Judith Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3880688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Population Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3194-5125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consensus-based recommendations for strengthening emergency care at primary health care level
BACKGROUND: Emergency care at a primary health care (PHC) level must be strengthened to reduce overall mortality and morbidity in any country. Developing recommendations for improvement in this area should take into consideration the context and nuances of the current emergency care system and primary health care context. Contribution to policy from the experts in the cross-cutting fields of PHC and emergency care is lacking. OBJECTIVES: This stu…
The Public Health Value of Coding Surgery in South Africa Using the International Classification of Health Interventions
ICHI has the ability to cater for the broad range of general surgery interventions, thus indicating that ICHI is suitable for general surgery coding
Advancing nursing scholarship
BACKGROUND: Despite the importance of Human Resources for Health for the development and functioning of health systems worldwide, many countries continue to be plagued by poor health systems and a lack of adequate health care. Health systems failures may be attributed to both quantitative and qualitative nursing shortages including the lack of advanced skills to lead health initiatives, to conduct research and to educate other nurses. The respons…
Commentary
The Population Council and its partners have applied a targeted, evidence-based approach to adolescent girl programming in over 20 countries, prioritising neglected (Bruce & Hallman, 2008) and exce
Commentary
Reaching the girls left behind
HIV and AIDS prevention efforts have relied heavily on providing information, and have sometimes provided a weak link to services, without perceiving or addressing the factors which make adolescent girls particularly vulnerable. Social factors, such as friendship networks, and economic factors, such as financial literacy and financial goals, independently but synergistically decrease girls’ risk of coerced sex or exchanges of sex for money, and i…
Protecting Young Women from HIV/Aids
CONTEXT: In most developing countries, the majority of sexually active female adolescents are married. Although married adolescents are often assumed to be at low risk for HIV infection, little is known about the actual HIV risks these adolescents face or about ways to minimize these risks. METHODS: Demographic and Health Survey data from 29 countries in Africa and Latin America were used to examine the frequency of factors that may increase HIV …
The Uncharted Passage
Adolescence is a formative time of transition to adulthood. What happens between the ages of 10 and 19 shapes how girls and boys live out their lives as women and men—not only in the reproductive arena, but in the social and economic realm as well. Yet, despite its impact on human development, adolescence has been sidelined as a research and policy subject in developing countries. While all adolescents deserve our attention, the needs of adolesce…
Understanding the Family
Introduction Public Definitions and Private Lives PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW Issues in the Study of 'The Family' - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell Families and the Law - Hilary Land Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos Family Belief Systems Social S…
The Causes of Unmet Need for Contraception and the Social Content of Services
Since the 1960s, survey data have indicated that substantial proportions of women who have wanted to stop or delay childbearing have not practiced contraception. This discrepancy is referred to as the "unmet need" for contraception. The traditional interpretation, that these women lack access to contraceptive supplies and services, has led in turn to an emphasis on expanding family planning programs. This study analyzes survey data and related an…
The Question of Access
This essay was written in response to a critical review made by Ross of one the authors previous publications. The authors agree with Ross about the unproductive nature of the debate over whether increased distribution is more important than service improvements in increasing contraceptive prevalence and about the fact that satisfactory access to modern contraceptives remains problematic in developing countries. In fact the authors made these poi…
Setting Standards of Quality in Family Planning Programs
The Population Council continues to resist setting quality of care standards for family planning programs. It contends that professionals responsible for each family planning program must define intended and achievable levels of care. The Population Council does claim, however, that a high quality program is client-oriented and assists clients in reaching their reproductive goals. Even though a high quality program would reduce fertility by incre…
Fundamental Elements of the Quality of Care
This article argues for attention to a neglected dimension of family planning services--their quality. A framework for assessing quality from the client's perspective is offered, consisting of six parts (choice of methods, information given to clients, technical competence, interpersonal relations, follow-up and continuity mechanisms, and the appropriate constellation of services). The literature is reviewed regarding evidence that improvements i…
Homes divided
A Home Divided
Introduction Judith Bruce and Daisy Dwyer 1. The material consequences of reproductive failure in rural South Asia Mead Cain 2. Intergenerational contracts: familial roots of sexual stratification in Taiwan Susan Greenhalgh 3. Women are good with money: earning and managing in an Indonesian city Hanna Papanek and Laurel Schwede 4. Women's work and poverty: women's contribution to household maintenance in South India Joan P. Mencher 5. Household b…
