Pascale Allotey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109386 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pascale Allotey |
| NOMBRES | Pascale |
| APELLIDO | Allotey |
| FIRMA | ALLOTEY P |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6942-5774 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The politics of health justice
Feminist transformative leadership for health equity in the Asia Pacific region
Global health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender
Equity in decline
box Equity in a world of declining resources poses unique challenges and requires rethinking traditional models of fairness and resource distribution
Fulfilment of fertility desires for the attainment of Global Sustainable Development Goals
Global Health Equity Requires Global Equity
Many global health challenges are characterized by the inequitable patterning of their health and economic consequences, which are etched along the lines of pre-existing inequalities in resources, power, and opportunity. These links require us to reconsider how we define global health equity, and what we consider as most consequential in its pursuit. In this article, we discuss the extent to which improving underlying global equity is an essentia…
The economic burden of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Reimagining human rights in global health
Background Data suggest that immunomodulation induced by DNA hypomethylating agents can sensitize tumors to immune checkpoint inhibitors. We conducted a phase 1 dose-escalation trial (NCT02998567) of guadecitabine and pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. We hypothesized that guadecitabine will overcome pembrolizumab resistance. Methods Patients received guadecitabine (45 mg/m 2 or 30 mg/m 2 , administered subcutaneously on days 1…
Religiousness and Quality of Life Among Older Adults of Different Ethnic Groups in Malaysia
"Implementing "from here to there
There is a significant challenge in global health and development research that pivots on the difficulties of delivering (cost-)effective treatments or interventions that are scalable andtransferable across settings. That is, how does one deliver "true effects", proven treatments, into new settings? This is often addressed in pragmatic trials or implementation research in which one makes adjustments to the delivery of the treatment to ensure that…
Navigating paradox in self-care
box Self-care is an approach to advancing health wherein people themselves take health actions towards the better health of themselves, their families or their community.1 These actions include new behaviours and those previously under the control of a healthcare provider that can now be offered or used with greater individual autonomy. Examples of self-care interventions include self-testing for sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, blood …
Designing the next generation of implementation research training for learners in low- and middle-income countries
Efficacious health interventions tested through controlled trials often fail to show desired impacts when implemented at scale. These challenges can be particularly pervasive in low- and middle-income settings where health systems often lack the capacity and mechanisms required for high-quality research and evidence translation. Implementation research is a powerful tool for identifying and addressing the bottlenecks impeding the success of prove…
Breast Cancer Screening in Semi-Rural Malaysia
Breast cancer (BC) is the commonest cancer in Malaysia. Delayed diagnosis is a significant cause of BC mortality in the country. Early diagnosis and screening are vital strategies in mortality reduction. This study assessed the level of utilisation and barriers for breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination (CBE) and mammogram in a semi-rural population in Malaysia and compared these across the different ethnic groups. This cross-…
Ethics of care and selective organisational caregiving by private employers for employees with chronic illness in a middle-income country
Embedded research to advance primary health care
Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…
Global health and human rights for a postpandemic world
> Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. > > – Arundhati Roy1 Inspired by these words, we try to imagine ‘another world’; one which puts everyone’s health and human rights at the centre. For us to do that, we need to start with introspection about the world we wish to leave behind and ask ourselves some toug…
Understanding Cognitive Impairment after Stroke
Chronic illness and sustainable careers
The Health of Refugees
There have been significant changes in the numbers, patterns, and circumstances of refugees and in the political landscape to support humanitarianism since the publication of the first edition of this collection. Like the first edition, this volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on refugee health, tracing the health repercussions on individuals and populations from the drivers of forced mass movements of populations from situations of c…
Health of Refugees
Health Determinants
Determinants of health are factors external to the individual that influence the health status and health outcomes of individuals and groups in society. These factors interact in complex ways and the effects are situationally and temporally dependent. Ultimately, however, they determine the distribution of health across populations. As a discipline with the tools to explore and theorize the nature of cultural, social, and political processes, ant…
