Rebecca Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1593-7675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Safety prioritization beyond efficiency
Prescription high-risk polysubstance use among opioid maintenance treatment patients
OMT patients frequently filled prescriptions for high-risk drugs, and in higher dosages than the general population. However, we found little evidence of 'doctor shopping.' Given that these prescription drugs carry overdose risk, particularly when combined with OMT drugs, our findings emphasize the continued need for education and caution to both prescribers and patients on their concomitant use with OMT
Pills and the damage done
The prescription opioid epidemic has slowly evolved over the past quarter century with increasingly detrimental consequences for public health. Man-made crises are often unforeseen and characterized by a situation without natural causes where – because of human intent, error, negligence, or the failure of manmade systems – the level of needs in the population exceeds available resources to counter the problem. This paper presents the prescription…
Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy
Introduction to IBPPC 2022Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) is an established sub-discipline of public policy.BPP uses insights from behavioural science, broadly defined, to shape and inform public policy.Intersectionality in social sciences research is central to the research agenda of BPP.To this extent, BPP invites diversity in its approach to understand human behaviours and make policy recommendations, from scholars across established disciplin…
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving
This article uses the well-being valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the well-being impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the UK, the British Household Panel Survey, we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of informal care: (i) the anticipatory nature of informal care; and (ii) the sensitivity of income estimates used in valu…
Substance use disorders and Covid-19
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high toll on vulnerable populations, coinciding with increased prevalence of alcohol-and drug-related deaths and pre-existing societal issues such as rising income inequality and homelessness. This poly-crisis has posed unique challenges to service delivery for people with substance use disorders, and innovative approaches have emerged. In this Perspectives paper we reflect on t…
Hospital-treated intentional self-poisoning events and in-hospital mortality in Tehran before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Comparison‐specific preferences
In cross‐modal decisions, the options differ on many attributes, and in uni‐modal decisions, they differ on few. We supply new theory and data to understand how discounting for both delay and risk differs between cross‐modal and uni‐modal decisions. We propose the attentional dilution effect in decision making in which (a) allocation of limited attention to an attribute determines that attribute's decision weight and (b) the attention an attribut…
The impacts of a culturally relevant book flood on early literacy in Papua New Guinea
Improving compliance with Covid-19 guidance
Compliance with hygiene and other safety measures in the workplace was an important component of society's strategy for reducing infections at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular before vaccinations were widely available. We report the results of a field trial of well-established behavioural interventions (social norms, pledging and messenger effects) we implemented to improve compliance with such measures in an occupational setting…
Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the Covid-19 outbreak
Policy makers aim to respect public preferences when making trade-offs between policies, yet most estimates of the value of safety neglect individuals' preferences over how safety is distributed. Incorporating these preferences into policy first requires measuring them. Arroyos-Calvera et al. (2019) documented that people cared most about efficiency, but that equity followed closely, and self-interest mattered too, but not enough to override pref…
Evaluating new simplified assays for harm reduction from methanol poisoning using chromotropic acid kits
Background Ingestion of methanol can result in severe irreversible morbidity, and death. Simple and easy methods to detect methanol and other hazardous additives prior to consumption can prevent fatalities. This form of harm reduction is analogous to the widely practiced “pill testing” of recreational drugs in various countries. We aimed to evaluate the performance of two qualitative and quantitative kits to simultaneously identify the presence o…
A rapid assessment of take-home naloxone provision during Covid-19 in Europe
Through programme innovation supported by public guidelines, many European THN programmes managed to ensure stable or even increased THN provision during the pandemic, despite social distancing and stay-at-home orders affecting client mobility
Evaluating a peer-led wellbeing programme for doctors-in-training during the Covid-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia, using the Most Significant Change technique
This article discusses the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique in a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot wellbeing programme for obstetrics and gynaecology doctors-in-training introduced at a large public hospital during Melbourne, Australia's second coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, which occurred from 7 July to 26 October 2020. The evaluation was conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology, to conform with pandemic restri…
Rethinking ‘carriage’ of take-home naloxone
Understanding the composite dimensions of the EQ-5D
The efficiency-equity trade-off, self-interest, and moral principles in health and safety valuation
A mapping review of take-home naloxone for people released from correctional settings
Are take‐home naloxone programmes effective? Systematic review utilizing application of the Bradford Hill criteria
The efficiency-equity trade-off, self-interest, and moral principles in health and safety valuation
Comparison‐specific preferences
In cross‐modal decisions, the options differ on many attributes, and in uni‐modal decisions, they differ on few. We supply new theory and data to understand how discounting for both delay and risk differs between cross‐modal and uni‐modal decisions. We propose the attentional dilution effect in decision making in which (a) allocation of limited attention to an attribute determines that attribute's decision weight and (b) the attention an attribut…
Improving compliance with Covid-19 guidance
Compliance with hygiene and other safety measures in the workplace was an important component of society's strategy for reducing infections at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular before vaccinations were widely available. We report the results of a field trial of well-established behavioural interventions (social norms, pledging and messenger effects) we implemented to improve compliance with such measures in an occupational setting…
Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the Covid-19 outbreak
