Cooper
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 13415 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cooper |
| SOBRENOME | Cooper |
| ASSINATURA | COOPER |
| AFILIAÇÕES | South African Medical Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9894-236X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Accidental Hub
Current English policy for child protection and promoting children’s wellbeing (child safeguarding) has placed increased emphasis on schools. Our study investigated how four English primary schools with attached nurseries (ages <11) in deprived communities are supporting families. Our findings illuminate the geographies and pressure points of school-based family support and the significance of this for schools, their multi agency partners and gov…
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to Interpretive Review Findings
GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) was developed to support the use of evidence from qualitative reviews within policy- and decision-making. To date, the approach has been applied predominantly to aggregative synthesis methodologies and descriptive review findings. GRADE-CERQual guidance recommends the approach be tested on more diverse review methodologies and outputs to support its evolution. This pa…
Developing and planning country-specific integrated knowledge translation strategies
The intentional, systematic, and contextualized IKT approach carried out in the three African countries within GELA, provides important insights for enhancing the implementation, feasibility and effectiveness of other IKT initiatives in Africa and similar low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings
Pessimism, Quietism and Nature As Refu
Using health information for community activism
The access to, use, and exchange of health information is crucial when strengthening public health services and improving access to care. However, many health system stakeholders, including community groups are perpetually excluded from accessing and using health information. This is problematic as community groups, themselves end-users of care, are well-positioned to keep the health system accountable, provide feedback on the quality of services…
Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (Epoc) Qualitative Evidence Syntheses, Differences From Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness and Implications for Guidance
Systematic reviews of qualitative research (‘qualitative evidence syntheses’) are increasingly popular and represent a potentially important source of information about people’s views, needs and experiences. Since 2013, Cochrane has published qualitative evidence syntheses, and the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group has been involved in the majority of these reviews. But more guidance is needed on how to prepare these revi…
Intervention development of a brief messaging intervention for a randomised controlled trial to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa
The complexity of public health interventions requires that we give more attention to intervention development work. Our documentation and reflection on the StAR2D intervention development process promotes transparency, replicability, assessment of intervention quality, and comparison with other studies
Process evaluation of a brief messaging intervention to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa
This process evaluation provided context and insight into the factors influencing participants' engagement with the text messaging intervention. The complex context in which patients take their diabetes medication, may explain in part, why brief text messaging may have been insufficient to bring about changes in health outcomes. The scale of need for self-management and health service support, suggests that health system strengthening, and other …
Digital messaging to support control for type 2 diabetes (StAR2D)
Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN70768808. Registered 1 July 2015, http://www.isrctn.com/I ISRCTN70768808
Qualitative Evidence Syntheses Within Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
A growing number of researchers are preparing systematic reviews of qualitative evidence, often referred to as 'qualitative evidence syntheses'. Cochrane published its first qualitative evidence synthesis in 2013 and published 27 such syntheses and protocols by August 2020. Most of these syntheses have explored how people experience or value different health conditions, treatments and outcomes. Several have been used by guideline producers and ot…
The Secret History method and the development of an ethos of care
South Africa, like many low-and-middle-income countries, is integrating mental health services into routine Primary Health Care (PHC) through a task-shifting approach to reduce the gaps in treatment coverage. There is concern, however, that this approach will exacerbate nurses' abuse of patients currently common within PHC in the country. To address this concern, the Perinatal Mental Health Project developed its Secret History method, a critical …
You Know, Support the Team
This article examines the images of White, non-Jewish (Gentile) men on two popular Jewish situation comedies: Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I critically examine the portrayals of the shows' male Gentile characters and quantitatively analyze the differences between the Gentile and Jewish male guest characters. I posit the existence of a Jewish-Gentile duality on both shows—Jewish men frequently exhibit excessive sociability, whereas Gentile m…
“How I Floated on Gentle Webs of Being”
Global mental health and its critics
Research on help-seeking for mental illness in Africa
There is growing concern within the global mental health arena that interventions currently being executed to scale up mental health services in Africa will be ineffective unless simultaneous steps are taken to address people's help-seeking behaviour. Drawing upon two conceptual tools arising from science and technology studies (STS), those of a "classification system" and "the black box," this paper looks critically at discursive constructions o…
Prising open the 'black box
Global mental health research is increasingly highlighting the high levels of untreated mental illness in Africa and calling for the scaling-up of services in order to redress this situation. A particular model of care is being strongly advocated for such scale-up, and a recent explosion of research is providing guidelines for its implementation. This article seeks to open up the 'black box' of international research on scaling up the provision o…
Pursuits of Wisdom
Poverty and mental disorders
Challenges facing South Africa's mental health care system
