Jane Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3583815 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Williams |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0142-0299 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1917 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making the public protect public health
Effective public health responses to many infectious diseases require sustained collective action. Communicable disease control in populations can only be achieved by high levels of public compliance with health directives. However, governing authorities have limited options if public compliance is insufficient and collective action is failing. Mechanisms to promote public compliance occur on a spectrum from providing public health advice, offeri…
A critical analysis of the Australian public consultation on childhood vaccine mandate introduction
Several countries have revised their policies to make vaccine refusal more difficult. The role of the public in this process has seldom been examined. We analysed the public consultation process for the Australian government’s 2016 ‘No Jab No Pay’ mandatory childhood vaccination policy to better understand who participated, their arguments, and how their contributions were incorporated into the legislative process. Publicly available submissions …
Normal food practices
This paper examines the dynamic interplay between norms, practices, and food environments through the concept of 'normal food practices'. Drawing on Georges Canguilhem's theory of vital norms and social practice theory, we distinguish between descriptive (common), evaluative (proper), and creative (norm-generating) dimensions of food practices. We argue that food-related behaviors are not only shaped by existing norms but also actively produce ne…
Doing pandemic science in public
Journalists inform the public about risks and government responses during emergencies. • Policy actors and journalists described media controversy about pandemic science. • All agreed that airing expert disagreement promotes accountability and transparency. • But it can erode trust in expertise during public health emergencies
The politics of research ethics
The use of quarantine as an international travel measure during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtually all countries used a range of measures to mitigate the risks of virus introduction and onward transmission via international travel. Quarantine was a key international travel measure (ITM) used by governments to achieve public health goals. However, the highly varied ways in which quarantine was implemented makes lesson learning for future pandemics challenging. Moreover, most studies overlook the secondary…
Participative rights in Welsh primary schools
This paper presents the findings from the initial stage of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project which examines the pedagogic practices that embed young children’s participative rights in lower primary classrooms in Wales. An evaluation of relevant legislation and policy in Wales from 2000 to 2022 was undertaken to explicate the positioning of teachers and their responsibilities regarding children’s participative rights. D…
When Corona Infested Everything—A Qualitative Interview Study Exploring the Impact of Covid-19 Mitigation Measures on School Life from the Perspectives of English Secondary School Staff and Students
To reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, transmission and illness during the pandemic, the Department for Education (DfE) issued guidance to schools. However, research on how the school community perceives the impact of the COVID-19 mitigation measures outlined remains limited. This qualitative study aims to explore the effects of school closures and in-school mitigation measures on daily school life, as well as their impact on mental health and…
School life during Covid-19
Insights from this research will help understand effectiveness of the measures in the 'real-world school setting'. Understanding the experiences of staff and pupils will help to support policymakers and school leaders in future pandemic decision-making. This research identified challenges with the guidance and measures, minimal impact on perceived safety, and a negative impact on wellbeing. These challenges should be considered when assessing the…
Co-creating a digital first integrated care experience with patients and caregivers
Purpose: The University Health Network (UHN) is a global leader in patient care and advances preventative, acute, rehabilitative, and continuing care for Canadians. To accelerate better care experience, UHN launched the Integrated Care Program in 2019. The program ensures patients receive timely, comprehensive, and personalized care from hospital to home through partnerships with clinical and home care teams. Digital health plays a critical role …
Reconciling market and moral logics on a minimum wage
Essential workers generate and maintain basic services that populations must receive, without interruption, to sustain a healthy, functional society. When SARS-COV-2 spread around the world, mundane low-paid work in essential non-healthcare industries such as supermarkets, became high risk, makeshift and unpredictable. Drawing on recent scholarship in the sociology of work, we conducted 32 interviews to capture how supermarket workers in Australi…
Cultural Humility in Action
