A5022961172- Travel Writing and Literature
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- History of Science and Medicine
- Global Health and Surgery
- Photography and Visual Culture
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Travel-related health issues
- Australian History and Society
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Global Security and Public Health
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- American History and Culture
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
University of York
2012-2024
For the World Health Organization (WHO), 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration marked a move away from disease-specific and technologically-focused programmes of 1950s 1960s towards reimagined strategy to provide ‘Health for All by Year 2000’. This new approach was centred on primary health care, vision based acceptable methods appropriate technologies, devised in collaboration with communities dependent their full participation. Since 1948, WHO had used mass communications strategies publicise its...
Abstract We present novel co-created transdisciplinary research that uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) Nairobi, Kenya. Air is a well-documented major human health issue, but despite many reduction interventions designed improve health, these are frequently ineffective. Often this because they fail account for local knowledge, cultural practices priorities of the intended recipients. Designing solutions therefore requires in-depth...
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) approaches have been cited as essential for overcoming the intractable sustainability challenges that world is currently facing, including air pollution, water management and climate change. However, such can be difficult to undertake in practice consequently fail add value. Therefore, examples of what works (and does not) are helpful guide future research. In this study, we used a conceptual TDR framework basis examine evaluate strengths weaknesses our...
"Balancing the self: medicine, politics and regulation of health in twentieth century." Contemporary British History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Chronic diseases are among the leading causes of mortality in world, subject major regional and international efforts to tackle shared risk factors, implement prevention control measures set national targets as part drive towards universal health coverage. Yet there is a growing conviction that chronic suffer an image problem. It has been suggested terminology ‘dulls senses' problems, age where mass media affords unprecedented opportunities inform persuade people care about their others,...
The Great Western Railway's (GWR) interwar marketing strategy is examined in this paper. Using a collection of sources overlooked by historians, its promotional photographs, paper argues for the GWR's developed attitude to customers. taking and publication photographs was closely supervised individuals with developing approach marketing; company's photography never merely illustrative or secondary more commonly analysed pictorial posters. However, it that qualitative analysis can be...
With the advent of new media technologies and approaches in twentieth century, public health officials became convinced that needed mass support. The World Health Organization believed educating people, as well informing them about situation around world, could assist enduring fight against disease. Yet an increasingly competitive landscape, agency recognized need to persuade people hold their attention through attractive presentation. Public information, name given multiple strategies used...
Abstract Historians of medicine have been influential actors in a broader movement to highlight the social, institutional and administrative benefits historical research, its relevance for national international policy intended extend improve contemporary healthcare. Historical perspectives are fundamentally useful health because questions about what it is be healthy, suffer disease or disability, presentation acceptance solutions interwoven culturally historically complex webs meaning....
Abstract Air pollution harms the health of humans, nature and wildlife, agricultural crops livestock climate. As a result, it hinders attainment Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health Wellbeing), 7 (Affordable Clean Energy), 11 (Sustainable Cities Communities) 13 (Climate Change). In order to improve human (agro-)ecosystem health, One approaches for better air quality must account local knowledge, cultural practices priorities. People with lower socio-economic status often have limited...
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