Jackanory: Parity of Esteem 'read' c/o Mr Rosen

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Michael Rosen's 'SAD BOOK'	Michael Rosen's 'STICKY McSTICKSTICK'

Michael Rosen

'Jackanory'

My source: 

Shop window of The Addyman Annexe - bookshop, Castle St, Hay-on-Wye, 12th August 2025.

Images: 

'STICKY McSTICKSTICK' - https://www.walker.co.uk/

Illustration - https://www.walker.co.uk/author/tony-ross/

'SAD BOOK' - https://www.walker.co.uk/

Illustration - https://www.walker.co.uk/author/quentin-blake/

Previously: 'parity'

Paper: "A generic model and conceptual framework to prime curiosity across health and social care disciplines to facilitate lifelong learning"

 What seems a long time ago now (a decade!) I started writing a paper on:

• Threshold concepts
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
• and Hodges' model

This ended up as a two part work, which after review ended up as two separate papers:

One appeared in April:

Jones, P. (2025). A Conceptual Mapping Exercise of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in Residential & Community Care Using Hodges' Model and Threshold Concepts. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31: e70085. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.70085

The other should be published soon - same journal. I appreciate the editor's patience and team's support:

"A generic model and conceptual framework to prime curiosity across health and social care disciplines to facilitate lifelong learning"

Unfortunately, I've no funds to pay for open access. I will bear this in mind, as I resurrect another project - with two versions of 13,000 and 6,000 words. This is on (and began during) COVID-19, society, information and technology.

‘Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic’

This film was made as part of ‘Nursing Narratives: Racism and the Pandemic’. A research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the UKRI Covid-19 Urgent Response Call.

 

'Exposed is a groundbreaking documentary that combines the stories of 19 Black, brown and migrant nurses and midwives to speak about their powerful experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to organise a screening of the film please send us the details of date, time and location so we can let people know about opportunities for people to watch, share and discuss the issues that have come out of the film, as well as what action can be taken.'  

https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-culture-media-society/projects/nursing-narratives

RCN North West Region - North West Multicultural Group

What does 'exposed' mean . . ?

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exposed	exposed
Exposed	EXPOSED

'International Nurse's Day' 2025 #2 - c/o ICN & WHO

State of the World’s Nursing Report 2025

State of the World’s Nursing

Report 2025

'As the world’s nurses celebrate International Nurses Day (IND), ICN issues a rallying cry to governments around the globe for urgent nursing support, following the launch of the second World Health Organization (WHO) State of the World’s Nursing (SOWN) report.

The SOWN report is a vital assessment of the global nursing workforce in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and underscores the urgent need for bold investments in nursing to address shortages, strengthen health systems, and promote global resilience and economic stability.

The SOWN report reflects ICN’s IND 2025 report, Caring for nurses strengthens economies, and related Survey of National Nurses' Association (NNA) Presidents, reinforcing the central role of nurses in achieving global health, including Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and calling for immediate action to address long-standing challenges. The SOWN data presents a mixed picture. It highlights progress in areas such as advanced practice and nursing leadership, but indicates gravely concerning continued workforce shortages, inadequate compensation and working conditions, poor mental health support, inequities in the distribution and employment of nurses, and failures to fully enable nurses as practitioners and health care leaders.'

Continued ...

Caring for nurses strengthens economies

Caring for nurses
strengthens economies

'As we face growing health care challenges, from ageing populations and rising chronic diseases to climate-related emergencies and deepening global inequalities, the need for a strong, sustainable nursing workforce has never been greater. We cannot meet these challenges without sufficient nurses who are themselves well-cared for and supported. ICN’s International Nurses Day report reveals the severity of our current nursing shortage and well-being crisis – and the path forward. ICN’s “Caring for Nurses Agenda” provides a comprehensive roadmap for creating environments where nurses, patients, and entire health care systems can flourish.'

Source: ICN

Disability and the rise of 'mental health', or something else?

