Patrick West
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3582155 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick West |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | West |
| FIRMA | WEST P |
| AFILIACIONES | MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4957-4294 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 744 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Carceral spatialities in Still Alive
In this article, we examine three forms of carceral spatiality explored in the highly regarded Australian graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System . These include prison architecture, surveillance, and zoning. We have used, as the basis of our analysis, an approach consistent with transmedial narratology, focusing on the words, images, and layout that combine to create meaning in the graphic novel form. Our a…
Thom Gunn’s “The Annihilation of Nothing” and the Negative Capability of Dream Poetry
IntroductionDreams feature frequently in poetry as framing devices for lyrical and narrative content. By contrast, Thom Gunn’s poem “The Annihilation of Nothing” (1958) theorises how dream, through its relationship to the states of sleeping and waking up, serves the creative process of practising poets. To this extent, Gunn is a challenging fellow traveller in the dream-poetry tradition. “The Annihilation of Nothing” is usually categorised by cri…
The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation
I have decided to launch a campaign against the skyscraper, that hideous, mediocre form of architecture.... Today we only have an empty version of it, only competing in height.— Rem Koolhaas, “Kool Enough for Beijing?”Figure 1: The CCTV Headquarters—A Courtyard in the Air. Cher Coad, 2020.Introduction: An Anomaly within an Anomaly Construction of Beijing’s China Central Television Headquarters (henceforth CCTV Headquarters) began in 2004 and the …
The emergence of health inequalities in early adulthood
The results suggest complex and reciprocal relationships between SEP and health and highlight adolescence and early adulthood as a sensitive period for this process, impacting on future life-chances and health
From childhood socio-economic position to adult educational level – do health behaviours in adolescence matter? A longitudinal study
Both hypotheses fitted the data showing a strong mutual interaction of school achievement and adoption of HCB and HEB in early and late adolescence. Both hypotheses acknowledged the crucial role of family background. The pathway from health behaviours in adolescence to adult education runs through school career. The interplay between behaviours and educational pathways in adolescence is suggested as one of the mechanisms leading to health inequal…
Does school ethos explain the relationship between value-added education and teenage substance use? A cohort study
Previous studies found lower substance use in schools achieving better examination and truancy results than expected, given their pupil populations (high value-added schools). This study examines whether these findings are replicated in West Scotland and whether school ethos indicators focussing on pupils' perceptions of schooling (environment, involvement, engagement and teacher-pupil relations) mediate the associations. Teenagers from forty-one…
Is there an association between seeing incidents of alcohol or drug use in films and young Scottish adults' own alcohol or drug use? A cross sectional study
Despite some limitations, which are discussed, these cross-sectional results add to a body of work which suggests that it is important to design good longitudinal studies which can determine whether exposure to images of potentially health-damaging behaviours lead to uptake of these behaviours during adolescence and early adulthood, and to examine factors that might mediate this relationship
Value orientations among late modern youth – a cross-cultural study
Few studies have sought to test whether changes in value orientation proposed by social theories can empirically be found. This study aims to rigorously test the extent to which there is similarity in values, in two large samples representative of 15-year-olds. We hypothesised that youth from Helsinki are more likely to hold more late-modern values and Glaswegian youth more modern values with more traditional elements. The material was drawn from…
Do 'good values' lead to 'good' health-behaviours? Longitudinal associations between young people's values and later substance-use
While we replicated results found in prior cross-sectional studies, evidence from this study does not support the argument that holding certain 'pro-social' or 'good' values substantively protects against later substance-use and challenges the likely effectiveness of values-based interventions in relation to later substance-use
Transition matters
The importance of school transitions for pupil adjustment, particularly their impact on later well‐being and attainment, remains contested. This paper draws on data from a longitudinal, school‐based study of over 2000 Scottish pupils, first surveyed in 135 primary schools (age 11) in 1994, and followed up in 43 secondary schools (age 13 and 15) and again after leaving school (age 18/19) in 2002/3. The length of follow‐up makes this study unique i…
The relative importance of family socioeconomic status and school-based peer hierarchies for morning cortisol in youth
Can we explain increases in young people's psychological distress over time
