Peter Balvanz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 362673 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Balvanz |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Balvanz |
| ASSINATURA | BALVANZ P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1273-8275 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Using photovoice to define “community” in substance use disorder research engaging service users, providers, and policymakers
(197 words)The ideals of community-engaged health research are challenging to realize ethically and methodologically, particularly when focused on substance use disorder (SUD), in which the power differentials inherent to stigma marginalize people with lived experience (LE) as full community participants. This study provides a typology and exploratory data generated through Photovoice to understand relationships among community members with diffe…
Overdose education and naloxone distribution in jails
BACKGROUND: Opioid-related overdose is the leading cause of mortality among individuals recently released from incarceration in the U.S. Naloxone is an FDA-approved opioid antagonist medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. Despite evidence of its acceptability and effectiveness at reducing the risk of opioid overdose death after release from incarceration, only an estimated 25% of US jails provide naloxone upon release. This study…
The effectiveness of the communities that Heal intervention on reducing non-fatal opioid overdoses
I'm Not a Bad Mom, I'm a Sick Mom
Substance use disorder is highly stigmatised despite its contemporary medicalisation. Because of the criminalisation of substance use, parents with substance use disorder must often navigate recovery while interacting with the criminal legal and child welfare systems. Restitution narratives of illness do not sufficiently capture the recovery experiences of parents with substance use disorder whose recoveries may better align with a quest narrativ…
The influence of cash transfers on engagement in transactional sex and partner choice among adolescent girls and young women in Northwest Tanzania
Cash transfers are theorised to reduce adolescent girls and young women's economic vulnerability and engagement in transactional sex; however, the processes involved remain unclear. We conducted longitudinal cross-sectional, and narrative timeline in-depth interviews with young women aged 15-23 years in northern Tanzania enrolled in a cash transfer intervention. We analysed data using a thematic approach guided by the transactional sex framework.…
Developing a framework for cash transfer programs that foster sustained economic empowerment to reduce sexual risk among adolescent girls and young women
Our findings suggest that providing economic resources to AGYW through CT without ensuring self-agency is unlikely to be an effective long-term intervention for economic empowerment. Using these findings we developed a framework for CT programs with three key pillars for developing self-agency: 1) emotional efficacy, to increase AGYW's perception of rewards associated with developing self-agency; 2) social efficacy, to build constructive relation…
Conceptualization of Empowerment and Pathways Through Which Cash Transfers Work to Empower Young Women to Reduce HIV Risk
Although cash transfers (CT) are hypothesized to reduce AGYW's HIV risk, little is known about the mechanisms through which CT empower AGYW. We explored the impact of a CT intervention on AGYW's sexual decision-making in order to describe the pathways through which the cash may influence risk behavior. The study employed qualitative methods involving: 20 longitudinal in-depth interviews (IDIs), 40 cross-sectional IDIs, 20 narrative IDIs, and two …
Microfinance and health interventions
Poverty is associated with numerous poor health outcomes. Youth unemployment in Tanzania is approximately 13.7%, and concentrates in urban areas. These youth lack relevant job skills and access to financial capital. Microfinance continues to be implemented globally to address poverty, and increasingly has been linked to health interventions. Men less frequently are recipients of microfinance loans. We offered microcredit to young men in an area o…
Structural Network Position and Performance of Health Leaders Within an HIV Prevention Trial
Comparing Perceptions with Actual Reports of Close Friend’s HIV Testing Behavior Among Urban Tanzanian Men
From Voice to Choice
Throughout this study, youth proved to be reliable partners in research, provided unique perspectives while examining local factors perceived to contribute to childhood obesity, and offered thoughtful solutions
Evidence of social network influence on multiple HIV risk behaviors and normative beliefs among young Tanzanian men
Leveraging strong social ties among young men in Dar es Salaam
Gender inequality is at the core of the HIV patterns that are evident in sub-Saharan Africa. Gender-based violence (GBV) and lack of economic opportunity are important structural determinants of HIV risk. We piloted a microfinance and health promotion intervention among social networks of primarily young men in Dar es Salaam. Twenty-two individuals participated in the microfinance component and 30 peer leaders were recruited and trained in the pe…
