Rebecca West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2958-0884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding barriers to effective malaria diagnosis and treatment: A mixed-methods study in Uganda, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast
Malaria remains a global health challenge despite decades of intervention. We conducted a mixed-methods study using the MAPPS behavioural science framework to identify and explore behaviours relating to timely access and better adherence to antimalarials, and to offer initial ideas for interventions. Research was conducted in Uganda, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast following local ethical approval. First, qualitative face-to-face interviews were conduct…
Trajectories and predictors of HIV care retention among individuals receiving ART in rural South Africa: A group-based trajectory modelling analysis
Background: Successful retention in care of people living with HIV remains a challenge and a cornerstone of ending the epidemic. A better understanding of retention predictors could guide an evidence-based approach to target interventions. We sought to characterise HIV care retention trajectories among individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a rural South Africa setting, and to determine factors associated with those trajectories. M…
Negative clinic experiences as a barrier to care for people with HIV and their impact on patient preferences for intervention support: A qualitative study in Cape Town, South Africa
We conducted qualitative research among people with HIV (PWH) and care providers in Cape Town, South Africa to understand the impact of negative clinic experiences on adherence and support preferences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 41 patients with an unsuppressed viral load or a treatment gap, and focus group discussions with physicians, nurses, counselors, and community health workers. Questions addressed treatment history and adheren…
Characterising the HIV self-testing market in Kenya: Awareness and usage, barriers and motivators to uptake, and propensity to pay
HIVST has a key role in ensuring countries meet their 95-95-95 goals. For HIVST to be sustainable, we should explore sharing costs with users as well as the overall experience. This research explores why a consumer would use HIVST and willingness to pay for HIVST through surveying 1,021 participants 18–35 living in Nairobi or Kisumu who were not diagnosed as HIV positive and who are not currently taking PrEP for HIV. A majority (89.8%) would pay …
A structural equation modelling approach to understanding the determinants of childhood vaccination in Nigeria, Uganda and Guinea
Vaccines have contributed to reductions in morbidity and mortality from preventable diseases globally, but low demand for vaccination threatens to reverse these gains. Explorations of the determinants of vaccination uptake may rely on proxy variables to describe complex phenomena and construct models without reference to underlying theories of vaccine demand. This study aimed to use the results of a formative qualitative study (described elsewher…
Exploring the relationship between anticipated stigma and community shared concerns about HIV on defaulting from HIV care in rural South Africa
In this sample, we found limited impact of reducing anticipated stigma and increasing shared concern about HIV on retention in care. Future studies should consider the limitations of this study by examining the influence of other sources of stigma in more detail and assessing how perceptions of stigma and concern impact the full HIV testing and care cascade
The use of monitoring data and community feedback mechanisms to increase HIV testing among men during a cluster-randomised community mobilisation trial in South Africa
This short communication describes the development and implementation of a programme monitoring and feedback process during a cluster-randomised community mobilisation intervention conducted in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Intervention activities took place from August 2015 to July 2018 with the aim of addressing social barriers to HIV counselling and testing and engagement in HIV care, with a specific focus on reaching men. Mul…
Estimating the Prevalence of over- and Under-Reporting in HIV Testing, Status and Treatment in Rural Northeast South Africa: A Comparison of a Survey and Clinic Records
Applying a social-ecological model to understand factors impacting demand for childhood vaccinations in Nigeria, Uganda, and Guinea
Vaccines have reduced child mortality across the world, but low levels of demand for vaccination threatens to undermine progress. Existing frameworks to understand demand tend to prioritise primary caregivers' decision-making processes. We aimed to build a wider understanding of vaccine demand by applying an adapted socio-ecological model to analyse 158 interviews with primary caregivers and fathers of young children, and community influencers in…
Addressing Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Maternal Health Through Community-Based Social Support Services: A Mixed Methods Study
Patients’ and Providers’ Views on Optimal Evidence-Based and Scalable Interventions for Individuals at High Risk of HIV Treatment Failure: Sequential Explorations Among Key Stakeholders in Cape Town, …