Why we run when the doctor comes
Globally, indigenous peoples live with stark disparities in health when compared with national populations. The disparities arise from a combination of factors that relate to the social and economic determinants of health, combined with disenfranchisement, and a rapid destruction of indigenous health systems, forests, natural resources and indigenous knowledge. In Malaysia, the indigenous peoples, known as the Orang Asli or ‘Original People’, are…
Social support and care arrangements of older people living alone in rural Malaysia
Malaysia has an ageing population and an increasing number of older people who live alone. This study explores the social support and care arrangements of older people living alone in rural Malaysia. The study took a qualitative approach: semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of Malay (N = 20) and Chinese (N = 20) Malaysians aged over 65. Five cross-cutting themes were identified through a thematic analysis: degrees of…
Nine months a slave
Recent globally compiled evidence suggests that one-quarter of pregnancies end in abortions. However, abortions remain illegal in many countries, resulting in unsafe practices. Debates have largely stalled with the pro-life, pro-choice epithets. To provide further arguments in support of legalising abortion services, we argue that the state cannot demand of a woman that she maintains an unwanted pregnancy because that demand places her in a state…
Having Impact
Storytelling, marginality, and community in Australia
Stories of conflict with hospital services, medical mismanagement, and negative outcomes of procedures and treatment circulate within immigrant communities. While the interpretations of medical events are often based on misperceptions and misunderstandings, the stories have instructional value in that they explain an unfamiliar system to new immigrants and provide starting points for advocacy for improved services. Our analysis of gossip and stor…
Establishing the causes of childhood mortality in Ghana
He hath the French pox
Goods and resources are finite, and social forces heavily pattern their distribution. One of the principal mechanisms for shaping the distribution of resources is by regulating entitlement to community membership itself. By restricting groups' membership of community, so access to social goods and resources diminishes, which in turn has a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of the excluded groups. It is argued here that community membersh…
The Daly, context and the determinants of the severity of disease
Objectivity in Priority Setting Tools in Reproductive Health
The Disability Adjusted Life-Year (DALY) heralded a new age in the development of an evidence base for priority setting and resource allocation. The DALY was intended to represent sound measurement of the incidence and prevalence of conditions in a process by which burden of disease would be determined, health conditions prioritised and interventions evaluated. However, in the reification of objectivity, sight was lost of critical aspects of heal…
I feel like half my body is clogged up
Epilepsy, Culture, Identity and Well-being
Epilepsy presents an identity of exclusion, which at multiple levels hinders the ability to engage with one's community. This article describes an exploratory, mixed methods study ( N = 42) of the relationship between the social, cultural and environmental context and the experience of living with epilepsy in Cameroon. Participants were identified as `epileptics', consequently restrictions placed on them reduced their ability to perform tradition…
The Transtheoretical Model and Cervical Screening
Classification based on the model was supported both by the decisional balance scale and measures of knowledge. Women in earlier stages of the model were more likely to express preferences for the provision of services in their own language and by a female. Cervical cancer screening among women in Action and Maintenance appeared to be better supported by GPs. Cervical cancer screening promotion for women of diverse cultures and ethnicities has te…
"Implementing "from here to there
There is a significant challenge in global health and development research that pivots on the difficulties of delivering (cost-)effective treatments or interventions that are scalable andtransferable across settings. That is, how does one deliver "true effects", proven treatments, into new settings? This is often addressed in pragmatic trials or implementation research in which one makes adjustments to the delivery of the treatment to ensure that…
Social support and care arrangements of older people living alone in rural Malaysia
Malaysia has an ageing population and an increasing number of older people who live alone. This study explores the social support and care arrangements of older people living alone in rural Malaysia. The study took a qualitative approach: semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of Malay (N = 20) and Chinese (N = 20) Malaysians aged over 65. Five cross-cutting themes were identified through a thematic analysis: degrees of…
The traditional healer in obstetric care
It burdens me