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mental DISABILITY	physical DISABILITY
social DISABILITY	The Times 28 March 2025, p.1. POLITICAL disability^

Chris Smyth, One in four Britons claim they have a disability, The Times, 28 March 2025, p.1.

https://www.thetimes.com/profile/chris-smyth

See also - (not reliable however):

Google Ngrams: mental illness, mental health, well being, mindfulness, 1800-2022

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mental+illness,+mental+health,+well+being,+mindfulness&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

^The Government are deploying AI to figure out:

• how to raise an army, air force, navy, space and cyber force?
• how to fight a war?
• how to sustain a workforce, to support an ageing population.

An improbable response:

Robots, drones, tech-enhanced machines with AI.

"AI & Health: Seminars 2025" - Current topics in AI in medicine and health informatics ...

Dear Madam/Sir,

This is to officially announce the FIRST seminar of the "AI & Health: Seminars 2025" series as hosted by HC@AIxIA, i.e., the "Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare" working group of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

*** Save the date: 22 JANUARY 2025. 3:30 CET ***

We hope you will attend and participate in the discussion on the relevant topics that will be presented and by our speakers. Feel free to share this with those potentially interested.

Please find some details below, and a poster attached. All directions for participating are available at https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/.

2024 January 22 - 3:30PM CET

Mor Peleg, PhD, Professor of Information Systems, University of Haifa (HAifa, Israel), EIC of Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Title: 
Current topics in AI in medicine and health informatics: 
current challenges and a look ahead

Abstract: In this talk I will review current challenges, current work by the biomedical informatics community, and future topics related to AI. I draw the information from a paper[1] that a group of informatics editors and other respected members of the community co-authored and published in 2023 in the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research. There, we identified focus areas that should be addressed in the next ten years, specifically learning from new challenges that emerged in the Covid-19 epidemic. I will also present my analysis of current and emerging topics of papers published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) in the past two years, and current calls for special issue papers. I will also touch upon the role of international collaboration in emerging research areas (in JBI).

[1] Combi C, Facelli JC, Haddawy P, Holmes JH, Koch S, Liu H, Meyer J, Peleg M, Pozzi G, Stiglic G, Veltri P. The IHI Rochester report 2022 on healthcare informatics research: Resuming after the covid-19. Journal of healthcare informatics research. 2023 Jun;7(2):169-202.

Short Bio: Mor Peleg is Full Professor of information systems and Founding Director of the University of Haifa’s Data Science Research Center, former Chair of the Data Science BSc program of the University of Haifa, and former Chair of the Department of Information Systems. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, which focuses on novel biomedical informatics methods. Mor's BSc and MSc degrees in biology and her PhD in Information Systems – are from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, and her 4-year postdoc was at Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Mor’s research focuses on clinical guideline-based decision support systems (CDSS) for patients and physicians. She led the large-scale European project MobiGuide and was a PI in the CAncer PAtients Better Life Experience ( CAPABLE project https://capable-project.eu/). There she uses machine learning methods to personalize triggers for health behavior change, utilizing behavioral theories. Web-site: https://mpeleg.hevra.haifa.ac.il/

Flyer: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pYIdbkk63mS52wRbOiiEpwaDJmsraZJL&usp=drive_fs

Link to participate: https://unimib.webex.com/unimib/j.php?MTID=m8e6e76b39cc5aa47f15922dddb167a25

(PLEASE CHECK the site https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/ for any changes or updates)
====
Some notes
Serving as coordinators of the working group on AI for Healthcare of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA, see: https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/), part of our commitment consists of fostering contamination and collaboration between AI researchers and experts and operators in Medicine and Healthcare; in particular, we aim to contribute in building a two-way road for informing healthcare operators about AI results and opportunities, while also raising awareness among AI researchers about challenges and problems in medicine and healthcare.
Therefore, the 2025 seminar series, in the trail of the 2024 edition, will feature a number of experts presenting research results, projects, best practices, ideas, and more to a mixed audience of AI researchers and healthcare operators.

== Are you interested in Joining the group? ==
Please head to https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/ fo find out how. Do not hesitate to contact us at
  hc-aixia AT googlegroups.com for any information or clarification.

Thank you for your interest in the AI & Health seminar series and the HC@AIxIA working group, and see you soon!