In recent years South Africa has taken some important steps forward in strengthening its mental health systems. Mental health legislation has been reformed and there is some level of policy commitment to mental health. However, there remain ongoing challenges, largely related to implementation. The aim of this paper is to review the major challenges facing the South African mental health system, to provide a greater understanding of these challen…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health care system
In Uganda, mental health has gained increased attention in recent years, with several new initiatives to improve services. The mental health system, however, still faces many shortcomings. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health system and the primary ways of addressing them. A total of 62 interviews and six focus groups were conducted with stakeholders drawn …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Zambia's mental health care system
Despite radical health transformations in Zambia over the last decade, mental health continues to be marginalized, as reflected in the un-coordinated and under-resourced mental health care system. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Z…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
‘Whether you like it or not people with mental problems are going to go to them’
Limited research has been conducted to explore the factors that support or obstruct collaboration between traditional healers and public sector mental health services. The first aim of this study was to explore the reasons underpinning the widespread appeal of traditional/faith healers in Ghana. This formed a backdrop for the second objective, to identify what barriers or enabling factors may exist for forming bi-sectoral partnerships. Eighty-one…
The inmates are running the asylum
Reason and emotion
This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral hilosophy -- including several published here for the first time -- by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed fro…
Research on help-seeking for mental illness in Africa
There is growing concern within the global mental health arena that interventions currently being executed to scale up mental health services in Africa will be ineffective unless simultaneous steps are taken to address people's help-seeking behaviour. Drawing upon two conceptual tools arising from science and technology studies (STS), those of a "classification system" and "the black box," this paper looks critically at discursive constructions o…
Prising open the 'black box
Global mental health research is increasingly highlighting the high levels of untreated mental illness in Africa and calling for the scaling-up of services in order to redress this situation. A particular model of care is being strongly advocated for such scale-up, and a recent explosion of research is providing guidelines for its implementation. This article seeks to open up the 'black box' of international research on scaling up the provision o…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
Challenges facing South Africa's mental health care system
In recent years South Africa has taken some important steps forward in strengthening its mental health systems. Mental health legislation has been reformed and there is some level of policy commitment to mental health. However, there remain ongoing challenges, largely related to implementation. The aim of this paper is to review the major challenges facing the South African mental health system, to provide a greater understanding of these challen…
The Secret History method and the development of an ethos of care
South Africa, like many low-and-middle-income countries, is integrating mental health services into routine Primary Health Care (PHC) through a task-shifting approach to reduce the gaps in treatment coverage. There is concern, however, that this approach will exacerbate nurses' abuse of patients currently common within PHC in the country. To address this concern, the Perinatal Mental Health Project developed its Secret History method, a critical …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health care system
In Uganda, mental health has gained increased attention in recent years, with several new initiatives to improve services. The mental health system, however, still faces many shortcomings. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health system and the primary ways of addressing them. A total of 62 interviews and six focus groups were conducted with stakeholders drawn …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Zambia's mental health care system
Despite radical health transformations in Zambia over the last decade, mental health continues to be marginalized, as reflected in the un-coordinated and under-resourced mental health care system. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Z…
The Siting and Development of British Airports
Bartók, Concerto for orchestra
Reason and emotion
This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral hilosophy -- including several published here for the first time -- by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed fro…
The inmates are running the asylum
‘Whether you like it or not people with mental problems are going to go to them’
Limited research has been conducted to explore the factors that support or obstruct collaboration between traditional healers and public sector mental health services. The first aim of this study was to explore the reasons underpinning the widespread appeal of traditional/faith healers in Ghana. This formed a backdrop for the second objective, to identify what barriers or enabling factors may exist for forming bi-sectoral partnerships. Eighty-one…
Poverty and mental disorders
Challenges facing South Africa's mental health care system
In recent years South Africa has taken some important steps forward in strengthening its mental health systems. Mental health legislation has been reformed and there is some level of policy commitment to mental health. However, there remain ongoing challenges, largely related to implementation. The aim of this paper is to review the major challenges facing the South African mental health system, to provide a greater understanding of these challen…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health care system
In Uganda, mental health has gained increased attention in recent years, with several new initiatives to improve services. The mental health system, however, still faces many shortcomings. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Uganda's mental health system and the primary ways of addressing them. A total of 62 interviews and six focus groups were conducted with stakeholders drawn …
