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bedirhan Ustun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bedirhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ustun |
| SIGNATURE | USTUN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Health Organization |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4718-505X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Patterns before recognition
This article explores the complex convergence between cybernetics and Gestalt theory and its influence on the concept of pattern recognition. It finds a departure in the analogous ways each discipline extends their core frameworks toward social and anthropological objects. However, this shared ground is not without tensions. In the post-war American context, what is formalizable and realizable in mechanical structures has a certain explanatory au…
Love you in Throat Gristle
The notion of subvocal speech looms over the American writer William S. Burroughs’ work and its defining feature is an involuntary continuity. Burroughs borrows the concept from the behaviorist psychologist John B. Watson’s attempts between the 1920s and ‘30s to come up with an image of thinking which foregrounds speech and its laryngeal correlates. Yet, while adopting this picture, Burroughs brings a much more pragmatic and experimental slant to…
Spekülatif Kurmaca ve Örüntü Tanıma
The notion of pattern recognition emerged in the late 1950s as an extension of advances in cybernetics and information theory. From the start, authors of science fiction and speculative fiction narratives made their own explorations of the concept, taking it to fields and extremes not predicted by the state of development of pattern recognition technologies. I argue that a pair of these narratives provide opportunities to observe the development …
Re-treating the office empire
In this study I discuss one of Henri Michaux's last works Par des Traits, paying close attention to the way an overtly political critique informs the adventurous graphic experiments involved in the work. Contextually, I situate Michaux's utopian discourse about a new bio-historical ‘function’ created by a new sign within the larger plan of his earlier preoccupations with physiologically provoked anomalies and techniques of contemplation, tracing …
“Time is Production”
This paper offers a contextually inflected discussion of the extensive investment Paul Valéry makes in going beyond formal understandings of time. To this end it takes the processual work Cahiers as both a repository of insights, and a practical motor of conceptual creation for new time concepts through its very writing and production. In a speculative engagement with Valérian concepts such as phase, prolongation as well as reconfigured relations…
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring
OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews. Our objective here is to describe the process used to shorten, simplify, and standardise the VA process to make it feasible for application on a larger scale such as in routine civil registration and vital statist…
Beyond classifications
Introduction: WHO's reference classifications, ICD and ICF have traditionally served as standards for disease, health and disability related data. To meet the requirements of health (and disability) information systems in the 21st century WHO classifications need to represent the knowledge digitally in a coherent semantic structure. The knowledge representation in a classification requires that the information entities need to be identified with …
Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002
People living in poor countries not only face lower life expectancies than those in richer countries but also live a higher proportion of their lives in poor health
Cross-Cultural Applicability Research on Disablement
The World Health Organization (WHO) has undertaken the revision of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH), originally adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1980. The existing classification has been criticized for not meeting the modern standards of cross-cultural applicability necessary for an international classification. A field-based empirical test of a revised version of the ICIDH was conducted …
The stability of the factor structure of the General Health Questionnaire
BACKGROUND: Different versions of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), including the GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 have been subjected to factor analysis in a variety of countries. The World Health Organization study of psychological disorders in general health care offered the opportunity to investigate the factor structure of both GHQ versions in 15 different centres. METHODS: The factor structures of the GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 extracted by principal compone…
The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview short‐form (CIDI‐SF)
Data are reported on a series of short‐form (SF) screening scales of DSM‐III‐R psychiatric disorders developed from the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). A multi‐step procedure was used to generate CIDI‐SF screening scales for each of eight DSM disorders from the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). This procedure began with the subsample of respondents who endorsed the CIDI diagnostic stem question…
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The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview short‐form (CIDI‐SF)
Data are reported on a series of short‐form (SF) screening scales of DSM‐III‐R psychiatric disorders developed from the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). A multi‐step procedure was used to generate CIDI‐SF screening scales for each of eight DSM disorders from the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). This procedure began with the subsample of respondents who endorsed the CIDI diagnostic stem question…
The stability of the factor structure of the General Health Questionnaire
BACKGROUND: Different versions of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), including the GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 have been subjected to factor analysis in a variety of countries. The World Health Organization study of psychological disorders in general health care offered the opportunity to investigate the factor structure of both GHQ versions in 15 different centres. METHODS: The factor structures of the GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 extracted by principal compone…
Cross-Cultural Applicability Research on Disablement
The World Health Organization (WHO) has undertaken the revision of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH), originally adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1980. The existing classification has been criticized for not meeting the modern standards of cross-cultural applicability necessary for an international classification. A field-based empirical test of a revised version of the ICIDH was conducted …
Global patterns of healthy life expectancy in the year 2002
People living in poor countries not only face lower life expectancies than those in richer countries but also live a higher proportion of their lives in poor health
Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health
Beyond classifications
Introduction: WHO's reference classifications, ICD and ICF have traditionally served as standards for disease, health and disability related data. To meet the requirements of health (and disability) information systems in the 21st century WHO classifications need to represent the knowledge digitally in a coherent semantic structure. The knowledge representation in a classification requires that the information entities need to be identified with …
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring
OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews. Our objective here is to describe the process used to shorten, simplify, and standardise the VA process to make it feasible for application on a larger scale such as in routine civil registration and vital statist…
“Time is Production”
This paper offers a contextually inflected discussion of the extensive investment Paul Valéry makes in going beyond formal understandings of time. To this end it takes the processual work Cahiers as both a repository of insights, and a practical motor of conceptual creation for new time concepts through its very writing and production. In a speculative engagement with Valérian concepts such as phase, prolongation as well as reconfigured relations…
Re-treating the office empire
In this study I discuss one of Henri Michaux's last works Par des Traits, paying close attention to the way an overtly political critique informs the adventurous graphic experiments involved in the work. Contextually, I situate Michaux's utopian discourse about a new bio-historical ‘function’ created by a new sign within the larger plan of his earlier preoccupations with physiologically provoked anomalies and techniques of contemplation, tracing …
Love you in Throat Gristle
The notion of subvocal speech looms over the American writer William S. Burroughs’ work and its defining feature is an involuntary continuity. Burroughs borrows the concept from the behaviorist psychologist John B. Watson’s attempts between the 1920s and ‘30s to come up with an image of thinking which foregrounds speech and its laryngeal correlates. Yet, while adopting this picture, Burroughs brings a much more pragmatic and experimental slant to…
Spekülatif Kurmaca ve Örüntü Tanıma
The notion of pattern recognition emerged in the late 1950s as an extension of advances in cybernetics and information theory. From the start, authors of science fiction and speculative fiction narratives made their own explorations of the concept, taking it to fields and extremes not predicted by the state of development of pattern recognition technologies. I argue that a pair of these narratives provide opportunities to observe the development …
Patterns before recognition
This article explores the complex convergence between cybernetics and Gestalt theory and its influence on the concept of pattern recognition. It finds a departure in the analogous ways each discipline extends their core frameworks toward social and anthropological objects. However, this shared ground is not without tensions. In the post-war American context, what is formalizable and realizable in mechanical structures has a certain explanatory au…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)