How to facilitate social contagion?

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 189-192

  Blanchet, Karl ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health system; Innovations; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001907833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.35     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Thompson GN, Estabrooks CA, Degner LF. Clarifying the concepts in knowledge transfer: a literature review. J Adv Nurs 2006; 53: 691-701.
2. Marsden PV. Network Data and Measurement. Annu Rev Sociol 1990; 16: 435-63.
3. Degenne A, Forsé M. Introducing Social Networks. London: Sage Publications; 1999.
4. Borgatti SP, Foster PC. The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology. J Manage 2003; 29: 991-1013.
5. Batley R, Larbi G. Changing views of the role of the Government. In The Changing role of Government: The Reform of Public Services in Developing Countries. Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan; 2004.
6. Moreno JL. Who shall survive? foundations of sociometry, group psychotherapy, and sociodrama. Beacon, NY: Beacon House, Inc; 1934.
7. Folke C, Hahn P, Olsson P, Norberg J. Adaptive governance of socio-ecological systems. Annu Rev Environ Resour 2005; 30: 441-73.
8. Gertner J. The 3rd annual year of ideas. New York Times. [serial on the Internet]. 2003 Dec 14. [cited 2013 Aug 10]; Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/2003-the-3rd-annual-year-in-ideas-gps-art.html
9. Webb C, Bodin O. A network perspective on modularity and control of flow in robust systems. In: Norberg J, Cumming GS, editors. Complexity theory for a sustainable future. New York: Columbia Press; 2008. p 85-118.
10. Dunne JA, Williams RJ. Cascading extensions and community collapse in model food webs. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2009; 273: 291-302.
11. Spillane JP. Distributed leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2006.
12. Burt RS. The Social Capital of Structural Holes. In: Guillen MF, Collins R, England P, Meyer M, editors. The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; 2003. p 148-89.
13. Newman L, Dale A. Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building: a Response to Tompkins and Adger. Ecology and Society 2005; 10: r2.
14. Nowak MA. Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science 2006; 314: 1560-3.
15. Watts DJ, Strogatz SH. Collective dynamics of “small world” networks. Nature 1998; 393: 440-2.
16. McGuire GM. Gender, race, ethnicity, and networks: The factors affecting the status of employees’ network members. Work Occupation 2000; 27: 500-23.
17. Uzzi B, Gillespie JJ. Knowledge spillover in corporate financing networks: Embeddedness and the firms debt performance. Strategic Management Journal 2002; 23: 595-618.
18. Kiesler S, Cummings JN. What do we know about proximity and distance in work groups? A legacy of research, distributed work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2002.
19. Borgatti SP, Cross R. A relational view of information seeking and learning in social networks. Manage Sci 2003; 49: 432-45.
20. Wasserman S, Faust K. Social network analysis: methods and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1994.
21. Thompson GN, Estabrooks CA, Degner LF. Clarifying the concepts in knowledge transfer: a literature review. J Adv Nurs 2006; 53: 691-701.
22. World Health Organization. Strengthening health systems: what works? Geneva: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organisation, 2010.
23. Kohn LT, Corrigan J, Donaldson MS. To err is human: building a safer health system. Washington D.C.: Institute of Medicine; 2000.
24. Klovdahl AS. Social networks and the spread of of infectious diseases: The Aids example. Soc Sci Med 1985; 21: 1203-16.
25. Latkin CA, Donnell D, Metzger D, Sherman S, Aramrattna A, Davis-Vogel A, et al. The efficacy of a network intervention to reduce HIV risk behaviors among drug users and risk partners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Philadelphia, USA. Soc Sci Med 2009; 68: 740-8.
26. Kelner M, Wellman B. Health care and consumer choice: medical and alternative therapies. Soc Sci Med 1997; 45: 203-12.
27. Wickizer TM, von Korff M, Cheadle A, Maeser J, Wagner EH, Pearson D. Activating communities for health promotion: a process evaluation method. Am J Public Health 1993; 83: 561-7.
28. Blanchet K, James P. The role of social networks in the governance of health systems: the case of eye care systems in Ghana. Health Policy Plan 2013; 28: 143-56.