The complex primary and secondary consequences of stroke have often been equated with the concept of biographical disruption, although a number of mediating factors have been identified. However, the research to date is almost exclusively based in western contexts, despite the fact that stroke is increasing most rapidly in low-income and middle-income countries. This research explores the experience of stroke in the rural community of central Ace…
Cultural politics and clinical competence in Australian health services
Medical competence is demonstrated in multiple ways in clinical settings, and includes technical competence, both in terms of diagnosis and management, and cultural competence, as demonstrated in communication between providers and clients. In cross-cultural contexts, such communication is complicated by interpersonal communication and the social and cultural context. To illustrate this, we present four case studies that illustrate the themes fro…
In focus
The use of visuals in anthropological research is an established though much debated practice, both as a research tool and as a means of reporting. Pile sorts, mapping, thematic drawing, photographs, visual scales and pictorial triad testing are all visual methods that have been used in participatory and conventional ethnographic research to encourage discussion among study participants and to clarify detail. Our experience in the use of visual t…
Chronic illness and sustainable careers
Having Impact
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education
This paper addresses the challenges faced in mainstreaming the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights into public health education. For this paper, we define sexual and reproductive health and rights education as including not only its biomedical aspects but also an understanding of its history, values and politics, grounded in gender politics and social justice, addressing sexuality, and placed within a broader context of health s…
The Transtheoretical Model and Cervical Screening
Classification based on the model was supported both by the decisional balance scale and measures of knowledge. Women in earlier stages of the model were more likely to express preferences for the provision of services in their own language and by a female. Cervical cancer screening among women in Action and Maintenance appeared to be better supported by GPs. Cervical cancer screening promotion for women of diverse cultures and ethnicities has te…
In focus
The use of visuals in anthropological research is an established though much debated practice, both as a research tool and as a means of reporting. Pile sorts, mapping, thematic drawing, photographs, visual scales and pictorial triad testing are all visual methods that have been used in participatory and conventional ethnographic research to encourage discussion among study participants and to clarify detail. Our experience in the use of visual t…
The politics of female genital surgery in displaced communities
International efforts to control female genital surgery (also referred to as female genital mutilation) have mainly targeted countries where the practice is culturally sanctioned. Women in these countries belong to a mainstream culture and are supported by their communities through the process of debate and change. In displaced communities, particularly among migrants and refugees living in Western countries, women from these communities are the …
Establishing the causes of childhood mortality in Ghana
Objectivity in Priority Setting Tools in Reproductive Health
The Disability Adjusted Life-Year (DALY) heralded a new age in the development of an evidence base for priority setting and resource allocation. The DALY was intended to represent sound measurement of the incidence and prevalence of conditions in a process by which burden of disease would be determined, health conditions prioritised and interventions evaluated. However, in the reification of objectivity, sight was lost of critical aspects of heal…
The Daly, context and the determinants of the severity of disease
Cultural politics and clinical competence in Australian health services
Medical competence is demonstrated in multiple ways in clinical settings, and includes technical competence, both in terms of diagnosis and management, and cultural competence, as demonstrated in communication between providers and clients. In cross-cultural contexts, such communication is complicated by interpersonal communication and the social and cultural context. To illustrate this, we present four case studies that illustrate the themes fro…
Storytelling, marginality, and community in Australia
Stories of conflict with hospital services, medical mismanagement, and negative outcomes of procedures and treatment circulate within immigrant communities. While the interpretations of medical events are often based on misperceptions and misunderstandings, the stories have instructional value in that they explain an unfamiliar system to new immigrants and provide starting points for advocacy for improved services. Our analysis of gossip and stor…
Day Surgery in Australia
The article explores the experiences of patients undergoing day surgery in an Australian public hospital for women. We draw primarily on interviews with these patients to identify the factors arising from the specific context which compromised their well-being
He hath the French pox
