This case study identifies the sociopolitical influences and processes that determine whether health care innovations rise or fall, and highlights critically important points along the pathway to health system change.
We describe six stages in the diffusion of retail clinics, from cottage industry to a dominant mode for the delivery of primary health care, and consider sociopolitical influences that facilitate and impede their emerging potential.
Sociopolitical influences, especially inse-curity of land tenure; disincentives among farmers for conservation programs; taking some land out of production and placing more pressure on existing farm and grasslands have discouraged farmers from investing in soil conservation practices since 1984 in the study area.
Sociotechnical systems are dynamic in that they continually evolve in response to multiple internal and external influences (Hancock 2009), including market forces, sociopolitical influences and technological innovations.
These methods give rich and contextualised findings, provide insight into meanings and power dynamics, and go beyond the individual clinician to incorporate broader sociopolitical influences.
This information is helpful in not only understanding the Haudenosaunee settlement system, but also for developing effective methods for investigating the environmental and sociopolitical factors influencing the settlement of past societies.
The ecological and sociopolitical drivers influencing the provision of clean water and adequate food supplies are cogently described by both authors: In each case, their analyses argue against overly simplistic interpretations of the resource problems confronting many societies.
With Exeter et al. (2014) reminding us that GSV is ultimately a commercial product, somewhat missing from much of this GSV-specific research is consideration of how sociopolitical forces may influence what we can and cannot see.
Crook: How do you think documentaries about global, sociopolitical queer issues influence an audience's view of LGBT life?
It is rooted in asymmetries of power and associated with the influence sociopolitical forces have on both interpersonal and group dynamics.
