J Lam
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20992 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Lam |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Lam |
| FIRMA | LAM J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7169-4930 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The 'us and them divide
The Global Health (GH) field is characterised by stark inequalities, including a strong over-representation of GH leaders from/trained in high-income countries (HICs). There are no empirical studies exploring how experiences of GH education in HICs could have a role in reproducing, or potentially challenging, these inequalities. We address this by qualitatively analysing student and alum experiences of a one-year GH Bachelor of Science course at …
Daily activities of older adults before and during the Covid pandemic
COVID-19 shifted the daily life of older adults, and our findings are consistent with selection, optimization, and compensation theory, documenting that older adult adapted across the first 2 years of the pandemic
Taking the long view
This paper examines household earnings arrangements and parenthood. Previous research has shown that parenthood is associated with a motherhood wage penalty with women withdrawing from the labour market or reducing their work hours. But few studies have examined within‐couple relative earnings and breadwinning arrangements across the transition to parenthood. We identify three types of households—“female‐breadwinner households” (where women earn …
Life Events and Loneliness Among Older Women of Diverse Sexual Identities
Loneliness among older adults has been a topic of interest in recent years. We analyse four waves of data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. We estimate growth models to examine differences in loneliness trajectories from age 50 for women who identify as exclusively heterosexual, plurisexual (bisexual, mainly heterosexual, mainly lesbian) and exclusively lesbian. We find no significant differences in levels of loneliness ac…
Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Prescription Medication Use
Prior loneliness predicts contemporaneous regular use of depression/anxiety prescription medications. Although this confirms the directional association found in prior studies, we found prior use of depression/anxiety medications is also associated with increased odds of loneliness, suggesting further research is needed to understand mechanisms that explain their associations and potential interventions
Young mothers in Australia
This paper examines young women’s experiences of early motherhood focusing on their aims and goals for the future. Young mothers face a particularly complex set of life circumstances by virtue of entering parenthood outside the normative age of motherhood and are likely to experience discrimination, stereotyping and economic disadvantage. We report data from a small-scale qualitative study designed to gather evidence about the experiences, goals …
Diversity of strong and weak ties and loneliness in older adults
Educational Differences in Risk of All-Cause Mortality After Acute Cardiovascular Events
Acute cardiovascular events are prevalent in older adults. In this study, following a sample of respondents from the 1996–2016 Health and Retirement Study after diagnosis of myocardial infarction or stroke, we used discrete-time event history models to study mortality post diagnosis. We found an educational gradient in mortality following myocardial infarction or stroke with the better educated surviving longer, even as the gradient was weaker fo…
Contour of the Day
Objective: To contextualize experiences of activities during the day and investigate whether the contour of the day is correlated with well-being during activities. Methods: Drawing on American Time Use Surveys, we employ sequence and cluster analyses to create distinct typologies of daily life patterns, and bivariate analyses to describe whether well-being across activities varies by these typologies. Results: We identified four typologies chara…
Neighborhood Characteristics, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Loneliness Differences Across Ethnic–Migrant Groups in Australia
This study showed loneliness differs across older Australians of different ethnic and migrant backgrounds. It also showed how loneliness differences are explained by different mechanisms
Integrating work and home when patients are dying
Scholars of work and family have argued that flexibility in hours and location may support integration between work and home. Home-based hospice care is a type of work that has a great deal of flexibility but it is not clear that it is used to support workers. Using interview and survey data from 179 US hospice workers, we show that the speeding up of care and culture of self-sacrifice make integration difficult. Almost a third of workers report …
The scars of the past? Childhood health and health differentials in later life
This study estimates multilevel mixed effects models of three retrospective measures of childhood health - self-rated childhood health, exposure to parental smoking growing up, and missing school for 30 or more consecutive days due to a health event - on levels and changes in physical functioning at age 50 and beyond. Using data from 15 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, the results show that variation in the …
Actor–Partner Effects of Childhood Disadvantage on Later Life Subjective Well-Being Among Individuals in Coresidential Unions
Partnered individuals are nested within a specific context, whereby stress and implications of early life disadvantage may be conceptualized at the couple-level. Future research that assesses how early life experiences of individuals may have implications for family members' later-life well-being may be valuable
General and proximal associations between unpaid eldercare, time constraints and subjective well-being
Using 2012/13 American Time Use Survey, we find as compared to non-caregivers, caregivers report less time on personal care, social activities and sports and more time on housework. They also report higher stress and lower happiness when engaged in daily activities. Further, using diary information which captures activities during a 24-hour window, we compare caregivers on days they provide care and caregivers on days they do not provide care. Ca…
