The governance of primary mental health planning by Primary Health Networks

The establishment of Primary Health Networks (PHNs) was accompanied by assignment of responsibility for funding for primary mental healthcare. To ensure this funding is spent in line with government priorities, the Federal government developed a planning document with established priorities and guidance documents for how the planning document should be completed. This paper examines how these documents shape service delivery through enabling some activities and excluding others and identifies the assumptions that underpin these documents. Data were drawn from discourse and content analysis of completed planning documents from the PHNs and of the guidance documents and from reflection upon mental health planning from 55 interviews with key personnel from six PHNs. Service delivery is shaped by outcome measures that promote service access, cost‐effectiveness and clinical effectiveness, contributing to service options that favour self‐management for mild mental illness and clinical (but not social) services for people with severe mental illness. There is also limited scope for mental health promotion with prevention activities focused upon populations identified by the government as being at‐risk. This occurs to the detriment of other at‐risk populations.     

企业外部社会资本的测量及其功效——基于中国房地产开发和经营行业上市公司的实证研究

在共同的组织目标下,分别以科尔曼和博特为代表的社会资本理论能够统一于单个组织层面,形成组织的内部社会资本和外部社会资本。鉴于目前的实际情况,我们将企业家的社会关系作为企业外部社会资本的主要形态进行研究,以具有代表性的房地产开发和经营行业为例,构建社会关系的纵向维度、横向维度、时间维度和企业家认知维度来测量企业外部社会资本,并进一步通过回归模型分析企业外部社会资本的功效。基于回归分析结果,我们得出结论:企业家的社会关系能够显著地提高企业绩效,紧密的社会网络关系已经成为企业发展的障碍,企业只有发展多样化的网络关系才能获得长期竞争优势。     

三网融合下“电视新闻传播的嬗变”

三网融合塑造了一个全新的传媒格局,也必将对传媒的生产和传播提出全新的要求。这样的格局下,电视媒体如何做好党和政府的喉舌？如何更新新闻采制理念,抢到发展主动权？本文通过对三网融合的分析和前景梳理,对国外网络发展进行对比,提出电视新闻发展的新对策和新理念。     

Network effects across the earnings distribution: Payoffs to visible and invisible job finding assistance

This study makes three critical contributions to the “Do Contacts Matter?” debate. First, the widely reported null relationship between informal job searching and wages is shown to be mostly the artifact of a coding error and sample selection restrictions. Second, previous analyses examined only active informal job searching without fully considering the benefits derived from unsolicited network assistance (the “invisible hand of social capital”) – thereby underestimating the network effect. Third, wage returns to networks are examined across the earnings distribution. Longitudinal data from the NLSY reveal significant wage returns for network-based job finding over formal job searching, especially for individuals who were informally recruited into their jobs (non-searchers). Fixed effects quantile regression analyses show that contacts generate wage premiums among middle and high wage jobs, but not low wage jobs. These findings challenge conventional wisdom on contact effects and advance understanding of how social networks affect wage attainment and inequality.     

“I did a lot of Googling”: A qualitative study of exclusive breastfeeding support through social media

Background

Little qualitative research has been done to explore the quality of breastfeeding support through social media in New Zealand.

On Uniformly Optimal Networks: A Reversal of Fortune?

In this article, the general problem of comparing the performance of two communication networks is examined. The standard approach, using stochastic ordering as a metric, is reviewed, as are the mixed results on the existence of uniformly optimal networks (UONs) which have emerged from this approach. While UONs have been shown to exist for certain classes of networks, it has also been shown that no UON network exists for other classes. Results to date beg the question: Is the problem of identifying a Uniformly Optimal Network (UON) of a given size dead or alive? We reframe the investigation into UONs in terms of network signatures and the alternative metric of stochastic precedence. While the endeavor has been dead, or at least dormant, for some 20 years, the findings in the present article suggest that the question above is by no means settled. Specifically, we examine a class of networks of a particular size for which it was shown that no individual network was uniformly optimal relative to the standard metric (the uniform ordering of reliability polynomials), and we show, using the aforementioned alternative metric, that this class is totally ordered and that a uniformly optimal network exists after all. Optimality with respect to “performance per unit cost” type metrics is also discussed.     

Spine segments in small world networks

Investigations of small world contact networks, defined as networks with a short characteristic path length and a substantial local clustering of contacts in the neighborhood of each node, have emphasized the process performance of such networks. The argument that large-scale, small world, contact networks are structures with startlingly efficient process performance is premised on the existence of shortcuts, without which the characteristic path lengths of the networks would be substantially larger. No doubt, given a high probability of transmission in each contact of a network, such shortcuts are a potential structural basis of reliable flows of information, influence, material and disease. However, interpersonal contacts are often markedly unreliable transmission conduits, and the average shortcut contact may be a more unreliable, episodic, transmission conduit than the average contact of cliques. With markedly unreliable contacts, fundamental helix substructures, that are parallel-transmission subsystems of the contact network, importantly enter into the analysis of network performance. These substructures of disjoint path redundancies are based on the local clustering of contacts in the neighborhoods of each node. Drawing on network reliability theory, this article presents an approach in which intersecting cliques of contact networks are a theoretically important construct in the specification of the transmission implications of observed contact networks. Clique intersections are a structural basis of path redundancies that enable reliable transmission among the nodes of contact networks consisting of contacts that may or may not be active conduits of transmissions during some period of time. The strong contacts that occur among clique members further enhance the contributions of these path redundancies.     

Visualization of Innovation in Global Supply Chain Networks

This methodological note identifies and describes a data‐driven visualization approach to study innovations in supply chain networks (ISCN). We demonstrate its value and applicability with illustrative examples to pertinent structure‐related ISCN research questions in the global electronics industry. Our visualization approach can be used to reveal and understand important clusters, patterns, trends, and outliers of ISCN not necessarily identified with traditional methods. The broader aim of this note is to demonstrate the complementary value of emerging visual analytic approaches in managerial decision‐making contexts and describe how actionable insights can be achieved.     

A systemic approach to sociometric group research: Advancing the work of Leslie Day Zeleny, 1939-1947

This paper contributes to the exploration and analysis of compatibility and diversity across multiple, interrelated, structural configurations of groups geared toward the attainment of some objective requiring cooperative activity. The systemic nature of such contexts is addressed through a requisite approach that conforms to sociometric principles and methodological and measurement standards. Indexical properties, formulations, and computations are discussed in detail, and the provision of sample interpretations, along with an extensive array of visuals, fosters informed implementation. A classic data set is tackled with precision regarding its conception, construction and assimilation. The questions that this data set raises proffer innovative computational advancements, serving to promote it as one of the archetypes to be used in the teaching and research of social network analysis.     

The City God Returns: Organised and Contagious Networks at the Xiamen City God Temple

This paper explores the revival and current networks of the Xiamen City God temple in Southeast China. I divide the networks into two forms: the first is organised and composed of systematically and consciously structured networks; the second is contagious, made up of networks that are more unwieldy and impossible to fully map as they are formed through the affective intensity of ritual events. The two forms of networks are mutually dependent: without the donations and participation generated through organised networks, the ritual events would never take place; without the ritual events that generate networks of contagion, there would be no interest or reason to support the temple and the god’s efficacy would be seen in decline.