INTRODUCTION: Access to culturally appropriate healthcare is vital to ensure refugee and migrant women receive optimal care, particularly during the perinatal period. Refugee and migrant women report lower satisfaction with pregnancy care due to language barriers and a perceived lack of understanding of their needs. The aim of this study is to explore how to improve the experiences of migrant and refugee women with maternal health services throug…
The Grief Cycle
Evidence suggests that cycling can provide an opportunity for a physical challenge, an immense connection to nature and a community of support from likeminded individuals. These therapeutic qualities of cycling should be considered for future interventions and add novel findings to the area of cycling, bereavement and grief
Testing the expensive-tissue hypothesis’ prediction of inter-tissue competition using causal modelling with latent variables
The expensive-tissue hypothesis (ETH) posited a brain–gut trade-off to explain how humans evolved large, costly brains. Versions of the ETH interrogating gut or other body tissues have been tested in non-human animals, but not humans. We collected brain and body composition data in 70 South Asian women and used structural equation modelling with instrumental variables, an approach that handles threats to causal inference including measurement err…
Vigilance in infectious disease emergencies
In their 2010 book, Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy conceptualised the role of vigilance in unknown and emerging infectious disease threats. Theirs is a macro-level account which draws on empirical data to describe vigilance as a set of technical and political arrangements that govern collection, analysis, interpretation and communication of data as it pertains to unknown threats. In this paper we expand their work to detail a conceptual analysi…
The Scars of War
This narrative describes the unrelenting grief of a Viet Nam veteran over the death of one of the soldiers in his platoon
Disagreement among experts about public health decision making
It is common for aspects of the COVID-19 response—and other public health initiatives before it—to be described as polarised. Public health decisions emerge from an interplay of facts, norms and preferred courses of action. What counts as ‘evidence’ is diverse and contestable, and disagreements over how it should be interpreted are often the product of differing choices between competing values. We propose a definition of polarisation for the con…
Why ethical frameworks fail to deliver in a pandemic
In the past decade, numerous ethical frameworks have been developed to support public health decision‐making in challenging areas. Before the COVID‐19 pandemic began, members of the authorship team were involved in research programmes, in which the development of ethical frameworks was planned, to guide (a) the use of new technologies for emerging infectious disease surveillance; and (b) the allocation of scarce supplies of pandemic influenza vac…
The impact of parental complaints on teachers working within Scottish schools during Covid-19
This exploratory research examines the impact of everyday parental complaints on teachers working in Scottish Schools during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through interviews with 18 teaching professionals, our findings demonstrate that parental complaints both before and during Covid-19 are a feature of school life, even if they were not conceptualised in that way by teaching professionals. We found that teaching professionals have become accustomed to …
Having a real say
First Nations Community Panels supported prioritising First Nations peoples for pandemic influenza vaccination distribution and offering greater protection by using a two-dose full course to fewer people if there are initial supply limitations, instead of one dose to more people, during the initial phase of the vaccine roll out. The methodology and findings can help inform efforts in planning for future pandemic vaccination strategies for First N…
What roles does physical activity play following the death of a parent as a young person? A qualitative investigation
Physical activity has the potential to provide positive experiences following a parental bereavement. It can provide a sense of freedom and was seen to alleviate grief outcomes, build resilience, enable social support and create a stronger sense of self. Bereavement support services for young people who have experienced death of a parent should consider physical activity as a viable intervention to support the grieving process
The response from Scottish health boards to complaint investigations by the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman
This article explores how complaint investigations undertaken by health ombudsman contribute to the improvement of the healthcare system. Using a qualitative case-study approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants form the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) and three health boards within its jurisdiction. Health board participants were frustrated by complaints process used by the SPSO, in particular the lack of com…
The Impact of Devolution in Wales
Uncertainty and agency in Covid-19 hotel quarantine in Australia
Mandatory 14-day hotel COVID-19 quarantine was introduced for international arrivals into Australia in late March 2020, with no precedent and little time to prepare. This public health initiative was a key factor in Australia's relatively low COVID-19 burden in the first 18 months of the pandemic. We conducted an empirical bioethics study exploring the experience of people who had quarantined in hotels in Australia. We used in depth interviews to…