Dynamics of Parental Work Hours, Job Security, and Child Behavioural Problems in Australian Dual-Earner Families
The Scarring Effects of Father’s Unemployment? Job-Security Satisfaction and Mental Health at Midlife
Existing research finds paternal unemployment relates to educational attainment, socioeconomic achievement, and wellbeing in the shorter term, but exposure to this event may also have enduring implications for the wellbeing of the offspring
Life Course
Time Work by Overworked Professionals
How are professionals responding to the time strains brought on by the stress of their higher status jobs? Qualitative data from professionals reveal (a) general acceptance of the emerging temporal organization of professional work, including rising time demands and blurred boundaries around work/nonwork times and places, and (b) time work as strategic responses to work intensification, overloads, and boundarylessness. We detected four time-work …
Service system integration, access to services, and housing outcomes in a program for homeless persons with severe mental illness
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the hypothesis that greater integration and coordination between agencies within service systems is associated with greater accessibility of services and improved client housing outcomes. METHODS: As part of the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports program, data were obtained on baseline client characteristics, service use, and 3-month and 12-month outcomes from 1832 clients seen at 18 site…
Time Work by Overworked Professionals
How are professionals responding to the time strains brought on by the stress of their higher status jobs? Qualitative data from professionals reveal (a) general acceptance of the emerging temporal organization of professional work, including rising time demands and blurred boundaries around work/nonwork times and places, and (b) time work as strategic responses to work intensification, overloads, and boundarylessness. We detected four time-work …
Service system integration, access to services, and housing outcomes in a program for homeless persons with severe mental illness
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the hypothesis that greater integration and coordination between agencies within service systems is associated with greater accessibility of services and improved client housing outcomes. METHODS: As part of the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports program, data were obtained on baseline client characteristics, service use, and 3-month and 12-month outcomes from 1832 clients seen at 18 site…
Diversity of strong and weak ties and loneliness in older adults
Young mothers in Australia
This paper examines young women’s experiences of early motherhood focusing on their aims and goals for the future. Young mothers face a particularly complex set of life circumstances by virtue of entering parenthood outside the normative age of motherhood and are likely to experience discrimination, stereotyping and economic disadvantage. We report data from a small-scale qualitative study designed to gather evidence about the experiences, goals …
Neighborhood Characteristics, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Loneliness Differences Across Ethnic–Migrant Groups in Australia
This study showed loneliness differs across older Australians of different ethnic and migrant backgrounds. It also showed how loneliness differences are explained by different mechanisms
Actor–Partner Effects of Childhood Disadvantage on Later Life Subjective Well-Being Among Individuals in Coresidential Unions
Partnered individuals are nested within a specific context, whereby stress and implications of early life disadvantage may be conceptualized at the couple-level. Future research that assesses how early life experiences of individuals may have implications for family members' later-life well-being may be valuable
General and proximal associations between unpaid eldercare, time constraints and subjective well-being
Using 2012/13 American Time Use Survey, we find as compared to non-caregivers, caregivers report less time on personal care, social activities and sports and more time on housework. They also report higher stress and lower happiness when engaged in daily activities. Further, using diary information which captures activities during a 24-hour window, we compare caregivers on days they provide care and caregivers on days they do not provide care. Ca…
The Scarring Effects of Father’s Unemployment? Job-Security Satisfaction and Mental Health at Midlife
Existing research finds paternal unemployment relates to educational attainment, socioeconomic achievement, and wellbeing in the shorter term, but exposure to this event may also have enduring implications for the wellbeing of the offspring
Service system integration, access to services, and housing outcomes in a program for homeless persons with severe mental illness
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the hypothesis that greater integration and coordination between agencies within service systems is associated with greater accessibility of services and improved client housing outcomes. METHODS: As part of the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports program, data were obtained on baseline client characteristics, service use, and 3-month and 12-month outcomes from 1832 clients seen at 18 site…
Life Course
Time Work by Overworked Professionals
How are professionals responding to the time strains brought on by the stress of their higher status jobs? Qualitative data from professionals reveal (a) general acceptance of the emerging temporal organization of professional work, including rising time demands and blurred boundaries around work/nonwork times and places, and (b) time work as strategic responses to work intensification, overloads, and boundarylessness. We detected four time-work …
General and proximal associations between unpaid eldercare, time constraints and subjective well-being
Using 2012/13 American Time Use Survey, we find as compared to non-caregivers, caregivers report less time on personal care, social activities and sports and more time on housework. They also report higher stress and lower happiness when engaged in daily activities. Further, using diary information which captures activities during a 24-hour window, we compare caregivers on days they provide care and caregivers on days they do not provide care. Ca…