Goods and resources are finite, and social forces heavily pattern their distribution. One of the principal mechanisms for shaping the distribution of resources is by regulating entitlement to community membership itself. By restricting groups' membership of community, so access to social goods and resources diminishes, which in turn has a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of the excluded groups. It is argued here that community membersh…
Structure, (governance) and health
BACKGROUND: In a recently published article, it was suggested that governance was the significant structural factor affecting the epidemiology of HIV. This suggestion was made notwithstanding the observed weak correlation between governance and HIV prevalence (r = .2). Unfortunately, the paper raised but left unexamined the potentially more important questions about the relationship between the broader health of populations and structural factors…
Measuring global health inequity
By measuring the inequity and not simply the inequality, the magnitude of the disparity can be factored into future economic and health policy decision making
Epilepsy, Culture, Identity and Well-being
Epilepsy presents an identity of exclusion, which at multiple levels hinders the ability to engage with one's community. This article describes an exploratory, mixed methods study ( N = 42) of the relationship between the social, cultural and environmental context and the experience of living with epilepsy in Cameroon. Participants were identified as `epileptics', consequently restrictions placed on them reduced their ability to perform tradition…
Efficacious, effective, and embedded interventions
The greatest value for money in health research lies in the sustainable and effective implementation of already proven, efficacious solutions. The development of implementation research that can help provide some solutions on how this can be achieved is sorely needed
Ethnicity, race and health in multicultural societies. Foundations for better epidemiology, public health and health care
Edited by Raj S Bhopal. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, pp 357, £32.50. ISBN 9778-0-19-856817-9
Measuring the health impact of human rights violations related to Australian asylum policies and practices
BACKGROUND: Human rights violations have adverse consequences for health. However, to date, there remains little empirical evidence documenting this association, beyond the obvious physical and psychological effects of torture. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether Australian asylum policies and practices, which arguably violate human rights, are associated with adverse health outcomes. METHODS: We designed a mixed methods stud…
Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden
I feel like half my body is clogged up
Health systems performance in sub-Saharan Africa
This study suggests that the quality of governance may be an important structural determinant of health systems performance, and could be an indicator to be monitored. The association suggests there might be a causal relationship. However, the cross-sectional design, the level of missing data, and the small sample size, forces tentative conclusions. Further research will be needed to assess the causal relationship, and its generalizability beyond…
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education
This paper addresses the challenges faced in mainstreaming the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights into public health education. For this paper, we define sexual and reproductive health and rights education as including not only its biomedical aspects but also an understanding of its history, values and politics, grounded in gender politics and social justice, addressing sexuality, and placed within a broader context of health s…
The burden is great and the money little
Daniel Reidpath - ORCID: 0000-0002-8796-0420 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-0420
Contextualizing chronicity
The increasing prevalence of chronic Non Communicable Disease (NCD) around the world is well documented and projections suggest a frightening increase in prevalence around the world. The majority of new patients with chronic disease are expected to occur in developing countries
Establishing and sustaining research partnerships in Africa
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities in establishing and sustaining north–south research partnerships in Africa through a case study of the UK-Africa Academic Partnership on Chronic Disease. Established in 2006 with seed funding from the British Academy, the partnership aimed to bring together multidisciplinary chronic disease researchers based in the UK and Africa to collaborate on research, inform policymaking, train and support…
Community-based blood pressure measurement by non-health workers using electronic devices
INTRODUCTION: Population monitoring and screening of blood pressure is an important part of any population health strategy. Qualified health workers are expensive and often unavailable for screening. Non-health workers with electronic blood pressure monitors are increasingly used in community-based research. This approach is unvalidated. In a poor, urban community we compared blood pressure measurements taken by non-health workers using electroni…
Vulnerability, equity and universal coverage – a concept note
Daniel Reidpath - ORCID: 0000-0002-8796-0420 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-0420
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