Sincerely,
Francesco Calimeri, Mauro Dragoni, Fabio Stella
(coordinators of the HC@AIxIA working group)
(and my source)

'Nurse Emmanuel' by The Unthanks

'Nurse Emmanuel by The Unthanks is taken from the album The Unthanks - In Winter, out now. Listen to the whole album here: https://linktr.ee/theunthanksinwinter The song is written by Vanessa Lampert and Adrian McNally, set to the tune of O Holy Night, and is in tribute to the NHS, the work that medical professionals did over Covid, and the message that the NHS is in our hands, to protect and appreciate.'

My source: 'X' @TheUnthanks

Prev. 'music'

Learning Health Systems: Volume 8, Issue 1 - January 2024

Learning Health Systems is an Open Access journal.

Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2024)

All articles shown below are freely available and downloadable.

COMMENTARY

Socio‐technical infrastructure for a learning health system

 

Charles P. Friedman, Edwin A. Lomotan, Joshua E. Richardson, Jennifer L. Ridgeway

LEARNING FROM DATA

Privacy‐preserving record linkage across disparate institutions and datasets to enable a learning health system: The national COVID cohort collaborative (N3C) experience

 

Umberto Tachinardi, Shaun J. Grannis, Sam G. Michael, Leonie Misquitta, Jayme Dahlin, Usman Sheikh, Abel Kho, Jasmin Phua, Sara S. Rogovin, Benjamin Amor, Maya Choudhury, Philip Sparks, Amin Mannaa, Saad Ljazouli, Joel Saltz, Fred Prior, Ahmen Baghal, Kenneth Gersing, Peter J. Embi

RESEARCH REPORTS

Analysis of FRAME data (A‐FRAME): An analytic approach to assess the impact of adaptations on health services interventions and evaluations

 

Heather Z. Mui, Cati G. Brown-Johnson, Erika A. Saliba-Gustafsson, Anna Sophia Lessios, Mae Verano, Rachel Siden, Laura M. Holdsworth

 

Automated generation of comparator patients in the electronic medical record

 

Joseph Rigdon, Brian Ostasiewski, Kamah Woelfel, Kimberly D. Wiseman, Tim Hetherington, Stephen Downs, Marc Kowalkowski

 

Stakeholder perspectives on data sharing from pragmatic clinical trials: Unanticipated challenges for meeting emerging requirements

 

Stephanie R. Morain, Juli Bollinger, Kevin Weinfurt, Jeremy Sugarman

 

Learning healthcare systems in cardiology: A qualitative interview study on ethical dilemmas of a learning healthcare system

 

Sara Laurijssen, Rieke van der Graaf, Ewoud Schuit, Melina den Haan, Wouter van Dijk, Rolf Groenwold, Saskia le Sessie, Diederick Grobbee, Martine de Vries

 

Frameworks, guidelines, and tools to develop a learning health system for Indigenous health: An environmental scan for Canada

 

Emma Rice, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Jinfan Qiang, Lynn Henderson, Tammy MacLean, Justin Rhoden, Abigail Simms, Sterling Stutz

 

Predictive modeling for infectious diarrheal disease in pediatric populations: A systematic review

 

Billy Ogwel, Vincent Mzazi, Bryan O. Nyawanda, Gabriel Otieno, Richard Omore

TECHNICAL REPORT

Learning health system benefits: Development and initial validation of a framework

 

Lisa C. Welch, Sarah K. Brewer, Titus Schleyer, Denise Daudelin, Rechelle Paranal, Joe D. Hunt, Ann M. Dozier, Anna Perry, Alyssa B. Cabrera, Cheryl L. Gatto

BRIEF REPORTS

Exploring nationwide policy interventions to control COVID‐19 from the perspective of the rapid learning health system approach

 

Ayat Ahmadi, Leila Doshmangir, Reza Majdzadeh

 

Developing LHS scholars’ competency around reducing burnout and moral injury

 

Sirin Yilmaz, Michele LeClaire, Abbie Begnaud, Warren McKinney, Kasey R. Boehmer, Cory Schaffhausen, Mark Linzer

 

Assessment of learning health system science competency in the equity and justice domain

 

Patricia D. Franklin, Denise Drane

EXPERIENCE REPORTS

Training the next generation of delivery science researchers: 10‐year experience of a post‐doctoral research fellowship program within an integrated care system

