Browsing by Author "Scott, Kerry"
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Avoiding the road to nowhere: Policy insights on scaling up and sustaining digital health
LeFevre, Amnesty; Chamberlain, Sara; Singh, Neha S.; Scott, Kerry; Menon, Purnima (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)The Principles for Digital Development, launched in 2017, outline 9 items to consider in designing digital health programs to mitigate predictable and preventable factors contributing to program failure (Principles for ... -
Beyond form and functioning: Understanding how contextual factors influence village health committees in northern India
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; Ved, Rajani; Garimella, Surekha; Sheikh, Kabir (Public Library of Science, 2017)Health committees are a common strategy to foster community participation in health. Efforts to strengthen committees often focus on technical inputs to improve committee form (e.g. representative membership) and functioning ... -
Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
Patel, Gupteswar; Garimella, Surekha; Scott, Kerry; Mondal, Shinjini; George, Asha S.; Sheikh, Kabir (BioMed Central, 2017)BACKGROUND: Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and ethical issues. Partnerships between researchers, ... -
Government helper and citizen advocate? A case study of the multiple roles and pressures facing a nongovernmental organization contracted by government to strengthen community health in northern India
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; V.R., Raman; Sheikh, Kabir (Wiley, 2017)While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can potentially strengthen valuable citizen political engagement, NGOs that are increasingly oriented towards donor and government contracts may instead contribute to depoliticizing ... -
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; Sheikh, Kabir (BMC, 2017)BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ... -
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Harvey, Steven A.; Mondal, Shinjini; Patel, Gupteswar; Sheikh, Kabir (BioMed Central, 2017)BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ... -
Synergies, strengths and challenges: findings on community capability from a systematic health systems research literature review.
George, Asha S.; Scott, Kerry; Mehra, V.; Sriram, Veena (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: Community capability is the combined influence of a community's social systems and collective resources that can address community problems and broaden community opportunities. We frame it as consisting of three ... -
Taking stock of 10 years of published research on the ASHA programme: Examining India’s national community health worker programme from a health systems perspective
Scott, Kerry; George, Asha S.; Ved, Rajani R. (Health Research Policy and Systems, 2019)Background: As India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) community health worker (CHW) programme enters its second decade, we take stock of the research undertaken and whether it examines the health systems interfaces ... -
A tale of ‘politics and stars aligning’: Analysing the sustainability of scaled up digital tools for front-line health workers in India
Singh, Neha S; Scott, Kerry; LeFevre, Amnesty Elizabeth (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)India has become a lighthouse for largescale digital innovation in the health sector, particularly for front-line health workers (FLHWs). However, among scaled digital health solutions, ensuring sustainability remains elusive. ... -
Unlocking community capabilities across health systems in low- and middle-income countries: lessons learned from research and reflective practice
George, Asha S.; Scott, Kerry; Sarriot, Eric; Kanjilal, Barun; Peters, David H. (BioMed Central, 2016)The right and responsibility of communities to participate in health service delivery was enshrined in the 1978 Alma Ata declaration and continues to feature centrally in health systems debates today. Communities are a ...