Dynamics of Parental Work Hours, Job Security, and Child Behavioural Problems in Australian Dual-Earner Families
The Scarring Effects of Father’s Unemployment? Job-Security Satisfaction and Mental Health at Midlife
Existing research finds paternal unemployment relates to educational attainment, socioeconomic achievement, and wellbeing in the shorter term, but exposure to this event may also have enduring implications for the wellbeing of the offspring
The scars of the past? Childhood health and health differentials in later life
This study estimates multilevel mixed effects models of three retrospective measures of childhood health - self-rated childhood health, exposure to parental smoking growing up, and missing school for 30 or more consecutive days due to a health event - on levels and changes in physical functioning at age 50 and beyond. Using data from 15 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, the results show that variation in the …
Actor–Partner Effects of Childhood Disadvantage on Later Life Subjective Well-Being Among Individuals in Coresidential Unions
Partnered individuals are nested within a specific context, whereby stress and implications of early life disadvantage may be conceptualized at the couple-level. Future research that assesses how early life experiences of individuals may have implications for family members' later-life well-being may be valuable
Integrating work and home when patients are dying
Scholars of work and family have argued that flexibility in hours and location may support integration between work and home. Home-based hospice care is a type of work that has a great deal of flexibility but it is not clear that it is used to support workers. Using interview and survey data from 179 US hospice workers, we show that the speeding up of care and culture of self-sacrifice make integration difficult. Almost a third of workers report …
Educational Differences in Risk of All-Cause Mortality After Acute Cardiovascular Events
Acute cardiovascular events are prevalent in older adults. In this study, following a sample of respondents from the 1996–2016 Health and Retirement Study after diagnosis of myocardial infarction or stroke, we used discrete-time event history models to study mortality post diagnosis. We found an educational gradient in mortality following myocardial infarction or stroke with the better educated surviving longer, even as the gradient was weaker fo…
Contour of the Day
Objective: To contextualize experiences of activities during the day and investigate whether the contour of the day is correlated with well-being during activities. Methods: Drawing on American Time Use Surveys, we employ sequence and cluster analyses to create distinct typologies of daily life patterns, and bivariate analyses to describe whether well-being across activities varies by these typologies. Results: We identified four typologies chara…
Neighborhood Characteristics, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Loneliness Differences Across Ethnic–Migrant Groups in Australia
This study showed loneliness differs across older Australians of different ethnic and migrant backgrounds. It also showed how loneliness differences are explained by different mechanisms
Young mothers in Australia
This paper examines young women’s experiences of early motherhood focusing on their aims and goals for the future. Young mothers face a particularly complex set of life circumstances by virtue of entering parenthood outside the normative age of motherhood and are likely to experience discrimination, stereotyping and economic disadvantage. We report data from a small-scale qualitative study designed to gather evidence about the experiences, goals …
Diversity of strong and weak ties and loneliness in older adults
Life Events and Loneliness Among Older Women of Diverse Sexual Identities
Loneliness among older adults has been a topic of interest in recent years. We analyse four waves of data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. We estimate growth models to examine differences in loneliness trajectories from age 50 for women who identify as exclusively heterosexual, plurisexual (bisexual, mainly heterosexual, mainly lesbian) and exclusively lesbian. We find no significant differences in levels of loneliness ac…
Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Prescription Medication Use
Prior loneliness predicts contemporaneous regular use of depression/anxiety prescription medications. Although this confirms the directional association found in prior studies, we found prior use of depression/anxiety medications is also associated with increased odds of loneliness, suggesting further research is needed to understand mechanisms that explain their associations and potential interventions
Daily activities of older adults before and during the Covid pandemic
COVID-19 shifted the daily life of older adults, and our findings are consistent with selection, optimization, and compensation theory, documenting that older adult adapted across the first 2 years of the pandemic
Taking the long view
This paper examines household earnings arrangements and parenthood. Previous research has shown that parenthood is associated with a motherhood wage penalty with women withdrawing from the labour market or reducing their work hours. But few studies have examined within‐couple relative earnings and breadwinning arrangements across the transition to parenthood. We identify three types of households—“female‐breadwinner households” (where women earn …
The 'us and them divide
The Global Health (GH) field is characterised by stark inequalities, including a strong over-representation of GH leaders from/trained in high-income countries (HICs). There are no empirical studies exploring how experiences of GH education in HICs could have a role in reproducing, or potentially challenging, these inequalities. We address this by qualitatively analysing student and alum experiences of a one-year GH Bachelor of Science course at …
Psychology (15 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Gerontology (7 obras) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)