John D H Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1731567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D H Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D H |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER J D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Julia C. Kim, Luceth X. Ndhlovu, Godfrey Phetla, and Paul Pronyk are with the Rural AIDS and Development Action Research Programme, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Acornhoek, South Africa. Julia C. Kim, Paul Pronyk, Charlotte H. Watts, James R. Hargreaves, Linda A. Morison, Joanna Busza, and John D.H. Porter are with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A qualitative study exploring perspectives and practices of district TB officers and frontline TB workers implementing public-private mix for TB control in India
The bottom-up perspective of policy implementation process recognizes that policy implementers play a vital role, are capable of re-shaping policy during implementation, and that studying their behaviour is important. Public Private Mix (PPM) has been a core component of the Revised National TB Control Programme in India. The programme encourages District TB Officers and Frontline TB Workers to actively involve NGOs and Private Practitioners to i…
Understanding the complex relationships among actors involved in the implementation of public-private mix (PPM) for TB control in India, using social theory
This paper demonstrates that applying social theory can enable a better understanding of the complex relationship across public, private and NGO sectors. A closer understanding of these processes is a prerequisite for bridging the gap between field-level practices and central policy intentions, facilitating a move towards more effective partnership strategies for strengthening local health systems. The study contributes to our understanding of im…
Getting the water-carrier to light the lamps
The government of India has, over the past decade, implemented the "integration" of traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) practitioners, specifically practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-rigpa, and Homoeopathy (collectively known by the acronym AYUSH), in government health services. A range of operational and ethical challenges has manifested during this process of large health system reform. We…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
Characteristics of sexual partnerships, not just of individuals, are associated with condom use and recent HIV infection in rural South Africa
Characteristics of sexual partnerships, as well as those of the individuals involved, might influence the use of condoms and risk of HIV transmission. We set out to identify characteristics of non-spousal sexual partnerships associated with condom use at last sex in the previous year and HIV infection in the previous three years among sexually active young people in rural South Africa. We conducted an analysis of follow-up data (collected in 2004…
Understanding the Impact of a Microfinance-Based Intervention on Women’s Empowerment and the Reduction of Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa
Objectives. We sought to obtain evidence about the scope of women’s empowerment and the mechanisms underlying the significant reduction in intimate partner violence documented by the Intervention With Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa. Methods. The IMAGE intervention combined a microfinance program with participatory training on understanding HIV infection, gender norms, domestic violen…
Epidemiological Reflections of the Contribution of Anthropology to Public Health Policy and Practice
Academic disciplines like anthropology and epidemiology provide a niche for researchers to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems. How anthropological and epidemiological methods communicate and relate to each other affects the way public health policy is created but the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline makes this difficult. Anthropology is reflective, subjective and investi…
Descriptive Ethics
Objective: To describe how local research ethics committees (LRECs) consider and apply research ethics in the evaluation of biomedical research proposals. Design: A qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling, focus groups and a grounded theory approach to generate data and to analyse the work of the LRECs. Setting and participants: 11 LRECs of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). Results: LRECs considered ethics to be i…
Hearing the Voices of the Poor”
Commentary on ‘the resurgence of disease
The Politics of Partnership in Tropical Public Health
In today’s globalizing world the nature of relationships between the North and South is changing to account for the closing gap in capacity to carry out research of international standard. The development of a lexicon sophisticated enough to address adequately these changing relationships, however, lags behind and is not supported by the current recourse to the jargon of ‘partnership’. In this paper we explore the difficulties of negotiating a pr…
Evaluation of Two Kurdish Refugee Camps in Iran, May 1991
Following the end of the Gulf war in March 1991, Kurdish refugees from Iraq crossed the border into Western Iran. To plan public health interventions and to assist in priority setting for scarce resources, a rapid epidemiological assessment of two camps, Hafez and Kaliche, was conducted in May 1991. A 30 cluster sampling method was used to determine the demographics of the camp population, the morbidity and mortality from certain diseases, and th…
Understanding the Impact of a Microfinance-Based Intervention on Women’s Empowerment and the Reduction of Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa
Objectives. We sought to obtain evidence about the scope of women’s empowerment and the mechanisms underlying the significant reduction in intimate partner violence documented by the Intervention With Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa. Methods. The IMAGE intervention combined a microfinance program with participatory training on understanding HIV infection, gender norms, domestic violen…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
