Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Author "Prince, Ruth Jane"

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  • Cancer and contaminated food: Toxic uncertainties in western Kenya. 
    Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    During fieldwork on cancer in Kisumu, western Kenya, the author slowly began, like those around her, to ask questions about its location and its temporalities, its beginnings and endings, its boundaries and entanglements ...
  • Curious Utopias: Dreaming Big Again in the Twenty-first Century? 
    Prince, Ruth Jane; Neumark, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This special issue focuses on a trend that appears to run counter to the recent fascination with scaled-down solutions to world problems. From the predictive powers of Big Data in Kenya to market-driven humanitarian attempts ...
  • Digital health in East Africa: Innovation, experimentation and the market. 
    Neumark, Tom; Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Across East Africa, mobile phones and tablets are increasingly sitting in the hands of community health workers, clinicians, managers and patients. They are being used for a widening range of functions from diagnostics to ...
  • Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare 
    Muinde, Jacinta Victoria Syombua; Kehr, Janina; Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards ‘health for all’: their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the ...
  • Improving competencies and skills across clinical contexts of care: a qualitative study on Malawian nurses' experiences in an institutional health and training programme 
    Aukrust, Camilla Grøver; Kamalo, Patrick Dongosolo; Prince, Ruth Jane; Sundby, Johanne; Mula, Chimwemwe; Manda-Taylor, Lucinda (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Aim To explore what competencies and skills Malawian nurses gained after participating in an institutional health and training programme in Norway and how they viewed these competencies applicable upon return to Malawi. ...
  • In the Shadowlands of Global Health: Observations from Health Workers in Kenya. 
    Prince, Ruth Jane; Otieno, Phelgona (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    During the past decade, donor funding for health interventions in Kenya and other African countries has risen sharply. Focused on high-profile diseases such as HIV/AIDS, these funds create islands of intervention in a sea ...
  • Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya 
    Prince, Ruth Jane; Geissler, Paul Wenzel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    The epidemic of COVID‐19 appears to be reshaping the world, separating before and after, present and past. Its perceived novelty raises the question of what role the past might play in the present epidemic and in responses ...
  • Sexualised violence against children: A review of laws and policies in Kenya 
    Wangamati, Cynthia Khamala; Yegon, Gladys; Sundby, Johanne; Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a major global health challenge. Extant literature shows that CSA is prevalent in Kenya. As a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the ...
  • Toxic worldings: Introduction to toxic flows. 
    Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    In the course of recent world history, humans have permanently changed the chemical composition of the planet, as human-made chemical substances become part of the air, water and soil, pervading human and non-human bodies ...
  • Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: New models of healthcare and their implications for citizenship, solidarity and the public good. 
    Prince, Ruth Jane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a call for all countries to move towards ‘Universal Health Coverage’ (UHC). The WHO defines UHC as «ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventative, curative ...