 

Richard W Grant, Julie A Schmittdiel, Vincent X Liu, Karen R Estacio, Yi-Fen Irene Chen, Tracy A Lieu

 

Implementing the learning health system paradigm within academic health centers

 

Douglas Easterling, Anna Perry, David Miller

 

Learning from an equitable, data‐informed response to COVID‐19: Translating knowledge into future action and preparation

 

Morgen Stanzler, Johanna Figueroa, Andrew F. Beck, Marianne E. McPherson, Steve Miff, Heidi Penix, Jessica Little, Bhargavi Sampath, Pierre Barker, David M. Hartley

 

Conceptualizing and redefining successful patient engagement in patient advisory councils in learning health networks

 

Madeleine Huwe, Becky Woolf, Jennie David, Michael Seid, Shehzad Saeed, Peter Margolis, ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System 

COMMENTARIES

Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences

 

Rudolf Wittner, Petr Holub, Cecilia Mascia, Francesca Frexia, Heimo Müller, Markus Plass, Clare Allocca, Fay Betsou, Tony Burdett, Ibon Cancio, Adriane Chapman, Martin Chapman, Mélanie Courtot, Vasa Curcin, Johann Eder, Mark Elliot, Katrina Exter, Carole Goble, Martin Golebiewski, Bron Kisler, Andreas Kremer, Simone Leo, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Anna Marsano, Marco Mattavelli, Josh Moore, Hiroki Nakae, Isabelle Perseil, Ayat Salman, James Sluka, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, Michael Sussman, Jason R. Swedlow, Kurt Zatloukal, Jörg Geiger

 

Can we identify the prevalence of perinatal mental health using routinely collected health data?: A review of publicly available perinatal mental health data sources in England

 

Sarah Masefield, Kathryn Willan, Zoe Darwin, Sarah Blower, Chandani Nekitsing, Josie Dickerson

 

My source: Email request by -

Kathleen Young
Editorial Assistant, Learning Health Systems journal
Victor Vaughan
1111 East Catherine Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

BGS Report "Smarter data, better care: Empowering care homes to use data to transform quality of care"

 

"The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) hosted an event in London in September 2023 on ideas and practice around a minimum dataset for care homes. This report, which is based on presentations at the event and the debate that followed, makes 12 recommendations for the effective implementation and delivery of a national minimum dataset that we believe policy-makers and regulators should consider."

Below, I have related the report's 12 recommendations to Hodges' model:

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my quality of life my quality of care care home residents research - how new Artificial Intelligence can be harnessed safely and ethically to extract optimum value^^ out of linked social care data

my quality of life my quality of care integration - a harmonised set of quality of life and quality of care indicators not just a process* (data gathering/entry) by care sector on behalf of others high-level of interoperability

resident's families (advocate) needs that cannot be met at home ^Government recognition of contribution of social care sector to society linking of information sources, preserving privacy but improving public's understanding of how such data can be used (benefits) combine learning from the DACHA study, evidence of the analytic power of data instruments like interRAI, and the lived experience of those working in our care sector

care home managers & frontline staff shared decision-making - commissioners, regulators and providers sector-wide conversation around the data that does and does not need to be known by different stakeholders Investment in a data-informed system for health care and social care - greater equity between the two^ sustained - longer term approach - reduce the data burden Government funding of dedicated in-home data coordinators - cost recognised from outset

4Ps in Hodges' model -

INTRA- INTERPERSONAL - purpose
SCIENCES - process
SOCIOLOGY - practice
POLITICAL - policy

^^Where does 'optimum value' lie in Hodges' model?
How are these reconciled?

Transforming the quality of care in care homes through better use of data.  https://www.bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/transforming-the-quality-of-care-in-care-homes-through-better-use-of-data 

Draft papers: The heat is always on ...

Writing is never easy here. My 'pen' runs pell-mell and I invariably follow; dragged and teased from discipline-to-discipline, while trying to pick up any semblance of a coherent thread.

Perhaps that's the cost of being naturally(?) drawn to mind-mapping, Hodges' model specifically and the substrate - structure it affords.

While painful, the papers I've produced show (as listed in bibliography and with others) that I can get there.

