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Building Participatory Networks for HIS in a Developing Country Context : A Case Study from India
This thesis is drawn from an ongoing action research project, Health Information Systems Program (HISP) which aims at developing sustainable, computerised Health Information Systems (HIS) in developing countries in order to improve the quality of health service delivery and to create local action an...
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| التنسيق: | Printed Book |
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Department of Informatics, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
2006
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005182.pdf |
| الملخص: | This thesis is drawn from an ongoing action research project, Health Information Systems
Program (HISP) which aims at developing sustainable, computerised Health Information
Systems (HIS) in developing countries in order to improve the quality of health service
delivery and to create local action and analysis. The research in this thesis is conducted in
Kerala in India, where the use of participatory practices is studied in a developing
country perspective. Participatory Design is generally seen as a precondition of the
development of successful systems. However, the PD tradition has been criticised for
being outdated and incomplete. With basis in these critiques, this thesis addresses the
need for a re-conceptualised PD which is more adaptable to the development of large and
complex information infrastructures rather than single, locally-based systems. From this
area of interest, the following research questions arose: i) How has PD been used in the
HISP project in Kerala, and how has it been helpful? ii) What aspects of social, political
and cultural context shapes participatory processes in a developing country context like
that in Kerala, India? iii) How do participatory processes in contexts like India differ
from those in Scandinavia?
I have approached the problem domain using an action research approach and draw upon
the theories of PD and Information Infrastructure (II). In order to carry out the research, a
thorough understanding of the HIS in Kerala had to be obtained, and hence the II theory
provided a functional socio-technical perspective to study the HIS. Further I use PD theory
to understand the participatory processes used in Kerala and how this theory can be further
improved to suit the complex contexts of HIS in developing countries.
The main research contributions of this thesis are the building of participatory networks
which involves networks of stakeholders both multi-sectoral and multi-leveled. Also the
context-sensitivity of PD is emphasised and it is argued how the context of which the
system is introduced highly influences the use of PD. Additionally, a need for shifting
focus from PD techniques to the outputs of such processes is discussed, as well as the need
to focus on structural as well as behavioural changes when conducting PD processes. |
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| وصف المادة: | Master thesis |