Kathryn Church
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 75571 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathryn Church |
| NOMBRES | Kathryn |
| APELLIDO | Church |
| FIRMA | CHURCH K |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8378-6069 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From PMI to Bots
My paper with Patrick Hanks on PMI (pointwise mutual information) was the most successful paper I ever wrote, or ever will write. I believe the paper was successful because it appealed to a number of different audiences for a number of different purposes. Patrick Hanks was more interested in applications in lexicography and I was more interested in applications in engineering. The first section on background will discuss the role our PMI paper pl…
MHealth interventions for postpartum family planning in LMICs
The unmet need for family planning is a pervasive public health concern in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have been designed and implemented in LMIC settings to address this issue through health information dissemination via voice calls, apps, and short message services (SMS). Although the impact of mHealth programmes on postpartum family planning outcomes have been systematically reviewed, th…
Promoting long-acting reversible contraception among post-abortion clients with a provider-comparison intervention
We find that a provider-level behavioral intervention increases LARC uptake among post-abortion clients. This type of intervention represents a low-cost option to contribute to reducing unmet need for contraception through provider behavior change
Safety, Quality, and Acceptability of Contraceptive Implant Provision by Community Health Extension Workers versus Nurses and Midwives in Two States in Nigeria
Task sharing is a strategy with potential to increase access to effective modern contraceptive methods. This study examines whether community health extension workers (CHEWs) can insert contraceptive implants to the same safety and quality standards as nurse/midwives. We analyze data from 7,691 clients of CHEWs and nurse/midwives who participated in a noninferiority study conducted in Kaduna and Ondo States, Nigeria. Adverse events (AEs) followin…
Treading the Thin Line
These findings highlight how pharmacy staff informally determine women's abortion access when laws and policies prevent comprehensive access to safe abortion. Reform of clinical guidelines, public education, strengthened public sector availability, task sharing, and improved access to prescription services are needed to ensure women can legally access safe abortion
Tensions of Trans-institutionalization in Disabled Childhoods
This article describes how researchers from a longitudinal study of early childhood service systems generated a visual representation of transinstitutionalization that could facilitate dialogue for change with a variety of audiences. Comprised of seven portable banners, the photo essay that we constructed features snapshots of documents and/or material objects brought forward by mothers, grandmothers, fathers and foster parents in the course of r…
Drug Seller Provision Practices and Knowledge of Misoprostol in Bangladesh
CONTEXT: In Bangladesh, prior to the availability of the approved combination regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol for menstrual regulation (MR), drug seller provision of misoprostol-only regimens for MR without a prescription was widespread but service quality was poor. Examining provider practices relating to misoprostol-only provision in Bangladesh may increase understanding of misoprostol use and provision in other low-resource, legally re…
Mobilizing Mad Art in the Neoliberal University
Mad art is consistently relegated to the therapeutic realm, understood simply as a benevolent force in the lives of mad people. This divorces mad art from its origins in the asylum and disconnects it from aesthetic markers that consider the skill, technique, and practice of the mad artist. When mad art objects are de-contextualized they reify biomedical interpretations of mad art/artists in ways that employ cultural practices as a form of regulat…
Medical Abortion Provision by Pharmacies and Drug Sellers in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
We undertook a systematic review to assess 1) the level and quality of pharmacy and drug shop provision of medical abortion (MA) in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and 2) interventions to improve quality of provision. We used standardized terms to search six databases for peer‐reviewed and grey literature. We double‐extracted data using a standardized template, and double‐graded studies for methodological quality. We identified 22 studie…
Delaying first birth
Delayers of first birth have very high unmet needs for modern contraceptives and they should be routinely and separately categorised and measured within nationally-representative surveys such as Demographic and Health Survey and Multiple Indicator Cluster surveys. Acknowledging their unique needs could help catalyse a programmatic response
Using automated voice messages linked to telephone counselling to increase post-menstrual regulation contraceptive uptake and continuation in Bangladesh
Trial registered with clinicaltrials.gov Registration number: NCT02579785 Date of registration: 16th October 2015
Identifying gaps in HIV policy and practice along the HIV care continuum
The last decade has seen rapid evolution in guidance from the WHO concerning the provision of HIV services along the diagnosis-to-treatment continuum, but the extent to which these recommendations are adopted as national policies in Kenya, and subsequently implemented in health facilities, is not well understood. Identifying gaps in policy coverage and implementation is important for highlighting areas for improving service delivery, leading to b…
Impact of Integrated Services on HIV Testing
