Input was solicited from any experts interested in participating, regardless of when or where their MDA experience occurred, the outcomes of their fieldwork, or opinions on MDA.
Ingstad and Grut [ 23], based on case studies derived from their fieldwork in Kenya, identified congenital conditions, conditions occurring in pregnancy and childbirth, malaria and epilepsy as mechanisms through which poverty leads to disability.
At the university where the current study was conducted, it is standard procedure that final year occupational therapy students reflect, whether verbally or in writing, on their experiences of fieldwork education.
The first generation of professionally trained anthropologists began to undertake intensive fieldwork on their own account in the early 20th century.
In Ghana, we selected providers in Kumasi and Accra, the two regions in which BlueStar operated at the time of fieldwork, based on their selection for early incorporation into the AHME interventions.
They took this idea from their ethnographic fieldwork on bioinformatics in biomedical practices, where some researchers are already arguing for and implementing such an approach.
Often students do not maximise their time on fieldwork due to lacking the bigger conceptual picture (Falk, Martin, & Balling, 1978).
VFG therefore can provide an alternative tool to compliment current fieldwork exercises to make sure students develop their learning and skills when on real fieldwork and will continue to do so for some time.
On more than one occasion during fieldwork, employees were witnessed crossing boundaries from their homes in the group ranches to return to work on the private ranches.
