Shelley Brown

Biographic Data

ID7009565
NAMEShelley Brown
GIVEN NAMESShelley
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN S
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Understanding perinatal mental illness as a governance concern in South Africa through health provider perspectives

    Open AccessShelley Brown, Courtenay Sprague et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Women in South Africa experience a disproportionately high prevalence of common perinatal mental disorders (CPMDs). These disorders often remain a silent burden and a complex health, social, and policy concern, both nationally and globally. Moreover, policy efforts to address this concern have been fragmented. Greater understanding of the governance of perinatal mental illness is needed to address this complex issue. No research to date has focus…

  • Health care providers’ perceptions of barriers to perinatal mental healthcare in South Africa

    Open AccessShelley Brown, Courtenay SpragueARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Barriers act across multiple levels to reduce quality mental health promotion and care, thereby creating an environment where inequitable access to identification of mental disorders and quality mental health services was embedded into systems and everyday practice. Integrated interventions across multiple levels are essential to improve the early identification and treatment of mental illness in perinatal women in South Africa. We provide recomm…

  • Experience of religion and spirituality among socially marginalised people living with HIV in Mississippi

    Courtenay Sprague, Shelley Brown et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    African Americans in Mississippi have the highest HIV-related mortality and poverty rates in the USA, and they tend to be religious. Attitudes toward gender and sexuality are changing, yet few studies have investigated religion and spirituality among special populations living with HIV. Using grounded theory and qualitative methods, we investigated the experience of health and illness of a low-income, socially marginalised population living with …

  • Towards ending the US HIV epidemic by 2030

    Open AccessCourtenay Sprague, Shelley Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    The disproportionate burden of HIV-related inequities borne by African Americans in the US South amplifies the role of social determinants of health (SDH) in shaping social patterning of illness. Despite some attention, SDH remain overlooked in a biomedically oriented, federal HIV policy. Mississippi is the poorest state with the worst HIV outcomes, nationally. Using qualitative methods, we investigated how primarily African American, HIV-positiv…

  • The Relationship Between Trauma, Recidivism Risk, and Reoffending in Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

    Open AccessNina Vitopoulos, Nina A Vitopoulos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2018

  • When nurses are also patients

    Open AccessCourtenay Sprague, N Woollett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2015

    While violence against women is a recognised global health problem, women's agency in marginalised settings is poorly understood, particularly in relation to health systems. We explored agency as a practical and theoretical construct through qualitative research among 20 nurses with direct or indirect experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Johannesburg. Interviews conducted from August 2013 to March 2014 generated rich descriptions fro…