Hearing the Voices of the Poor”
Getting the water-carrier to light the lamps
The government of India has, over the past decade, implemented the "integration" of traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) practitioners, specifically practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-rigpa, and Homoeopathy (collectively known by the acronym AYUSH), in government health services. A range of operational and ethical challenges has manifested during this process of large health system reform. We…
Commentary on ‘the resurgence of disease
The Politics of Partnership in Tropical Public Health
In today’s globalizing world the nature of relationships between the North and South is changing to account for the closing gap in capacity to carry out research of international standard. The development of a lexicon sophisticated enough to address adequately these changing relationships, however, lags behind and is not supported by the current recourse to the jargon of ‘partnership’. In this paper we explore the difficulties of negotiating a pr…
Evaluation of Two Kurdish Refugee Camps in Iran, May 1991
Following the end of the Gulf war in March 1991, Kurdish refugees from Iraq crossed the border into Western Iran. To plan public health interventions and to assist in priority setting for scarce resources, a rapid epidemiological assessment of two camps, Hafez and Kaliche, was conducted in May 1991. A 30 cluster sampling method was used to determine the demographics of the camp population, the morbidity and mortality from certain diseases, and th…
The Politics of Partnership in Tropical Public Health
In today’s globalizing world the nature of relationships between the North and South is changing to account for the closing gap in capacity to carry out research of international standard. The development of a lexicon sophisticated enough to address adequately these changing relationships, however, lags behind and is not supported by the current recourse to the jargon of ‘partnership’. In this paper we explore the difficulties of negotiating a pr…
Commentary on ‘the resurgence of disease
Epidemiological Reflections of the Contribution of Anthropology to Public Health Policy and Practice
Academic disciplines like anthropology and epidemiology provide a niche for researchers to speak the same language, and to interrogate the assumptions that they use to investigate problems. How anthropological and epidemiological methods communicate and relate to each other affects the way public health policy is created but the philosophical underpinnings of each discipline makes this difficult. Anthropology is reflective, subjective and investi…
Descriptive Ethics
Objective: To describe how local research ethics committees (LRECs) consider and apply research ethics in the evaluation of biomedical research proposals. Design: A qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling, focus groups and a grounded theory approach to generate data and to analyse the work of the LRECs. Setting and participants: 11 LRECs of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). Results: LRECs considered ethics to be i…
Hearing the Voices of the Poor”
Understanding the Impact of a Microfinance-Based Intervention on Women’s Empowerment and the Reduction of Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa
Objectives. We sought to obtain evidence about the scope of women’s empowerment and the mechanisms underlying the significant reduction in intimate partner violence documented by the Intervention With Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) cluster-randomized trial in rural South Africa. Methods. The IMAGE intervention combined a microfinance program with participatory training on understanding HIV infection, gender norms, domestic violen…
Characteristics of sexual partnerships, not just of individuals, are associated with condom use and recent HIV infection in rural South Africa
Characteristics of sexual partnerships, as well as those of the individuals involved, might influence the use of condoms and risk of HIV transmission. We set out to identify characteristics of non-spousal sexual partnerships associated with condom use at last sex in the previous year and HIV infection in the previous three years among sexually active young people in rural South Africa. We conducted an analysis of follow-up data (collected in 2004…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
Getting the water-carrier to light the lamps
The government of India has, over the past decade, implemented the "integration" of traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) practitioners, specifically practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-rigpa, and Homoeopathy (collectively known by the acronym AYUSH), in government health services. A range of operational and ethical challenges has manifested during this process of large health system reform. We…
Understanding the complex relationships among actors involved in the implementation of public-private mix (PPM) for TB control in India, using social theory
This paper demonstrates that applying social theory can enable a better understanding of the complex relationship across public, private and NGO sectors. A closer understanding of these processes is a prerequisite for bridging the gap between field-level practices and central policy intentions, facilitating a move towards more effective partnership strategies for strengthening local health systems. The study contributes to our understanding of im…
A qualitative study exploring perspectives and practices of district TB officers and frontline TB workers implementing public-private mix for TB control in India
The bottom-up perspective of policy implementation process recognizes that policy implementers play a vital role, are capable of re-shaping policy during implementation, and that studying their behaviour is important. Public Private Mix (PPM) has been a core component of the Revised National TB Control Programme in India. The programme encourages District TB Officers and Frontline TB Workers to actively involve NGOs and Private Practitioners to i…
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