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Sarah Morgantrimmer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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improving process evaluations of health behavior interventions learning from the Social Sciences
Evaluation & the Health Professions, 2015Co-Authors: Sarah MorgantrimmerAbstract:This article reflects on the current state of process evaluations of health behavior interventions and argues that evaluation practice in this area could be improved by drawing on the Social Science Literature to a greater degree. While process evaluations of health behavior interventions have increasingly engaged with the Social world and sociological aspects of interventions, there has been a lag in applying relevant and potentially useful approaches from the Social Sciences. This has limited the scope for health behavior process evaluations to address pertinent contextual issues and methodological challenges. Three aspects of process evaluations are discussed: the incorporation of contexts of interventions; engagement with the concept of “process” in process evaluation; and working with theory to understand interventions. Following on from this, the article also comments on the need for new methodologies and on the implications for addressing health inequalities.
Piotr Ozieranski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the emerging Social Science Literature on health technology assessment a narrative review
Value in Health, 2020Co-Authors: Olga Loblova, Trayan Trayanov, Marcell Csanadi, Piotr OzieranskiAbstract:Abstract Background Social scientists have paid increasing attention to health technology assessment (HTA). This paper provides an overview of existing Social scientific Literature on HTA, with a focus on sociology and political Science and their subfields. Methods Narrative review of key pieces in English. Results Three broad themes recur in the emerging Social Science Literature on HTA: the drivers of the establishment and concrete institutional designs of HTA bodies; the effects of institutionalized HTA on pricing and reimbursement systems and the broader society; and the Social and political influences on HTA decisions. Conclusion Social scientists bring a focus on institutions and Social actors involved in HTA, using primarily small-N research designs and qualitative methods. They provide valuable critical perspectives on HTA, at times challenging its otherwise unquestioned assumptions. However, they often leave aside questions important to the HTA practitioner community, including the role of culture and values. Closer collaboration could be beneficial to tackle new relevant questions pertaining to HTA.
S L Sangam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mapping of indian Social Science Literature
Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 2014Co-Authors: S L Sangam, Shivaranjini S MogaliAbstract:In this paper an attempt has been made to map Social Science Literature. The mapping of knowledge domains has been done in order to understand the positions of its various subfields and their relative position. The Social Science forms a very vast field and comprises many of subfields or disciplines. The different schemes of classification systems have been used to locate the position of each subject which comes under Social Science namely DDC, CC, UDC, and Web of Science. The visual representation of the same has been depicted in order to understand the relation of each sub-disciplines of Social Science. The modeling Growth of articles, Author Productivity, Collaborative measures, Ranking of Journals and Productivity of Institutions and other indicators have been used to map the Literature.
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modeling the growth of indian and chinese Social Science Literature
SRELS Journal of Information Management, 2007Co-Authors: S L Sangam, Brij Mohan Gupta, Suresh KumarAbstract:The paper discusses the application of growth model as suggested by Egghe and Rao(1992). The present study is aimed to study the growth and dynamics of growth and Indian and Chineese publications in three sub-disciplines of Social Sciences viz., Economics, Psychology and Sociology.
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growth pattern of Literature in the field of Social Science
SRELS Journal of Information Management, 2003Co-Authors: S L SangamAbstract:In the present study the growth of world Social Science Literature in the six sub disciplines viz., Anthropology, Economics, History, Psychology, Political Science and Sociology were derived from the CD-Rom version of the Wilson Social Science Abstracts for the period 1983-1998. Determines the rate of growth of the Social Science Literature by calculating relative growth rates and doubling time for publications. Fits both modified exponential curve and logistic curve for the original publications. Study the criteria on which growth models are to be selected for their possible application in the six sub disciplines of Social Sciences.
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modeling the growth of world Social Science Literature
Scientometrics, 2002Co-Authors: Brij Mohan Gupta, S L Sangam, Suresh Kumar, C R KarisiddappaAbstract:The main objectives of this study are: (a) to find the applicability of selected growth models to the growth of publications in six sub-disciplines of Social Sciences, namely anthropology, economics, history, political Science, psychology, and sociology in the world; and (b) to verify the criteria for selecting the most appropriate growth model suggested by Eggheand Rao (1992).
Frances Dunn Butterfoss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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process evaluation for community participation
Annual Review of Public Health, 2006Co-Authors: Frances Dunn ButterfossAbstract:▪ Abstract This review provides a synthesis of published public health and Social Science Literature to determine how process evaluation has been used to examine community participation and its intermediary role in health and Social change outcomes. Community participation is defined, and its relationship to other community-development principles and evaluation and research methods is described. Then, case studies and research initiatives help answer questions such as who participates and why? What are the benefits and challenges of community participation? What qualitative and quantitative methods are used in process evaluations to measure community participation? What measures are used to help define the influence of community participation in community-based interventions? A better understanding of these issues is needed to ensure that community participation is valued and used effectively to plan and implement health-promotion initiatives and evaluate their processes and outcomes.
Alan L Porter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the emergence of Social Science research on nanotechnology
Scientometrics, 2010Co-Authors: Philip Shapira, Jan Youtie, Alan L PorterAbstract:This article examines the development of Social Science Literature focused on the emerging area of nanotechnology. It is guided by the exploratory proposition that early Social Science work on emerging technologies will draw on Science and engineering Literature on the technology in question to frame its investigative activities, but as the technologies and societal investments in them progress, Social scientists will increasingly develop and draw on their own body of Literature. To address this proposition the authors create a database of nanotechnology-Social Science Literature by merging articles from the Web of Science's Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index with articles from Scopus. The resulting database comprises 308 records. The findings suggest that there are multiple dimensions of cited Literature and that Social Science citations of other Social scientists' works have increased since 2005.
