Jane Dixon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Dixon |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Dixon |
| FIRMA | DIXON J |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4658-4307 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 302 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Instrument Context Relevance Evaluation, Translation, and Psychometric Testing of the Diabetes Eating Problem Survey-Revised (Deps-R) among People with Type 1 Diabetes in China
The Chinese version of the DEPS-R is a valid and reliable tool for screening disordered eating behaviors in Chinese youths and adults with type 1 diabetes. The Context Relevance Index is advocated to evaluate the difference between the context in which an instrument was originally developed and the target context
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 12 Australian workers, the study ex…
The essential ingredients of food regulatory governance
How does law regulate the system of food production and consumption? This study distinguishes three roles for law: supporting private regulation by industry through the market, supporting civil society co-regulation with industry and government, and supporting direct government regulation. This study employs empirical methods to assesses the progress of civil society co-regulation in three Australian cases where the public interest is at stake: a…
The effects of acculturation and environment on lifestyle behaviors in Korean immigrants
In our study, acculturation and environmental support for physical activity and healthy food simultaneously influenced KIs' lifestyle behaviors. Addressing an unhealthy body image and acculturative stress may be additional strategies for lifestyle intervention programs to prevent cardiometabolic diseases in KIs
Social determinants of household food expenditure in Australia
Objective To examine socio-economic status (SES) and time-related factors associated with less healthy food purchases in Australia. Design Data were from the 2009/10 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Regression analysis was used to examine the associations between the proportion of the household food budget spent on various food types (processed and unprocessed foods, foods purchased from takeawa…
Exploring Transition to Self-Management Within the Culture of Sickle Cell Disease
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of transition to self-management in sickle cell disease. Design/Method: Twelve audio-recorded semistructured interviews were conducted with a sample of 21- to 25-year-olds recruited from a comprehensive sickle cell center in the northeast region of the United States. Data were analyzed using an existential framework according to van Manen’s phenomenological method. Findings: The meaning of…
A cultural economy approach to workplace health promotion in Australian small and medium sized workplaces
Workplace health promotion (WHP) is advocated to progress the health and well-being of employees. However, research findings on its uptake and impacts are equivocal, particularly in smaller workplaces. This paper describes managers’ and workers’ responses to a WHP programme in the Australian Capital Territory. Informed by a cultural economy framework, in-depth interviews were conducted with 44 workers and managers from 10 small to medium sized en…
Australia’s evolving food practices
Objective To investigate trends in five key aspects of Australian food practice which have been implicated in diet-related health risks, specifically energy intake. They are: the replacement of home-prepared foods by commercially prepared foods; consumer reliance on ultra-processed foods; de-structured dining; increased pace of eating; and a decline in commensal eating. Design Data were from repeated cross-sections from the national Household Exp…
Time and participation in workplace health promotion
Workplaces are considered promising settings for protecting and promoting the health and wellbeing of employees. To date, few workplaces, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SME), or their workers, have adopted Workplace Health Promotion (WHP), raising questions as to why. We conducted interviews in 10 SME in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) asking managers and workers to reflect on the reasons for their participation (or not) …
Exploring the individual patterns of spiritual well-being in people newly diagnosed with advanced cancer
Critical nutrition studies within critical agrarian studies
For roughly 20 years, scholars have been augmenting political economy research on agri-food systems with considerations of consumer practices, processes of embodiment and bio-politics and the discu...
