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2. Accuracy of one-dimensional templating on linear EOS radiography allows template-directed instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty
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Finsterwald, Michael Andreas, Sobhi, Salar, Isaac, Senthuren, Scott, Penelope, Khan, Riaz J. K., and Fick, Daniel P.
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- 2021
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3. The efficacy of a mass media population control campaign in Jamaica's national development
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Scott, Penelope Anne
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304.6 ,Demography & population studies - Abstract
In 1983 the Jamaican Parliament officially endorsed a National Population Policy which made the island the first in the Caribbean region to formulate such a policy. The Population Policy defined Jamaica's accelerating population as a negative constraint on the country's national development. One of the aims therefore, of the Policy was the introduction of replacement fertility i.e. a two child family. This was stipulated as a prerequisite to limit Jamaica's population growth. In an effort to disseminate the message of the two child family three mass media campaigns were conducted in the nineteen eighties. This thesis examines the efficacy of this replacement fertility campaign strategy in Jamaica's national development. The campaign's efficacy will be examined on the basis of its conceptualisation and implementation. This thesis constructs the argument that firstly, the conceptualisation of the media campaign was based on academically discredited views and assumptions on the role of the media in development. This position is substantiated in two ways. Firstly, through a semiotic analysis of the advertising campaign which revealed the implicit level of expectations concerning the campaign as well as the media's role in development. Secondly, through interviews with campaign planners and policy makers which disclosed the explicit expectations regarding the media and the campaign's function in development. It is argued that the ideological nature of the campaign's mythic structure, deciphered through the semiotic analysis, implies a role for the media in development which is consistent with the views of communication scholars who were advocates of the currently discredited Modernisation based model of communication in national development. An analysis of interviews with the campaign planners and policymakers demonstrates that their expressed views on the role of the media in development are identifiable with assumptions on this role inherent in the Modernisation paradigm. The thesis argues secondly, that the misinformed criteria and expectations directing the campaign are further reinforced by several features of the campaign design and implementation. It is shown that certain principles and practices of campaign design such as audience research, pretesting and interpersonal communication, which are academically proven ingredients of successful campaigns, were neglected in the campaign's construction. This calls into question the integrity of the campaign as a mechanism of social intervention. Further challenges to the campaign's efficacy are raised by findings from a social survey among the target group. This survey sought to assess the audience's view on the two child family; patterns of mass media use; sources of information on family planning; the credibility of these sources compared with the credibility of the media; contraceptive use and information needs on contraception.
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- 1992
4. Is "Two Better Than Too Many?": An Evaluation of a Replacement Level Fertility Campaign In Jamaica
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Scott, Penelope A.
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- 1996
5. The classification of 'migrants' as a discursive practice in public health: a sociology of knowledge approach
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Scott, Penelope, Odukoya, Dennis, Unger, Hella von, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Scott, Penelope, Odukoya, Dennis, and Unger, Hella von
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This paper reflects on the classification and social categorization of ethnically diverse populations as a discursive practice in the production of knowledge by state institutions in the field of public health. It begins by providing an overview of the terms migrant and ethnicity in public health reporting and by comparing examples of ethnicity and migration-related categories used in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS health reporting classification systems in the United Kingdom and Germany. It reviews sociology of knowledge studies focusing on classification and the social construction of medical knowledge to highlight why a sociological perspective on the categories used in public health classifications is a productive line of enquiry. In this regard, an aim of the paper is to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the DFG-funded project Changing Categories: Migrants in epidemiological, preventive and legal discourses on HIV and tuberculosis - A discourse analysis comparing Germany and the UK. The paper creates a context for understanding the socio-historical processes implicit in the construction of public health classification systems and their constituent categories by discussing, from a Foucauldian perspective, how the classification and social categorization of migrants are implicated in the governmentality of immigration. More specifically, it will consider the biopolitical function of public health and the exclusionary/inclusionary paradox in public health discourses on migrants and communicable diseases. The paper then discusses classification, identification and categorization as social processes to draw attention to the complexity of classification work and the constructedness of categories as knowledge practices. The final section of the paper draws on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis (Keller 2013) to show how this research programme offers useful methodological tools to reconstruct processes and practices associated with meaning, Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier befasst sich mit Klassifikation und sozialer Kategorisierung als diskursiven Praktiken der Wissensproduktion von staatlichen Institutionen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage, wie Migrantinnen und Migranten im Public-Health-Bereich als eine besondere Gruppe konstruiert und erfasst werden, die sich vom Rest der Bevölkerung unterscheidet. Zunächst wird ein Überblick zur Verwendung der Begriffe Migrant/in und Ethnizität in der Gesundheitsberichterstattung gegeben. Es werden Beispiele für ethnizitäts- bzw. migrationsbezogene Kategorien in der Berichterstattung zu Tuberkulose und HIV/Aids aus Deutschland und dem Vereinigten Königreich angeführt. Daraufhin wird gezeigt, wie sich eine wissenssoziologische Perspektive auf diese Kategorien darstellt und welche Anknüpfungspunkte bestehende soziologische Arbeiten zu Klassifikation und sozialer Konstruktion medizinischen Wissens bereithalten. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, einige theoretische Vorannahmen des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projekts Kategorien im Wandel: Migrant/innen in epidemiologischen, präventiven und rechtlichen Diskursen zu HIV und Tuberkulose. Ein Ländervergleich (D/GB). zur Diskussion zu stellen. Dieser Beitrag möchte den Blick für die sozio-historischen Prozesse schärfen, die der Konstruktion von Public-Health-Klassifikationssystemen zu Grunde liegen. Dabei werden Klassifikation und soziale Kategorisierung von Migrant/innen mit Michel Foucault als gouvernementale Praktiken im Umgang mit Migration begriffen. Insbesondere werden die biopolitische Funktion von Public-Health und das Exklusion/Inklusion-Paradox in Public-Health-Diskursen zu Migration und übertragbaren Infektionskrankheiten diskutiert. Die theoretische Rahmung von Klassifikation, Identifikation und Kategorisierung als sozialen Prozessen lässt die Komplexität von Kategorisierungsarbeit nachvollziehbar werden und erlaubt es die soziale Konstruktion von Kategorien als diskursive Prakti
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- 2016
6. The classification of 'migrants' as a discursive practice in public health: A sociology of knowledge approach
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Scott, Penelope, Odukoya, Dennis, and von Unger, Hella
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This paper reflects on the classification and social categorization of ethnically diverse populations as a discursive practice in the production of knowledge by state institutions in the field of public health. It begins by providing an overview of the terms migrant and ethnicity in public health reporting and by comparing examples of ethnicity and migration-related categories used in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS health reporting classification systems in the United Kingdom and Germany. It reviews sociology of knowledge studies focusing on classification and the social construction of medical knowledge to highlight why a sociological perspective on the categories used in public health classifications is a productive line of enquiry. In this regard, an aim of the paper is to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the DFG-funded project Changing Categories: Migrants in epidemiological, preventive and legal discourses on HIV and tuberculosis - A discourse analysis comparing Germany and the UK. The paper creates a context for understanding the socio-historical processes implicit in the construction of public health classification systems and their constituent categories by dis-cussing, from a Foucauldian perspective, how the classification and social categorization of migrants are implicated in the governmentality of immigration. More specifically, it will consider the biopolitical function of public health and the exclusionary/inclusionary paradox in public health discourses on migrants and communicable diseases. The paper then discusses classification, identification and categorization as social processes to draw attention to the complexity of classification work and the constructedness of categories as knowledge practices. The final section of the paper draws on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis (Keller 2013) to show how this research programme offers useful methodological tools to reconstruct processes and practices associated with meaning and knowledge production in an institutional field such as public health. By referring to the UK and German health reporting examples, it further reflects on how classification produces knowledge claims that are grounded in prevailing socio-historical conditions but which are potentially unstable and open to contestation by other actors.
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- 2014
7. Fatal Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis That Invaded the Postoperative Abdominal Wall Wound in an Immunocompetent Host
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Carr, Eric J., primary, Scott, Penelope, additional, and Gradon, Jeremy D., additional
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- 1999
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8. LETTERS.
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Brown, Owen, Thompson, Declan, Scott, Penelope, Martin, Ken, Brooks, Mary, and Grant, Barry
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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The bald truth," by doctor Ian Coutts in the December 1, 2012 issue, "Star man," by Diana Wichtel in the December 15, 2012 issue, and "When caring is dangerous" in the December 8, 2012 issue.
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- 2012
9. LETTERS.
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Pearce, Marg, Ross, Jean, Doig, Mike, Martin, Anne, Utting, Bruce, Wedekind, Richard, Scott, Penelope, Richmond, David, Northcott, John, Christie, John, Mountier, Mary, and Bunce, David
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Several letters are presented to the editor on topics such as the "Lycra-clad retirees of New-Zealand" by Anne Martin, "think like a geologist" by Bruce Utting, & "irritating radio promos" by David Bunce, in the July 11, 2015 edition of New Zealand Listener magazine.
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- 2015
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