Stephen Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2328-4136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 342 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Comparison between model global AWaRe-based quality indicators and quality indicators developed to assess the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in primary healthcare in South Africa
Background/objectives Bacterial antimicrobial resistance represents a significant global public health challenge. Researchers from City St Georges, University of London, UK, developed global model sets of quality indicators, based on WHO AWaRe guidance, to improve future primary healthcare (PHC) prescribing. These were subsequently adapted to the PHC context in South Africa as an exemplar for developing countries. The study aimed to compare natio…
Calibrated engagement: Chronicles of local politics in the heartland of Myanmar
When Myanmar’s ‘socialist’ era ended in 1988, the military junta that took over removed restrictions on foreign investment and agricultural exports. This loosening of regulations triggered a surge ...
Ethnographies of undocumented migration: Displaced labor, securitized mobility, and the catalytic agency of people on the move
Public health financing in Brazil (2019–2022): An analysis of the national health fund and implications for health management
Introduction: The Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil provides free, universal health services to all inhabitants of the country. This study aims to describe the allocation of public health resources in Brazil, both overall and across regions, based on National Health Fund (FNS) data from 2019 to 2022. The goal is to provide an understanding of the profile and distribution of resources sourced exclusively from the federal government during this…
Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead
Imagine that you are given access to an AI chatbot that compellingly mimics the personality and speech of a deceased loved one. If you start having regular interactions with this “thanabot,” could this new relationship be a continuation of the relationship you had with your loved one? And could a relationship with a thanabot preserve or replicate the value of a close human relationship? To the first question, we argue that a relationship with a t…
Users’ Perspectives on Primary Care and Public Health Services in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study with Implications for Healthcare Quality Assessment
This study focuses on the Unified Health System (SUS) in five regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, one of Brazil's most important states, as part of a comprehensive analysis of a research project, which has generated publications in earlier phases. The objective was to assess users' perceptions of SUS in terms of access to and the quality of public health services, including primary care and pharmaceutical services. A cross-sectional s…
Users’ Perceptions of Access to and Quality of Public Health Services in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study in Metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, Including Pharmaceutical Services
A universal health system should cover diverse regions with unique needs. However, 49.4% of participants stated they never received information on how to store their medicines, and 42.3% reported never encountering a pharmacist in public pharmacies. Further ongoing studies assessing user perceptions are essential to ensure users play a central role in health decision-making, contributing to the system's strengthening and improvement
Navigating Thailand’s Extortion Regime: On the Ambiguities of Relational Autonomy in the Contested Management of Migrant Deportability
That deportability renders migrant labor hyper-exploitable is well established in critical migration studies. In Thailand, deportability has long underpinned the vulnerability of undocumented Myanmar migrants to police demands for ad hoc financial payments. Prior to Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, such extortion was a frustrating but mostly manageable feature of migrant life in Thailand. However, since the coup, deteriorating conditions in their co…
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand
The mainstream anti-trafficking movement asserts a sharp distinction between freedom and unfreedom-between 'free' waged employment, on the one hand, and 'modern slavery', on the other. Yet, the modern slavery concept fails to capture the reality of most forms of unfree labor today, such as where financial debts bond workers and restrict their options, and where moral obligations discourage workers from absconding without repayment. In this articl…
The ethnographic crime scene: Tracing the violence within market relations on the Thai-Myanmar border
In a world of proliferating displacement crises and restricted mobility pathways, low-wage labor migration has become, for many, a more feasible refuge than formal asylum. The refugee-as-displaced-migrant has thus become emblematic of our time. But how do contemporary displacement crises, and violent ones at that, shape the predicament of the migrant-refugee in countries of arrival? And how might the particularities of the displaced migrant's vul…
