InterViews is a library of C++ classes that assist in the design and implementation of graphical interfaces. InterViews makes building applications for workstations easier by providing abstractions that hide the details of the underlying window system. The library contains common toolkit objects such as scroll bars, menus, and buttons. It also has mechanisms for composing these elements into co...

In this article, I make the case for an underexplored research practice – participatory dissemination and reflectively introduce a new method, IBZM (Interview-Based Zine-Making), which developed in my fieldwork on gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. Participatory is that engages participants interpretation preliminary findings, through art-based methods, leads to copr...

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures must provide evidence that their development followed a rigorous process for ensuring their content validity. To this end, the collection of data is performed through qualitative interviews that allow for the elicitation of in-depth spontaneous reports of the patients' experiences with their condition and/or its treatment. This paper provides a review of ...

BACKGROUND In 2013, Malawi with its development partners introduced a Results-Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health (RBF4MNH) intervention to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health-care services. Financial incentives are awarded to health facilities conditional on their performance and to women for delivering in the health facility. We assessed the effect of the RBF4MNH on...

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare sociocultural features of pandemic influenza with reference to illness-related experience, meaning and behaviour in urban and rural areas of India. DESIGN Cross-sectional, mixed-methods, cultural epidemiological survey with vignette-based interviews. Semistructured explanatory model interviews were used to study community ideas of the 2009 influenza pandemic....

OBJECTIVES To identify the need for reproductive health care among a community affected by conflict, and to ascertain the priority given by the community to reproductive health issues. DESIGN Rapid appraisal. This comprised interviews with key informants, in-depth interviews, and group discussions. Secondary data were collated. Freelisting, ranking, and scenarios were used to obtain informati...

BACKGROUND Community participation has been emphasized internationally as a way of enhancing accountability, as well as a means to enhance health goals in terms of coverage, access and effective utilization. In rural health facilities in Kenya, initiatives to increase community accountability have focused on Health Facility Committees (HFCs). In Coast Province the role of HFCs has been expanded...