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SUMMARY:SSRC and VASS Workshop on Developing Policy-oriented Presentations
DESCRIPTION:On July 14-16\, 2017\, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a workshop on developing policy-oriented presentations\, in which the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) – SSRC research team participated. This was the final workshop of the longitudinal “Vietnam Population Health Study in Three Provinces.” The study is meant to measure the results of the Atlantic Philanthropies’ comprehensive programming aimed at improving the commune health center (CHC) system in rural areas. The project goals include an assessment of how well the CHC model and its components work for different populations\, particularly the disadvantaged\, and an examination of change over time with respect to health-seeking behaviors and care utilization and satisfaction\, perceptions of CHCs\, health knowledge and practices\, and health status. \n    \n  \n    \nThis workshop provided an opportunity to clarify policy messages and ensure their close alignment with evidence\, make effective oral and visual presentations to policy stakeholders\, develop dissemination plans for each topic\, and finalize the agenda for the July 18 Policy Roundtable. \nGroups presented their findings and policy recommendations and revised them after getting feedback from workshop participants in a mini-workshop on refining policy presentations. The team presentations included: \nChoices of health facility among disadvantaged groups\nWhat makes investments in Commune Health Centers effective\nAssessing the quality of Commune Health Centers: Key elements of models that work\nImproving the quality of health insurance and health services at the grassroots level\nImproving maternal care among vulnerable women\nAt the end of the workshop\, the teams developed dissemination plans for their findings and recommendations. \n \nInternational advisors\, SSRC program staff and Vietnamese project team members.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/ssrc-and-vass-workshop-on-developing-policy-oriented-presentations/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170718
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SUMMARY:Policy Roundtable: "Improving the Quality of Health Care at the Grassroots Level in Viet Nam"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hy Van Luong presents key findings and policy recommendations from the Population Health Study.\nOn July 18\, 2017\, SSRC Vietnam Program staff organized a Policy Roundtable to engage stakeholders in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS)-SSRC logitudinal “Population Health Study in Three Provinces” and highlight key findings and policy recommendations from the study. The 49 roundtable participants comprised high-level and influential Party and government members\, representatives from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and key national agencies and local NGOs\, and project team members. The policy community welcomed the study’s focus on commune-level health\, emphasizing their importance to policymakers and relevance to ongoing policy debates. \nThe Population Health Study was designed to measure the results of the Atlantic Philanthropies’ comprehensive programming aimed at improving the commune health center (CHC) system in rural areas. The project goals include an assessment of how well the CHC model and its components work for different populations\, particularly the disadvantaged\, and an examination of change over time with respect to health-seeking behaviors and care utilization and satisfaction\, perceptions of CHCs\, health knowledge and practices\, and health status. \nKey findings from the Population Health Study:\n(1) From 2013-14\, among the 12 communes surveyed\, from 19% to 63% of insured patients did not use their health insurance for care and treatment of an acute illness. Investment in CHCs has helped increase utilization of health services among insured patients.\n(2) CHCs that received more investment in facilities\, equipment\, customer service and professional training have operated more effectively than those with less investment. In the more treated communes\, average self-reported health improvement has also increased from Round 1 to Round 2\, both overall and in sub-groups\, whereas in the less treated communes\, average self-reported health improvement remained the same or decreased. \nThe study’s researchers presented on seven topics: \n\nIntroduction to the Population Health Study in three provinces of Vietnam\nThe big picture: overview of main findings\nChoices of health facility among disadvantaged groups: a case study in Thai Nguyen\, Khanh Hoa and Vinh Long\nWhat makes investments in CHCs effective? Lessons from the case studies of selected CHCs in Thai Nguyen\, Khanh Hoa and Vinh Long\nAssessing the quality of CHCs: key elements of models that work\nImproving the quality of health insurance and health services at the grassroots level\nImproving maternal care among vulnerable women\n\n     \nParticipants from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; the Ministry of Labor\, Invalids\, and Social Affairs (MOLISA); Vietnam Women’s Union; and the Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs consider the policy implications of the findings presented.