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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 July ... -
Delivering ART service in Thailand: predicting future workforce requirements and deployment patterns enabling and sustaining universal access through different models of care
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)Thailand introduced universal access to Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) service in 2003. This became the main factor increasing demands for services with increasing numbers of People living with the Human Immunodeficiency ... -
Elderly carers: the experiences of the elderly caring for orphans and vulnerable children in the context of the HIV/Aids epidemic in Chiradzuru district, Malawi
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2015)PURPOSE: This qualitative study explores the day-to-day care experiences and livelihoods challenges of the elderly carers of orphan and vulnerable children (OVCs) in rural Chiradzuru district in Malawi. The study aims to ... -
The impact of information and communication technology on the marketing performance of Jordanian hotels
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2015)Purpose ___ This thesis proposes to address the research gap of understanding the relationshipbetween 'Information Communication Technology (ICT)' and 'marketing performance' in upscale hotels in Jordan. Design/methodolo ... -
The social construction of justice: searching for connection and credibility in Sri Lanka.
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2013)Research in Sri Lanka suggests that many people experience a deep scepticism about the chances of achieving justice. This is true not only of those who had suffered the most gross forms of human rights violations in the ... -
Impact of the performance-based payments on health workers in contracting out government health services: Cambodia's experience
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2014)Contracting out government health services has been increasing in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and highly valued in improving health service delivery. In some cases, government health workers have been paid ... -
The impact of the Global Fund programmes on HIV prevention policy and services in Ukraine in 2003-2012
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2014)Ukraine is home to one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemic and has received significant amounts of foreign aid to help it tackle the crisis. This study is an enquiry into the implementation of the Global Fund against ... -
Alleviating psychosocial suffering: an analysis of approaches to coping with war-related distress in Angola.
(Queen Margaret University, 2001)This study investigates the role that the notions of trauma and culture play in relation to the alleviation of distress within an war-affected population. It analyses how local, cultural conceptions of distress and those ... -
An assessment of the capacity of faculty-based youth friendly reproductive health services to promote sexual and reproductive health among unmarried adolescents: evidence from rural Malawi
(Queen Margaret University, 2009)Despite the recognition of the influence of cultural norms on adolescent sexual behaviours in most societies (Kaler 2004; Chege 2005), less attention has been paid to the link between social norms and effectiveness of ...
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