29. Wonodi CB, Privor-Dumm L, Aina M, Pate AM, Reis R, Gadhoke P, et al. Using social network analysis to examine the decision-making process on new vaccine introduction in Nigeria. Health Policy Plan 2012; 27: ii27-38.
30. Rothenberg RB, Sterk C, Toomey KE, Potterat JJ, Johnson D, Schrader M, et al. Using social network and ethnographic tools to evaluate syphilis transmission. Am Sex Transm Dis Assoc 1998; 25: 154-60.
31. Wohlfeiler D. Structural and environmental HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men. AIDS 2000; 14: S52-6.
32. Kaplan BH, Cassel JC, Gore S. Social support and health. Med Care 1977; 15: 47-57.
33. Cassel J. The contribution of the social environment to host resistance. Am J Epidemiol 1976; 104: 107-23.
34. Adams AM, Madhavan S, Simon D. Women’s social networks and child survival in Mali. Soc Sci Med 2002; 54: 165-78.
35. Burt RS. Social contagion and innovation: cohesion versus structural equivalence. Am J of Soc 1987; 92: 1287-355.
36. Valente TW, Pumpuang P. Identifying opinion leaders to promote behavior change. Health Educ Behav 2007; 34: 881-96.
37. Rogers EM. Diffusion of Innovations. 5th ed. New York: The Free Press; 1995.
38. Valente TW. Network models of the diffusion of innovations. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press; 1995.
39. Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Freeman LC. UCINET 6 0 Version 1.00. Natick: Analytic Technologies; 1999.
40. Lebel L, Garden P, Imamura M. The politics of scale, position and place in the management of water resources in the Mekong region. Ecology and Society 2005; 10: 18.
41. Borgatti SP, Mehra A, Brass DJ, Labianca G. Network Analysis in the Social Sciences. Science 2009; 323: 892-5.
42. Kadushin C. Understanding social networks: Theories, concepts and findings. New York: Oxford University Press; 2012.
43. Feld SL, Carter WC. Foci of activities as changing contexts for friendship. In: Adams RG, Allan G, editors. Placing friendship in context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1998.
44. Pattison PE, Robins GL. Neighbourhood-based models for social networks. Sociol Methodol 2002; 32: 301-37.
45. McPherson M, Smith-Lovin L, Cook JM. Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annu Rev Sociol 2001; 27: 415-44.
46. Valente TW. Social networks and health: Models, methods and applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010.
47. Oh H, Chung M, Labianca G. Group social capital and group effectiveness: the role of informal socializing ties. Acad Manage J 2004; 47: 860-75.
48. Freeman LC. Centrality in social networks I. conceptual clarification. Soc Networks 1979; 1: 215-39.
49. Borgatti SP, Foster PC. The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology. J Manage 2003; 29: 991-1013.
50. Borgatti SP, Everett MG, Shirey P. LS sets, lambda sets and other cohesive subsets. Soc Networks 1990; 2: 337-57.
51. Padgett JF, Ansell C. Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434. Am J of Sociol 1993; 98: 1259-319.
52. Freeman LC. A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness. Sociometry 1977; 40: 35-41.
53. Freeman MV. Role of inside Counsel. Harv Bus Rev 1984; 62: 216.
54. Rogers EM, Kincaid DL. Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research. New York: Free Press; 1981.
55. Blanchet K, Girois S, Urseau I, Smerdon C, Drouet Y, Jama A. Physical rehabilitation in post-conflict settings: analysis of public policy and stakeholder networks. Disabil Rehabil 2013.
56. Valente TW, Chou CP, Pentz MA. Community coalitions as a system: effects of network change on adoption of evidence-based substance abuse prevention. Am J Public Health 2007; 97: 880-6.
57. Blanchet K, James P. How to do (or not to do) a social network analysis in health systems research. Health Policy Plann 2012; 27: 438-46.
58. Carrington J, Scott J, Wasserman S. Models and methods in social network analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2005.
59. Kadushin C. Understanding social network: Theories, concepts and findings: Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012.
60. Borgatti SP, Everret MG, Freeman LC. Ucinet 6 for Windows: Software for social network analysis. Harvard: Analytic Technologies; 2002.