In February I posted:

Call for Papers (i) Community Development and Preventative Care With Older People:

New Values and Approaches

Call for Papers (ii) Community Development and Preventative Care With Older People ...

In truth, of course, there was no way I was going to complete a submission by July. I've been intent to throw caution to the wind, even at risk of being blown flat on the my face (and worse?).

Winding back further to October and December 2021 and the 12,000 word draft: "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model":

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2022/10/draft-papers-iii.html

I approached a journal regards the draft 'Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model'. Having reduced the original 12000 words to 7700, the paper is of interest, but is (as expected) too long. There is the possibility of reducing the word count to 5000, or splitting the essay.

Duly resubmitted, the feedback from the reviewers, all three, is spot-on. 

Since the (N.) spring, I've tried to re-structure and provide a meaningful discussion. In conclusion. It's  not happening.

One reviewer noted: 

"I still do not have a clear understanding of where the model comes from and what its axioms are."

Repeating myself no doubt, the book chapter on the work of Michel Serres:

Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

- resulted from an earlier draft which was well-shredded by the nurse journal reviewers. They did help - I've a paper to review myself.

Out of flames though that chapter quickly emerged and took flight (well, was 'completed' at least). So if you are writing and struggling - take heart.

Avoiding nursing journals (enough = enough? Nobody is interested): 

I now think I have an improved plan for two papers. The first will consider the axioms of care within Hodges' model; plus (please don't laugh!) what insights might follow if I/we treat Hodges' model as a mathematical object?

Can I claim mitigation by suggesting this (folly) is not entirely my fault . . ?

"Thus, the author can take a different approach and with a structured discussion of ideas, the author can generate testable hypotheses to move forward with a research paper. A more structured theoretical approach would also help to pique the interest of more advanced readers, especially academic audiences such as faculty who want to learn about something outside of their own research areas."

STRANGER IN
A STRANGE LAND

I feel I've no choice but to respond to the reviewer quite literally. As a non-mathematician, perhaps I can pique the interest of more advanced readers and faculty? The aim of the former archived website and this blog is to pass-on this baton² 😉to others; people who can understand it anew and apply it to the problems (solutions ...) of the century.

So in part two, the 'Society, Technology and COVID-19 in Hodges' model' piece will be structured (re-written) using hypothetical examples that ask questions of Hodges' model, the audience, and most definitely - me! It might, if not too grandiose, even ask questions of mathematics too and the humanities(?) - hence reading to follow. A real trick would be if these two papers could also stand alone.


n.b. After attending the UKSS Conference today, I must consider systems too (but don't panic - it's OK!) - to inform a title: re. humanistic & mechanistic systems? Yesterday, I really enjoyed 3 hours chatting to two fellow systems enthusiasts, who work in public health; and business / management respectively. We met in Oxford, at the Ashmolean cafe. 

UKSS Conference is bound for Oxford next year and when I have details I will post here.

Book cover:
https://www.hachette.com.au/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land
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Call for Papers (i) Community Development and Preventative Care With Older People: New Values and Approaches

Editors: Fiona Verity, Frances Barker, Mark Llewellyn, Simon Read, and Jonathan Richards

Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023
Deadline for Articles: 31 July 2023
Publication of the Issue: January/March 2024

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 1.543) and Scopus (CiteScore: 2.5), welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Community Development and Preventative Care With Older People: New Values and Approaches," edited by Fiona Verity (Swansea University), Frances Barker (Solva Care), Mark Llewellyn (University of South Wales), Simon Read (Swansea University), and Jonathan Richards (University of South Wales).

The subject of this thematic issue is a prevention agenda in social care for older people, with a focus on community development values and approaches. Though current policy direction across many countries suggests opportunities for re-imagining how prevention may be best conceptualised, numerous studies have highlighted that there remains considerable confusion and disparity in how this plays out in practice. 

Prevention in social care can be implemented from mixed starting points, i.e., economic objectives, social justice objectives, and look different in practice. Included within this broad agenda are community development approaches and service delivery models driven by the needs of older people in their communities/localities, and collectively focused on common concerns and solutions.