Users' perspectives on contraceptive technology and delivery systems highlighting some feminist issues
Learning About Women and Urban Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
This monograph synthesizes existing information on the position of low-income women in the economy of Latin Americas large urban centers. It begins with a summary of aspects of urban-industrial development that have been most important in determining womens economic roles. It then outlines how womens work patterns are affected by their situations and explores their numerous productive activities including direct income generation and unpaid labor…
Women-Oriented Health Care
There are today some 200 women's health centers in the United States providing information and, in many cases, direct health and family planning services to women in a manner responsive to their needs and preferences, and that involves them in the design and provision of services. This approach to delivering services was specifically recommended by the International Conference of Family Planning in the 1980's held in Indonesia in April 1981. in a…
Implementing the User Perspective
Contraceptives and Common Sense
Barrier or conventional methods of contraception--those which physically block the passage of sperm into the uterus or chemically inactivate the sperm in the vagina--are an important group of methods which have been too long ignored. A large and sustained effort to develop new and better barrier contraceptives is sensible and necessary. The effectiveness of the barrier methods is reviewed including the condom diaphragm and vaginal spermicides. Al…
Fundamental Elements of the Quality of Care
This article argues for attention to a neglected dimension of family planning services--their quality. A framework for assessing quality from the client's perspective is offered, consisting of six parts (choice of methods, information given to clients, technical competence, interpersonal relations, follow-up and continuity mechanisms, and the appropriate constellation of services). The literature is reviewed regarding evidence that improvements i…
The Causes of Unmet Need for Contraception and the Social Content of Services
Since the 1960s, survey data have indicated that substantial proportions of women who have wanted to stop or delay childbearing have not practiced contraception. This discrepancy is referred to as the "unmet need" for contraception. The traditional interpretation, that these women lack access to contraceptive supplies and services, has led in turn to an emphasis on expanding family planning programs. This study analyzes survey data and related an…
Homes divided
Setting Standards of Quality in Family Planning Programs
The Population Council continues to resist setting quality of care standards for family planning programs. It contends that professionals responsible for each family planning program must define intended and achievable levels of care. The Population Council does claim, however, that a high quality program is client-oriented and assists clients in reaching their reproductive goals. Even though a high quality program would reduce fertility by incre…
A Home Divided
Introduction Judith Bruce and Daisy Dwyer 1. The material consequences of reproductive failure in rural South Asia Mead Cain 2. Intergenerational contracts: familial roots of sexual stratification in Taiwan Susan Greenhalgh 3. Women are good with money: earning and managing in an Indonesian city Hanna Papanek and Laurel Schwede 4. Women's work and poverty: women's contribution to household maintenance in South India Joan P. Mencher 5. Household b…
Reaching the girls left behind
HIV and AIDS prevention efforts have relied heavily on providing information, and have sometimes provided a weak link to services, without perceiving or addressing the factors which make adolescent girls particularly vulnerable. Social factors, such as friendship networks, and economic factors, such as financial literacy and financial goals, independently but synergistically decrease girls’ risk of coerced sex or exchanges of sex for money, and i…
Users' perspectives on contraceptive technology and delivery systems highlighting some feminist issues
Implementing the User Perspective
Contraceptives and Common Sense
Barrier or conventional methods of contraception--those which physically block the passage of sperm into the uterus or chemically inactivate the sperm in the vagina--are an important group of methods which have been too long ignored. A large and sustained effort to develop new and better barrier contraceptives is sensible and necessary. The effectiveness of the barrier methods is reviewed including the condom diaphragm and vaginal spermicides. Al…
Women-Oriented Health Care
There are today some 200 women's health centers in the United States providing information and, in many cases, direct health and family planning services to women in a manner responsive to their needs and preferences, and that involves them in the design and provision of services. This approach to delivering services was specifically recommended by the International Conference of Family Planning in the 1980's held in Indonesia in April 1981. in a…
Learning About Women and Urban Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
This monograph synthesizes existing information on the position of low-income women in the economy of Latin Americas large urban centers. It begins with a summary of aspects of urban-industrial development that have been most important in determining womens economic roles. It then outlines how womens work patterns are affected by their situations and explores their numerous productive activities including direct income generation and unpaid labor…
Users' perspectives on contraceptive technology and delivery systems highlighting some feminist issues