Users’ Perceptions of Access to and Quality of Unified Health System Services in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study and Implications to Healthcare Management Challenges
Evaluating the access to and quality of healthcare services from the users' perspective is an important assessment process to identify priorities. This study assessed the profile of health service usage and the views of the Unified Health System (SUS) users about the access to and quality of SUS public health services. A cross-sectional study was conducted with participants from the Coastal Lowlands Region of the Rio de Janeiro State/Brazil, betw…
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: Challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar
In February 2021, the Myanmar military seized power in a coup, bringing to an end a decade of quasi-civilian electoral rule, during which workers in Myanmar had organised themselves into close to 3000 workplace unions. The coup and post-coup imposition of martial law thus upended what had been a vigorous domestic labour movement. Yet post-coup restrictions on worker mobilising have not extinguished workers’ collective struggles. We therefore inve…
Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier, by Adam Saltsman
Anthropology against Borders
Ghosh, Sahana. 2023. A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh–India Borderland. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 296 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-5203-9573-2. Keshavarz, Mahmoud and Shahram Khosravi (eds.) 2022. Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. London: Pluto Press. 216 pp. Pb.: £19.99. ISBN: 978-0-7453- 4161-3. Shih, Elena. 2023. Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-trafficking Rehab, and the Rac…
On Along the Integral Margin: Uneven Development in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement by Stephen Campbell
For an anthropology of relational difference: Industrial Labour in an Unequal World: Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development, by Christian Strümpell and Michael Hoffmann, eds. (Be…
In defence of ideological struggle against neocolonial self-justifications: Revisiting Asad's Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter amid the decolonial turn
Over the past decade-plus, there has been a surge in anthropological writing on decolonisation. Yet, whereas mid-twentieth century anticolonial revolutionaries fought to uproot imperialism's extractive political economy, certain contemporary decolonial tendencies give primacy, instead, to asserting cultural/epistemological difference. This shift has motivated pertinent critiques, such as that of Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, of atavistic c…
Borders, labor, and beyond: Collective reflections on Harsha Walia's writing, activism, and influence on the anthropology of work
Harsha Walia is the winner of the 2022 Conrad M. Arensberg Award given by the Society for the Anthropology of Work for outstanding contributions to the anthropology of work from inside the discipline and beyond. Walia is a scholar, activist, and organizer committed to migrant justice and border abolition. She is also author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Fernwood Press 2021), Undoing Border I…
Bringing imperialism back in: For an Anthropology Against Empire in the Twenty-First Century
What can a critical analysis of imperialist political economy offer the decolonial turn in the contemporary social sciences? How might revisiting "classic" anti-imperialist thought and politics from the global South push scholars and activists to envision a more revolutionary decolonization? And how, in our discipline's history, have anthropologists variously opposed or been complicit with the workings of imperialist power? In this article, and i…
The Myanmar radical tradition: Revolution, Reaction, and the Changing Imperial World Order
This article historicizes and conceptualizes the Myanmar radical tradition: a tradition of thought and practice that has animated radical politics across Myanmar's twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From anti-colonial struggle to decolonization, and from communist insurgency to left feminism, ethnic rebellion, and today's revolutionary upsurge following the 2021 coup d'état, this radical tradition is best understood not as something bounded or…
Expressed Ableism
With increased frequency, reproductive technologies are placing prospective parents in the position of choosing whether to bring a disabled child into the world. The most well-known objection to the act of “selecting against disability” is known as the Expressivist Argument. The argument claims that such acts express a negative or disrespectful message about disabled people and that one has a moral reason to avoid sending such messages. We have t…
Baseline pupil diameter does not correlate with fluid intelligence
Involving patients and carers in patient safety in primary care: A qualitative study of a co‐designed patient safety guide
BACKGROUND: Involving patients is a key premise of national and international policies on patient safety, which requires understanding how patients or carers want to be involved and developing resources to support this. This paper examines patients' and carers' views of being involved in patient safety in primary care and their views of potentially using a co-designed patient safety guide for primary care (PSG-PC) to foster both involvement and t…