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Zambia's mental health care system
Despite radical health transformations in Zambia over the last decade, mental health continues to be marginalized, as reflected in the un-coordinated and under-resourced mental health care system. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Z…
Stakeholders' perceptions of the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health care system
Mental health remains a low priority in Ghana. No comprehensive studies have assessed the current status of mental health policy, legislation and services in Ghana. This paper presents the qualitative results of a situation analysis conducted as part of the first phase of the Mental Health and Poverty Project. The aim of this paper was to explore what a range of stakeholders perceive as the main challenges facing Ghana's mental health system and …
Pursuits of Wisdom
Prising open the 'black box
Global mental health research is increasingly highlighting the high levels of untreated mental illness in Africa and calling for the scaling-up of services in order to redress this situation. A particular model of care is being strongly advocated for such scale-up, and a recent explosion of research is providing guidelines for its implementation. This article seeks to open up the 'black box' of international research on scaling up the provision o…
“How I Floated on Gentle Webs of Being”
Global mental health and its critics
Research on help-seeking for mental illness in Africa
There is growing concern within the global mental health arena that interventions currently being executed to scale up mental health services in Africa will be ineffective unless simultaneous steps are taken to address people's help-seeking behaviour. Drawing upon two conceptual tools arising from science and technology studies (STS), those of a "classification system" and "the black box," this paper looks critically at discursive constructions o…
You Know, Support the Team
This article examines the images of White, non-Jewish (Gentile) men on two popular Jewish situation comedies: Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I critically examine the portrayals of the shows' male Gentile characters and quantitatively analyze the differences between the Gentile and Jewish male guest characters. I posit the existence of a Jewish-Gentile duality on both shows—Jewish men frequently exhibit excessive sociability, whereas Gentile m…
The Secret History method and the development of an ethos of care
South Africa, like many low-and-middle-income countries, is integrating mental health services into routine Primary Health Care (PHC) through a task-shifting approach to reduce the gaps in treatment coverage. There is concern, however, that this approach will exacerbate nurses' abuse of patients currently common within PHC in the country. To address this concern, the Perinatal Mental Health Project developed its Secret History method, a critical …
Intervention development of a brief messaging intervention for a randomised controlled trial to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa
The complexity of public health interventions requires that we give more attention to intervention development work. Our documentation and reflection on the StAR2D intervention development process promotes transparency, replicability, assessment of intervention quality, and comparison with other studies
Process evaluation of a brief messaging intervention to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa
This process evaluation provided context and insight into the factors influencing participants' engagement with the text messaging intervention. The complex context in which patients take their diabetes medication, may explain in part, why brief text messaging may have been insufficient to bring about changes in health outcomes. The scale of need for self-management and health service support, suggests that health system strengthening, and other …
Digital messaging to support control for type 2 diabetes (StAR2D)
Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN70768808. Registered 1 July 2015, http://www.isrctn.com/I ISRCTN70768808
Qualitative Evidence Syntheses Within Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
A growing number of researchers are preparing systematic reviews of qualitative evidence, often referred to as 'qualitative evidence syntheses'. Cochrane published its first qualitative evidence synthesis in 2013 and published 27 such syntheses and protocols by August 2020. Most of these syntheses have explored how people experience or value different health conditions, treatments and outcomes. Several have been used by guideline producers and ot…
Using health information for community activism
The access to, use, and exchange of health information is crucial when strengthening public health services and improving access to care. However, many health system stakeholders, including community groups are perpetually excluded from accessing and using health information. This is problematic as community groups, themselves end-users of care, are well-positioned to keep the health system accountable, provide feedback on the quality of services…
Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (Epoc) Qualitative Evidence Syntheses, Differences From Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness and Implications for Guidance
Systematic reviews of qualitative research (‘qualitative evidence syntheses’) are increasingly popular and represent a potentially important source of information about people’s views, needs and experiences. Since 2013, Cochrane has published qualitative evidence syntheses, and the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group has been involved in the majority of these reviews. But more guidance is needed on how to prepare these revi…
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to Interpretive Review Findings
GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) was developed to support the use of evidence from qualitative reviews within policy- and decision-making. To date, the approach has been applied predominantly to aggregative synthesis methodologies and descriptive review findings. GRADE-CERQual guidance recommends the approach be tested on more diverse review methodologies and outputs to support its evolution. This pa…
Developing and planning country-specific integrated knowledge translation strategies
The intentional, systematic, and contextualized IKT approach carried out in the three African countries within GELA, provides important insights for enhancing the implementation, feasibility and effectiveness of other IKT initiatives in Africa and similar low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings
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