\n\n\n\n“Iron supplement intake and antenatal care visits have increased in CHCs that have received Atlantic Philanthropies investments\, compared to those that did not.” \nProf. Minh\, Director\, Institute for Family and Gender Studies (right) \n“We would like to know more [about] the demand side. Are the CHCs sufficiently meeting the demands for antenatal and postnatal care?” \nHead\, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health\, MoH\n\n \nProf. Minh presents data on maternal care among vulnerable women in Vietnam.\n\n\n \nAssoc. Prof. Dr. Sang presents flexible\, diversified models for CHCs\, based on context\, demand\, population\, geography and available resources.\n \n“The model of the CHC for today must be different from the one we had before. I really appreciate the model that you’ve proposed. My recommendation is that you social researchers\, SSRC\, and we should find funding to continue this type of study.” \nDirector\, Institute of Health\, Environment and Development\, Health Strategy and Policy Institute\, MoH and Vice President\, Vietnam Association of Family Physicians \n“There is still little assessment of family doctor model or effectiveness of public-private partnership. If CHCs are [privatized]\, how can this be done with equity and equality? There should be more policy analysis research on this.” \nActing Director\, Institute of Sociology\, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics\n\n\n“We can still have more opportunities to continue with this research. Your research is of good value and it has introduced very good procedures and recommendations.” \nHead\, Dept. of Health Insurance\, MoH\n\n \nThe Head of the Dept. of Health Insurance\, upon hearing that there is perceived discrimination in service quality in using health insurance as opposed to paying directly for services\, agrees that the MoH would like more research to help solve this problem.\n\n\n\nDuring the two discussion sessions on Feasibility and Implementation Challenges\, participants voiced their appreciation for the value of the information and timeliness of policy recommendations provided\, and also identified several of the Study’s critical focus areas that address immediate policy concerns. These include health insurance (HI) utilization and perceived discrimination\, or inferior services\, when using HI as opposed to out-of-pocket pay; assessing whether CHCs have the capacity to provide antenatal and postnatal care needs; and determining whether CHCs can form effective public-private partnerships that will not undermine their function in providing public health care and preventative health services. \n“The MoH has not agreed on the policy of public-private partnership for healthcare for the CHC\, because we have had very short assessment … As a person who would advice MoH leaders in making policies\, I welcome all the opinions and recommendations today. I wish that in there future there would be cooperation between the [Vietnam] Academy of Social Sciences and the healthcare sector in research. I believe the result would be more helpful to the recommendations for policymaking.”\n-Deputy Head\, Dept. of Personnel and Organization\, MoH\n \nParticipant recommendations included sharing access to data\, presenting findings to the highest tier of policymakers\, increasing the pace of dissemination to meet the rapidly changing policy context\, and continuing policy-oriented research with even closer cooperation between social scientists and the health sector. Many participants expressed their appreciation for the findings\, the opportunity for dialogue\, the value of social research on health topics and a hope for continued engagement among researchers\, the health sector\, civil society and government. \n“I’m now 80 years old and this is the first time I heard social researchers talk about health care. I would like to thank [Atlantic Philanthropies] for the money to organize this and SSRC in helping with this\, so that we can have a seminar like this. I have only one recommendation: How we can have similar opportunities like this so that we can share our opinions. We would really like to hear your opinions and contributions. What we heard today in the report is very good.”\n-Director\, Institute of Health\, Environment and Development\, Health Strategy and Policy Institute\, Ministry of Health and Vice President\, Vietnam Association of Family Physicians\n \n“…[S]eminars like this should have been put in a different level\, organized at a higher level. For example\, I think there should have been the participation of the National Assembly and leaders in the MoH\, because these are the agents that make recommendations for policies for healthcare at the grassroots level\, they research issues related to the backbone of the healthcare sector in Vietnam … Therefore\, if possible\, I think when there are research findings like this\, if we could have disseminated these findings to those people\, I think it would have been very good.”\n–Head\, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health\, MoH\n \n“…[T]his is the first time we had the chance to sit with each other like this between social researchers and healthcare experts to share our opinions. We hope we have similar opportunities in the future\, because it is impossible to separate what is called healthcare and what is called society or sociology\, because they are related to humans and their related issues. If we separate the two\, we cannot solve the current problems.”\n-President\, Vietnam Public Health Association
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/policy-roundtable-improving-the-quality-of-health-care-at-the-grassroots-level-in-viet-nam/