How Deteriorating Conditions in Myanmar Affect Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore: A Transnational Analysis of Migrant Labour Regulation
The COVID-19 pandemic and 2021 military coup in Myanmar have greatly exacerbated the existing economic distress of ordinary people across the country. Yet, what has been the impact of the pandemic and the coup on Myanmar migrant workers abroad? To address this question, we investigate the situation of Myanmar migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Singapore. We find that pandemic-related economic contraction in Myanmar and heightened insecurity follo…
Interrogating Myanmar s Transition from a Post-coup Vantage Point
The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar appears to have rendered null the many projections, proposals and prognostications that academics advanced over the preceding decade—the period of ‘democratic transition’, as it was then optimistically regarded. But perhaps when considered from a post-coup vantage point those earlier analyses, which tell of the tensions and trajectories of the transition-era, can be made to speak to the political knots a…
Defining quality of care
A subtle governance: Soft' medical leadership in English primary care
In many countries governments are recruiting the medical profession into a more active, transparent regulation of clinical practice. Consequently the medical profession adapts the ways it regulates itself and its relationship to health system managers changes. This paper uses empirical research in English Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to assess the value of Courpasson's concept of soft bureaucracy as a conceptualisatio…
Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: Responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract
In 2004 a new contract was introduced for General Practitioners in the UK, which introduced a significant element of ‘pay‐for‐performance’, including both clinical and organisational targets. The introduction of this contract has caused interest across the world, particularly amongst those responsible for commissioning primary care services. It can be argued that the clinical targets in the contract (known as the Quality and Outcomes Framework, Q…
Longitudinal and behavioral analysis of masculinity and femininity in marriage
Spouses' masculinity and femininity were examined in relation to longitudinal change in marital satisfaction and behavior displayed in a problem-solving discussion. Results indicated, first, that wives' satisfaction declined to the extent that their husband endorsed fewer desirable masculine traits (Study 1) and more undesirable masculine traits (Study 2). Second, masculinity and femininity covaried with problem-solving behavior, particularly for…
Labour Regime Transformation in Myanmar: Constitutive Processes of Contestation
This article studies the case of a workers' strike in Myanmar's ready-made garment sector to illustrate how differently-situated actors have engaged at multiple scales to influence emerging forms of labour regulation in the country. The analysis is drawn out through the historicization of domestic regulatory transformation. As a hegemonic project targeting industrial peace for purposes of capital accumulation, Myanmar's labour regime has been sha…
How are patient characteristics relevant for physicians' clinical decision making in diabetes? An analysis of qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar
Myanmar’s much lauded but short-lived transition to a liberal capitalist order was marked by an upsurge in Islamophobia, anti-Muslim riots and the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into Bangladesh. Amid this conflagration, debates over ethnic inclusion, privilege and nationalism were prominent. Yet within these debates, even seemingly antagonistic positions incorporated the class-blindness characteristic of US liberal white p…
Everyday recomposition: Precarity and socialization in Thailand's migrant workforce
As a site of manufacturing growth since the 1990s, the Mae Sot industrial zone in northwest Thailand has increasingly employed migrant workers from Myanmar. Yet the social dynamics of Myanmar migrant groups employed in Mae Sot's garment sector do not align with North Atlantic narratives of class fragmentation. Rather, labor flexibilization at this site has had socially constitutive effects. As flexibilization has expanded in Thailand, the very pr…
Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews
Journal Article Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews: Data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation Incentive Experiment Get access MICHAEL DAVERN, MICHAEL DAVERN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar TODD H. ROCKWOOD, TODD H. ROCKWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RANDY SHERROD, RANDY SHERROD Search for other works by …
How are We Doing? The Impact of Motives and Information Use on the Evaluation of Romantic Relationships
