tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Network-based social capital and capacity-building programs: an example from Ethiopia"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Network-based social capital and capacity-building programs: an example from Ethiopia | Ramanadhan et al. Human Resources for Health 2010 8 17 http content 8 1 17 HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH CASE STUDY Open Access Network-based social capital and capacity-building programs an example from Ethiopia Shoba Ramanadhan 1 Sosena Kebede2 Jeannie Mantopoulos2 and Elizabeth H Bradley2 Abstract Introduction Capacity-building programs are vital for healthcare workforce development in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to increasing human capital participation in such programs may lead to new professional networks and access to social capital. Although network development and social capital generation were not explicit program goals we took advantage of a natural experiment and studied the social networks that developed in the first year of an executive-education Master of Hospital and Healthcare Administration MHA program in Jimma Ethiopia. Case description We conducted a sociometric network analysis which included all program participants and supporters formally affiliated educators and mentors . We studied two networks the Trainee Network all 25 trainees and the Trainee-Supporter Network 25 trainees and 38 supporters . The independent variable of interest was out-degree the number of program-related connections reported by each respondent. We assessed social capital exchange in terms of resource exchange both informational and functional. Contingency table analysis for relational data was used to evaluate the relationship between out-degree and informational and functional exchange. Discussion and evaluation Both networks demonstrated growth and inclusion of most or all network members. In the Trainee Network those with the highest level of out-degree had the highest reports of informational exchange X2 1 N 23 p . We did not find a statistically significant relationship between out-degree and functional exchange in this network X2 1 N 23 p . In the Trainee-Supporter Network trainees with the highest