Africa has faced problems in the area of media communication due to a lack of resources, technology and manpower and poor planning. In recent years, Africans have begun to argue the point of a need for comprehensive communications planning that considers economic limitations. An effective form of education and communication for Africa should present information in an inexpensive, ad hoc manne...

The project "Strengthening food and nutrition security through family poultry and crop integration in Tanzania and Zambia" brings together animal, crop, and human health specialists, economists, ecologists, social scientists, and practitioners to work with participating communities. It aims to increase poultry value chain, crop farming systems efficiency, and household food and nutrition securi...

Although the process of public and stakeholder participation continues to be intensively investigated and discussed in academic circles, the implementation of participatory methods in practice remains problematic. This can be attributed to the lack of knowledge transfer on the one hand, and the general underestimation of participatory approaches in planning processes on the other. A possible so...

This ethnographic study examines how participatory spaces and citizenship are co-constituted in participatory healthcare improvement efforts. We propose a theoretical framework for participatory citizenship in which acts of citizenship in healthcare are understood in terms of the spaces they are in. Participatory spaces consist of material, temporal and social dimensions that constrain citizens...

CONTEXT Many studies have documented race and gender differences in health care received by patients. However, few studies have related differences in the quality of interpersonal care to patient and physician race and gender. OBJECTIVE To describe how the race/ethnicity and gender of patients and physicians are associated with physicians' participatory decision-making (PDM) styles. DESIGN,...

BACKGROUND Healthcare user fees present an important barrier for accessing services for the poorest (indigents) in Burkina Faso and selective removal of fees has been incorporated in national healthcare planning. However, establishing fair, effective and sustainable mechanisms for the removal of user fees presents important challenges. A participatory action-research project was conducted in Ou...

Citizen Science is believed to contribute significantly the democratisation of science, engaging non-scientists in scientific research. Participatory approaches science communication share same interest through public participation and engagement. In attempt connect these two debates both theoretically empirically, we provide an analysis tools strategies used by 157 projects across EU, UK, Swit...