Coventry University

About: Coventry University is a education organization based out in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 4964 authors who have published 12700 publications receiving 255898 citations. The organization is also known as: Lanchester Polytechnic & Coventry Polytechnic.

Other than mother and mothers as others

Abstract: In this article I draw on the data from a recently completed research project within which I was concerned with exploring the social, emotion, and medical experience of ‘infertility’ and ‘involuntary childlessness’ (predominantly women's). Here I am concerned particularly with the status and experience of non-motherhood and of motherhood achieved following ‘infertility’/‘involuntary childlessness’. I suggest that non-mothers often feel stigmatised and perceive that others view them as less than whole, pitiable and “desperate” even though they often do not feel this way themselves. Women who achieve motherhood following ‘infertility’/‘involuntary childlessness’ (particularly social rather than biological motherhood) still feel that they do not meet the ideal. All of this leads me to suggest that both non-mothers and women who achieve motherhood in an unusual way can be seen as the “other,” as “stranger.”

Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the Technical Efficiency of Public Health Centers in Kenya

Abstract: Data Envelopment Analysis has been widely used to analyze the efficiency of health sector in developed countries, since 1978, while in Africa, only a few studies have attempted to apply DEA in the health organizations. In this paper we measure technical efficiency of public health centers in Kenya. Our finding suggests that 44% of public health centers are inefficient. Therefore, the objectives of this study are: to determine the degree of technical efficiency of individual primary health care facilities in Kenyas to recommend the performance targets for inefficient facilitiess to estimate the magnitudes of excess inputss and to recommend what should be done with those excess inputs. The authors believe that this kind of studies should be undertaken in the other countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region with a view to empowering Ministries of Health to play their stewardship role more effectively.

'People Like Me Don't Get Support': Autistic Adults' Experiences of Support and Treatment for Mental Health Difficulties, Self-Injury and Suicidality.

Abstract: Autistic people are at high risk of mental health problems, self-injury and suicidality. However, no studies have explored autistic peoples’ experiences of treatment and support for these difficult...