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  The health analysis and action cycle an empowering approach to women's health

  Sociological Research Online, 2000

  This paper explores how the Health Analysis and Action Cycle (HAAC), which considers health in its socio-environmental context, was conceived of as an empowering approach to working with women in rural Nepal.
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  Towards participatory practice: participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and the participatory process

  Zed Books, 1996

  Researchers in health care often place themselves at the centre of a research process: they do research on participants, rather than with or by them. In this book chapter, Andrea Cornwall makes the case for truly participatory research, in which traditional research models are replaced with a continuous process of research, reflection and action.
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  Gender, sex and HIV: how to address issues that no-one wants to hear about

  Strategies for Hope, 2000

  This paper, commissioned for UNESCO, outlines the Stepping Stones training package which aims to enable discussion on difficult but important issues in HIV prevention.
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  Subsidy or self-respect? Participatory total community sanitation in Bangladesh

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This IDS working paper examines a new approach to improving environmental sanitation in Bangladesh by involving local communities in the analysis of risk of open defecation and building toilets without external subsidies.
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  Scaling up the Warmi project: lessons learned, mobilizing Bolivian communities around reproductive health

  Save the Children Fund, 1998

  This paper describes the lessons learned form scaling up the Warmi Project, developed and implemented by Save the Children/Bolivia. The original Warmi Project, carried out from 1990 – 1993, was intended to demonstrate what could be done to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality at the community level in isolated rural areas with limited access to health services.
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  Actual or potential uses of RRA/PRA methods in health nutrition

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1992

  This International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) note is the summary of ideas that came from a two day workshop on PRA (Participatory rural appraisal) Applications in Health and Nutrition, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
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  Responsible research with communities: participatory research in primary care

  North American Primary Care Research Group, 1998

  Definitions of 'expert knowledge' in primary health care are changing. Current developments in ethics and research methods call for more participation of individuals and communities in research.
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  Equity in the distribution of health personnel

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003

  This document summarises a discussion paper published by Human Resources for Health Network in southern Africa, which reviews available literature and identifies key issues in need of further work. The current availability of health personnel in Africa is considerably worse than in other regions of the world and health systems in southern Africa face a variety of health personnel problems.
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  Subsidized sales of insecticide-treated nets in Afghan refugee camps demonstrate the feasibility of a transition from humanitarian aid towards sustainability

  Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2004

  This article, published in Malaria Journal, reports on a survey of Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, where subsidised sales of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) were introduced in place of indoor residual spraying, for the prevention of malaria and anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL).
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  Pilfering for survival: how health workers use access to drugs as a coping strategy

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This Human Resources for Health paper reports on a study which investigated pilfering of drugs by health staff in Mozambique and Cape Verde. The study was based on a self-administered questionnaire, given to a sample group of health workers. Results confirmed the misuse of access to drugs as a key element in the coping strategies of health personnel to deal with difficult living conditions.

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