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The third shift: Health, work and expertise among women with endometriosisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(2): 194-206 Abstract This paper explores the experiences of twenty Australian women living with the chronic and incurable gynaecological condition endometriosis. It examines how women become experts in their own care and the ramifications of these processes for women. Women experience patient expertise as a form of work, described here as a `third shift' performed in addition to women's paid and unpaid work. It argues that both benefits and problems flow from such work, which involves the acquisition of expertise about a chronic illness and associated processes of self-management. The central arg...
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 29, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kate Seear Source Type: journals

From the `expert patient' to `expert family': A feasibility study on family learning for people with long-term conditions in ItalyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explored whether families are actually ready to take on the self-management of long-term conditions and which surrounding conditions are necessary to manage them. (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 29, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Maria Giovanna VicarelliMicol Bronzini Source Type: journals

e-Health: Are there expert patients out there?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of the present study is to address this question. In Scenario A, participants performed measurements themselves using a portable biosignal device (PBD) in `bedside settings'. The data collected were validated against the measurements that were performed simultaneously via the routine hospital process. In Scenario B, five participants located at their homes performed measurements by themselves and without surveillance in `real world e-health settings'. Under surveillance (Scenario A), patients succeeded in obtaining many measurements accurately. In `real-world e-health settings' (Scenario B) several measuremen...
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 29, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lefteris G. Gortzis Source Type: journals

Self-support for drug users in the context of harm reduction policy: A lay expertise defined by drug users' life skills and citizenshipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(2): 159-172 Abstract This paper focuses on the way drug users (DUs) play an active role in implementing public health policies by their involvement in self-support groups, thus providing new forms of patients' expertise. Expertise of this nature may seem paradoxical, in that it confers qualities to populations whose practices are unlawful and whose identity is stigmatised. A qualitative method including semi directive interviews (57) and ethnographic observations was used for this research. A thematic content analysis was done from empirical data following an inductive logic. This paper aims to s...
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 29, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marie Jauffret-Roustide Source Type: journals

The needs of others: The norms of self-management skills training and the differing priorities of asylum seekers with HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(2): 145-158 Abstract This paper challenges the notion of a shared social identity resulting from a self care skills training programme through exploring the engagement, experience and outcomes of participants from different social groups: sub-Saharan asylum seekers and gay men. In the former group norms and values about priorities and management of HIV differed significantly from the programme's underlying philosophy of individualism. Some needs were similar, but learning self-management skills was not the priority it was for gay men as pressing needs arising from their asylum status (to address ...
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 29, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anne P. KennedyAnne E. Rogers Source Type: journals

Introduction - A sociological focus on `expert patients'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(2): 139-144 Abstract The increase of chronic illness as a leading cause of death has given rise to self-care and expert patient initiatives. Caring for chronically ill people places a tremendous economic burden on the health care system, informal carers, the labour market and benefit system (Department of Health 2001, 2004, 2005). Thus, in many countries health policy encourages patients to become `experts' in the self-management of their conditions in the belief that it will help save money and improve health and well-being (Wanless 2002). For example, the notion of `expert patients' has emerged...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sally LindsayHubertus J.M. Vrijhoef Source Type: journals

Moorn (Black)? Djardak (White)? How come I don't fit in Mum?: Exploring the racial identity of Australian Aboriginal children and youthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explored the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth who attended urban, state and private primary and secondary schools in the Noongar[i] region of urban Perth in Western Australia. Thirty five Australian Indigenous children aged 8-12 were interviewed and 120 youth aged 13-17 participated in focus groups. Transcripts were analysed and common themes were identified by extracting relevant responses and their meanings. The components of racial identity for children aged 7-12 and youth were very similar such that culture, family, language and appearance featured. The most reported element of racial identit...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cheryl Kickett-Tucker Source Type: journals

Family Law as a determinant of child health and welfare: Shared parenting, breastfeeding and the best interests of the childEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article begins a discussion about the decisions regarding 'shared parenting' of breastfed children that do not always appear to be in the best interests of children's health and well-being. Two cases from an on-going study to investigate breastfeeding women's experiences of the implementation of the Act will be used to illustrate that the court made decisions for breastfeeding mothers are not consistent and compromise the ability of women to continue breast feeding. The paper argues that the Shared Parental Responsibility Act 2006, and the decisions made, can work at a macro-level to produce social and health disparit...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Linda SweetCharmaine Power Source Type: journals

Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trendsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 94-107 Abstract There is growing recognition that investment by governments on children in their early years is an important part of social policy. However there is currently little information either about how much governments invest on children of different ages, or about what the optimum investment in the early years would look like. Using currently available Australian datasets, this article explores two approaches to estimate the adequacy of investment in early childhood; comparing government expenditure between countries, and analysing one country (in this case Australia) in terms of ex...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ilan KatzGerry Redmond Source Type: journals

Kids' lives in adult space and time: How home, community, school and adult work affect opportunity for teenagers in suburban AustraliaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: How teenagers are accommodated by home, local community, school and parental work affects not only their well-being but the well-being of their family and the wider community. (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Philippa WilliamsBarbara PocockKennedy Bridge Source Type: journals

School-based cognitive-behavioural interventions: A systematic review of effects and inequalitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 61-78 Abstract Little is known about the impact of preventive interventions on inequalities in young people's mental health. We conducted a systematic review of mental health promotion interventions based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) delivered in schools to young people aged 11-19. Meta-analysis of 17 high quality randomised controlled trials (RCTs) showed a reduction in symptoms of depression, which was generally short term. Interventions for people with clinical risk factors or existing symptoms were more effective, with benefits lasting up to six months. We also found that CBT ma...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Josephine KavanaghSandy OliverTheo LorencJennifer CairdHelen TuckerAngela HardenAdele GreavesJames ThomasAnn Oakley Source Type: journals

The relationship between policy and place: The role of school meals in addressing health inequalitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 50-60 Abstract Healthy eating in schools is central to UK Government attempts to redress nutritional deficiencies and combat childhood obesity. However, there is little consideration of the local, contextual spatial factors that contribute to the ways in which particular policy initiatives are experienced at the school level. This paper presents findings from an evaluation of the 'Eat Well Do Well' programme in Kingston-upon-Hull, UK: an innovative scheme providing free, healthy food to all primary school children. Data is presented from an ethnographic study of two case study schools illustr...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jo PikeDerek Colquhoun Source Type: journals

Parental work schedules and adolescent depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 36-49 Abstract Using a large contemporary United States data set, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLSY-CS), this paper examines the relationship between parental work schedules and adolescent depression at age 13 or 14, paying particular attention to the mechanisms that may explain this relationship. Analysis based on structural equation modelling showed that increased work at night by mothers was significantly associated with a lower quality of home environment and fewer meals together, and this mediator was significantly linked to increased risks for adolescent d...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wen-Jui HanDaniel P Miller Source Type: journals

Silent witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870-1940Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores the 'black box' of changes in both the macro and micro - the societal and domestic - environment that transformed the health and well-being of children in England and Australia between 1870 and 1940. It argues that in addition to the control of environmental hazards and improved medical care, changes in family life made possible by the decline in the informal economy of casual work, provided the domestic security that enabled the major improvements in child health measures before immunisation and antibiotics. The golden age of childhood came after World War II, with the relief of peace and unparalleled ...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Janet McCalman Source Type: journals

Inequalities in infant mortality: Patterns, trends, policy responses and emerging issues in Canada, Chile, Sweden and the United KingdomEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 12-24 Abstract This paper investigates variations in policy responses to perceptions of social inequities in infant mortality in Canada, Chile, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It outlines patterns and trends in inequalities in infant mortality and some other birth outcomes, distinguishing between the use of routine data in some settings and research evidence in others. It suggests that some distinctive approaches about policies to reduce inequalities can be identified in the four countries. A number of emerging issues are also identified. One concerns the focus of interventions. Another relate...
Source: Health Sociology Review - June 23, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ken Judge Source Type: journals

Editorial: Social determinants of child health and well-beingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 18(1): 3-11 Abstract This Editorial provides a critical review of the progress in social determinants of health research over the last two decades, suggesting new perspectives which may further our understanding of persistent social inequalities in health. It highlights the global significance of the Special Issue setting it in the context of the recently released WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health Final Report (CSDH 2008). The Editorial introduces individual papers in the Special Issue and discusses how they are in line with, complement or provide feedback to, the WHO CSDH Final Report...
Source: Health Sociology Review - May 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jianghong LiEugen MattesFiona StanleyAnne McMurrayClyde Hertzman Source Type: journals

Epilogue: In pursuit of health: Pragmatic acculturation in everyday lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 419-422 (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Stella R Quah Source Type: journals

