Gemmae M Fix
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gemmae M Fix |
| NOMBRES | Gemmae M |
| APELLIDO | Fix |
| FIRMA | FIX G M |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6055-4177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Evaluating the Process of Patient Engagement
BACKGROUND: Patient engagement is associated with improved care quality, better health outcomes, increased trust and satisfaction, and reduced costs. Patient engagement is recommended in cancer care. Patient advisory groups (PAGs) are a commonly used approach for engaging patients. However, more evidence is needed to understand how effectively PAGs support meaningful engagement, what factors shape that engagement, and how their contributions alig…
Ask the Experts
OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify key areas to inform the development of Veteran-facing airborne hazard exposure communication materials. BACKGROUND: Military personnel are commonly exposed to environmental and occupational hazards. Airborne hazard exposures may be particularly salient to Veterans because they are common, and the relationship to health concerns is often uncertain. VA offers a toolkit to help providers navigate caring for Veterans …
Exploring Perspectives on HIV Vulnerability Communication among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients and Primary Care Providers
Exploring HIV provider framings of living and aging with HIV
Social needs and health outcomes in two rural Veteran populations
BACKGROUND: Addressing social needs is a priority for many health systems, including the Veterans Health Administration (VA). Nearly a quarter of Veterans reside in rural areas and experience a high social need burden. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and association with health outcomes of social needs in two distinct rural Veteran populations. METHODS: We conducted a survey (n = 1150) of Veterans at 2 rural VA sites, 1 in …
Anthropology and Health Systems Research at the US Department of Veteran Affairs
Learning From Colleagues
But who takes care of the mom
Independence with others
Despite critiques from inside the discipline of anthropology, the figure of the "lone wolf" anthropologist perdures in the ways sociocultural doctoral students are (and are not) trained. Failure to prepare graduates to engage in substantive interdisciplinary collaboration poorly prepares them for careers inside and outside academia, and limits their capacity to meaningfully apply their research to pressing problems of the day. An increasing share…
Creating Connections during Covid-19
Our research group created a public communication strategy of expressive writing, to use within our research center over the Massachusetts COVID-19 stay at home advisories. Our goals were to 1) build community, 2) recognize the unique experiences, needs, concerns and coping strategies of our colleagues, and 3) create a mechanism to creatively share those experiences. We conceptualized a weekly e-newsletter, "Creativity in the Time of COVID-19," a…
Building a Community of Anthropological Practice
The disciplinary contribution of anthropologists employed outside traditional anthropology departments has been a topic of discussion and debate in the field for nearly a century. Alongside industry, nongovernmental, and nonprofit career paths, an increasing number of anthropologists have developed productive research careers outside of academic anthropology departments. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides health…
I think providers see trans people as unstable patients”
Numerous studies have linked minority stress to substance use among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. Yet there has been limited research on how TGD patients experience alcohol, tobacco, and substance use communication with their providers. We used qualitative interviews to explore the substance use communication experiences of transgender and gender diverse adults with their primary care providers. We interviewed 25 TGD adults fr…
Leveraging the timing and frequency of patient decision aids in longitudinal shared decision‐making
How Should We Organize Care for Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Comorbidities? A Multisite Qualitative Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Care in the United States Department of Vete…
BACKGROUND: With human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) now managed as a chronic disease, health care has had to change and expand to include management of other critical comorbidities. We sought to understand how variation in the organization, structure and processes of HIV and comorbidity care, based on patient-centered medical home (PCMH) principles, was related to care quality for Veterans with HIV. RESEARCH DESIGN: Qualitative site visits were c…
Introduction to Divergent Pathways in Applied Anthropology Careers
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ann McElroy, Renee Cadzow, Linda S. Kahn, Gemmae M. Fix; Introduction to Divergent Pathways in Applied Anthropology Careers. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2020; 42 (1): 2–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.42.1.2 Download ci…
Applied Training in a Medical Anthropology Master's Program
Learning practical skills is key to becoming an applied anthropologist. For my MS degree, I chose a program at Boston University School of Medicine that incorporates skills development into the curriculum through its Service-Learning Internship Program (SLIP). The SLIP facilitates students' familiarity with their field site throughout the first year, before they start summer fieldwork. My SLIP and thesis fieldwork took place in a VA hospital's pa…
Divergent Paths to Career Fulfillment in Applied Anthropology
Despite their academic training, most anthropologists do not work in tenure-track positions in departments of anthropology. While some systematic data indicate where these anthropologists are employed, we know less about their experiences or what led them to work outside the academy. This paper discusses examples of divergent career paths among the special issue contributors and analyzes key themes in their papers. While their histories vary gene…
Beyond Medication Adherence
Results suggest that when clinicians must choose a dimension on which to intervene, focusing on beliefs would be the most fruitful approach to effecting change in BP control
Patient‐centred care is a way of doing things