This thematic issue will canvass questions such as:

• What can be learnt from social care preventative practices with older people that use community development approaches?
• How might older people be part of a reimagination of a preventative agenda in social care?
• What can social enterprises and cooperatives contribute to advancing a prevention agenda in social care?
• What might the marketisation of service delivery systems (e.g., individualised/direct payments) mean for community development solutions and approaches?
• How can prevention in social care be better conceptualised?
• What has been learnt from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on older populations to inform a prevention agenda in social care?

Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers:
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues#PreventativeCare

Abstracts welcome by 15 March 2023.

Kindest regards,
Mariana

Mariana Pires Social Inclusion Cogitatio Press 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal New issues (open access): Vol 11, No 1 (2023): Disability and Social Inclusion: Lessons From the Pandemic
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/332 Vol 10, No 4 (2022): Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/331

My source:
EUROPEAN-SOCIOLOGIST list

Post ii: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/02/h2cm-relational-ontology.html

Reflection = 'navel gazing'?

Individual and Collective reflection ...

THE NEED FOR HOLISTIC BANDWIDTH

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Reflection Critique of reflective practice Risk of navel gazing
	"GLOBAL BRITAIN" 'Rules-based order' in the 21st C? Government - Governance Preoccupation with COVID-19, Brexit ... "We have not had enough bandwidth to deal with International issues to use our position on the security council and in the G7 ..." Jeremy Bowen Risk of navel gazing*

BBC Radio 4, Today, 25 October 2022 c.0816. Jeremy Bowen, International Editor.

Related:

Horta, H., Veloso, F., & Grediaga, R. (2010). Navel gazing: Academic inbreeding and scientific productivity. Management Science, 56(3), 41.

Ronald J. Pelias. (2009). Pledging Personal Allegiance to Qualitative Inquiry. International Review of Qualitative Research, 2(3), 351–356. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/irqr.2009.2.3.351

*A constant consideration here.

 

Paper: "Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa" + Noma

Earlier this month in draft papers iii I mentioned a lengthy draft 12k words ... "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model" which needs revision (COVID-19 waits for no person):

"COVID's source, global spread, national responses, and management are politicised; a memetic and geopolitical viral response (Kavanagh, Singh and Pillinger, 2021). The hope remains that globally we will get a grip of COVID and learn collectively; even as politics is in play (The Lancet. 2021). COVID revealed itself as signs and symptoms were reported and aggregated, patterns identified, and advice modified accordingly. Routine news was interrupted by a daily round of COVID briefings by governments, their representatives and
experts. Charts and statistics were presented, numbers crunched (mechanistically, of course). Some governments, in denial, face a legal charge. Comparisons of national cases and deaths are ongoing, hard truths (proverbial ‘cock-ups’) explained away — rationalised. The global distribution of COVID vaccinations, influenza and booster jabs, lays bare colonial traces of inequity and inequality. A further twist of the south and north seasonal oscillation.

COVID-19 is striking, simultaneously creating opacity and transparency. Accentuated and aggravated by populist governments, COVID is now marked as a pandemic and infodemic (Cinelli, et al, 2020). Post hoc governments and academia must understand the societal and cultural ramifications of news generation, dissemination, and outcomes."

Socio-technical approaches feature on this blog, in a published paper (bibliography) and in Hodges' model. Socio-Technical can help assure success but they must be tempered - shaped - by taking into consideration the individual (user's) psychology, benefit; and the political aspects - what are the costs, collective benefits and governance?

The following paper stood out on twitter (COVID-19 is not a laggard in keeping pace with robots it seems) and will inform my update of the above:

Platzky Miller, J., Sander, A. and Srinivasan, S. (2022), Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa. Dev Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12734

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logic(s)? . Fear - COVID-19 attitudes - receptivity (Expectations: now - future? Such actions spoil/taint technology.) individual psychology the 'user' (active/passive..)	socio-TECHNICAL robots digital solutions track and trace apps and vaccine passports (rate of failure) Life - Bio-Sciences TECHNO-
SOCIO-technical Societies Sustainable Development (Goals?) Social development, history Logics of control, extraction and legitimation Social Determinants of Health	OPPORTUNISM Political role of public health emergencies in Africa Rwandan government ZoraBots, a Belgian company Commercial Determinants of Health Colonialism: control, power Governance Neglected Neglected diseases - Noma?

My source:

How many lives did a robot save fighting #COVID19 in Rwanda? Short answer: ~none. Long answer: that's not the point. A collab bw @RwandaGov, @Undp and a Belgian robot firm, it's one example of rampant techno-opportunism across #Africa during the pandemic, with worrying effects... pic.twitter.com/6FWtlLR8b8

— Sharath Srinivasan (@sharath_sri) October 22, 2022

Plus: Re. Noma ...

Ioana Cismas (York) - What's in a Frame? A Human Rights Approach to Neglected Tropical Diseases - https://www.york.ac.uk/cahr/events/2022/justice-in-global-health-workshop/

https://philevents.org/event/show/101162

Concept Note in Support of the Inclusion of Noma (Cancrum Oris) on the World Health Organization List of Neglected Tropical Diseases (Commissioned by the Government of Namibia, 2016), 6 pp. (with Marie-Solène Adamou Moussa-Pham).

Srour, M. L., & Baratti-Mayer, D. (2020). Why is noma a neglected-neglected tropical disease?. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14(8), e0008435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008435

Update on draft papers iii

There was news today about the draft paper on:

"First Episode of Psychoses, Early Intervention, Cardiovascular Nursing, Research Methods and Hodges' model."

It has been accepted and I can submit formally. 👍

This project - yes, a further distraction (that has borne fruit) started in March resulting in 4,800 words, an illustration of the model and 4 figures (2x2 tables). That I think, with the editors, guide the reader in applying Hodges' model, or at least the scope of its application, which is situated and person-centred.

I approached a journal regards the draft "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model". Having reduced the original 12000 words to 7700, the paper is of interest, but is (as expected) too long. There is the possibility of reducing the word count to 5000, or splitting the essay.

This invites revisiting the original and teasing out the informational themes: fake news, mis- dis- malinformation and agnotology (in part 2?). Then I would (to a degree), finally be returning to the concept of 'information':

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.

- which keeps 'calling' (with complexity, emergence...).

I will consider the options, but submit the above: an instance of much appreciated encouragement and support by the editors. Writing this has proved an enjoyable challenge.

As ever, if you have any sources to add to the bibliography, wonder about using Hodges' model I would be pleased to hear from you: h2cmng at yahoo.co.uk

Update on draft papers ii

The draft paper on cardiovascular nursing, first episode psychosis, research methods and Hodges' model is just about finalised; at 4700 words, 4 figures (one illustration of the model, plus three 2x2 tables) and 42 references.

One of the oldest drafts is c. 2013; in mitigation I completed an MRES in-between. This is on case formulations, diagrams and Hodges' model and is quite near completion. Although now of course the references and literature need to be re-examined. There's a new rationale to pick this up - and it connects with work below.

Another effort morphed into two papers, following an initial inquiry with a journal (lost in the email archive). The focus is Threshold concepts, Liberty Protection Safeguards - a change from DoLS, the care context is nursing homes and the residential sector applying Hodges' model.

This draft has served a purpose, forming the basis of a presentation to the virtual Threshold Concepts Conference last year. News will follow soon regards next year:

9th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference (I really miss the Specialist Group on TCs in Health, but also appreciate the time such a commitment takes.)

Last summer, seduced by reference to 'advanced studies' (and a call that presented a broad door, sufficient to get h2cm through) I responded to a call on technology, and society. Liaising with the editor, we added - COVID-19 and Hodges' model. Before I knew it, I'd amassed more than 12,000 words in six weeks. The comments even when far from final draft, were poor. No encouragement at all. Contact was lost, blanked in fact: the paper slept. 

Months later, picking it up again, I can see why. It was poor.

I've taken some -ve critique previously. Welcome it in fact: so the Earth-bound vacuum was rude.

When working on the Michel Serres paper:

Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

- some rather negative feedback proved the spur to the final work - that I think (and been told) is coherent, engages and 'delivers'(?).

This will be the result again, but the chain reaction has to be tempered and channeled.
Clear the desk - clear the desk! I am my own worst enemy...!

The latest paper, and its being co-authored has proved an enormous help, in time management, discipline and focus (despite COVID intervening):

Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;0:e000254. doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000254

Out of the technology, society text, a structured work - maybe two - will materialise.

Swiss army knife

 

After wittering on about legacy problems in nursing, and health care for quite a while, I've wondered about an original purpose Hodges' model - that of curriculum design, planning, development. As ever, it is just one tool in the toolkit, but regards nursing curricula, mental health nursing, the general Vs specialist distinction Hodges' model can be the ubiquitous Swiss army knife:

Boyer's model, Hodges' model, scholarship, future website and Drupal

 

Noting and replying to threads on twitter, Hodges' model can help articulate the arguments for the future of mental health nursing as a distinct pathway of study, discipline, and profession.*

So if you're struggling to complete a paper, keep going!

That mention, back in 2009 of a 'future website' is embarrassing though.

*A post re. the BBC Panorama TV expose will follow in the future.

Bahrain Nursing Society 1st International Nursing and Midwifery Conference

Investing in Nursing and Midwifery for Health Security

 

Dear friends and colleagues and distinguished member of Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing & Midwifery,

This might be the first time I have written in the last few years. However, have been actively following your news and rich engagement. It has been an honor to work as part of WHO CCs for NM and also shaped initially the GANM.

To day I am writing to invite you to my beloved country Bahrain where we held the First WHO Global WHO Network for Nursing and Midwifery Conference in 1996. This time to invite you to join the Bahrain Nursing Society first international nursing and midwifery conference entitled: Investing in Nursing and Midwifery for Health Security from 21 to 23 December 2022, including pre-conference workshops on 21 December.

The link to the conference website:

https://educationplus.me/bns-2022/

This Conference will be one of the most exciting opportunities for nurses and midwives in Bahrain and the Region to present their achievements and contributions to both professions in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and achieving universal health coverage respecting health security.

 Abstracts can be submitted under the following sub-themes:

• Nursing and Midwifery governance and leadership 
• Evidence-based practice and knowledge dissemination 
• Digitalization, technology, artificial intelligence and innovation in nursing & midwifery 
• Advanced care practice and public health 
• Sustainable development goals and health security amidst COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Transformation of nursing and midwifery education

Three Keynote speakers will address the conference: the International Council of Nurses, the World Health Organization and the International Honor Society of Nursing. Main speakers from the GCC, Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Africa have also been invited. 

Bahrain Nursing Society looks forward to receiving your abstracts for concurrent sessions and for your participation at the conference this coming December 2022

Dr. Naeema Al Gasseer
World Health organization Representative in Egypt & Head of Mission

Telephone:+20227963673

Mobile: +201224201566

GPN: 66200

Email: algasseern AT who.int

FB: https://www.facebook.com/WHOEgypt/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WHOEgypt

Instagram: https://instagram.com/whoegypt?igshid=169poqgwun71c

My source:

IBP Network Global
https://groups.ibpnetwork.org/g/global

Image: screen capture from conference website.

2021/22 Human Development Report: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World

On Friday, 9 September 2022 at 00:37:02 BST, Dennis Raphael <draphael@yorku.ca> wrote:

Canada ranked 15^th… UK 18^th…

From: Pophealth <pophealth-bounces AT mailman13.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Stephen Bezruchka
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2022 6:21 PM
To: pophealth AT u.washington.edu
Subject: [Pophealth] 2021 Health Olympics & vast US Health decline

Today the UN released its human development report with life expectancy for 2021. You can access it (Table 1) at http://report.hdr.undp.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

I've been using the UN rankings to create the health Olympics since the early 1990s for consistency. The U.S. ranks 44th, down from tied for 36 in 2019.  We are 7.6 years behind the longest lived country, Japan.  If we eradicated our three leading killers (heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19), we would be close to the first in the finish line.  In the UN rankings Thailand is now ahead of us!  And quite a few poorer nations.  

Trying to get action on our not being dead first is challenging.  

Stephen

Stephen Bezruchka MD, MPH
Departments of Health Systems and Population Health & of Global Health
School of Public Health 
Box 357660 
University of Washington 
Seattle, Washington 98195-7660

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My source - Dennis Raphael: draphael AT yorku.ca (with additional image c/o UNDP).

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