Integrating biomedical and CAM approaches: The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, participants were motivated to use CAM because of the perceived limitations of biomedicine and also because of a desire to have control over how their illness was managed. However the majority of participants were not interested in the philosophical principles of CAM, rather in whether these therapies were effective and manageable. These findings suggest that although people may hold different beliefs about CAM as compared with biomedicine, an approach to healthcare that has a practical focus on both clinical outcomes and patient wellbeing may be acceptable to most people. (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rachel D Thorpe Source Type: journals

'You just got to eat healthy': The topic of CAM in the general practice consultationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 396-409 Abstract New Zealand research suggests that CAM use by GPs has decreased, while referral to CAM practitioners by GPs has increased, and that patients often do not tell their health practitioners when they are using CAM. The New Zealand Medical Council has developed guidelines for GPs who use CAM. However, there is no research in New Zealand that looks at how patients and GPs respond to CAM issues in the consultation. This paper uses data collected for two research projects on doctor-patient interaction. For this research, consultations between 105 patients and nine GPs were video-reco...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kevin DewElizabeth PlumridgeMaria StubbeTony DowellLindsay MacdonaldGeorge Major Source Type: journals

The problematic nature of conflating use and advocacy in CAM integration: Complexity and differentiation in UK cancer patients' viewsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 384-395 Abstract The integration of complementary and alternative medicine into cancer care is widely debated. Advocates of integration frequently cite the popularity of such therapies amongst patients in support of their case. However, little specific empirical attention has been given to how integration is actually regarded by these patients. Based on semi structured interviews with 80 cancer patients in the UK, this article examines the assumption of a link between use and support for integration. On the basis of this study we argue that: 1. A characterisation of unequivocal cancer patient...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Philip ToveyAlex Broom Source Type: journals

Trials and tribulations on the road to implementing integrative medicine in a hospital settingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of the study was to identify the barriers and the facilitators for creating integrative medicine in this setting. The study documented the timeline of the Centre from its very hopeful beginning to its demise. The paper focuses on the administrative implementation process, examining the original expectations in light of the organisational culture, business model, impact of policies and regulations, and the trade-offs made between the original goals and those attained within this environment. One of the most troubling aspects arising from this case study was that no corrective mechanism was in place for program...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ian CoulterLara HiltonGery RyanMarcia EllisonHilary Rhodes Source Type: journals

Governing the health of the hybrid self: Integrative medicine, neoliberalism, and the shifting biopolitics of subjectivityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 353-367 Abstract This paper employs a Foucauldian perspective on the shifting spacialisation of medical knowledge to explore the manner in which integrative medicine is discursively represented by its biomedical architects so as to ensure good cultural fit with neoliberal strategies of governance amid the development of transnational global cultural flows in which human subjectivity has itself hybridized, provoking this reconfiguration of medical knowledge. It is argued that integrative medicine represents an expansion of medical rationality into all domains of human life: biological, psychol...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Christopher J Fries Source Type: journals

Advancing integrative medicine through interprofessional educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 342-352 Abstract Interprofessional Education (IPE) has the potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments needed for Integrative Medicine (IM) to thrive. IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals. This makes the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their syner...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 31, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kevin D Willison Source Type: journals

Introductory Essay: Taking stock of integrative medicine: Broadening biomedicine or co-option of complementary and alternative medicine?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(4): 331-341 Abstract In response to the emergence of the holistic health movement in the early 1970s and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative therapies, a growing number of biomedical physicians and institutions have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often under the guise of integrative medicine. Whereas alternative medicine is often defined as functioning outside biomedicine and complementary medicine beside it; integrative medicine purports to combine the best of both biomedicine and CAM. Some social scientists have argued biomedicine has become more holis...
Source: Health Sociology Review - December 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hans BaerIan Coulter Source Type: journals

Australian Sperm Donors: Public image and private motives of gay, bi-sexual and heterosexual donorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 313-325 Abstract This paper contributes to debate in Australia about sexuality-based restrictions on access to Assisted Reproduction Services, particularly sperm donation by gay and bi-sexual men. It utilises content analysis of print-media and reveals that the public image of sperm donation is saturated with concern about risk, particularly risk to heterosexual donors and their property, from claims made by recipient women and their children. In contrast, a detailed analysis of the profiles of men who register to donate sperm through the Australian Sperm Donor Registry reveals that most dono...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Margie Ripper Source Type: journals