Stepping back and moving in
In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-lib…
Advancing Food Sovereignty or Nostalgia
Food sovereignty is a trans-national movement that asserts the right of people to govern their own food system as an alternative to neoliberal food policies. In 2005, the Japanese government introduced the Basic Law of Shokuiku (food and nutrition education) to promote national food self-sufficiency, improve public health, and preserve local culinary culture through domestic food consumption. This paper argues that the campaign attempts to advanc…
Trust
Thailand has experienced dramatic growth of large national and international modern food retailers, such as supermarkets, hypermarkets and convenience stores in large cities and regional centres in the last two decades. Nevertheless, Thai consumers continue to purchase perishables (fruits, vegetables and animal products) from fresh markets (wet markets, talat sot) contradicting predictions from analysts that modern food retail chains will rapidly…
Implications of Structure versus Agency for Addressing Health and Well-Being in Our Ecologically Constrained World
The long-standing debate in public health and the wider society concerning the implications of structure and agency for health and well-being generally concludes that structure powerfully influences agency, and does so unequally, exacerbating social and health inequities. In this article, we review this debate in the context of increasing environmental degradation and resource depletion. As the global population rises and environmental resources …
On food security and alternative food networks
Contemporary contestations over working time
The study posits that time is a key mechanism through which particular forms of labour market policies impact health. The labour market flexibility agenda appears to be operating as a time re-distributive device: it has supported the removal of regulations that governed 'the when' of working time and removed limits over the amount of working time, thus extending by many hours the notion of the 'standard' working week and forcing employees to adap…
The public health contribution to the discursive struggles surrounding food security and food sovereignty
This commentary adopts a public health perspective to shine further light on the different bases for legitimacy in relation to food security and food sovereignty. It describes, albeit briefly, the influential role that nutrition science has long played in the understanding of food security and in advancing a socio-technical approach to address malnutrition. The commentary then turns to the more recent public health ecology field and proposes that…
Hum of the Hive
A contestation is underway in Australian cities between humans and the European honeybee, which has heightened in recent years as amateur beekeeping has emerged in response to environmental concerns. This paper reports on a brief ethnographic encounter among old and new amateur beekeepers located across Sydney, Australia. Older beekeepers were motivated mainly by a desire for a social hobby, whereas younger apiarists were attracted by the role be…
Traditional, modern or mixed? Perspectives on social, economic, and health impacts of evolving food retail in Thailand
Transnational food retailers expanded to middle-income countries over recent decades responding to supply (liberalized foreign investment) and demand (rising incomes, urbanization, female workforce participation, and time poverty). Control in new markets diffuses along three axes: socio-economic (rich to poor), geographic (urban to rural), and product category (processed foods to fresh foods). We used a mixed method approach to study the progress…
When Culture Impacts Health
When Culture Impacts Health
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, methodological and practical insights into understan…
Cultural Influences on Causal Beliefs About Depression Among Latino Immigrants
Purpose: This study describes causal beliefs about depression among Dominican, Colombian, and Ecuadorian immigrants. The authors describe participants’ narratives about how particular supernatural or religious beliefs may contribute to or alleviate depression. Method: Latino primary care patients ( n = 177) were interviewed with the Beliefs About Causes of Depression Scale, a list of 35 items rated from not at all important to extremely important…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Evolving food retail environments in Thailand and implications for the health and nutrition transition
Objective To investigate evolving food retail systems in Thailand. Design Rapid assessment procedures based on qualitative research methods including interviews, focus groups discussions and site visits. Setting Seven fresh markets located in the four main regions of Thailand. Subjects Managers, food specialists, vendors and shoppers from seven fresh markets who participated in interviews and focus group discussions. Results Fresh markets are und…
From the imperial to the empty calorie
Stepping back and moving in
In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-lib…
Time Scarcity
Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores …
Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity
This paper outlines briefly how the living environment can affect health. It explains the links between social and environmental determinants of health in urban settings. Interventions to improve health equity through the environment include actions and policies that deal with proximal risk factors in deprived urban areas, such as safe drinking water supply, reduced air pollution from household cooking and heating as well as from vehicles and ind…
A cultural economy model for studying food systems
The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems
There is increasing recognition that the nutrition transition sweeping the world's cities is multifaceted. Urban food and nutrition systems are beginning to share similar features, including an increase in dietary diversity, a convergence toward "Western-style" diets rich in fat and refined carbohydrate and within-country bifurcation of food supplies and dietary conventions. Unequal access to the available dietary diversity, calories, and gastron…
Introduction to the special symposium
Introduction to symposium on the changing role of supermarkets in global supply chains
Why sustainable and ‘nutritionally correct’ food is not on the agenda
Socioeconomic inequalities in the diffusion of health technology
Theory driven research designs for explaining behavioural health risk transitions
Reflexive Accumulation and Global Restructuring
Chicken consumption in Australia resembles that in the U.S., but a comparison of the restructuring of poultry production in both countries shows some significant differences. This finding raises the question of what lies behind the emergence of similar consumption norms when consumption is often explained in terms of production regimes. The article explores the success of Australian producers in rejecting global free trade pressures while acquies…