Real-time Feedback to Improve HIV Treatment Adherence in Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Uganda: A Randomized Controlled Trial
We assessed an intervention aimed at improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV (PPWLH). We randomized 133 pregnant women initiating ART in Uganda to receive text reminders generated by real time-enabled electronic monitors and data-informed counseling through 3 months postpartum (PPM3) or standard care. Intention-to-treat analyses found low adherence levels and no intervention impact. …
Amplifying Resilient Communities: Identifying Resilient Community Practices to Better Inform Health System Design
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point, bringing heightened awareness around the preparedness and resilience of public health systems in dealing with severe shocks. While the pandemic has accentuated the existing weakness in public health systems, for many, especially those belonging to marginalized sections of society, seeking healthcare has always been fraught with severe challenges and frictions.This paper presents the fi…
Health Care Providers' Challenges to High-Quality HIV Care and Antiretroviral Treatment Retention in Rural South Africa
Provision of high-quality HIV care is challenging, especially in rural primary care clinics in high HIV burden settings. We aimed to better understand the main challenges to quality HIV care provision and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in rural South Africa from the health care providers' perspective. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 23 providers from nine rural clinics. Using thematic and framework a…
Experiences of music therapy students working as camp counselors for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A thematic analysis
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of music therapy students working as camp counselors for individuals with ASD. We conducted semi-structured interviews with graduate and undergraduate students (N = 6) and used thematic analysis to analyze data. Three major themes and nine supporting subthemes emerged. The first theme, Various Differences, was supported by four subthemes: Despite having similar diagnoses, all campers are…
What Sticks: Freccerian Lessons for a Modernist
What Sticks:Freccerian Lessons for a Modernist Rebecca West (bio) It is now thirty-five years since I left Yale University to take up a position on the faculty at the University of Chicago. As I think back to my years as a graduate student in the Italian Studies program at Yale, from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, I am amazed at how vivid the lessons of John Freccero remain even today. By "lessons," I am referring not only to the classroom le…
Perceived Availability, Risks, and Benefits of Gambling among College Students
Perceived Availability, Risks, and Benefits of Gambling among College Students
The Persistent Puppet: Pinocchio's Afterlife in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Film
Western Australia Trials a Specialised Court
Le periferie della letteratura. Da Verga a Tabucchi
The Potential of Authority in Contemporary Italian Culture: Thinking and Writing Against Power
The Potential of Authority in Contemporary Italian Culture: Thinking and Writing Against Power
Discounting the future: Influence of the economic model
OBJECTIVE: To consider the effect of the economic discount rate on health care policy and the rationale for discounting the collective future of society generally. DESIGN: A review of the concept of discounting the future vis à vis the present from the points of view of individuals (who pass on) and of societies (that continue) and reconsideration of the application of discounting to typical public health scenarios. SETTING: A public health servi…
Properties of Writing: Ideological Discourse in Modern Italian Fiction
Manzoni - The Cultural Transformation of Narrative Verga - Science and Allegory in I Malavoglia D'Annunzio - Mythical Narratives Pirandeno - Epistemology and Pure Subjectivity Svevo - Contradiction and the Borders of Modernism Gadda - Travesties Pizzuto - The Subject of narrative Tomasi di Lampedusa/Visconti - Substances of Form Postmodern Rhetoric - Calvino's Le Citta Invisibili and Architecture
Effect of a lactation nurse on the success of breast-feeding: A randomised controlled trial
An evaluation of a lactation nurse by means of a randomised controlled trial is described. The lactation nurse was employed to assist, support, and encourage mothers during the early weeks after parturition in hospital and at home. All mothers who breast-fed at least once were entered into the trial. Altogether 649 mothers were interviewed 12 months later to establish the duration of breast-feeding and to enquire after practices of and attitudes …
Ideology and Iconology
Health Care Providers' Challenges to High-Quality HIV Care and Antiretroviral Treatment Retention in Rural South Africa
Provision of high-quality HIV care is challenging, especially in rural primary care clinics in high HIV burden settings. We aimed to better understand the main challenges to quality HIV care provision and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in rural South Africa from the health care providers' perspective. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 23 providers from nine rural clinics. Using thematic and framework a…