Drug use over the youth–adult transition in a west of Scotland cohort
Among a west of Scotland cohort surveyed at ages 15 (1987), 18, 23 and 30, lifetime prevalence (ever use) of any drugs rose from 9% at 15 to 58% at 23, thereafter increasing little; past year (‘current’) use peaked at age 23 (35%). Cannabis-only rates increased most between ages 15 and 18; ‘hard’ drug use increased steadily with age. There was considerable transitory use, particularly among cannabis-only users and those initiating later. Neither …
Obesity among Scottish 15 year olds 1987–2006
Between 1987 and 2006, prevalence of obesity among Scottish 15 year olds increased around 2.5 times. However, this increasing prevalence did not impact on the obesity-weight-worry relationship. While many obese adolescents appear unconcerned about their weight, a significant minority of the non-obese worry needlessly
Abject Jurisdictions
This article argues that CSI: Miami disseminates two versions of politics, one of which replicates the conservative suppression of political debate in America post 9/11, and the other being founded in an understanding of the body as transgressive site of political activism. This second version of politics emerges out of Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection as a confusion of borders, which unsettles equally the discreteness of identity and the sen…
Explanations for female excess psychosomatic symptoms in adolescence
Adjustment for a range of potential psychosocial and behavioural factors largely explains (statistically) excess female depressive mood. These factors also partially explain the female excess in certain psychosomatic symptoms
Smoking in Scottish youths
The results confirm the importance of personal income and parental social class for youth smoking, but they also show that personal income matters more for those from higher class backgrounds. This suggests both that lower class youths have greater access to tobacco from family and friends and to cheaper sources of cigarettes from illegal sources. This complicates the relation between fiscal policies and smoking and might have the unintended cons…
Nae job, nae future
There is increasing concern about the health, particularly mental health, of young people and the factors that affect it. Drawing on data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community, this paper describes the pattern of health in a cohort of about 1000 young people between the ages of 15 and 21, within a context of their experience and expectations of unemployment. Contrary to assumptions of healthiness, high levels of poor …
Young people's mental health in context
Applying Siena
We give a nontechnical introduction into recently developed methods for analyzing the coevolution of social networks and behavior(s) of the network actors. This coevolution is crucial for a variety of research topics that currently receive a lot of attention, such as the role of peer groups in adolescent development. A family of dynamic actor-driven models for the coevolution process is sketched, and it is shown how to use the SIENA software for …
A Material Paradox
It is commonly assumed that young people's disposable income reflects the socioeconomic status of their family, those in more advantaged situations having more money than those who are disadvantaged. Plausible though this assumption is, evidence on the issue is surprisingly thin. Using data from a longitudinal study of young people in the West of Scotland, first surveyed aged 11 and followed up at ages 13 and 15, we examine the social distributio…
Birth weight, adult blood pressure, and blood pressure reactions to acute psychological stress
The fetal origins of disease hypothesis contends that an unfavourable intrauterine environment, as evidenced by low birth weight, increases vulnerability to chronic illness in adulthood.1 There is now reasonably consistent evidence of a negative association between birth weight and adult blood pressure.2 However, the mechanisms underlying this relation remain unclear. It has been suggested that individual differences in susceptibility to stress m…
Peer victimization and depression in early-mid adolescence
Background. Despite considerable evidence for psychological distress among children and young people who experience peer victimization, cross-sectional studies cannot determine the direction of the relationship. Several recent studies have examined associations between victimization and distress. The majority find evidence for both directions but do not arbitrate between them; only one prior study has attempted to do this.Aims. To use longitudina…
Could the peer group explain school differences in pupil smoking rates? An exploratory study
Life Events and Acute Cardiovascular Reactions to Mental Stress
OBJECTIVE: This study addressed the issue of whether frequent exposure to life events is associated with aggravation or blunting of cardiovascular reactions to acute mental stress. METHODS: In a substantial cohort of 585 healthy young adults, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate were recorded at rest and in response to a mental arithmetic stress task. Participants indicated, from a list of 50 events, those they had experienced in …
Health inequalities in the early years
Rethinking the health selection explanation for health inequalities
Social class and health in youth
Inequalities? Social class differentials in health in British youth
Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland
Patterns of class inequality in health through the lifespan
Lack of class variation in health in adolescence
We Really Do Know What You Do
It is widely assumed that children, especially younger children and those in poorer circumstances, are unreliable informants of parental occupation and related characteristics, thereby precluding the measurement of social class in much research involving children. In a comparison of reports of parental economic activity and occupation by 11 year olds and their parents in the West of Scotland 11 to 16 Study, the assumption is found to be unwarrant…
Can we explain increases in young people's psychological distress over time
Being different
The public stereotype, largely supported by a rather diverse range of literature, is that bullied children differ from their peers in respect of attributes such as appearance, disability or school performance. In this paper we explore the characteristics of such victims in a way which is both more comprehensive than previous studies and in addition, considers and accounts for possible inter-relationships between variables. Self-report data on tea…
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Transition matters
The importance of school transitions for pupil adjustment, particularly their impact on later well‐being and attainment, remains contested. This paper draws on data from a longitudinal, school‐based study of over 2000 Scottish pupils, first surveyed in 135 primary schools (age 11) in 1994, and followed up in 43 secondary schools (age 13 and 15) and again after leaving school (age 18/19) in 2002/3. The length of follow‐up makes this study unique i…
Family life and health in adolescence
Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15
The status and validity of accounts obtained at interview
Peer victimization and depression in early-mid adolescence
Background. Despite considerable evidence for psychological distress among children and young people who experience peer victimization, cross-sectional studies cannot determine the direction of the relationship. Several recent studies have examined associations between victimization and distress. The majority find evidence for both directions but do not arbitrate between them; only one prior study has attempted to do this.Aims. To use longitudina…
Public preferences for the care of dependency groups
The Family, the Welfare State and Community Care
Within the political arena, most sharply articulated by the new Right, the family and welfare state have been counterposed as ideological opposites with implications for the relative responsibility each should be accorded in respect of a policy of community care. On the basis of evidence from a survey conducted in three locations in Scotland, this paper examines the extent to which the ideological positions of Left and Right are reflected in publ…
The relative importance of family socioeconomic status and school-based peer hierarchies for morning cortisol in youth
Nae job, nae future
There is increasing concern about the health, particularly mental health, of young people and the factors that affect it. Drawing on data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: Health in the Community, this paper describes the pattern of health in a cohort of about 1000 young people between the ages of 15 and 21, within a context of their experience and expectations of unemployment. Contrary to assumptions of healthiness, high levels of poor …
School effects on pupils' health behaviours
Compared with the volume of research on school effects on educational outcomes, and in spite of growing interest in the health promoting school, there are very few studies that have investigated the way schools influence pupils' health behaviours. This paper reports the results of a longitudinal study of over 2000 young people in the West of Scotland who were followed from the end of primary school (age 11) to the end of statutory education (age …
Is going to church good or bad for you? Denomination, attendance and mental health of children in West Scotland
Young People's Leisure and Risk-Taking Behaviours
Until the 1990s, the literature on youth leisure characterized that of females as home-based, passive and largely absent from male-dominated subcultures. Contrasting with this, over the course of the 1990s, evidence emerged of increasing public visibility, reduced restrictions on activities and relatively greater increases in health-risk behaviours among females, together with suggestions of a domestification of leisure among males This paper use…
A Material Paradox
It is commonly assumed that young people's disposable income reflects the socioeconomic status of their family, those in more advantaged situations having more money than those who are disadvantaged. Plausible though this assumption is, evidence on the issue is surprisingly thin. Using data from a longitudinal study of young people in the West of Scotland, first surveyed aged 11 and followed up at ages 13 and 15, we examine the social distributio…
Social, developmental and health correlates of 'attractiveness' in adolescence
This paper suggests a possible link between two different bodies of research. The first is sociological and social epidemiological research which has demonstrated associations between social circumstance and various indicators of health and development; the second is experimental social-psychological research which has demonstrated that perceived physical attractiveness is associated with the attribution of socially desirable character traits. Mu…