A multidimensional model of self-evaluation was modified to examine individuals' perceptions of how they evaluate their romantic relationships. Participants provided estimates of the frequency and usefulness of 10 types of information (objective information, feedback from others, personal standards, feared future relationships, future ideals, positive and negative past relationship information, upward, lateral, and downward social comparison) for…
Political and Psychological Correlates of Conflict Management: A Cross-Cultural Study
Conflict between individuals and between groups is a normal part of social life. The necessity of coping with disputes and emnity is universal, but societies differ in the ways they deal with conflict. Six basic modes of procedure of conflict management that fall into two major classes can be distinguished: triadic procedures; i.e., those in which the settlement of a dispute depends on the intervention of a third party (adjudication, arbitration,…
Practice nurses and the effects of the new general practitioner contract in the English National Health Service: The extension of a professional project
Rendering assemblage dialectical
Within anthropology, assemblage theory has achieved broad disciplinary traction, yet the theory's philosophical premises are rarely explored. This article therefore revisits the Deleuzian notion of difference that underpins assemblage theory as a step towards rendering the theory more consonant with a relational anthropology. In place of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's conception of discrete elements related only externally to each other with…
Reading Myanmar's inland fisheries: Postcolonial Literature as Theoretical Lens
Interdisciplinary in scope, this article takes up the 1950 short story, “Ko Danga,” by Burmese author Kyay Ni, as a critical lens through which to approach the contemporary political economy of Myanmar's inland fisheries. Due to its level of ethnographic detail, Kyay Ni's account of the inland fisheries regime in early postcolonial Burma provides an effective historic baseline against which to assess more recent developments in this sector – deve…
An Analysis of Prudential Value
This essay introduces and defends a new analysis of prudential value. According to this analysis, what it is for something to be good for you is for that thing to contribute to the appeal or desirability of being in your position. I argue that this proposal fits well with our ways of talking about prudential value and well-being; enables promising analyses of luck, selfishness, self-sacrifice and paternalism; preserves the relationship between pr…
Interrogating Myanmar s Transition from a Post-coup Vantage Point
The February 2021 military coup in Myanmar appears to have rendered null the many projections, proposals and prognostications that academics advanced over the preceding decade—the period of ‘democratic transition’, as it was then optimistically regarded. But perhaps when considered from a post-coup vantage point those earlier analyses, which tell of the tensions and trajectories of the transition-era, can be made to speak to the political knots a…
State illegibility in the containment of labour unrest on the Thai-Myanmar border
In the literature on governmentality, rights have been posited as technologies of rule, encouraging individual self-government, as well as active participation in the institutions of the liberal state. In the context of globalised industrial production, however, a realisation of justiciable rights may, by raising wages and other labour costs, challenge the ability of states to attract capital investment. In the present article, I take as a point …
Sensemaking and the co-production of safety: A Qualitative Study of Primary Medical Care Patients
This study explores the ways in which patients make sense of 'safety' in the context of primary medical care. Drawing on qualitative interviews with primary care patients, we reveal patients' conceptualisation of safety as fluid, contingent, multi-dimensional, and negotiated. Participant accounts drew attention to a largely invisible and inaccessible (but taken for granted) architecture of safety, the importance of psycho-social as well as physic…
Capitalist Trajectories in Mekong Southeast Asia
Putting-out's return
Th is article engages Karl Marx's account of labor's historical subsumption to capital through an analysis of informalization in Thailand's garment sector. In a historicist reading of Marx, the transition from formal to real subsumption, as in the shift from home-based putting-out work to factory-based wage labor, is unidirectional. The late twentieth-century proliferation of forms of labor that are but "formally subsumed" to capital challenges t…
Anti-Meaning and Why It Matters
It is widely recognized that lives and activities can be meaningful or meaningless, but few have appreciated that they can also be anti-meaningful . Anti-meaning is the polar opposite of meaning. Our purpose in this essay is to examine the nature and importance of this new and unfamiliar topic. In the first part, we sketch four theories of anti-meaning that correspond to four leading theories of meaning. In the second part, we argue that anti-mea…
Cross-ethnic Labour Solidarities among Myanmar Workers in Thailand
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Influences of organizational features of healthcare settings on clinical decision making: Qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment
A proliferating literature documents cross-national variation in medical practice and seeks to explain observed differences in terms of the presence of certain kinds of healthcare systems, economic, and cultural differences between countries. Less is known about how providers themselves understand these influences and perceive them as relevant to their clinical work. Using qualitative data from a cross-national factorial experiment in the United …
Theorizing peripheral labor: Rethinking “surplus populations
Critical scholarship on twenty-first century capitalist development has called attention to certain structural limits on employment growth. Large populations excluded from formal employment are seen to eke out a precarious subsistence in informal economies, seemingly "surplus" to the needs of capital. This article, by contrast, aims to recast labor in the "peripheries," not as an externalized quantity redundant to emerging economic formations, bu…
Labour Formalisation as Selective Hegemony in Reform-era Myanmar
With the general elections of November 2010, state rule in Myanmar entered a process widely seen as a transition-if stalled-to democracy and rule of law. Such transition narratives have posited normative rule of law and arbitrary rule outside law as opposing logics, and opposing practices. A similar dichotomy is found in studies of labour informalisation in the global South, where informal labour is understood as antithetical to legally protected…
Political and Psychological Correlates of Conflict Management: A Cross-Cultural Study
Conflict between individuals and between groups is a normal part of social life. The necessity of coping with disputes and emnity is universal, but societies differ in the ways they deal with conflict. Six basic modes of procedure of conflict management that fall into two major classes can be distinguished: triadic procedures; i.e., those in which the settlement of a dispute depends on the intervention of a third party (adjudication, arbitration,…
The american college of rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia
To develop criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia, we studied 558 consecutive patients: 293 patients with fibromyalgia and 265 control patients. Interviews and examinations were performed by trained, blinded assessors. Control patients for the group with primary fibromyalgia were matched for age and sex, and limited to patients with disorders that could be confused with primary fibromyalgia. Control patients for the group with secondary‐…
Longitudinal and behavioral analysis of masculinity and femininity in marriage
Spouses' masculinity and femininity were examined in relation to longitudinal change in marital satisfaction and behavior displayed in a problem-solving discussion. Results indicated, first, that wives' satisfaction declined to the extent that their husband endorsed fewer desirable masculine traits (Study 1) and more undesirable masculine traits (Study 2). Second, masculinity and femininity covaried with problem-solving behavior, particularly for…
Canadian-French, German and UK versions of the Child Health Questionnaire: Methodology and preliminary item scaling results
The Effect of Panel Membership and Feedback on Ratings in a Two-Round Delphi Survey: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
BACKGROUND: Past observational studies of the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method have shown that the composition of panels affects the ratings that are obtained. Panels of mixed physicians make different judgments from panels of single specialty physicians, and physicians who use a procedure are more likely to rate it more highly than those who do not. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of using physicians and health care managers within a panel d…
Defining quality of care
How are We Doing? The Impact of Motives and Information Use on the Evaluation of Romantic Relationships
A multidimensional model of self-evaluation was modified to examine individuals' perceptions of how they evaluate their romantic relationships. Participants provided estimates of the frequency and usefulness of 10 types of information (objective information, feedback from others, personal standards, feared future relationships, future ideals, positive and negative past relationship information, upward, lateral, and downward social comparison) for…
The Video Movie Project
Essay| December 01 2001 The Video Movie Project Stephen Campbell, Stephen Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nancy Linn Nancy Linn Stephen Campbell, M.S., A.T.R. and Nancy Linn, M.F.A., are senior members of the Department of Child Life and Developmental Services at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Stephen Campbell is a registered art therapist and a commercial illustrator. Nancy Linn is a profes…
User involvement in clinical governance
Objectives To investigate the involvement of users in clinical governance activities within Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Trusts (PCTs). Drawing on policy and guidance published since 1997, the paper sets out a framework for how users are involved in this agenda, evaluates practice against this standard and suggests why current practice for user involvement in clinical governance is flawed and why this reflects a flaw in the policy design as muc…