Reinstating Pierre Bourdieu's contribution to cultural economy theorizing
Systematic 'cultural economy' analysis is a recent development in a long history of sociological thought about the relationship between economy and culture. Two recent benchmark texts demonstrate various innovative ways of doing cultural economy. However, we believe these books betray ambiguity about the historical roots of cultural economy theory, and overlook the multiple disciplinary perspectives that engage with these ideas. Surprisingly, Pie…
Feminist Community Work's Ambivalence with Politics
A popular feminist principle in community work emphasises egalitarian relations between women. The ‘false equality trap’ of sisterhood has been highlighted recently through demonstrating women's different experiences of gender oppression. However, in making experiential diversity the starting point for practice it is possible to overlook power relations. A gendered relations perspective keeps the relations between men and women to the fore, while…
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 12 Australian workers, the study ex…
On food security and alternative food networks
Habits of a lifetime
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
The effects of acculturation and environment on lifestyle behaviors in Korean immigrants
In our study, acculturation and environmental support for physical activity and healthy food simultaneously influenced KIs' lifestyle behaviors. Addressing an unhealthy body image and acculturative stress may be additional strategies for lifestyle intervention programs to prevent cardiometabolic diseases in KIs
There’s certainly a lot of hurting out there
Retreat from within
This article reports on research undertaken with the Australian schools of social work regarding their teaching of community work. It uses a similar Canadian study and other material to suggest why some schools are decreasing the content and status of community work in their courses. The renewed emphasis that some northern hemisphere governments are placing on community interventions is described as a basis for encouraging social work education t…
Trust
Thailand has experienced dramatic growth of large national and international modern food retailers, such as supermarkets, hypermarkets and convenience stores in large cities and regional centres in the last two decades. Nevertheless, Thai consumers continue to purchase perishables (fruits, vegetables and animal products) from fresh markets (wet markets, talat sot) contradicting predictions from analysts that modern food retail chains will rapidly…
Competition, adaptation and mutation
The speed at which international supermarkets chains have integrated themselves into Thai diets and food practices is without prior historical precedent. This article uses ethnographic data from Chiang Mai, Thailand, to examine how values surrounding food and food cultures are being sustained, are adapting and are being transformed. It examines both supermarkets and fresh markets as places where the values unfold in different ways. In discussing …
Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students
BACKGROUND: Thailand is undergoing a health-risk transition with overweight and obesity emerging as an important population health problem. This paper reports on a study of the transition, focusing on "lifestyle" factors such as diet (fried foods, soft drinks, Western-style fast foods) and physical activity (mild, moderate, strenuous exercise, housework/gardening and screen time). METHODS: A baseline survey was administered to 87 134 adult studen…
The Sex of Slimming
Advancing Food Sovereignty or Nostalgia
Food sovereignty is a trans-national movement that asserts the right of people to govern their own food system as an alternative to neoliberal food policies. In 2005, the Japanese government introduced the Basic Law of Shokuiku (food and nutrition education) to promote national food self-sufficiency, improve public health, and preserve local culinary culture through domestic food consumption. This paper argues that the campaign attempts to advanc…
Practices for Political Impact and Practice Theories for Profession Building
The readily available community work literature provides divergent views of the value of community work. The practice literature presents optimistic accounts of community work's contribution to ‘planned’ social change. In contrast, the radical community work literature is dismissive of any social change claims. By focusing upon community work's political nature at the expense of professionally driven acts, much of this writing provides pessimisti…
Feminist Community Work's Ambivalence with Politics
A popular feminist principle in community work emphasises egalitarian relations between women. The ‘false equality trap’ of sisterhood has been highlighted recently through demonstrating women's different experiences of gender oppression. However, in making experiential diversity the starting point for practice it is possible to overlook power relations. A gendered relations perspective keeps the relations between men and women to the fore, while…
Applying logics of change to the evaluation of community development in health promotion
Evaluation of community-oriented health promotion programs require that professional evaluators clearly distinguish between exogenously and endogenously defined goals and definitions of ‘success’. Acknowledging the different dynamics which underpin community-led change and externally initiated health programs and interventions is essential to this task. It will be argued that the intersection of, and boundaries around, exogenous and endogenous ch…
A cultural economy model for studying food systems
Retreat from within
This article reports on research undertaken with the Australian schools of social work regarding their teaching of community work. It uses a similar Canadian study and other material to suggest why some schools are decreasing the content and status of community work in their courses. The renewed emphasis that some northern hemisphere governments are placing on community interventions is described as a basis for encouraging social work education t…
Reflexive Accumulation and Global Restructuring
Chicken consumption in Australia resembles that in the U.S., but a comparison of the restructuring of poultry production in both countries shows some significant differences. This finding raises the question of what lies behind the emergence of similar consumption norms when consumption is often explained in terms of production regimes. The article explores the success of Australian producers in rejecting global free trade pressures while acquies…
Instrument translation process