BACKGROUND: Patient-centred care is now ubiquitous in health services research, and healthcare systems are moving ahead with patient-centred care implementation. Yet, little is known about how healthcare employees, charged with implementing patient-centred care, conceptualize what they are implementing. OBJECTIVE: To examine how hospital employees conceptualize patient-centred care. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted qualitative interviews about patie…
African American Veterans Storytelling
BACKGROUND: Disparities in hypertension control persist for African American Veterans. OBJECTIVE: To enhance cultural relevance of hypertension control self-management education, in a multisite, stratified randomized trial, we tested an interactive Veteran-to-Veteran storytelling digital video disk (DVD) intervention created with Veteran partners, versus an education-only DVD comparison. METHODS: At 3 VA facilities, African American Veterans with…
Coming Full Circle
Barriers to patient portal access among veterans receiving home‐based primary care
BACKGROUND: Electronic, or web-based, patient portals can improve patient satisfaction, engagement and health outcomes and are becoming more prevalent with the advent of meaningful use incentives. However, adoption rates are low, particularly among vulnerable patient populations, such as those patients who are home-bound with multiple comorbidities. Little is known about how these patients view patient portals or their barriers to using them. OBJ…
Anthropologist and Government Employee
The U.S. government is the largest employer of anthropologists, with an increasing presence in the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). However, there has been limited discussion of the path from graduate school to an applied career. This article describes the motivations and trajectories of anthropologists employed by VA. Interviewees described their VA work as embodying the principles of anthropology and the ability to see the results of their w…
Habits and routines in the daily management of hypertension
Two purposive case studies illustrate the role of habits and routines in illness management and how they are addressed in the clinical encounter. We argue habits and routines are related, but distinct constructs, and that by overlooking habits and routines, providers may be missing key opportunities to influence behaviour change. Utilization of 'habit-changing' professionals or health coaches who have the opportunity to communicate with patients …
Habits and routines in the daily management of hypertension
Two purposive case studies illustrate the role of habits and routines in illness management and how they are addressed in the clinical encounter. We argue habits and routines are related, but distinct constructs, and that by overlooking habits and routines, providers may be missing key opportunities to influence behaviour change. Utilization of 'habit-changing' professionals or health coaches who have the opportunity to communicate with patients …
Divergent Paths to Career Fulfillment in Applied Anthropology
Despite their academic training, most anthropologists do not work in tenure-track positions in departments of anthropology. While some systematic data indicate where these anthropologists are employed, we know less about their experiences or what led them to work outside the academy. This paper discusses examples of divergent career paths among the special issue contributors and analyzes key themes in their papers. While their histories vary gene…
Anthropologist and Government Employee
The U.S. government is the largest employer of anthropologists, with an increasing presence in the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). However, there has been limited discussion of the path from graduate school to an applied career. This article describes the motivations and trajectories of anthropologists employed by VA. Interviewees described their VA work as embodying the principles of anthropology and the ability to see the results of their w…
Habits and routines in the daily management of hypertension
Two purposive case studies illustrate the role of habits and routines in illness management and how they are addressed in the clinical encounter. We argue habits and routines are related, but distinct constructs, and that by overlooking habits and routines, providers may be missing key opportunities to influence behaviour change. Utilization of 'habit-changing' professionals or health coaches who have the opportunity to communicate with patients …
Anthropologist and Government Employee
The U.S. government is the largest employer of anthropologists, with an increasing presence in the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). However, there has been limited discussion of the path from graduate school to an applied career. This article describes the motivations and trajectories of anthropologists employed by VA. Interviewees described their VA work as embodying the principles of anthropology and the ability to see the results of their w…
Barriers to patient portal access among veterans receiving home‐based primary care
BACKGROUND: Electronic, or web-based, patient portals can improve patient satisfaction, engagement and health outcomes and are becoming more prevalent with the advent of meaningful use incentives. However, adoption rates are low, particularly among vulnerable patient populations, such as those patients who are home-bound with multiple comorbidities. Little is known about how these patients view patient portals or their barriers to using them. OBJ…
African American Veterans Storytelling
BACKGROUND: Disparities in hypertension control persist for African American Veterans. OBJECTIVE: To enhance cultural relevance of hypertension control self-management education, in a multisite, stratified randomized trial, we tested an interactive Veteran-to-Veteran storytelling digital video disk (DVD) intervention created with Veteran partners, versus an education-only DVD comparison. METHODS: At 3 VA facilities, African American Veterans with…
Coming Full Circle
Patient‐centred care is a way of doing things
BACKGROUND: Patient-centred care is now ubiquitous in health services research, and healthcare systems are moving ahead with patient-centred care implementation. Yet, little is known about how healthcare employees, charged with implementing patient-centred care, conceptualize what they are implementing. OBJECTIVE: To examine how hospital employees conceptualize patient-centred care. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted qualitative interviews about patie…
Beyond Medication Adherence
Results suggest that when clinicians must choose a dimension on which to intervene, focusing on beliefs would be the most fruitful approach to effecting change in BP control
Introduction to Divergent Pathways in Applied Anthropology Careers
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ann McElroy, Renee Cadzow, Linda S. Kahn, Gemmae M. Fix; Introduction to Divergent Pathways in Applied Anthropology Careers. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2020; 42 (1): 2–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.42.1.2 Download ci…
Applied Training in a Medical Anthropology Master's Program
Learning practical skills is key to becoming an applied anthropologist. For my MS degree, I chose a program at Boston University School of Medicine that incorporates skills development into the curriculum through its Service-Learning Internship Program (SLIP). The SLIP facilitates students' familiarity with their field site throughout the first year, before they start summer fieldwork. My SLIP and thesis fieldwork took place in a VA hospital's pa…
Divergent Paths to Career Fulfillment in Applied Anthropology
Despite their academic training, most anthropologists do not work in tenure-track positions in departments of anthropology. While some systematic data indicate where these anthropologists are employed, we know less about their experiences or what led them to work outside the academy. This paper discusses examples of divergent career paths among the special issue contributors and analyzes key themes in their papers. While their histories vary gene…
How Should We Organize Care for Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Comorbidities? A Multisite Qualitative Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Care in the United States Department of Vete…
BACKGROUND: With human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) now managed as a chronic disease, health care has had to change and expand to include management of other critical comorbidities. We sought to understand how variation in the organization, structure and processes of HIV and comorbidity care, based on patient-centered medical home (PCMH) principles, was related to care quality for Veterans with HIV. RESEARCH DESIGN: Qualitative site visits were c…
Leveraging the timing and frequency of patient decision aids in longitudinal shared decision‐making
Creating Connections during Covid-19
Our research group created a public communication strategy of expressive writing, to use within our research center over the Massachusetts COVID-19 stay at home advisories. Our goals were to 1) build community, 2) recognize the unique experiences, needs, concerns and coping strategies of our colleagues, and 3) create a mechanism to creatively share those experiences. We conceptualized a weekly e-newsletter, "Creativity in the Time of COVID-19," a…
Building a Community of Anthropological Practice
The disciplinary contribution of anthropologists employed outside traditional anthropology departments has been a topic of discussion and debate in the field for nearly a century. Alongside industry, nongovernmental, and nonprofit career paths, an increasing number of anthropologists have developed productive research careers outside of academic anthropology departments. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides health…
I think providers see trans people as unstable patients”
Numerous studies have linked minority stress to substance use among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. Yet there has been limited research on how TGD patients experience alcohol, tobacco, and substance use communication with their providers. We used qualitative interviews to explore the substance use communication experiences of transgender and gender diverse adults with their primary care providers. We interviewed 25 TGD adults fr…
Independence with others
Despite critiques from inside the discipline of anthropology, the figure of the "lone wolf" anthropologist perdures in the ways sociocultural doctoral students are (and are not) trained. Failure to prepare graduates to engage in substantive interdisciplinary collaboration poorly prepares them for careers inside and outside academia, and limits their capacity to meaningfully apply their research to pressing problems of the day. An increasing share…
Exploring Perspectives on HIV Vulnerability Communication among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients and Primary Care Providers
Exploring HIV provider framings of living and aging with HIV
Social needs and health outcomes in two rural Veteran populations
BACKGROUND: Addressing social needs is a priority for many health systems, including the Veterans Health Administration (VA). Nearly a quarter of Veterans reside in rural areas and experience a high social need burden. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and association with health outcomes of social needs in two distinct rural Veteran populations. METHODS: We conducted a survey (n = 1150) of Veterans at 2 rural VA sites, 1 in …
Anthropology and Health Systems Research at the US Department of Veteran Affairs
Learning From Colleagues
But who takes care of the mom
Evaluating the Process of Patient Engagement
BACKGROUND: Patient engagement is associated with improved care quality, better health outcomes, increased trust and satisfaction, and reduced costs. Patient engagement is recommended in cancer care. Patient advisory groups (PAGs) are a commonly used approach for engaging patients. However, more evidence is needed to understand how effectively PAGs support meaningful engagement, what factors shape that engagement, and how their contributions alig…
Ask the Experts
OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify key areas to inform the development of Veteran-facing airborne hazard exposure communication materials. BACKGROUND: Military personnel are commonly exposed to environmental and occupational hazards. Airborne hazard exposures may be particularly salient to Veterans because they are common, and the relationship to health concerns is often uncertain. VA offers a toolkit to help providers navigate caring for Veterans …
Medicine (15 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (6 obras) · Gerontology (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Health care (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Family medicine (4 obras) · Primary care (4 obras)