Genes and families in the media: Implications of genetic discourse for constructions of the 'family'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 303-312 Abstract Many critics have previously examined the ways in which the pervasive construction of the family in Western nations - that of the heterosexual nuclear family - is normalised and naturalised in a range of contexts. This paper examines discourses of genetics and the 'family' in a series of UK newspaper articles, many of which are non-normative family forms, including families who have used assisted reproductive technologies, and lesbian and gay parented families. We analyse the ways in which genetic discourse is employed in these articles in relation to complex social and psych...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shona CrabbMartha Augoustinos Source Type: journals

'Shiny Happy Same-Sex Attracted Woman Seeking Same': How communities contribute to bisexual and lesbian women's well-beingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated how communities might contribute to bisexual and lesbian women's well-being. Interviews with 47 women suggest that community engagement could provide resources and social contact, enhancing women's confidence, self-esteem and well-being. However, ensuring community support for well-being, requires actively choosing or creating an appropriate community, and rejecting those which are inappropriate. In some cases, it also demands negotiating or resisting community norms which conflict with women's well-being. This study also suggests bisexual and lesbian women often participate in different communities...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mary HeathEa Mulligan Source Type: journals

Transgender People and the Amendment of Formal Documentation: Matters of recognition and citizenshipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 280-289 Abstract In an online survey of transgender people conducted in Australia and New Zealand, half the respondents (50.6%) reported having made attempts to amend formal documentation to reflect their current gender identity, and that this was crucial to their sense of personal and identity recognition, as well as an affirmation of citizenship. Experiences and outcomes varied, even within the same organisation, leading to different degrees of difficulty and frustration. For gender to be changed on some documentation, the individual is required to show evidence of having had a related surg...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Murray CouchMarian PittsSamantha CroyHunter MulcareAnne Mitchell Source Type: journals

ART Eligibility for Lesbians and Single Heterosexual Women in Victoria: How medicalisation influenced a political, legal and policy debateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article analyses the seven year long Victorian political, policy and law reform debate over eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technology (ART), emphasising the ways in which medicalised discourse and assumptions framed the arguments advanced by various stakeholders. It argues that despite the positive political, social justice and health gains for lesbian and gay prospective parents and their children that were ultimately achieved, the case made for the decriminalisation of self-insemination and increased access to clinical ART services also involved some disappointing political and intellectual compromis...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Deborah Dempsey Source Type: journals

Lesbian and Queer Mothers Navigating the Adoption System: The impacts on mental healthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 254-266 Abstract Increasing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer (LGBTQ) people are choosing to parent through adoption. The minimal research available, focused particularly on lesbian and gay adoptive parents, suggests they face significant barriers to adoption (including being held to a higher standard than heterosexual adoptive parents), homophobia from child welfare professionals, and limited social support post-adoption. These issues have significant implications for the mental health of LGBTQ adoptive parents, but have not been researched to date. Seven...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Lori RossRachel EpsteinCorrie GoldfingerLeah SteeleScott AndersonCarol Strike Source Type: journals

Exploring Gender Identity and Community Among Three Groups of Transgender Individuals in the United States: MTFs, FTMs, and genderqueersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 235-253 Abstract A United States sample of 166 transgender adults including 50 male-to-females (MTFs), 52 female-to-males (FTMs), and 64 genderqueers (neither completely female nor completely male), were surveyed about identity development, levels of disclosure of transgender status, and relationship to community. There was no difference among transgender groups in age of first experiencing oneself differently from assigned birth sex. MTFs first identified as other than their assigned sex earlier than FTMs. However, they did not present themselves to others in a gender-congruent way until muc...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rhonda J FactorEsther Rothblum Source Type: journals

Lesbian Mothers, Gay Male Sperm Donors, and Community: Ensuring the wellbeing of children and familiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(3): 226-234 Abstract As Australian reproductive health continues to be shaped by legal and social heterosexism, lesbian women seeking to conceive are often reliant upon gay men to act as known donors. As previous legal cases demonstrate, this can result in contestations between donors and recipients that result in negative well-being outcomes for both parties, and which highlight the limitations of coalitionism within gay and lesbian communities. Using data collected via interviews with Australian gay men who have acted as known donors, this paper examines some of the ways in which such men exper...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Damien W Riggs Source Type: journals