The impact of integrated reproductive health and HIV services on HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake was assessed among 882 Kenyan family planning clients using a nonrandomized cohort design within six intervention and six “comparison” facilities. The effect of integration on HTC goals (two tests over two years) was assessed using conditional logistic regression to test four “integration” exposures: a training and reorganization intervention;…
HIV policy and implementation
Malawi is a global leader in the design and implementation of progressive HIV policies. However, there continues to be substantial attrition of people living with HIV across the "cascade" of HIV services from diagnosis to treatment, and program outcomes could improve further. Ability to successfully implement national HIV policy, especially in rural areas, may have an impact on consistency of service uptake. We reviewed Malawian policies and guid…
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Un-Earthing Emotions through Art
Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique
Qualitative analysis is often a textual undertaking. However, it can be helpful to think about and represent study phenomena or narrative accounts in nontextual ways. In this article, we share our unique and artistic process in developing and employing pictorial narrative mapping as a qualitative analytic technique. We recast a nontextual, artistic-analytic technique by combining elements related to narrative mapping and narrative art. This techn…
Arts-Informed Research Dissemination in the Health Sciences
Arts-informed dissemination of health care research is an emerging field of scholarship. Our team chose to use the arts as a means to disseminate findings from a study about patients' experiences of open-heart surgery and recovery. We transformed patients' stories, gathered through interviews and journal writings, into poetry and photographic imagery and displayed this within a 1,739 ft2 art installation titled "The 7,024th Patient." Our intentio…
Study protocol for the Integra Initiative to assess the benefits and costs of integrating sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Kenya and Swaziland
Current Controlled Trials NCT01694862
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Employing the Arts in Research as an Analytical Tool and Dissemination Method
The process to knowing entails perpetual curiosity as well as wearied surrender in which one's understandings transform. This philosophy describes the approach that our team took to research, interpret and exhibit patients' narratives of open-heart surgery in "The 7,024th Patient" project - an arts-informed, narrative study that resulted in an installation that is 1,739 square feet in area and over 9 feet in height. With the intention to physical…
Integrating Sexual Health Services Into Primary Care
Current attempts to address the high burden of sexual health morbidity and mortality in developing countries remain limited in scale due to a range of health system constraints.We conducted a literature review of the policy and programmatic issues that influence the integration of sexual health into primary care services in developing countries. Forty-seven reports were identified from a search of both peer-reviewed and gray literature. Key issue…
Integration of STI and HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment into Family Planning Services
The last comprehensive literature review to examine the effectiveness of family planning (FP) services in delivering STI and HIV prevention and care was published in 2000. This review updates that report by examining evidence of the impact of integrating any component of STI or HIV prevention, care, and treatment into a family planning setting in developing countries. Forty‐four reports were identified from a comprehensive search of published dat…
Approximate Lexicography and Web Search
The term ‘approximate lexicography’ was introduced by Grefenstette (1998) as a promising way forward—a third way—between warring factions in linguistics (Chomsky 1957) and engineering (Brown et al. 1992). Like most compromises, this one is not perfect, but not bad. Grefenstette attributed approximate lexicography to several people, including Adam Kilgarriff, Jeremy Clear and myself, but in fact, my generation came to this position only after year…
A Sketch Algorithm for Estimating Two-Way and Multi-Way Associations
We should not have to look at the entire corpus (e.g., the Web) to know if two (or more) words are strongly associated or not. One can often obtain estimates of associations from a small sample. We develop a sketch-based algorithm that constructs a contingency table for a sample. One can estimate the contingency table for the entire population using straightforward scaling. However, one can do better by taking advantage of the margins (also known…
Personal Narratives as Sociology
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Employing the Arts in Research as an Analytical Tool and Dissemination Method
The process to knowing entails perpetual curiosity as well as wearied surrender in which one's understandings transform. This philosophy describes the approach that our team took to research, interpret and exhibit patients' narratives of open-heart surgery in "The 7,024th Patient" project - an arts-informed, narrative study that resulted in an installation that is 1,739 square feet in area and over 9 feet in height. With the intention to physical…
Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique
Qualitative analysis is often a textual undertaking. However, it can be helpful to think about and represent study phenomena or narrative accounts in nontextual ways. In this article, we share our unique and artistic process in developing and employing pictorial narrative mapping as a qualitative analytic technique. We recast a nontextual, artistic-analytic technique by combining elements related to narrative mapping and narrative art. This techn…
