Generating Local Needs Through Technology: Global Comparisons in Diabetes Quality Management

Rogvi, Sofie á; Juul, A; Langstrup, Henriette

doi:10.1215/18752160-3523430

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“…They embed knowledge, practices, measures, properties, techniques, and terminologies that are claimed to be universally applicable. These universal aspirations are, in turn, closely related to processes of “scripting” (Akrich, 1992), a concept that three STS studies mobilize explicitly (Nielsen and Langstrup, 2014; Nielsen and Jensen, 2013; Rogvi et al, 2016).…”

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“…Rereading the studies, we identified the different types of HPIs and categorized them into two major categories: patient related and clinical research related. Within each category, five HPI subcategories were identified: management systems in relation to chronic diseases (Nielsen and Langstrup, 2014;Nielsen and Jensen, 2013;Rogvi et al, 2016); treatment procedures and protocols to assist reproduction and overcome infertility (Hörbst, 2012;Simpson, 2012), systems in relation to hospital management (Bruun Jensen, 2010), research regulations and protocols for developing new biomedical treatments (Kuo, 2009;Petryna, 2007b;Rosemann, 2014;Sunder Rajan, 2010), and bioethical regulatory frameworks for clinical research to promote safe and ethical drug development (Petryna, 2005(Petryna, , 2007aSariola and Simpson, 2011). Furthermore, through focused reading, we identified the health-promoting goal in each of the studies and mapped out the core components of each HPI.…”

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“…The HPIs have transferability in terms of this built-in scripted protocol and standardized form that grants them the ability to travel cross border. In their study of a Danish quality assurance software system for managing diabetes, Sofie á Rogvi et al (2016)…”

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“…However, as Casper Bruun Jensen (2010) points out, need is not a static entity, but dynamic and transformational (p. 55). Similarly, Rogvi et al (2016) show, empirically, that neither a problem nor a need is a preexisting entity as they investigate how the need for a specific software system for monitoring diabetes treatment quality was constituted through the very process of moving the software from Denmark to Indonesia. Here, the need is redefined and displaced as new users in Indonesian clinics do not behave in accordance with the particularly crafted form of quality assurance in the software.…”

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“…(Re)invention of HPIs into new settings. Zones of friction and comparison are a precondition for something to travel (Rogvi et al, 2016) as HPIs have to gain some kind of a grip or traction in a particular context. The grip is further established through molding processes, where the people concerned with the HPI (re)invent its script to address a site-specific problem in an attempt to render the HPI locally meaningful.…”

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Traveling health-promoting infrastructures: A meta-ethnographic analysis

Andersen

Petersen

et al. 2019

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In recent years, it has become increasingly important to understand the global circulation of healthcare innovations in nations’ attempts to solve contemporary health challenges. This article is a systematic review and meta-ethnography–inspired analysis that explores the global circulation of health-related standards, protocols, procedures, and regulations, or what we term health-promoting infrastructures (HPIs). The notion of HPIs is defined as built networks that allow for the circulation of health expertise with the intention of promoting solutions that address global health problems. We conducted systematic searches in six relevant electronic databases and ended up with a set of 13 studies. The review shows that it takes arduous work to prepare and facilitate the travel of HPIs and to mold them into meaningful local forms. In conclusion, we argue that HPIs can helpfully be thought of as scripted forms, which are globally available in always sited efforts to address specific problems.

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Traveling health-promoting infrastructures: A meta-ethnographic analysis

Andersen

Petersen

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Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work

Andersen

2021

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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This article examines the concrete travel work that enables the global transport of Fast-Track Surgery (FTS), a set of evidence-based, standardized protocols and guidelines for perioperative recovery. Having ethnographically followed FTS training for medical staff from provincial hospitals in China's Gansu province at a local hospital in Denmark, I show how FTS is made transportable through interactions between Chinese and Danish healthcare professionals in a series of workshops, meetings and educational activities. I argue that the transportability of a health-promoting infrastructure like FTS is neither a matter of technology transfer nor of evidence as such. Rather, it requires a specific kind of travel work in the form of traveling comparisons as a constant twoway dynamic between hospital settings in Denmark and China.

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