Policy makers aim to respect public preferences when making trade-offs between policies, yet most estimates of the value of safety neglect individuals' preferences over how safety is distributed. Incorporating these preferences into policy first requires measuring them. Arroyos-Calvera et al. (2019) documented that people cared most about efficiency, but that equity followed closely, and self-interest mattered too, but not enough to override pref…
Evaluating a peer-led wellbeing programme for doctors-in-training during the Covid-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia, using the Most Significant Change technique
This article discusses the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique in a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot wellbeing programme for obstetrics and gynaecology doctors-in-training introduced at a large public hospital during Melbourne, Australia's second coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, which occurred from 7 July to 26 October 2020. The evaluation was conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology, to conform with pandemic restri…
Are take‐home naloxone programmes effective? Systematic review utilizing application of the Bradford Hill criteria
A mapping review of take-home naloxone for people released from correctional settings
The efficiency-equity trade-off, self-interest, and moral principles in health and safety valuation
Understanding the composite dimensions of the EQ-5D
Rethinking ‘carriage’ of take-home naloxone
Evaluating new simplified assays for harm reduction from methanol poisoning using chromotropic acid kits
Background Ingestion of methanol can result in severe irreversible morbidity, and death. Simple and easy methods to detect methanol and other hazardous additives prior to consumption can prevent fatalities. This form of harm reduction is analogous to the widely practiced “pill testing” of recreational drugs in various countries. We aimed to evaluate the performance of two qualitative and quantitative kits to simultaneously identify the presence o…
A rapid assessment of take-home naloxone provision during Covid-19 in Europe
Through programme innovation supported by public guidelines, many European THN programmes managed to ensure stable or even increased THN provision during the pandemic, despite social distancing and stay-at-home orders affecting client mobility
Evaluating a peer-led wellbeing programme for doctors-in-training during the Covid-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia, using the Most Significant Change technique
This article discusses the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique in a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot wellbeing programme for obstetrics and gynaecology doctors-in-training introduced at a large public hospital during Melbourne, Australia's second coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, which occurred from 7 July to 26 October 2020. The evaluation was conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology, to conform with pandemic restri…
Substance use disorders and Covid-19
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high toll on vulnerable populations, coinciding with increased prevalence of alcohol-and drug-related deaths and pre-existing societal issues such as rising income inequality and homelessness. This poly-crisis has posed unique challenges to service delivery for people with substance use disorders, and innovative approaches have emerged. In this Perspectives paper we reflect on t…
Hospital-treated intentional self-poisoning events and in-hospital mortality in Tehran before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Comparison‐specific preferences
In cross‐modal decisions, the options differ on many attributes, and in uni‐modal decisions, they differ on few. We supply new theory and data to understand how discounting for both delay and risk differs between cross‐modal and uni‐modal decisions. We propose the attentional dilution effect in decision making in which (a) allocation of limited attention to an attribute determines that attribute's decision weight and (b) the attention an attribut…
The impacts of a culturally relevant book flood on early literacy in Papua New Guinea
Improving compliance with Covid-19 guidance
Compliance with hygiene and other safety measures in the workplace was an important component of society's strategy for reducing infections at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular before vaccinations were widely available. We report the results of a field trial of well-established behavioural interventions (social norms, pledging and messenger effects) we implemented to improve compliance with such measures in an occupational setting…
Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the Covid-19 outbreak
Policy makers aim to respect public preferences when making trade-offs between policies, yet most estimates of the value of safety neglect individuals' preferences over how safety is distributed. Incorporating these preferences into policy first requires measuring them. Arroyos-Calvera et al. (2019) documented that people cared most about efficiency, but that equity followed closely, and self-interest mattered too, but not enough to override pref…
Pills and the damage done
The prescription opioid epidemic has slowly evolved over the past quarter century with increasingly detrimental consequences for public health. Man-made crises are often unforeseen and characterized by a situation without natural causes where – because of human intent, error, negligence, or the failure of manmade systems – the level of needs in the population exceeds available resources to counter the problem. This paper presents the prescription…
Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy
Introduction to IBPPC 2022Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) is an established sub-discipline of public policy.BPP uses insights from behavioural science, broadly defined, to shape and inform public policy.Intersectionality in social sciences research is central to the research agenda of BPP.To this extent, BPP invites diversity in its approach to understand human behaviours and make policy recommendations, from scholars across established disciplin…
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving
This article uses the well-being valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the well-being impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the UK, the British Household Panel Survey, we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of informal care: (i) the anticipatory nature of informal care; and (ii) the sensitivity of income estimates used in valu…
Prescription high-risk polysubstance use among opioid maintenance treatment patients
OMT patients frequently filled prescriptions for high-risk drugs, and in higher dosages than the general population. However, we found little evidence of 'doctor shopping.' Given that these prescription drugs carry overdose risk, particularly when combined with OMT drugs, our findings emphasize the continued need for education and caution to both prescribers and patients on their concomitant use with OMT
Safety prioritization beyond efficiency
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (6 works) · Pandemic (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)