Impact of Integrated Services on HIV Testing
The impact of integrated reproductive health and HIV services on HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake was assessed among 882 Kenyan family planning clients using a nonrandomized cohort design within six intervention and six “comparison” facilities. The effect of integration on HTC goals (two tests over two years) was assessed using conditional logistic regression to test four “integration” exposures: a training and reorganization intervention;…
Arts-Informed Research Dissemination in the Health Sciences
Arts-informed dissemination of health care research is an emerging field of scholarship. Our team chose to use the arts as a means to disseminate findings from a study about patients' experiences of open-heart surgery and recovery. We transformed patients' stories, gathered through interviews and journal writings, into poetry and photographic imagery and displayed this within a 1,739 ft2 art installation titled "The 7,024th Patient." Our intentio…
From PMI to Bots
My paper with Patrick Hanks on PMI (pointwise mutual information) was the most successful paper I ever wrote, or ever will write. I believe the paper was successful because it appealed to a number of different audiences for a number of different purposes. Patrick Hanks was more interested in applications in lexicography and I was more interested in applications in engineering. The first section on background will discuss the role our PMI paper pl…
Treading the Thin Line
These findings highlight how pharmacy staff informally determine women's abortion access when laws and policies prevent comprehensive access to safe abortion. Reform of clinical guidelines, public education, strengthened public sector availability, task sharing, and improved access to prescription services are needed to ensure women can legally access safe abortion
Using Suffix Arrays to Compute Term Frequency and Document Frequency for All Substrings in a Corpus
Bigrams and trigrams are commonly used in statistical natural language processing; this paper will describe techniques for working with much longer n-grams. Suffix arrays (Manber and Myers 1990) were first introduced to compute the frequency and location of a substring (n-gram) in a sequence (corpus) of length N. To compute frequencies over all N(N+1)/2 substrings in a corpus, the substrings are grouped into a manageable number of equivalence cla…
Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of current developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It captures the essence of a series of highly successful workshops organized over the last few years. The papers cover a range of current research topics in this field including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing on real-life texts, working with parallel corpora and improved techniques for doc…
Forbidden Narratives
Forbidden Narratives
Forbidden Narratives
Personal Narratives as Sociology
Briefly Noted
Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of current developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It captures the essence of a series of highly successful workshops organized over the last few years. The papers cover a range of current research topics in this field including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing on real-life texts, working with parallel corpora and improved techniques for doc…
Using Suffix Arrays to Compute Term Frequency and Document Frequency for All Substrings in a Corpus
Bigrams and trigrams are commonly used in statistical natural language processing; this paper will describe techniques for working with much longer n-grams. Suffix arrays (Manber and Myers 1990) were first introduced to compute the frequency and location of a substring (n-gram) in a sequence (corpus) of length N. To compute frequencies over all N(N+1)/2 substrings in a corpus, the substrings are grouped into a manageable number of equivalence cla…
A Sketch Algorithm for Estimating Two-Way and Multi-Way Associations
We should not have to look at the entire corpus (e.g., the Web) to know if two (or more) words are strongly associated or not. One can often obtain estimates of associations from a small sample. We develop a sketch-based algorithm that constructs a contingency table for a sample. One can estimate the contingency table for the entire population using straightforward scaling. However, one can do better by taking advantage of the margins (also known…
Approximate Lexicography and Web Search
The term ‘approximate lexicography’ was introduced by Grefenstette (1998) as a promising way forward—a third way—between warring factions in linguistics (Chomsky 1957) and engineering (Brown et al. 1992). Like most compromises, this one is not perfect, but not bad. Grefenstette attributed approximate lexicography to several people, including Adam Kilgarriff, Jeremy Clear and myself, but in fact, my generation came to this position only after year…
Integration of STI and HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment into Family Planning Services
The last comprehensive literature review to examine the effectiveness of family planning (FP) services in delivering STI and HIV prevention and care was published in 2000. This review updates that report by examining evidence of the impact of integrating any component of STI or HIV prevention, care, and treatment into a family planning setting in developing countries. Forty‐four reports were identified from a comprehensive search of published dat…
Integrating Sexual Health Services Into Primary Care
Current attempts to address the high burden of sexual health morbidity and mortality in developing countries remain limited in scale due to a range of health system constraints.We conducted a literature review of the policy and programmatic issues that influence the integration of sexual health into primary care services in developing countries. Forty-seven reports were identified from a search of both peer-reviewed and gray literature. Key issue…