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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration.\n\nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
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SUMMARY:Lineages of the People: Embedded and transregional histories of contemporary populism
DESCRIPTION:Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz 1\, University of Göttingen\, Germany\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/565338.html\n\n  \nOrganizers\nSrirupa Roy\, Paula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi \nInstitutions\nUniversity of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies & Global and Transregional Studies Platform)\nSocial Science Research Council\, New York (InterAsia Program)\nNew York University (Urban Democracy Lab) \nOverview\nThe US presidential elections of November 2016 have shaken the enduring myth of American exceptionalism. For many international observers\, the surprise and shock of Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the ascendancy of populist politics have occasioned a strong sense of political déjà-vu. The Trump victory seems to fit well into a wider global series. India\, Turkey\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, the Philippines\, China under Xi Jinping\, Russia under Putin\, Egypt under Sisi: the populist style of politics is clearly the new commonsense in much of our world. \nThis international workshop explores the causes and the democratic consequences of this contemporary populist zeitgeist (Mudde 2004). We are specifically interested in developing embedded histories of populist politics that go beyond the “shock and exception” mode of analysis to examine how contemporary populisms build on\, refract\, and contest earlier projects of people-making and other\, non-populist notions of the people. What is the relationship between racial\, ethnic\, religious\, and class-based projects of boundary-making\, and the populist politics of “frontier-making” (Laclau 2006)? What are the social\, political\, and cultural repertoires that the populist “moral monopoly claim” of being the only representative of the “true people” (Müller 2016) draws upon? How do contemporary ideas of the people-versus-elites divide resonate with earlier\, equally Manichean binaries of the war on terror\, Cold War\, or colonialism? Did the phenomena of technocratic politics\, judicialized politics and other forms of non-electoral politics pave the way for the contemporary rise of populist outsiders? How have the legacies of economic reform that unfolded across much of the global South in the 1990s shaped the populist imaginaries of political reform in these regions two decades later? What exactly is the relationship between “truth” and “post-truth” – what are the political and institutional continuities between “fake news” and the media logics and news values of commercial\, mainstream media? \nWe will address these questions from a transregional perspective that widens the usual Euro-American terrain of populism scholarship to include Asia and the Middle East. The point is not to update the Fukuyama thesis of global convergence by asserting that all political roads must lead to populism and that a universal\, one-size-fits-all theory of populism is at hand. Nor is it to reverse modernization teleology and assert that America’s present is India’s (or Turkey’s) past; that the answer to the question of “why Trump?” can be found in Modi’s or Erdogan’s rise. Instead\, the relocation of the populism debate outside Europe and America can bring us to formulate the question of populist politics in new ways\, and move us from choice-centric and electoralist discussions of the “populist vote” to a consideration of the organizational contexts\, quotidian rhythms\, and historical pathways that shape populist political agency. \nParticipants\nSinem Adar\, University of Göttingen\nWalter Armbrust\, University of Oxford\nGianpaolo Baiocchi\, New York University\nAnuj Bhuwania\, South Asian University\nPaula Chakravartty\, New York University\nRiccardo Chesta\, European University Institute\nGholam Khiabany\, Goldsmiths College Cedric de Leon\, Tufts University\nManali Desai\, University of Cambridge\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Univ. of British Columbia\nGhassan Hage\, University of Melbourne\nYoav Halperin\, New York University\nRan Hirschl\, University of Göttingen\nSrirupa Roy\, University of Göttingen\nAradhana Sharma\, Wesleyan College\nOlle Törnquist\, University of Oslo\nCihan Tugal\, University of California-Berkeley\nGulay Türkmen\, University of Göttingen\nGabriel Vommaro\, National University of General Sarmiento\, Argentina \nChairs/discussants\nRupa Viswanath\, Dominic Sachsenmeier\, Matthias Koenig\, Andreas Busch\, Srirupa Roy: University of Göttingen\nPaula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi: NYU\nFor more information\, contact:\nbirgit.priemer@cemis.uni-goettingen.de
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170926T080000
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SUMMARY:Portrait of Los Angeles County Sneak Peek
DESCRIPTION:Measure of America’s Kristen Lewis will present a sneak peek of our upcoming Portrait of Los Angeles County report at the Southern California Grantmakers annual conference.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/portrait-of-los-angeles-county-sneak-peek/
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