A5102887063- Health disparities and outcomes
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Community Health and Development
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2022
Cardiff University
2007-2017
Ipsos (Brazil)
2017
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
2013
Brazilian National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication
2011
Columbia University
2008
University of Michigan
2004
Lancaster University Ghana
2003
University of Salford
1991-1999
MRC Epidemiology Unit
1983-1991
Despite growing recognition of the need for qualitative methods in health services research, there have been few attempts to define quality standards assessing results. This article acknowledges desirability a plurality standards. However, it is argued that three interrelated criteria can be identified as foundation good research: interpretation subjective meaning, description social context, and attention lay knowledge. These examined relation different dimensions any research report,...
In this paper I demonstrate the way in which people's beliefs about aetiology of their particular affliction (arthritis) need to be understood as part a more comprehensive imaginative enterprise refer narrative reconstruction. The intrinsically teleological form means that identified 'causes' represent only putative efficient connexions between disease and antecedent factors but also reference points individual society an unfolding process has become profoundly disrupted. Through...
This paper contributes to the development of theory and research on inequalities in health. Our central premise is that these are currently limited because they fail adequately address relationship between agency structure, lay knowledge form narrative has a significant contribution make this endeavour. The divided into three sections. In first section we briefly review existing, largely quantitative We then move consider some most critiques body work highlighting issues: pursuit overly...
The concept of social structure is one the main building blocks sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews way in which has been deployed medical sociology, arguing that recent times used primarily as a frame for interpretation health inequalities and their determinants. It goes on to examine contribution sociologists have made debate over inequalities, giving particular attention contributions Sociology Health Illness....
Despite the increasing belief that places where people live influence their health, there is surprisingly little consistent evidence for associations with mental health. We investigated joint effect of community and individual-level socio-economic deprivation social cohesion on individual health status.Multilevel analysis population survey data 10,653 adults aged 18-74 years nested within 325 census enumeration districts in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, UK. The outcome measure was Mental...
This article considers the background to one of projects in UK Economic and Social Research Council's Public Services Programme: a major; three-year investigation how health inequalities are being framed for intervention at local level post-devolution England, Scotland Wales. A particular interest is difference that performance assessment makes as it engages greater or lesser extent with inequalities.
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) has contributed to the World Research Programme’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) using two fully coupled model versions (ACCESS-CM2 ACCESS-ESM1.5) ocean–sea-ice (1° 0.25° resolution of ACCESS-OM2). models differ primarily in configuration version their atmosphere components (including aerosol scheme), with smaller differences sea-ice land versions. Additionally, ACCESS-ESM1.5 includes biogeochemistry...
Geographical variation in the prevalence of common mental disorders has not been explained adequately.To investigate whether regional health differences Wales would persist after having taken into account characteristics individuals and social deprivation.Data from 1998 Welsh Health Survey were used. Common assessed with index included Short-Form 36 survey (SF-36). The data analysed using a multi-level linear regression model.Of total variance index, 1.47% occurred at level (95% CI...
Since the advent of political devolution in UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most these analyses are based on a comparison care and, as such, only tell part complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to shared public policy aim, reduction inequalities, through an examination national statements produced England, Scotland Wales respectively since 1997. The analysis suggests relatively consistent manner...
This paper examines ways in which daily life is sustained the face of chronic illness. Using data from interviews with people rheumatoid arthritis, we try to capture complexity interdependence between individuals illness and society. The main areas focused on cover disordered body, disruption relationships, management a deviant identity. What emerges relativities everyday negotiations involved as assimilate or come terms circumstances disablement. A great deal research by rehabilitation...
Abstract The renewed interest in ‘public sociology’ has sparked debate and discussion about forms of sociological work their relationship to the State civil society. Medical sociologists are accustomed engaging with a range publics audiences inside outside universities position make an informed contribution this debate. This paper describes how some debates played out through ‘health impact assessment’ proposed housing renewal former coal mining community. We explore dynamics health...
This paper presents a discussion of current approaches to assessment disablement in the light findings from study people with rheumatoid arthritis. It begins critical evaluation assumptions-underlying activities daily living and notes recent attempts broaden these incorporate some understanding social roles. Material an in-depth arthritis is then used illustrate dynamics role relationships their reciprocal relationship disablement. Particular attention given gender differences...
Abstract This paper puts forward the proposition that modern self‐help organizations are progeny of an uneasy relationship between two ideologies: individualism and collectivism. Within this is dominant partner. Using a case‐study I examine way in which these ideological influences can be seen to take concrete form history activities National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. argue certain characteristics ankylosing spondylitis itself make it particularly amenable self‐help, but under pressure...
Since devolution in 1998, many aspects of public policy Great Britain have diverged between England, Scotland and Wales, including how targets performance assessment are used the National Health Service local government. inequality is an example where all three countries recognized a need to act but approaches differ. Based on interviews with senior managers, complexity health as object intervention explored compared. Despite contrasting targets, discourses had significant similarities....