Evaluation of dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry compared to magnetic resonance imaging for collecting measurements of the human bony pelvis
DXA measurements of pelvic breadth are comparable to MRI measurements of pelvic breadth. DXA is a less costly imaging technique than MRI and can be used to collect measurements of skeletal elements in living people
A Roman Egyptian Painting Workshop
Roman‐period mummy portraits are considered to be ancient antecedents of modern portraiture. However, the techniques and materials used in their manufacture are not thoroughly understood. Analytical study of the pigments as well as the binding materials helps to address questions on what aspects of the painting practices originate from Pharaonic and/or Graeco‐Roman traditions, and can aid in determining the provenance of the raw materials from po…
Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task
In Study 1 subjects high and low in trait anxiety were asked to identify the colour of anxiety-related, anxiety-matched neutral, happiness-related and happiness-matched neutral words. There were two types of stimulus presentation: blocked trials, where stimuli were blocked with respect to their valence, and mixed trials, where stimuli were mixed with respect to their valence. Subjects high in trait anxiety took longer to identify the colour of an…
In Praise of Dead Pets
Few socially recognized death customs are available for bereaved pet owners, who may experience adverse mental health as a result of disenfranchisement and other complications surrounding pet loss. Additionally, pet owners can experience complex grief when the death is by euthanasia. When a human loved one dies, societal infrastructures allow mourners to express loss through death rites. Such customs often include a eulogy; a traditional testimon…
The Impact of an Art Program on an Inpatient Oncology Unit
Although there is a growing body of literature describing the benefits of creative arts in health care, research in this area is limited. This article describes an exploratory qualitative research study that examines the potential benefits of an arts program on an inpatient oncology unit located in a major medical center in New England. Semistructured interviews of seven patients and seven nurses who cared for these patients were conducted follow…
Integrating Sustainable Development and Children's Rights
The global disconnect between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has been described as 'a missed opportunity'. Since devolution, the Welsh Government has actively pursued a 'sustainable development' and a 'children's rights' agenda. However, until recently, these separate agendas also did not contribute to each other, although they culminated in two radical and innovative pieces of legisl…
General legislative measures of implementation
This article is concerned with ways in which integration of the UNCRC within national legal systems can help support realisation of the objectives of the UNCRC. Whilst the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child rightly attaches importance to justiciability of the provisions of the Convention, equally important for many of the UNCRC’s provisions are strong parliamentary and administrative mechanisms which do not depend on an individual claim of r…
Testing the expensive-tissue hypothesis’ prediction of inter-tissue competition using causal modelling with latent variables
The expensive-tissue hypothesis (ETH) posited a brain–gut trade-off to explain how humans evolved large, costly brains. Versions of the ETH interrogating gut or other body tissues have been tested in non-human animals, but not humans. We collected brain and body composition data in 70 South Asian women and used structural equation modelling with instrumental variables, an approach that handles threats to causal inference including measurement err…
Vigilance in infectious disease emergencies
In their 2010 book, Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy conceptualised the role of vigilance in unknown and emerging infectious disease threats. Theirs is a macro-level account which draws on empirical data to describe vigilance as a set of technical and political arrangements that govern collection, analysis, interpretation and communication of data as it pertains to unknown threats. In this paper we expand their work to detail a conceptual analysi…
Conflicted hope
Over the past decade ‘social egg freezing’ has emerged as a technology of hope that purports to empower women by enabling them to continue their careers or find the right partner without the fear of jeopardising their fertility. This technology has been promoted and celebrated by fertility companies, bioethicists, clinicians, and multi-national corporations such as Apple and Facebook. While critical questions have been raised, they tend to focus …
Framing Asymmetry
The United Kingdom’s four children’s commissioners, established under separate legislation for Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, are amongst the best known of the public institutions created since the beginning of devolved government in 1999. Like many such offices around the world, they are the result of domestic political and social processes as well as the influence of the requirements of international human rights treaties, speci…
First contact
The Reduction of Labor Turnover in the Plimpton Press
La Clave Panamericana
La Clave Panamericana
Deposit-Taking Institutions
News and Short Contributions
Differences in reasons for taking overdoses in high and low hopelessness groups