Users' understanding of medical knowledge in general practice
Clinical judgement: Evidence in Practice
Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews
Journal Article Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews: Data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation Incentive Experiment Get access MICHAEL DAVERN, MICHAEL DAVERN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar TODD H. ROCKWOOD, TODD H. ROCKWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RANDY SHERROD, RANDY SHERROD Search for other works by …
A subtle governance: Soft' medical leadership in English primary care
In many countries governments are recruiting the medical profession into a more active, transparent regulation of clinical practice. Consequently the medical profession adapts the ways it regulates itself and its relationship to health system managers changes. This paper uses empirical research in English Primary Care Groups (PCGs) and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to assess the value of Courpasson's concept of soft bureaucracy as a conceptualisatio…
Combining Multiple Indicators of Clinical Quality: An Evaluation of Different Analytic Approaches
OBJECTIVE: To compare different methods of combining quality indicators scores to produce composite scores that summarize the overall performance of health care providers. METHODS: Five methods for computing a composite quality score were compared: the "All-or-None," the "70% Standard," the "Overall Percentage," the "Indicator Average," and the "Patient Average." The first 2 "criterion-referenced" methods assess the degree to which a provider has…
Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: Responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract
In 2004 a new contract was introduced for General Practitioners in the UK, which introduced a significant element of ‘pay‐for‐performance’, including both clinical and organisational targets. The introduction of this contract has caused interest across the world, particularly amongst those responsible for commissioning primary care services. It can be argued that the clinical targets in the contract (known as the Quality and Outcomes Framework, Q…
How are patient characteristics relevant for physicians' clinical decision making in diabetes? An analysis of qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment
Practice nurses and the effects of the new general practitioner contract in the English National Health Service: The extension of a professional project
Differences in the Diagnosis and Management of Type 2 Diabetes in 3 Countries (US, UK, and Germany): Results From a Factorial Experiment
OBJECTIVES: This article examines the diagnosis and management of type-2 diabetes when exactly the same "patient" is encountered by 192 randomly selected primary care doctors in 3 different health care systems--the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. METHODS: We conducted a factorial experiment, employing 2 clinically authentic filmed scenarios, to examine country differences in the treatment of diabetes, while controlling the effects of …
What do physicians gain (and lose) with experience? Qualitative results from a cross-national study of diabetes
Cross-ethnic Labour Solidarities among Myanmar Workers in Thailand
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Influences of organizational features of healthcare settings on clinical decision making: Qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment
A proliferating literature documents cross-national variation in medical practice and seeks to explain observed differences in terms of the presence of certain kinds of healthcare systems, economic, and cultural differences between countries. Less is known about how providers themselves understand these influences and perceive them as relevant to their clinical work. Using qualitative data from a cross-national factorial experiment in the United …
Precision of Individual and Composite Performance Scores: The Ideal Number of Indicators in an Indicator Set
BACKGROUND: In many countries, quality indicators are used to assess the quality of care of family practice. Such assessments need to have an adequate precision, so that the results can be interpreted correctly. However, a small sample size per practitioner can lead to inadequate precision. A possible solution could be to create composite performance scores. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between sample size and precision. We examine wh…
An Analysis of Prudential Value
This essay introduces and defends a new analysis of prudential value. According to this analysis, what it is for something to be good for you is for that thing to contribute to the appeal or desirability of being in your position. I argue that this proposal fits well with our ways of talking about prudential value and well-being; enables promising analyses of luck, selfishness, self-sacrifice and paternalism; preserves the relationship between pr…
Pico, Picos and SPIDER: A comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews
When the Shape of a Life Matters
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