The government of girthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 199-213 Abstract The current preoccupation with body weight in western cultures is arguably unprecedented. The obesity crisis has engaged not only health communities, but numerous other public and private organisations, and, in so doing, has created moral alarm as well as a medical crisis. This paper examines the development of obesity and will discuss the ways in which fatness has been rationalised within health discourses. It will explore the way that the corpulent body, once historically considered as a physiological state, is now regarded as a state of moral pathology representing an 'epi...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: John Coveney Source Type: journals

Consuming bodies: Mall walking and the possibilities of consumptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 187-198 Abstract In popular, academic and policy discourses it is taken for granted that consumption plays a vital role in the obesity epidemic. Mass consumption, associated changes to 'lifestyle' and the emergence of 'obesogenic' environments are viewed as underpinning the dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. As a result, excess body weight has transitioned from risk factor to 'disease' status, with overconsumption identified as the principal culprit. Using mall walking as a case study, this paper aims to critique the way in which consumption is understood within the ob...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Megan WarinVivienne MooreMichael DaviesKaren Turner Source Type: journals

Trust in the health system: An analysis and extension of the social theories of Giddens and LuhmannEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 177-186 Abstract Social theory provides a lens through which we can analyse the role of trust in health systems. However, the majority of theoretically informed trust literature addresses 'institutional' or 'interpersonal' trust individually, failing to investigate trust as determined by a 'web' of mutually interacting relationships between individuals and social systems. Current theoretical assumptions are also problematic as they fail to recognise the role that social factors (such as socio-economic status, class and age) play in an individual's willingness to trust. Through the analysis an...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Samantha MeyerPaul WardJohn CoveneyWendy Rogers Source Type: journals

The politics of research management: Reflections on the gap between what we 'know' (about SDH) and what we doEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 165-176 Abstract Health researchers in a number of settings are expressing concern about the 'gap' between what we 'know' about the social determinants of health and of health inequalities, and the lack of action based upon this 'knowledge'. Indeed, the 'know-do gap' has become almost a mantra echoed across international and some national institutional sites. This paper examines how the 'problem' of the 'gap' is understood and represented in dominant and sub-dominant conceptualisations. It highlights what is missing from these representations: adequate reflection on changing modes of governan...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carol Bacchi Source Type: journals

The challenge of pleasure: Re-imagining sexuality and sexual healthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 151-163 Abstract Men have a stake in ending gendered violence but this stake has not yet been widely embraced by men. Thus we must think carefully about our future strategic directions. Taking the case of sexual violence, I suggest that these directions involve re-thinking sexuality and sexual health by considering absences in the scholarly and policy literatures. While young people are constantly exhorted in popular media to be sexual and to undertake sex, young men have not been engaged by 'critical' analyses of sexuality. The critical literatures - which include writings in Gender/Sexualit...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Christine Beasley Source Type: journals

Biopolitical technologies of preventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 141-150 Abstract This paper examines the way some public health campaigns in Australia have been caught within a paradigm shift in the management of 'risk society'. It details this paradigm shift in terms of an intensification of political technologies of 'pre-emption' in response to incalculable threats to physical security. The challenge this presents to public health programs, particularly those dealing with 'life style' health problems such as obesity, depression, and drugs (illegal and legal), is that, in pursuing admirable aims of the prevention of ill-health in the population, such cam...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rosalyn Diprose Source Type: journals

Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of preventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 129-140 Abstract Preventing disease is by definition a valuable objective, and most debates have revolved around improving the effectiveness of prevention. In this discussion, I explore the latent functions - the unintended consequences - of what I call the 'project of prevention'. Although many latent functions are welcome, some have undesirable effects, and it is therefore important to instigate a rich exchange between innovative theory and rigorous research to minimise such effects. I argue that the hazards are particularly acute in the absence of a reflexive and critical awareness of the ...
Source: Health Sociology Review - October 7, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dorothy Broom Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(2): 124-128 (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - August 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Christine BeasleyMegan Warin Source Type: journals

The socioeconomic impact of antiretroviral treatment on individuals in Soweto, South AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 95-105 Abstract This research explores the short-term socioeconomic effect of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV positive patients attending the Perinatal HIV Research Unit clinics in Soweto, South Africa. An overall increase in mean personal and household income following commencement of ART was noted. Mean personal income rose 53% over baseline income. A decrease in the number of meals missed in households was noted in 10% of the sample. The leading themes regarding income were change in employment status and social grants. Antiretroviral treatment increased the capacity to seek employme...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Varsha ChhaganJohn LuizLerato MohapiJames McIntyreNeil Martinson Source Type: journals

