Janet Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2868-1752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social franchising in healthcare
The promises and limits of standardisation through paper-based technologies
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a strategy that aims to standardise clinical assessment and treatment of sick children. In this article, we examine the aspirations and unfolding of introducing a revised IMCI strategy in Bangladesh. We carried out ethnographic fieldwork among project implementors and in IMCI health service delivery settings in Kushtia district, including 36 semi-structured interviews with policymakers, program…
Delivering the State
Within anthropology, care operates as contested theoretical territory, with much debate residing in the space between what we think care ought to look like in health service delivery settings juxtaposed with what care looks like in the ethnographic encounter. In Bangladesh, public health service providers are often represented as not caring in health encounters. Based on ethnographic data generated in maternal health settings in Kushtia District,…
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol
Intentional and unintentional pesticide poisoning is an important public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Individuals who have been exposed to toxic pesticides, particularly organophosphorus insecticides, need early treatment. Atropine autoinjector devices offer a potential solution, allowing storage of effective treatment near agricultural workers' fields and homes that could be reached within minutes by the worker…
The social lives of point-of-care tests in low- and middle-income countries
Point-of-care tests (POCTs) have become technological solutions for many global health challenges. This meta-ethnography examines what has been learned about the ‘social lives’ of POCTs from in-depth qualitative research, highlighting key social considerations for policymakers, funders, developers and users in the design, development and deployment of POCTs. We screened qualitative research examining POCTs in low- and middle-income countries and …
Beware of dalals
Anthropological enquiry into brokers and brokerage practice provides a prime entry point for making sense of social change. This article tends to the ways in which the trope of the broker and the everyday practice of those identified as enacting brokerage act as linchpins in broader moral grappling during a period of rapid social change. It draws from the ethnographic context of brokerage discursively constituted and enacted within maternal healt…
Taking a Pulse on Community Participation in Maternal Health through Community Clinics in Bangladesh
Bangladesh started institutionalising community participation by setting-up community clinics (CCs) during the mid-90 s. This paper presents the genealogy of CCs, the community participation mechanism embedded within CCs, and the case of 54 CCs in Brahmanbaria, through the lens of maternal health. We undertook a desk review to understand the journey of CCs. In 2018, we assessed the accessibility, readiness and functionality of CCs, and a househol…
Awareness and perceptions of women regarding human rights related to maternal health in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: The global development community has increasingly come to frame preventable maternal mortality and morbidity principally as a violation of women's basic human rights, necessitating a human rights-based approach to be appropriately addressed. In this article, we explore how human rights are understood and perceived in relation to maternal health at the local level in rural Bangladesh. This is essential given the momentum at the global …
Capacities of women and men to improve maternal and newborn health
BACKGROUND: Despite improvement in recent decades, maternal and newborn mortality in Bangladesh remain high. A community-based intervention package was initiated in 2009 in Netrokona, a rural district in Bangladesh, to engage individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health. In this article, we present the effect of the intervention package on improvement of women's capacities with regard to maternal and newborn health…
Beware of dalals
Anthropological enquiry into brokers and brokerage practice provides a prime entry point for making sense of social change. This article tends to the ways in which the trope of the broker and the everyday practice of those identified as enacting brokerage act as linchpins in broader moral grappling during a period of rapid social change. It draws from the ethnographic context of brokerage discursively constituted and enacted within maternal healt…
Awareness and perceptions of women regarding human rights related to maternal health in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: The global development community has increasingly come to frame preventable maternal mortality and morbidity principally as a violation of women's basic human rights, necessitating a human rights-based approach to be appropriately addressed. In this article, we explore how human rights are understood and perceived in relation to maternal health at the local level in rural Bangladesh. This is essential given the momentum at the global …
Capacities of women and men to improve maternal and newborn health
BACKGROUND: Despite improvement in recent decades, maternal and newborn mortality in Bangladesh remain high. A community-based intervention package was initiated in 2009 in Netrokona, a rural district in Bangladesh, to engage individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health. In this article, we present the effect of the intervention package on improvement of women's capacities with regard to maternal and newborn health…
Taking a Pulse on Community Participation in Maternal Health through Community Clinics in Bangladesh
Bangladesh started institutionalising community participation by setting-up community clinics (CCs) during the mid-90 s. This paper presents the genealogy of CCs, the community participation mechanism embedded within CCs, and the case of 54 CCs in Brahmanbaria, through the lens of maternal health. We undertook a desk review to understand the journey of CCs. In 2018, we assessed the accessibility, readiness and functionality of CCs, and a househol…
Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol
Intentional and unintentional pesticide poisoning is an important public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Individuals who have been exposed to toxic pesticides, particularly organophosphorus insecticides, need early treatment. Atropine autoinjector devices offer a potential solution, allowing storage of effective treatment near agricultural workers' fields and homes that could be reached within minutes by the worker…
The social lives of point-of-care tests in low- and middle-income countries
Point-of-care tests (POCTs) have become technological solutions for many global health challenges. This meta-ethnography examines what has been learned about the ‘social lives’ of POCTs from in-depth qualitative research, highlighting key social considerations for policymakers, funders, developers and users in the design, development and deployment of POCTs. We screened qualitative research examining POCTs in low- and middle-income countries and …
Beware of dalals
Anthropological enquiry into brokers and brokerage practice provides a prime entry point for making sense of social change. This article tends to the ways in which the trope of the broker and the everyday practice of those identified as enacting brokerage act as linchpins in broader moral grappling during a period of rapid social change. It draws from the ethnographic context of brokerage discursively constituted and enacted within maternal healt…
Social franchising in healthcare
The promises and limits of standardisation through paper-based technologies
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a strategy that aims to standardise clinical assessment and treatment of sick children. In this article, we examine the aspirations and unfolding of introducing a revised IMCI strategy in Bangladesh. We carried out ethnographic fieldwork among project implementors and in IMCI health service delivery settings in Kushtia district, including 36 semi-structured interviews with policymakers, program…
Delivering the State
Within anthropology, care operates as contested theoretical territory, with much debate residing in the space between what we think care ought to look like in health service delivery settings juxtaposed with what care looks like in the ethnographic encounter. In Bangladesh, public health service providers are often represented as not caring in health encounters. Based on ethnographic data generated in maternal health settings in Kushtia District,…
Medicine (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works)