A Home Divided
Introduction Judith Bruce and Daisy Dwyer 1. The material consequences of reproductive failure in rural South Asia Mead Cain 2. Intergenerational contracts: familial roots of sexual stratification in Taiwan Susan Greenhalgh 3. Women are good with money: earning and managing in an Indonesian city Hanna Papanek and Laurel Schwede 4. Women's work and poverty: women's contribution to household maintenance in South India Joan P. Mencher 5. Household b…
Homes divided
Fundamental Elements of the Quality of Care
This article argues for attention to a neglected dimension of family planning services--their quality. A framework for assessing quality from the client's perspective is offered, consisting of six parts (choice of methods, information given to clients, technical competence, interpersonal relations, follow-up and continuity mechanisms, and the appropriate constellation of services). The literature is reviewed regarding evidence that improvements i…
Setting Standards of Quality in Family Planning Programs
The Population Council continues to resist setting quality of care standards for family planning programs. It contends that professionals responsible for each family planning program must define intended and achievable levels of care. The Population Council does claim, however, that a high quality program is client-oriented and assists clients in reaching their reproductive goals. Even though a high quality program would reduce fertility by incre…
The Causes of Unmet Need for Contraception and the Social Content of Services
Since the 1960s, survey data have indicated that substantial proportions of women who have wanted to stop or delay childbearing have not practiced contraception. This discrepancy is referred to as the "unmet need" for contraception. The traditional interpretation, that these women lack access to contraceptive supplies and services, has led in turn to an emphasis on expanding family planning programs. This study analyzes survey data and related an…
The Question of Access
This essay was written in response to a critical review made by Ross of one the authors previous publications. The authors agree with Ross about the unproductive nature of the debate over whether increased distribution is more important than service improvements in increasing contraceptive prevalence and about the fact that satisfactory access to modern contraceptives remains problematic in developing countries. In fact the authors made these poi…
Understanding the Family
Introduction Public Definitions and Private Lives PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW Issues in the Study of 'The Family' - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell Families and the Law - Hilary Land Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos Family Belief Systems Social S…
The Uncharted Passage
Adolescence is a formative time of transition to adulthood. What happens between the ages of 10 and 19 shapes how girls and boys live out their lives as women and men—not only in the reproductive arena, but in the social and economic realm as well. Yet, despite its impact on human development, adolescence has been sidelined as a research and policy subject in developing countries. While all adolescents deserve our attention, the needs of adolesce…
Protecting Young Women from HIV/Aids
CONTEXT: In most developing countries, the majority of sexually active female adolescents are married. Although married adolescents are often assumed to be at low risk for HIV infection, little is known about the actual HIV risks these adolescents face or about ways to minimize these risks. METHODS: Demographic and Health Survey data from 29 countries in Africa and Latin America were used to examine the frequency of factors that may increase HIV …
Reaching the girls left behind
HIV and AIDS prevention efforts have relied heavily on providing information, and have sometimes provided a weak link to services, without perceiving or addressing the factors which make adolescent girls particularly vulnerable. Social factors, such as friendship networks, and economic factors, such as financial literacy and financial goals, independently but synergistically decrease girls’ risk of coerced sex or exchanges of sex for money, and i…
Commentary
Commentary
The Population Council and its partners have applied a targeted, evidence-based approach to adolescent girl programming in over 20 countries, prioritising neglected (Bruce & Hallman, 2008) and exce
Advancing nursing scholarship
BACKGROUND: Despite the importance of Human Resources for Health for the development and functioning of health systems worldwide, many countries continue to be plagued by poor health systems and a lack of adequate health care. Health systems failures may be attributed to both quantitative and qualitative nursing shortages including the lack of advanced skills to lead health initiatives, to conduct research and to educate other nurses. The respons…
Consensus-based recommendations for strengthening emergency care at primary health care level
BACKGROUND: Emergency care at a primary health care (PHC) level must be strengthened to reduce overall mortality and morbidity in any country. Developing recommendations for improvement in this area should take into consideration the context and nuances of the current emergency care system and primary health care context. Contribution to policy from the experts in the cross-cutting fields of PHC and emergency care is lacking. OBJECTIVES: This stu…
The Public Health Value of Coding Surgery in South Africa Using the International Classification of Health Interventions
ICHI has the ability to cater for the broad range of general surgery interventions, thus indicating that ICHI is suitable for general surgery coding
Medicine (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Family planning (6 works) · Geography (6 works)