Study protocol for the Integra Initiative to assess the benefits and costs of integrating sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Kenya and Swaziland
Current Controlled Trials NCT01694862
Recovering our Stories”
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient “personal story” within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having “lived experience” has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly bee…
Employing the Arts in Research as an Analytical Tool and Dissemination Method
The process to knowing entails perpetual curiosity as well as wearied surrender in which one's understandings transform. This philosophy describes the approach that our team took to research, interpret and exhibit patients' narratives of open-heart surgery in "The 7,024th Patient" project - an arts-informed, narrative study that resulted in an installation that is 1,739 square feet in area and over 9 feet in height. With the intention to physical…
Arts-Informed Research Dissemination in the Health Sciences
Arts-informed dissemination of health care research is an emerging field of scholarship. Our team chose to use the arts as a means to disseminate findings from a study about patients' experiences of open-heart surgery and recovery. We transformed patients' stories, gathered through interviews and journal writings, into poetry and photographic imagery and displayed this within a 1,739 ft2 art installation titled "The 7,024th Patient." Our intentio…
Un-Earthing Emotions through Art
Pictorial Narrative Mapping as a Qualitative Analytic Technique
Qualitative analysis is often a textual undertaking. However, it can be helpful to think about and represent study phenomena or narrative accounts in nontextual ways. In this article, we share our unique and artistic process in developing and employing pictorial narrative mapping as a qualitative analytic technique. We recast a nontextual, artistic-analytic technique by combining elements related to narrative mapping and narrative art. This techn…
HIV policy and implementation
Malawi is a global leader in the design and implementation of progressive HIV policies. However, there continues to be substantial attrition of people living with HIV across the "cascade" of HIV services from diagnosis to treatment, and program outcomes could improve further. Ability to successfully implement national HIV policy, especially in rural areas, may have an impact on consistency of service uptake. We reviewed Malawian policies and guid…
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Delaying first birth
Delayers of first birth have very high unmet needs for modern contraceptives and they should be routinely and separately categorised and measured within nationally-representative surveys such as Demographic and Health Survey and Multiple Indicator Cluster surveys. Acknowledging their unique needs could help catalyse a programmatic response
Using automated voice messages linked to telephone counselling to increase post-menstrual regulation contraceptive uptake and continuation in Bangladesh
Trial registered with clinicaltrials.gov Registration number: NCT02579785 Date of registration: 16th October 2015
Identifying gaps in HIV policy and practice along the HIV care continuum
The last decade has seen rapid evolution in guidance from the WHO concerning the provision of HIV services along the diagnosis-to-treatment continuum, but the extent to which these recommendations are adopted as national policies in Kenya, and subsequently implemented in health facilities, is not well understood. Identifying gaps in policy coverage and implementation is important for highlighting areas for improving service delivery, leading to b…
Impact of Integrated Services on HIV Testing
The impact of integrated reproductive health and HIV services on HIV testing and counseling (HTC) uptake was assessed among 882 Kenyan family planning clients using a nonrandomized cohort design within six intervention and six “comparison” facilities. The effect of integration on HTC goals (two tests over two years) was assessed using conditional logistic regression to test four “integration” exposures: a training and reorganization intervention;…
Medical Abortion Provision by Pharmacies and Drug Sellers in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
We undertook a systematic review to assess 1) the level and quality of pharmacy and drug shop provision of medical abortion (MA) in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and 2) interventions to improve quality of provision. We used standardized terms to search six databases for peer‐reviewed and grey literature. We double‐extracted data using a standardized template, and double‐graded studies for methodological quality. We identified 22 studie…
Drug Seller Provision Practices and Knowledge of Misoprostol in Bangladesh
CONTEXT: In Bangladesh, prior to the availability of the approved combination regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol for menstrual regulation (MR), drug seller provision of misoprostol-only regimens for MR without a prescription was widespread but service quality was poor. Examining provider practices relating to misoprostol-only provision in Bangladesh may increase understanding of misoprostol use and provision in other low-resource, legally re…
Mobilizing Mad Art in the Neoliberal University
Mad art is consistently relegated to the therapeutic realm, understood simply as a benevolent force in the lives of mad people. This divorces mad art from its origins in the asylum and disconnects it from aesthetic markers that consider the skill, technique, and practice of the mad artist. When mad art objects are de-contextualized they reify biomedical interpretations of mad art/artists in ways that employ cultural practices as a form of regulat…
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