Left out: Perspectives on social exclusion and inclusion across income groupsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 78-94 Abstract The goal of this paper is to explore the experiences of exclusion and inclusion of both low and higher-income people within a 'social determinants of health framework'. In the first phase of this research, individual interviews with 60 high-income and 59 low-income participants, and group interviews with 34 low-income participants were conducted. During the second phase, 1671 higher and low-income participants were surveyed by telephone. The findings revealed that inadequate financial resources, ill-health, and unwelcoming behaviours inhibited participation in community activit...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miriam StewartLinda ReutterEdward MakwarimbaGerry VeenstraRhonda LoveDennis Raphael Source Type: journals

Modernity's paradox and the structural determinants of child health and well-beingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 64-77 Abstract The decline in indicators of human development linked to rising social inequalities, despite post-modern society's unprecedented economic prosperity, has been called 'modernity's paradox' (Keating and Hertzman 1999). Scholars of developmental health suggest that micro-level influences from the social, economic and psychological circumstances in early life may explain social inequalities across the lifespan. However, children's poor developmental and health outcomes are also a product of the wider contexts of their lives. This paper extends the human developmental framework by l...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jianghong LiAnne McMurrayFiona Stanley Source Type: journals

Doctor on campus: A general practice initiative for detection and early intervention of mental health problems in a rural Australian secondary schoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 53-63 Abstract The aim of this paper is to review issues related to early intervention in mental health among adolescent students, and to specifically evaluate a school-based, early intervention program, which sought to address issues of mental health among students in a rural community in southern Australia. The early intervention program began in 2004 as school counsellors and local health professionals sought to address the difficulties rural secondary school students encountered in accessing support services. The paper seeks to explore the effectiveness of this school-based, early interve...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anke DoleyColin SiblyChris WiggPeter CrawfordLindsey CowperColleen BarkerPeter Gale Source Type: journals

Workers compensation in Western Australia: The shifting landscape of workers' rightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article documents the last decade of workers compensation reforms within Western Australia and a summary of changes which ultimately took effect in November 2005. In keeping with the post-modern emphasis on context, this paper locates the Western Australian changes within a broader discussion of the shifting landscape of rights and entitlements engendered through neo-liberal discourse. In particular, as this paper explores, the changes to Western Australian workers compensation policy can be read as a reflection on the way employers, government and the insurance industry interpret and engage with the continuing realig...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rob GuthrieAngela Barns Source Type: journals

Global challenges, global solutions? A cross-national comparison of primary health care in Britain, Norway and the Czech RepublicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 27-40 Abstract Are current health policy changes leading to a greater degree of convergence in the health systems of European nations, or to a pattern of divergence? How can the degree of convergence/divergence be explained, and what can it tell us about local versus global impulses of change? The most common answer to these questions is that because the process of globalisation is driving different countries toward similar reform programs, their health systems converge at some common point. An alternative hypothesis is that each country has unique cultural, economic, political and historical...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Olaug S. Lian Source Type: journals

The symbolic power of 'healthy lifestyles'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article draws on a hitherto neglected aspect of Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of lifestyles, by elaborating on the implications of his concept of 'field', and the relational analysis implicit in this concept, as a means of gaining an understanding of 'healthy lifestyles'. (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Peter Korp Source Type: journals

Biological psychiatry and changing ideas about 'mental health prevention' in Australian psychiatry: Risk and individualismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 17(1): 4-17 Abstract This paper explores the relationship between the prominent aetiological frameworks for mental illness in Australian psychiatry, and ideas and strategies for preventing mental illness. Data is drawn from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry for the period 1967-2005, and textbooks used to teach the psychiatric component of the medical degree at six Australian universities since 1950. Content analysis of the journal demonstrates that social aetiological models dominated Australian psychiatry until 1985 and the rise of biological models. This represented a shift in t...
Source: Health Sociology Review - July 6, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Julie Henderson Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health Sociology Review - June 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Fran Collyer Source Type: journals

Xenotransplantation: Law and EthicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health Sociology Review 16(5): 450-451 (Source: Health Sociology Review)
Source: Health Sociology Review - February 3, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Craig Fry Source Type: journals