Vijana Vijiweni II
Clinical Trials.gov: NCT01865383 . Registration date: May 24, 2013
Leveraging strong social ties among young men in Dar es Salaam
Gender inequality is at the core of the HIV patterns that are evident in sub-Saharan Africa. Gender-based violence (GBV) and lack of economic opportunity are important structural determinants of HIV risk. We piloted a microfinance and health promotion intervention among social networks of primarily young men in Dar es Salaam. Twenty-two individuals participated in the microfinance component and 30 peer leaders were recruited and trained in the pe…
Vijana Vijiweni II
Clinical Trials.gov: NCT01865383 . Registration date: May 24, 2013
Comparing Perceptions with Actual Reports of Close Friend’s HIV Testing Behavior Among Urban Tanzanian Men
From Voice to Choice
Throughout this study, youth proved to be reliable partners in research, provided unique perspectives while examining local factors perceived to contribute to childhood obesity, and offered thoughtful solutions
Evidence of social network influence on multiple HIV risk behaviors and normative beliefs among young Tanzanian men
Microfinance and health interventions
Poverty is associated with numerous poor health outcomes. Youth unemployment in Tanzania is approximately 13.7%, and concentrates in urban areas. These youth lack relevant job skills and access to financial capital. Microfinance continues to be implemented globally to address poverty, and increasingly has been linked to health interventions. Men less frequently are recipients of microfinance loans. We offered microcredit to young men in an area o…
Structural Network Position and Performance of Health Leaders Within an HIV Prevention Trial
Conceptualization of Empowerment and Pathways Through Which Cash Transfers Work to Empower Young Women to Reduce HIV Risk
Although cash transfers (CT) are hypothesized to reduce AGYW's HIV risk, little is known about the mechanisms through which CT empower AGYW. We explored the impact of a CT intervention on AGYW's sexual decision-making in order to describe the pathways through which the cash may influence risk behavior. The study employed qualitative methods involving: 20 longitudinal in-depth interviews (IDIs), 40 cross-sectional IDIs, 20 narrative IDIs, and two …
Developing a framework for cash transfer programs that foster sustained economic empowerment to reduce sexual risk among adolescent girls and young women
Our findings suggest that providing economic resources to AGYW through CT without ensuring self-agency is unlikely to be an effective long-term intervention for economic empowerment. Using these findings we developed a framework for CT programs with three key pillars for developing self-agency: 1) emotional efficacy, to increase AGYW's perception of rewards associated with developing self-agency; 2) social efficacy, to build constructive relation…
The influence of cash transfers on engagement in transactional sex and partner choice among adolescent girls and young women in Northwest Tanzania
Cash transfers are theorised to reduce adolescent girls and young women's economic vulnerability and engagement in transactional sex; however, the processes involved remain unclear. We conducted longitudinal cross-sectional, and narrative timeline in-depth interviews with young women aged 15-23 years in northern Tanzania enrolled in a cash transfer intervention. We analysed data using a thematic approach guided by the transactional sex framework.…
Using photovoice to define “community” in substance use disorder research engaging service users, providers, and policymakers
(197 words)The ideals of community-engaged health research are challenging to realize ethically and methodologically, particularly when focused on substance use disorder (SUD), in which the power differentials inherent to stigma marginalize people with lived experience (LE) as full community participants. This study provides a typology and exploratory data generated through Photovoice to understand relationships among community members with diffe…
Overdose education and naloxone distribution in jails
BACKGROUND: Opioid-related overdose is the leading cause of mortality among individuals recently released from incarceration in the U.S. Naloxone is an FDA-approved opioid antagonist medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. Despite evidence of its acceptability and effectiveness at reducing the risk of opioid overdose death after release from incarceration, only an estimated 25% of US jails provide naloxone upon release. This study…
The effectiveness of the communities that Heal intervention on reducing non-fatal opioid overdoses
I'm Not a Bad Mom, I'm a Sick Mom
Substance use disorder is highly stigmatised despite its contemporary medicalisation. Because of the criminalisation of substance use, parents with substance use disorder must often navigate recovery while interacting with the criminal legal and child welfare systems. Restitution narratives of illness do not sufficiently capture the recovery experiences of parents with substance use disorder whose recoveries may better align with a quest narrativ…
Medicine (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Public health (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras)