Where is the Centeredness of Care?

In trying to see Hodges' model anew, which is quite a challenge after four decades; what of the model's structure?

It is easy to get carried away with mathematical terminology:

One line, add another, and they intersect, at a 90 degree right angle. So is centeredness to be found at the intersection point? 

If I'm tying myself up in knots well there's another possibility! 😉 

As a whole it appears the axes of the model are a manifold and not - in the center?

What do you think?

See also: 'What Is a Manifold?'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-manifold-20251103/

Call for Abstracts: Land Use for Net Zero Hub Early Career Conference

Dear colleagues,

 

We are pleased to open the call for abstracts for the Land Use for Net Zero Hub Early Career Conference, which will be held on 7 September (1:00–6:00 pm) at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, ahead of the LUNZ consortium meeting (8–10 September). The call for abstracts will close on 12 June 2026.

 

The conference theme is: “Future Careers at the Science–Policy Interface: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in LUNZ.”

 

We aim to bring together early career researchers and practitioners from LUNZ Hub and LUNZ Research, as well as other early career groups interested in the conference themes, to network, share work, and discuss careers at the science–policy interface.

 

We welcome abstracts for poster and oral presentations within the following themes. Submissions can include works in progress and unpublished research, as we aim to stimulate open dialogue, feedback, and learning. We also encourage contributions from partners beyond academia. The format of the day will be shaped by the level of interest across these topics:

 

• Transdisciplinary collaboration across sectors and knowledge systems
• Science communication and knowledge impact
• Modelling and evidence for land use change
• Integrating people, place, and nature in Net Zero transitions
• Just transitions and community resilience
• Community-based research in academia and policy

 

Please complete the following form to submit your abstract: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOzhkowu0NdM3YlQz-XEIovSB3805zX5LTT4Fm7FzBPq3f7Q/viewform?usp=header

 

Once we have received and reviewed abstracts, we will open up registration to presenters and the wider community.

 

If you are interested in helping with the organisation of the conference at an early stage, we would be very happy to hear from you—please get in touch.

 

We look forward to your participation.

 

Best regards,

LUNZ Early Career Board

https://lunzhub.com/get-involved/early-careers-board/

 

Anita Lazurko (she/her)

Senior Transdisciplinary Scientist

Biodiversity and Land Use

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My source: At 'Ecologies of Care':

Henrike (Kika) Neuhaus

Pronouns: she/her, they/them

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art

Livelihoods and Institutions Department

Natural Resources Institute

University of Greenwich 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1245-5881

Jayasinghe (2025) 'People‑centred care: a systems view of a new paradigm'

C/o HIFA

Dear friends,

It is my pleasure to share the link to my article "People-centred care: a systems view of a new paradigm". It is published online in Discover Health Systems and Open Access. Please see full-text access to your paper by using the following link:

https://rdcu.be/ejNUq

Kind regards Saroj

ABSTRACT People-Centred Care (PCC) is an emergent property in an “open” system. Policies aiming at promoting PCC can be categorized under four nested levels: Micro-level; Meso-level; Macro-level; and Mega-level and used to draw systems diagrams. We develop a single composite diagram which demonstrates interactions and feedback, within and across subsystems, resembling panarchy.

Jayasinghe, S. People-centred care: a systems view of a new paradigm. Discov Health Systems 4, 43 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-025-00215-9.

Saroj Jayasinghe MBBS (Col), MD (Col), MRCP (UK), MD (Bristol), PhD (Col), FRCP (Lond), FCCP, FNASSL Fellow of the International Science Council, Emeritus Professor, University of Colombo, Former Head, Department of Medical Humanities, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Consultant Physician sarojoffice AT yahoo.com, saroj AT clinmed.cmb.ac.lk

Professor Jayasinghe's paper provides several informative figures on centredness, scale and levels, micro-mega; and affords a way to use Hodges' model to help define person, patient, people and service-centred care. These definitions could be developed, refined and validated using a relational formulation.

Individual

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Group

PERSON-  PATIENT-CENTRED psycho-

PERSON- PATIENT-CENTRED location bio-

social PEOPLE-CENTRED 'Health systems and services designed ‘for and with people’ are captured by the concept of People-Centred Care (PCC) defined as an approach “to care that consciously adopts individuals’, carers’, families’, and communities’ perspectives as participants in, and beneficiaries of, trusted health systems that are organised around the comprehensive needs of people rather than individual disease, and respects social preferences.' Duong, et al. (2024).

political policy - engagement - design SERVICE-CENTRED panarchy 'Let us together forge a new way of knowing and practicing health care in the post-Sustainable Development Goal era, using people-centred care as our guide to achieve Universal Health Coverage.' Duong, et al. (2024).

Duong DB, Holt B, Munoz C, Pollack TM. For and with people: announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on people-centred carefor universal health coverage and a call for commissioner nominations. Lancet Glob Health. 2024:S2214-109X(24)00216-X.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00216-X.

Previously: 'design' : 'patient' : 'person' : 'system' : 'people'

COP 28: The water runs deep and broad - Solastalgia for all?

me - you INDIVIDUAL - the few
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     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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others - GROUP - many

climate anxiety eco grief ... as yet unforeseen impacts ... [personal and collective]

Raise A Paddle © Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org

Underwater Cabinet Meeting in the Maldives

political malaise? "'Solastalgia' was first coined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht almost two decades ago; it is a blend of the Latin word "solacium" (comfort) and the Greek root "-algia" (pain or grief). Solastalgia, argued Albrecht, was a way to convey the idea of distress caused by irreversible environmental transformation. It is 'the homesickness we feel while still at home', he writes." Where exactly do politicians and capitalists 'live'?

Frankopan, P., How to avert an 'eco grief' epidemic, The Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2023, pp.6-7.

Maldives image c/o:
https://sos.noaa.gov/education/phenomenon-based-learning/underwater-cabinet-meeting/

Raise A Paddle c/o NMS:

https://media.nms.ac.uk/resources/raise-a-paddle-fenton-lutunatabua-350-org

Finding motivation ...

INDIVIDUAL

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HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

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GROUP

INTRINSIC	EXTRINSIC
INTRINSIC	If 'you' activate the intrinsic motivation of a people 'here' by extrinsic means, be prepared to suffer the consequences.

 

Previously:

Conveying the Message: Channel, Noise, Redundancy, Information ...   

Social care ... 

 

Social care ...

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HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

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GROUP

A monument for Taras Shevchenko is symbolically protected by bandages in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv. Nickolai Hammar / NPR

 

My source: Schama, S. "Who controls the past?", FT Weekend, Life&Arts, 7 May 2022, p.1.

Photo: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/04/09/this-is-what-a-ukraine-town-looks-like-after-russian-troops-withdraw/

Register for ‘Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions’ Feb 10 2022

Professor Havi Carel

 

Join us for the Second Annual Joint Center for Knowledge,
Technology and Society Center for Nursing Philosophy lecture,
“Vulnerabilised Individuals and Opaque Institutions”
with University of Bristol Professor Havi Carel.

 

 

About the lecture

“In this talk I develop the concept of vulnerabilisation to pick out a large and diverse group of people who suffer vulnerabilities caused or exacerbated by their situations. I outline how individuals can be made vulnerable by interpersonal encounters and interactions with social structures. I then discuss vulnerabilisation in relation to what I call ‘institutional opacity.’

An opaque institution is especially problematic for individuals and groups already rendered vulnerable during their interactions with that institution, and a prime example are ill persons in the context of healthcare institutions, which I discuss. I articulate the features of an encounter between a vulnerabilised individual and an opaque institution and end by tracing two ameliorative strategies that could help repair this interaction.” — Havi Carel

About Havi Carel

Havi Carel is professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, England. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work.

Her third monograph, Phenomenology of Illness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a Best of Bristol lecturer in 2016.

Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), and of What Philosophy Is (2004).

Event details

Date and time: Feb. 10, 2022 | 10 a.m. Pacific; 1 p.m. Eastern; 5 p.m. UK
Event location: Zoom

Registration

You will receive a link to join the event upon registration.

My source: 

University of California, Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | 252 Berk Hall, Irvine, CA 92697

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=illness

Links in original source rationalised to reduce any algorithmic penalties.

International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” (CAIP’21)

Dear Colleague, 

we are writing to you as we understand you may be interested in this year’s edition of the International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” (CAIP’21). 

Below you will find the official Call for Full papers.
Please feel free to distribute it to mailing lists you manage and to everybody who may be interested.
Thank you and we hope to see you in CAIP’21!

Follow us at:

http://aiforpeople.org/conference
https://www.linkedin.com/company/19176054/
https://www.facebook.com/aiforpeople
https://twitter.com/AIforPeople
https://www.instagram.com/ai_for_people/

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International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” (CAIP’21)
November 20-24, 2021

Call for Full Papers https://aiforpeople.org/conference/cfp.php
Please distribute (Apologies for cross-posting)

If you wish to receive more information about CAIP’21
https://mailchi.mp/281085ba7b4b/caip21
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The International Conference “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” was born out of the idea of shaping Artificial Intelligence technology around human and societal needs. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a beneficial tool, its development and its deployment impact society and the environment in ways that need to be thoroughly addressed and confronted.

This year’s edition will focus on Sustainable AI, covering different aspects of social development, environmental protection, and economic growth applied in the design and deployment of AI systems. The conference will provide its participants with opportunities to gain a better understanding of the major challenges of utilizing AI for the societal good. Additionally, it should serve as an incubator for interdisciplinary communities that share a research agenda to exchange and discuss ideas related to the design and application of Sustainable AI. Here, Sustainable AI is a movement to foster change towards greater ecological integrity and social justice in the entire life cycle of AI systems.

*** Themes and Topics *** 

The conference will be interdisciplinary and it welcomes contributions from different disciplines, spanning from computer science, the social sciences, and the humanities. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- AI applications for the social good and towards sustainable development goals
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainable AI for Smart Cities
- Policy recommendations for Sustainable AI
- Green AI for environmental protection
- Accuracy and Robustness of AI systems
- Bias and Fairness in AI Systems
- Privacy and Accountability in AI Systems
- Safety and Security in AI Systems
- Explainability and Transparency in AI Systems

*** Important Dates ***

Submission deadline: October 1st, 2021
Notification: November 1st, 2021
Camera-ready: November 6th, 2021
Conference Days: November 20-24, 2021

 *** EAI Proceedings *** 

Conference proceedings will be published in the EAI CORE Proceedings and included in the European Digital Library (EUDL) and will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP.

*** Organising Committee ***

The International Conference on “AI for People: Towards Sustainable AI” is organized by the nonprofit international organization “AI for People” (aiforpeople.org).

- General Chairs: Marta Ziosi (Oxford Internet Institute, University Oxford), Philipp Wicke (University College, Dublin) and João Miguel Cunha (University of Coimbra), Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna)
- Program Chairs: Lea Buchhorn (Leiden University) and Vincenzo Lomonaco (University of Pisa)
- Finance Chair: Aina Turillazzi (Tilburg University)
- Publication Chair: Angelo Trotta (University of Bologna)
- Technical Program Committee: Kevin Trebing (Plan D GmbH) and Gabriele Graffieti (University of Bologna)

CAIP'21 is technically sponsored by: EAI. CAIP'21 is supported by: EurAI.

My source: AI-SGES list 

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=AI-SGES 

 

On the Border - In the Border

individual

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

... It is not about the people of Chad and what's good for them.'" p.8.

"A French diplomat who knew Déby expressed a romantic view of the late president common in Paris, calling him a "warrior" who 'wanted to die in battle rather than in a hospital bed'. Ayisha Osori of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa said the Parisian view betrayed a casual indifference to the fate of ordinary Chadians. "It just seems fundamentally unfair that the whole world's view of Déby  is 'Oh, we've lost the great soldier'," she said. 'And now we have to do everything to make sure Chad is secure. But we don't really mean Chad, we just mean the borders around Chad. ...

My source:

Munshi, N., Pilling, D. Death of Chad leader spells uncertainty for Sahel, FTWeekend, 24-25 April, 2021, p.8.

Graphic: https://vemaps.com/chad/td-01

Otobong Nkanga: From Where I Stand - c/o Tate St Ives

"From where you stand, what is your own position?

How do you look at something?

What is the story that comes out of what you've seen?"

Otobong Nkanga.

INDIVIDUAL

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HUMANISTIC -------------------------------------------------- MECHANISTIC

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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GROUP

	Otobong Nkanga, Infinite Yield, 2015. Tapestry; 133 2/5 × 68 9/10 in. (288 × 175 cm);  © Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp.

I've a post still to follow from my trip to Dundee in the summer which included the V&A. On my four day visit last month to Cornwall I visited St Ives and the Tate. I really enjoyed this exhibition with its ecological, colonialism, consumerism, topological and science references. The exhibition ends on 5 January but there's another post for the new year.

Image source https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/03/Talk-Otobong-Nkanga-With-Omar-Kholeif

Merry Christmas to All: Peace.

Fortress of the Mind :: Fortress of Slavery

From 16 May – 5 July 2020
 Gallery 1957 
Accra, Ghana 
will present

“The Past is Never Dead”

 a solo exhibition by Langlands & Bell that explore 
the architecture of the ‘Slave Forts’ built on the coast 
of Ghana by European slave traders following the construction
of Elmina Castle by the Portuguese in 1482.
Langlands are working with local artisans to produce
 many of the art works for the exhibition.


INDIVIDUAL

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HUMANISTIC -------------------------------------------------- MECHANISTIC

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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GROUP

individual resilience FORTRESS of the MIND ?
	English Fort Komenda, 1695 (2019), Langlands & Bell.   Courtesy the artists and Gallery 1957

My source:
Christopher Turner (in Accra), 'The dungeons are decorated with wreaths left by slaves' descendants', Letters. Apollo, November 2019. Vol CXC No. 680. pp.33-34.

[4-5 page...?] Book: "Homage to Humanity"

SELF - individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - POPULATION

You speak ... I do not understand... But that is a wonder... I do see you...  and the great happening of the place and way you live ... And, now I understand...	Geography
Homage to Humanity by Jimmy Nelson	GeoPolitics @GeoPsychiatry

2019 Year of the Indigenous Languages

My source: LUXX, The Times, p.39; book cover Blackwell's

'Surgical Procedure' by Hilary Paynter

Social History - Sterile Field


individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

	sterile field
Surgical Procedure by Hilary Paynter

"Road works to widen the airport road near  
Sumburgh Head uncovered a large and 
complex archeological site that had previously
been considered fairly insignificant." p.160-161.
Full Circle (2010)

With thanks to Hilary Paynter for permission and original tif file.
And to the Print Symposium events in Wrexham.

Film: Sanctuary

Out Lines

individual

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humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

Source: The Sunday Times, Culture, On Record, 29 October, 2017. p.22.

Hidden Faces

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

I-dentity	FACES
	HIDDEN

Still source: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/richard-mosse-new-film-barbican-853790

My source: BBC News Channel

Hidden Figures

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

	FIGURES
	HIDDEN

See also:
Sobel, D. (2017). The Glass Universe, The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars, Fourth Estate,

Image: © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Book: The Great Convergence ( ...within Hodges' model)

"His [Baldwin's] framework posits three "cascading constraints" that hold back the globalisation of markets, namely the cost of moving goods, ideas and people. Initially, all were bundled together: early societies stayed where they were, passed down information to the next generation and ate what they grew. The first wave of globalisation that created the Great Divergence expanded markets via the falling cost of transporting physical goods, thanks to the steamship and the railway. ..." p.10.

individual

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humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

The cost of moving:  IDEAS	GOODS
PEOPLE	Book: The Great Divergence

Richard Baldwin (2016). The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization.  Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.


Beattie, A. (2016). Movement politics. FT Weekend, Life&Arts, Books. November 26-27. p.10.

Int. Nursing and Nursing Informatics Day: the big 'C' and little 'c' in nursing

12th May is International Nurses Day and International Nursing Informatics Day: so have a great day!

Even though the vast majority of people use information and communication technology in their work - and this includes nurses - there are many within and without the profession who will wonder what has nursing to do with 'IT'?

Surely 'nursing informatics' is being opportunistic in piggy-backing on the day to celebrate nursing; after all nursing is about people NOT technology? Well that is of course true, technology is a means to an end not an end in itself for nursing. Perhaps there is another way of coming at this and it lies right at the heart of -

I.c.T.

AND
nursing

It is of course: COMMUNICATION

As I have described on in several posts on W2tQ communication is the means by which health and social care professions differentiate and so define themselves. Communication practices, processes, purposes and policies also provide the foundation for standards and governance. Communication is also at the heart of I.T. and various informatics disciplines. Informatics has benefited from communication models such as the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Reference Model or OSI Model). Nursing and health curricula also stress communication although of course in markedly different contexts.

So where is the glue that enable nurses and informatics to spend this Day together (the degree of harmony is another post)?

The glue for me is the concept of information and the associated concepts of data and knowledge. To which we add a demographic nod to wisdom.

So to all nurses the world over whether you are in nursing, informatics or hopefully you 'work' in both: have an infoeau riche day!