Experiences of music therapy students working as camp counselors for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A thematic analysis
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of music therapy students working as camp counselors for individuals with ASD. We conducted semi-structured interviews with graduate and undergraduate students (N = 6) and used thematic analysis to analyze data. Three major themes and nine supporting subthemes emerged. The first theme, Various Differences, was supported by four subthemes: Despite having similar diagnoses, all campers are…
Discounting the future: Influence of the economic model
OBJECTIVE: To consider the effect of the economic discount rate on health care policy and the rationale for discounting the collective future of society generally. DESIGN: A review of the concept of discounting the future vis à vis the present from the points of view of individuals (who pass on) and of societies (that continue) and reconsideration of the application of discounting to typical public health scenarios. SETTING: A public health servi…
Narrative Affinities in the Modern Italian Lyric Collection
The Poetics of Plenitude: Malerba's Diario di un sognatore
The Meaning of Treason
A Train of Powder
Journal Article A Train of Powder Get access A Train of Powder. By Rebecca West. London, Macmillan, 1955. vii+332 pp. 83⁄4′′ × 53⁄4′′. 21s. T. H. M. T. H. M. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 1956, Page 75, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607828 Published: 01 January 1956
Impressions of my Visit to South Africa
Dame Rebecca West gave the address that follows at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Society on July 7, 1960
The New Meaning of Treason
Journal Article The New Meaning of Treason. By Rebecca West. (New York: Viking Press, 1964. viii + 374 pp. Index. $6.95.) Get access Dean Albertson Dean Albertson University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 1965, Pages 421–422, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908873 Published: 01 September 1965
The New Meaning of Treason
Mortality from ischaemic heart disease--association with weather
Ideology and Iconology
Accuracy of cancer registration
In South Wales cancer registration is done principally by means of the Hospital Activity Analysis. Altogether 1460 hospital records of cancer patients (19% of the 1972 registrations received by May 1973) were studied and the principal items of information required for cancer registrations by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys were copied and subsequently compared with the corresponding registrations at the Welsh Hospital Board's cancer…
Narrative Structures and Literary History
Geographical variation mortality from ischaemic heart disease in England and Wales
Analysis ofthe proportional mortality attributed to ischaemic heart disease, adjusted for age, reminds us that many of the well known geographical, environmental, social, and economic variations within England and Wales are not disease specific
The Marginal Concept in Ossi di seppia
Montale's “Forse”: The Poetics of Doubt
A Long Fidelity: The Critical Edition of Montale's Poetry
The Poetics of Plenitude: Malerba's Diario di un sognatore
Effect of a lactation nurse on the success of breast-feeding: A randomised controlled trial
An evaluation of a lactation nurse by means of a randomised controlled trial is described. The lactation nurse was employed to assist, support, and encourage mothers during the early weeks after parturition in hospital and at home. All mothers who breast-fed at least once were entered into the trial. Altogether 649 mothers were interviewed 12 months later to establish the duration of breast-feeding and to enquire after practices of and attitudes …
The Strange Necessity
Montale's “Care Ombre”: Identity and its Dissolution
Narrative Affinities in the Modern Italian Lyric Collection
An Interpretation of Postmodernity
Discounting the future: Influence of the economic model
OBJECTIVE: To consider the effect of the economic discount rate on health care policy and the rationale for discounting the collective future of society generally. DESIGN: A review of the concept of discounting the future vis à vis the present from the points of view of individuals (who pass on) and of societies (that continue) and reconsideration of the application of discounting to typical public health scenarios. SETTING: A public health servi…
Properties of Writing: Ideological Discourse in Modern Italian Fiction
Manzoni - The Cultural Transformation of Narrative Verga - Science and Allegory in I Malavoglia D'Annunzio - Mythical Narratives Pirandeno - Epistemology and Pure Subjectivity Svevo - Contradiction and the Borders of Modernism Gadda - Travesties Pizzuto - The Subject of narrative Tomasi di Lampedusa/Visconti - Substances of Form Postmodern Rhetoric - Calvino's Le Citta Invisibili and Architecture
The Potential of Authority in Contemporary Italian Culture: Thinking and Writing Against Power
The Potential of Authority in Contemporary Italian Culture: Thinking and Writing Against Power
Le periferie della letteratura. Da Verga a Tabucchi
Western Australia Trials a Specialised Court
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