Background. Cross‐cultural and international collaborative studies are needed in nursing research. Therefore, it is necessary to translate research instruments into the language of the culture being studied. In this methods review, different processes of instrument translation and evaluation of translation adequacy in published nursing research are described and classified into a hierarchy. Methods. Studies including translation of quantitative r…
Exploring the intersectoral partnerships guiding Australia's dietary advice
In 1986, the Ottawa Charter alerted a new generation of health promotion practitioners to the benefits of working with the non-health sectors, including the commercial sector. Since then, the establishment of partnerships with government and non-government bodies has been advanced as a positive way of fostering policies that enhance health and well-being. The food and nutrition field has enthusiastically adopted partnerships between government, n…
Re-embedding trust
Recent controversies surrounding the food industry and its contribution to diet-related illnesses provide fertile ground for re-examining where power lies in food systems. A review of the literature reveals a wide range of powerful actors, contradictory assessments about consumer power and numerous examples of producers and medical authorities expending significant effort to shape the criteria by which consumers exercise choice. Expertise from th…
Resource-Conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries
Despite great recent progress, hunger and poverty remain widespread and agriculturally driven environmental damage is widely prevalent. The idea of agricultural sustainability centers on the need to develop technologies and practices that do not have adverse effects on environmental goods and services, and that lead to improvements in food productivity. Here we show the extent to which 286 recent interventions in 57 poor countries covering 37 M h…
Car-centered Diets, Social Stratification and Cultural Mobility
This article describes the centrality of cars to food provisioning in Australia. We provide an overview of ethnographic research conducted to explore a range of car-centered diets. This research, augmented by a handful of interviews with managers and consumers of four car-centered points of food exchange, suggests that the car provides a vehicle for multiple dietary practices. We note that in the Australian context lack of access to a car constra…
The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems
There is increasing recognition that the nutrition transition sweeping the world's cities is multifaceted. Urban food and nutrition systems are beginning to share similar features, including an increase in dietary diversity, a convergence toward "Western-style" diets rich in fat and refined carbohydrate and within-country bifurcation of food supplies and dietary conventions. Unequal access to the available dietary diversity, calories, and gastron…
Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity
This paper outlines briefly how the living environment can affect health. It explains the links between social and environmental determinants of health in urban settings. Interventions to improve health equity through the environment include actions and policies that deal with proximal risk factors in deprived urban areas, such as safe drinking water supply, reduced air pollution from household cooking and heating as well as from vehicles and ind…
Reinstating Pierre Bourdieu's contribution to cultural economy theorizing
Systematic 'cultural economy' analysis is a recent development in a long history of sociological thought about the relationship between economy and culture. Two recent benchmark texts demonstrate various innovative ways of doing cultural economy. However, we believe these books betray ambiguity about the historical roots of cultural economy theory, and overlook the multiple disciplinary perspectives that engage with these ideas. Surprisingly, Pie…
Media Review
The Sex of Slimming
Associations between urbanisation and components of the health-risk transition in Thailand. A descriptive study of 87,000 Thai adults
BACKGROUND: Social and environmental changes have accompanied the ongoing rapid urbanisation in a \nnumber of countries during recent decades. Understanding of its role in the health-risk transition is important \nfor health policy development at national and local level. Thailand is one country facing many of the health \nchallenges of urbanisation. \nOBJECTIVE: To identify potential associations between individual migration between rural and ur…
Associations between urbanisation and components of the health-risk transition in Thailand. A descriptive study of 87,000 Thai adults
BACKGROUND: Social and environmental changes have accompanied the ongoing rapid urbanisation in a number of countries during recent decades. Understanding of its role in the health-risk transition is important for health policy development at national and local level. Thailand is one country facing many of the health challenges of urbanisation. OBJECTIVE: To identify potential associations between individual migration between rural and urban area…
Introduction to the special symposium
Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students
BACKGROUND: Thailand is undergoing a health-risk transition with overweight and obesity emerging as an important population health problem. This paper reports on a study of the transition, focusing on "lifestyle" factors such as diet (fried foods, soft drinks, Western-style fast foods) and physical activity (mild, moderate, strenuous exercise, housework/gardening and screen time). METHODS: A baseline survey was administered to 87 134 adult studen…
From the imperial to the empty calorie
Theory driven research designs for explaining behavioural health risk transitions
Developing a Short Form of the Simple Rathus Assertiveness Schedule Using a Sample of Adults With Sickle Cell Disease
Purpose: Ethnic and cultural norms influence an individual’s assertiveness. In health care, assertiveness may play an important role in health outcomes, especially for predominantly minority populations, such as adults with sickle cell disease. Therefore, it is important to develop measures to accurately assess assertiveness. It is also important to reduce response burden of lengthy instruments while retaining instrument reliability and validity.…
Fresh market to supermarket
Objective A preliminary investigation into different eating patterns among Thai consumers who shop at fresh markets as opposed to supermarkets in Chiang Mai. Design A short questionnaire adopted from a previous study was administered to the forty-four participants, who comprised supermarket users, fresh market users and people who consistently shopped at both supermarkets and fresh markets. Setting Participants were recruited within four fresh ma…
Habits of a lifetime
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
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