An Investigation into the Social Construction and Consequences of the Label Epilepsy
Patients and their Doctors (Book)
The Public Appeal of Sheltered Housing
In the light of the shortfall in provision of sheltered housing in the UK and recent cricticisms of this form of care, this paper examines its public appeal both in terms of its popularity relative to other care arrangements and the ideas and images associated with it. Using questionnaire data about preferred and projected care arrangements, idealised solutions are compared with actual arrangements made by a group of predominantly old and disable…
Public preferences for the care of dependency groups
The Family, the Welfare State and Community Care
Within the political arena, most sharply articulated by the new Right, the family and welfare state have been counterposed as ideological opposites with implications for the relative responsibility each should be accorded in respect of a policy of community care. On the basis of evidence from a survey conducted in three locations in Scotland, this paper examines the extent to which the ideological positions of Left and Right are reflected in publ…
Inequalities? Social class differentials in health in British youth
Social class and health in youth
The status and validity of accounts obtained at interview
Epilepsy (Book)
Correlates of blood pressure in 15 year olds in the west of Scotland
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine social and physical correlates of blood pressure in 15 year olds. DESIGN--This was the first, baseline, sweep of a longitudinal survey of 15 year olds based on a two stage stratified clustered random sample. SETTING--The Central Clydeside Conurbation, in the West of Scotland. In 1981 this had a population of 1.7 million and a standardised mortality ratio (relative to Scotland as a whole) of 109. SUBJECTS--A…
Lack of class variation in health in adolescence
Rethinking the health selection explanation for health inequalities
Social, developmental and health correlates of 'attractiveness' in adolescence
This paper suggests a possible link between two different bodies of research. The first is sociological and social epidemiological research which has demonstrated associations between social circumstance and various indicators of health and development; the second is experimental social-psychological research which has demonstrated that perceived physical attractiveness is associated with the attribution of socially desirable character traits. Mu…
Family Structure in Childhood and Mental Health in Adolescence/Individual Characteristics, Parental Ideology and Mental Health in Adolescence (Book)
Reporting by parents of longstanding illness in their adolescent children
Patterns of class inequality in health through the lifespan
Family life and health in adolescence
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain
Health inequalities in the early years
Unhealthy Societies
Morbidity and Irish Catholic Descent in Britain
This paper finds minimal evidence in favour of either stereotype: behaviours such as smoking and excess drinking were not strongly associated with the poor morbidity status of the Irish in the population we have studied; neither have the Irish been found to be more stoic in illness. Therefore the stereotypes are not an adequate explanation, nor a necessary correlate, of the frequent finding of raised morbidity in communities of Irish Catholic ori…
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) expression is increased in response to CNS injury and limits the capacity for axonal regeneration. Previously we have shown that neurocan is one of the CS-PGs that is upregulated (Asher et al., 2000). Here we show that another member of the aggrecan family, versican, is also upregulated in response to CNS injury. Labeling of frozen sections 7 d after a unilateral knife lesion to the cerebral cortex reveale…
Lifestyle, Social Class and Health-Related Behaviour
The extent to which young people's lifestyles are related to social class, their relationship with health behaviours, and variations in these relationships between countries are of central relevance to an assessment of the extent to which post-modern (global) influences have replaced those associated with traditional (local) social structures. A comparison between 15 year olds in Glasgow and Helsinki reveals a remarkably similar pattern of relati…
Being different
The public stereotype, largely supported by a rather diverse range of literature, is that bullied children differ from their peers in respect of attributes such as appearance, disability or school performance. In this paper we explore the characteristics of such victims in a way which is both more comprehensive than previous studies and in addition, considers and accounts for possible inter-relationships between variables. Self-report data on tea…
We Really Do Know What You Do
It is widely assumed that children, especially younger children and those in poorer circumstances, are unreliable informants of parental occupation and related characteristics, thereby precluding the measurement of social class in much research involving children. In a comparison of reports of parental economic activity and occupation by 11 year olds and their parents in the West of Scotland 11 to 16 Study, the assumption is found to be unwarrant…
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