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Social and structural factors affecting the culture of medical migration in Nigeria: insights from four public medical schools
(2017)Background: The loss of doctors from low income countries through migration is a major concern. In Nigeria, one of several ’push’ factors implicated in the migration of doctors is a ‘culture of migration’ prevalent in ... -
Corporate social responsibility in the Ugandan alcohol industry: its contribution towards the prevention and mitigation of HIV and Aids.
(2017)This thesis sets out to determine the contribution made by the Alcohol Industry in Uganda towards HIV and AIDS treatment, care and prevention through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. Adopting a qualitative ... -
Incidence rates and multidisciplinary response to delirium in acute stroke: a mixed methods investigation
(2018)Delirium is a serious medical condition affecting up to 30% of hospital in-patients and associated with significant negative consequences such as increased mortality, morbidity as well as an increased long term risk of ... -
Exploring the experience of Dementia from a participatory perspective. From experience to theory and back again: realist explanatory theory building method
(2018)Background: The way dementia is understood shapes public attitudes towards those living with the condition and professional approaches to treatment. This has implications for the experiences of those living with dementia. ... -
The Slum Chronotope and Imaginaries of Spatial Justice in Philippine Urban Cinema
(2017)This dissertation proposes that Philippine independent urban cinema reveals imaginaries of spatial justice. The works approached as Philippine urban cinema are independently produced and internationally circulated films ... -
Peri-surgical changes in functional capabilities associated with reconstructive knee surgery
(2017)This thesis, using a meta-analytical review of the literature and a controlled longitudinal cohort trial, addresses a knowledge gap regarding peri-surgical changes in self-reported and objective measures of physical function, ... -
SCREENING SCOTLAND’S STORIES: Film Adaptations in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Cinema
(2017)This thesis surveys book to film adaptations in Scottish cinema in the period 2000-2015. It is the first examination of this practice in a Scottish context which also analyses the operations of Creative Scotland, the public ... -
An examination of the filmmaking methods of Kenneth Branagh in his directorial film work on Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Cinderella with specific reference to his status as auteur
(2017)This thesis examines the methods that director Sir Kenneth Branagh employs in his approach to directing his films and questions whether the consistency of methods adopted by Branagh across the scope of his films and ... -
Visualising articulation: real-time ultrasound visual biofeedback and visual articulatory models and their use in treating speech sound disorders associated with submucous cleft palate
(2018)Background: Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI) is growing increasingly popular for assessing and treating Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) and has more recently been used to qualitatively investigate compensatory articulations ... -
Responding to the health needs of the internally displaced persons: an analysis of the Indonesian health system
(Queen Margaret University, 2008)Since 1998, several provinces in Indonesia have suffered a number of violent conflicts causing massive destruction, several thousand deaths and creating over a million displaced people. This happened in North Maluku and ... -
Understanding public private partnerships: the discourse, the practice, and the system wide effects of the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
(Queen Margaret University, 2010)This thesis aims to deconstruct the monotheism of public private partnerships (PPP) for health and demonstrate the polytheism of practices enabled by it. It contributes to the body of knowledge on PPP in two respects: ... -
Unfolding tragedies: the impact of a mother's death on her kin and community. An ethnography from Southern Malawi.
(Queen Margaret University, 2003)In examining the specific impact of a mother's death on her surviving family and community, the thesis highlights the social devastation resulting from such an event. Crucially, it argues that the increased frequency of ... -
Weighing the options for delivery care in rural Malawi: community actors' perceptions of the 2007 policy guidelines and redefined traditional birth attendants roles
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2017)Despite significant recent improvements, maternal mortality remains high in Malawi. To address this, the Government prioritised strategies promoting skilled birth attendance. However, in a country where 80% of the population ... -
Occupational Therapy Service redesign for care of the elderly: Measuring up to a joint future?
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2016)Partnership working between Health and Social Care is the Scottish Government's strategy to affect major policy and practice level changes within public services in order to meet the fiscal challenges arising from the ... -
Philippine nurse migration to the Canadian prairies: challenges and opportunities
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2017)Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) from the Philippines comprise the highest proportion of IENs working as regulated nurses in Canada, yet many report challenges integrating into the Canadian nursing workforce. The ... -
Decentralisation in the post-conflict environment of Guatemala: a critical examination of the evaluation process of community participation in a health sector reform context
(Queen Margaret University, 2007)This thesis focuses on a critical and comprehensive analysis of community participation within a health sector reform process in a post-conflict environment. The aim is to examine how evaluation of such processes should ... -
Crossing boundaries for maternal health: a qualitative investigation into the role of community health workers as frontline providers of maternal care in the Peruvian Andes
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2015)Despite its status as a middle income country, Peru has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the Americas. In the Andes region, poor, rural indigenous women are more likely to die from pregnancy related complications ... -
Understanding the power relations in health policy implementation in Pakistan
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2016)Policy implementation is a complex, technical and political process. It is shaped by the capacity of the government, political patronage, influence of diverse actors, power relationships, role of the state, nature of the ... -
An economic analysis Of retail pharmaceutical market In Nigeria: towards access expansion and policy
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)Rural areas in much of sub-Saharan Africa access needed health care from untrained and often poorly regulated drug vendor shops with concerns over the quality of products and services provided and their public health ... -
Social connections and trust among destitute, undocumented African migrants in Barcelona, Spain.
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)This PhD research is based on a 5 month-long participant observation with a total of 18 undocumented migrants of African origin that were residing at an emergency accommodation in Barcelona, Spain between February and ...
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