Thirty‐five people admitted to hospital following deliberate self‐harm by overdose were interviewed. Patients rated several ‘reasons’ for making the attempt on 0–10‐point scales. The ‘reasons’ used were those derived by Bancroft and his associates (e.g. find out if someone loved me, make people understand how desperate I was feeling). The patients also completed Beck et al. 's Hopelessness Scale. High hopelessness was associated with an increased…
Critical Study
Rural America
A general deterioration is occurring in the quality of life of rural Americans, and it is affecting the quality of health and mental health service delivery. About 24% of the U.S. population lives in nonmetropolitan areas where the citizens are older, less well educated, have lower incomes, and are more homogeneous in terms of race and ethnicity. Medicare and private insurance discriminate against rural services in their reimbursement policies, a…
Rural America
Tambimuttu
Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task
In Study 1 subjects high and low in trait anxiety were asked to identify the colour of anxiety-related, anxiety-matched neutral, happiness-related and happiness-matched neutral words. There were two types of stimulus presentation: blocked trials, where stimuli were blocked with respect to their valence, and mixed trials, where stimuli were mixed with respect to their valence. Subjects high in trait anxiety took longer to identify the colour of an…
Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
The Impact of an Art Program on an Inpatient Oncology Unit
Although there is a growing body of literature describing the benefits of creative arts in health care, research in this area is limited. This article describes an exploratory qualitative research study that examines the potential benefits of an arts program on an inpatient oncology unit located in a major medical center in New England. Semistructured interviews of seven patients and seven nurses who cared for these patients were conducted follow…
Medical Crisis and Loss Clinic
Difficult transitions are often required for children and families following trauma, loss, or diagnosis of a chronic or life-threatening illness. In response to a perceived unmet community need, a medical crisis and loss clinic was established to address problems resulting from adaptation to change. This article describes the clinic, provides statistics concerning community use, and reflects qualitative findings from therapeutic experiences. Refe…
The Legislative Future of Wales
A History of Wales
In great and colourful detail the Welsh writer Jane Williams (1806–1885) tells the history of Wales from the settlement of the Cymry in pre-Christian Britain until the Tudor period. The work, first published in 1869, remained a standard work until the beginning of the twentieth century. The most remarkable feature of the book's methodology is that its narrative is based on the use of an impressive range of source material, ranging from Pliny and …
First contact
History of Wales
General legislative measures of implementation
This article is concerned with ways in which integration of the UNCRC within national legal systems can help support realisation of the objectives of the UNCRC. Whilst the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child rightly attaches importance to justiciability of the provisions of the Convention, equally important for many of the UNCRC’s provisions are strong parliamentary and administrative mechanisms which do not depend on an individual claim of r…
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Wales
The Human Rights of Children
Disentangling the associations between parental BMI and offspring body composition using the four‐component model
OBJECTIVES: This study sets out to investigate the intergenerational associations between the body mass index (BMI) of parents and the body composition of their offspring. METHODS: The cross-sectional data were analyzed for 511 parent-offspring trios from London and south-east England. The offspring were aged 5-21 years. Parental BMI was obtained by recall and offspring fat mass and lean mass were obtained using the four-component model. Multivar…
Framing Asymmetry
The United Kingdom’s four children’s commissioners, established under separate legislation for Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, are amongst the best known of the public institutions created since the beginning of devolved government in 1999. Like many such offices around the world, they are the result of domestic political and social processes as well as the influence of the requirements of international human rights treaties, speci…
Evidence-based cervical screening
Background: Organised cervical screening programmes are a combination of arrangements designed to maximise benefit and minimise harm associated with cervical cancer at the population level. Many organised programmes are described as ‘evidence-based’, reflecting an expectation that healthcare should be based on the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). EBM is both normalised and contested. Aims and objectives: As part of a larger study of how c…
A Roman Egyptian Painting Workshop
Roman‐period mummy portraits are considered to be ancient antecedents of modern portraiture. However, the techniques and materials used in their manufacture are not thoroughly understood. Analytical study of the pigments as well as the binding materials helps to address questions on what aspects of the painting practices originate from Pharaonic and/or Graeco‐Roman traditions, and can aid in determining the provenance of the raw materials from po…
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