Literature Review Resources
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RES-811 Literature Review Resources
Successful completion of a doctoral dissertation requires significant amounts of independent reading on the research topic. This allows the doctoral learner/researcher to become familiar with the scope of the topic and to identify gaps or tensions within the existing literature on the topic. These gaps and tensions become the source of the dissertation research. In this assignment, you will read and annotate potential sources in your dissertation field of interest. Those demonstrating the most merit to the best of your understanding of the topic at this time should be added to your RefWorks list for potential inclusion in the literature review section of your dissertation.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
• It is recommended that you engage in this activity throughout the duration of this course.
• Instructors will be scoring your submission based on the number of unique sources identified in the list submitted.
• Download the resource Literature Review Resources Tool and use it to complete the assignment.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• Refer to the resource, “Preparing Annotated Bibliographies,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
Directions:
Read at least 10 empirical articles in your general dissertation field Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership with an Emphasis in Health Care Administration
In the “Literature Review Resources” document, provide the following for each source:
1 The APA formatted citation.
2 A brief annotation of the key points of the source.
3 An indication of whether the source has been added to (Y) or excluded from (N) your RefWorks list.
References
Frieden, T. R. (2010). A framework for public health action: The health impact pyramid. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4), 590–595.
Jones, C. P., Jones, C. Y., Perry, G. S., Barclay, G., & Jones, C. A. (2009). Addressing the social determinants of children’s health: A cliff analogy. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 20(Suppl. 4), 1–12.
Stuckler, D., King, L., & McKee, M. (2009). Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: A cross-national analysis. Lancet, 373(9661), 399–407.
Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2010). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press. o Chapter 13, “Dysfunctional Societies” (pp. 173–196).
World Health Organization Western Pacific Region. (2009). Global health library. Retrieved from http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php?lang=en.
Jones, C. P., Jones, C. Y., Perry, G. S., Barclay, G., & Jones, C. A. (2009). Addressing the social determinants of children’s health: A cliff analogy. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 20(Suppl. 4), 1–12.
Stuckler, D., King, L., & McKee, M. (2009). Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: A cross-national analysis. Lancet, 373(9661), 399–407.
Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2010). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press. o Chapter 13,“Dysfunctional Societies” (pp. 173–196).
World Health Organization Western Pacific Region. (2009). Global health library. Retrieved from http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php?lang=en.
Stuckler, D., King, L., & McKee, M. (2009). Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: A cross-national analysis. Lancet, 373(9661), 399–407.
The PLoS Medicine Editors. (2010). Social relationships are key to health, and to health policy. PLoS Medicine, 7(8), 1–2.
National Rural Health Mission. (2012). RSBY-Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojnab. Retrieved from http://www.rsby.gov.in/
World Health Organization Western Pacific Region. (2009). Global health library. Retrieved from http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php?lang=en
SAMPLE ANSWER
RES 811 Literature Review Resources
- Frieden, T. R. (2010). A framework for public health action: The health impact pyramid. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4), 590–595. (Y)
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Annotation
The impact of varied types interventions in public health are described in this paper using a 5-tier pyramid, which provides a health improvement framework. The greatest potential impact interventions are presented at the base of the pyramid, including the efforts aimed at addressing health’s socio-economic determinants. Moving up the pyramid there is a progressive change in interventions from those which involve making healthy default decisions individually to clinical interventions requiring minimal contact but conferring sustained protection and direct clinical care that is ongoing as well as counseling and health education. The author reiterates that interventions that focus on the pyramid’s lower levels have higher efficiency since their reach is broader in the society and minimal individual effort is required. However, for optimal public health benefits that are sustained to be achieved, the need to implement the necessary interventions at each level is inevitable.
- Jones, C. P., Jones, C. Y., Perry, G. S., Barclay, G., & Jones, C. A. (2009). Addressing the social determinants of children’s health: A cliff analogy. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 20(Suppl. 4A), 1–12. (Y)
Annotation
The authors of this paper presents an illustration of health interventions in three dimensions using a ‘cliff analogy’ for the purpose of helping people who are falling off the good health cliff. The paper illustrates how this goal can be achieved through provision of health services, as well as making sure that the social determinants of equity and health are succinctly addressed. A review of the analogy shows that, health care services are represented by an ambulance at the cliff’s bottom, a trampoline or net located halfway down the cliff, and a fence at the cliff’s top. There population should be deliberately moved away from the cliff’s edge in order to ensure that social determinants of health are addressed. Furthermore, it should also be acknowledged that the cliff has three dimensions for the social determinants of equity to be addressed, which mean that it has to involve measures on practices, structures, norms, policies, and values that are aimed at enabling differential distribution of risks and resources along the cliff’s face. As a result, the authors affirm that health’s social determinants (i.e. poverty) and equity’s social determinants (i.e. racism) have to be addressed if health outcomes are to be improved and health disparities are to be eliminated.
- Stuckler, D., King, L., & McKee, M. (2009). Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: A cross-national analysis. Lancet, 373(9661), 399–407. (Y)
During the beginning of 1990s, in most European countries that were post-communist there was a significant increase in adult mortality and over time the substantial variations across nations is not yet fully explained. However, there are previous empirical studies that have suggested that economic transition pace between countries has been the main driver the rise in mortality rates. This paper delves into the investigation of whether these adult mortality rate differences could be accounted by mass privatization. The authors analyses mortality rates based on age standardization among men in the working-age (15-59 years) in eastern European countries that are post-communist as well as the former USSR between 1989 and 2002 using multivariate longitudinal regression. The findings show that there is a relationship between mass privatization programmes and short-term increase in the mortality rates of adult males. This implies that the strategy of economic transition through rapid mass privatization was a key driver of the differential mortality rate trends amongst the post-communist countries; and the reduction of this trend was achieved through increased social capital.
- Carey, G., & Crammond, B. (2014). Help or hindrance? Social policy and the ‘social determinants of health’. Australian Social Issues (Australian Social Policy Association), 49(4), 489-507. (Y)
Annotation
Social disadvantage and social inequality issues have been the main focus of research in public health over the recent past. This is attributed to the fact that, social issues such as unemployment and poor housing have been found to significantly influence health care provision, hence they are currently known as ‘the health’s social determinants’. As a result, the authors of this paper note that nowadays public health majorly involves issues that in historically were regarded as issues of social policy. The confluence of social policy and public health is discussed in this paper by examining the risk posed and opportunities presented by this convergence for social policy practitioners seeking to reduce inequality and poverty. It is argued that, despite the potential gains that may accrue from close working of the two fields, fundamental differences in approaches and perspectives exist which need to be addressed in order to achieve maximum benefits.
- Corr, L., Davis, E., Cook, K., Waters, E., & LaMontagne, A. D. (2014). Fair relationships and policies to support family day care educators’ mental health: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1-28. (N)
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Annotation
From onset of the paper, the authors emphasize that the extent of child care quality is proportional to the extent of investment in population health, which depends on the providers’ capacity. This means that child care educators’ mental health and wellbeing is crucial to the quality of provided care and turnover, and the perspectives of key sector informants and child care educators on how the mental health and wellbeing of educators is influenced by family day care working conditions are examined in this paper. The authors use semi-structured interviews through telephone among family day care educators and key informants representing government, family day care schemes representatives as well as other relevant stakeholders in Australia. The findings show a strong relationship between the mental health of educators with the quality of family day care schemes because the created social relationships establishes working conditions for the educators that may either diminish or promote their mental health and wellbeing. The authors affirm that this necessitates formulation of policies to protect and promote mental health and wellbeing of the family day care educators in Australia.
- Kondilis, E., Giannakopoulos, S., Gavan, M., Ierodiakonou, I., Waitzkin, H., & Benos, A. (2013). Economic Crisis, Restrictive Policies, and the Population’s Health Care: The Greek Case. American Journal of Public Health, 103(6), 973-979. (N)
Annotation
The Greek economy has been significantly been affected by the global economy crisis, making the country an essential test of how wellbeing of a population is related to socioeconomic determinants. The paper shows that between 2007 and 2009 there was 22.7% increases in homicide and suicide mortality rates among men; whereas between 2010 and 2011 substance abuse, infectious disease morbidity, and mental disorders showed a devastating trend. The authors affirm that there was a rise in the use of primary care services and public inpatient services by 21.9% and 6.2% between 2009 and 2011. However, during the economic crisis and increasing public services’ demand coincide with privatization and austerity policies, which further expose the population of Greece to more risks.
- Acevedo-Garcia, D., Rosenfeld, L. E., Hardy, E., McArdle, N., & Osypuk, T. L. (2013). Future Directions in Research on Institutional and Interpersonal Discrimination and Children’s Health. American Journal of Public Health, 103(10), 1754-1763. (N)
Annotation
This paper reiterates that ethnic/racial residential segregation and perceived interpersonal discrimination are the main forms of racial discrimination that influence health disparities among the children. The authors emphasize that despite that these form s of discriminations and health disparities previously focused on adults without considering that they also affect mental health of children negatively. As a result, the authors propose there research directions in this topic such as incorporation of perspectives that are life-course, linking geography into the residential segregation measures and conceptual framework opportunity, as well as a consideration of residential segregation together with other forms of segregations that influence the health of children.
- Mahapatro, M. (2014). Mainstreaming Gender: Shift from Advocacy to Policy. Vision (09722629), 18(4), 309-315. (Y)
Annotation
The authors propose that gender mainstreaming can be taken as holistic strategy for the introduction of gender equality and sensitivity perspective to the policy formulation processes at all levels and stages through a change in practices and norms that reinforce gender inequality. This paper discusses the development process through which gender mainstreaming has led to a shift in policy, especially that concerns public health particularly in India. Considering that gender mainstreaming has been a concept that has for quite long remained underdeveloped, the article suggests the need for gender values to be placed firmly at all stages and levels as well as sectors, as an attempt towards philosophy change requiring gender conceptualization within the culturally defined roles, potentialities and constraints.
- Shanahan, D. F., Lin, B. B., Bush, R., Gaston, K. J., Dean, J. H., Barber, E., & Fuller, R. A. (2015). Toward Improved Public Health Outcomes from Urban Nature. American Journal of Public Health, 105(3), 470-477. (Y)
Annotation
Urban populations’ health has been mounting substantial concern as expansion of cities continues at unprecedented rate. However, green spaces in urban have been considered to provide opportunities for diverse mental and physical health benefits, and pioneering health policy can recognize the need for implementation of a cost effective tool aimed at planning cities that are healthy. As a result, the authors strive at articulating a framework for the identification of both direct and indirect pathways that are casual and that can exploit nature to deliver health benefits.
- Auerbach, J. (2015). Creating Incentives to Move Upstream: Developing a Diversified Portfolio of Population Health Measures Within Payment and Health Care Reform. American Journal of Public Health, 105(3), 427-431. (Y)
Annotation
In this article, the author examines the population health measures’ balanced portfolio development that would be essential based on the prevailing deliberations concerning health care delivery as well as payment reforms. The author identifies five indicators’ categories that range from prevention interventions that concern traditional clinical care to the prevention interventions that measure community level investment for nonclinical services, which in varied combinations can lead to optimal or ideal results.
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