Christina Davies

Datos Biográficos

ID6813271
NOMBREChristina Davies
NOMBRESChristina
APELLIDODavies
FIRMADAVIES C
AFILIACIONESThe University of Western Australia
ORCID0000-0001-9216-1108
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities

    Open AccessSarah Clift, Stephen Clift et al.ARTICLECultural Trends2026

    The Creative Health Review (CHR) published in 2023 is an advocacy document by the UK National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The CHR defines creative health activities as visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature, cooking, gardening, and visits to cultural centres and heritage sites and claims that active promotion of such activities in socially disadvantaged communities …

  • Good Arts, Good Mental Health®

    Open AccessChristina Davies, Christina R Davies et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction This study describes and evaluates Good Arts, Good Mental Health ® (GAGMH), a groundbreaking, population-level, arts-mental health promotion media campaign. The objectives of the campaign (Wave 1) were to increase brand awareness, comprehension, and agreement with the tagline Good Arts, Good Mental Health ® and empower the general population to form an intention to engage in the Arts for their mental wellbeing. Methods The campaign r…

  • A new perspective to an old problem – Mobilizing research into policy and practice using an arts and health case study

    Open AccessChristina Davies, Melanie Pescud et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    A new perspective to an old problem – Mobilizing research into policy and practice using an arts and health case study

  • Is it premature to formulate recommendations for policy and practice, based on culture and health research? A robust critique of the CultureForHealth (2022) report

    Open AccessMette Kaasgaard, Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Arts and health practice and research has expanded rapidly since the turn of the millennium. A World Health Organization scoping review of a large body of evidence claims positive health benefits from arts participation and makes recommendations for policy and implementation of arts for health initiatives. A more recent scoping review (CultureForHealth) also claims that current evidence is sufficient to form recommendations for poli…

  • The art of aging well

    Open AccessChristina Davies, Christina R Davies et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: Evidence of the benefits of arts engagement to community wellbeing has been mounting since the 1990s. However, large scale, quantitative, epidemiological studies of the "arts-healthy aging" relationship, or the types of arts older adults voluntarily choose to engage in as part of their everyday life, for enjoyment, entertainment or as a hobby (vs. therapy or interventions) are limited. The aims of this study were to describe older a…

  • Which Food Security Determinants Predict Adequate Vegetable Consumption among Rural Western Australian Children

    Open AccessStephanie Godrich, Johnny Lo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Improving the suboptimal vegetable consumption among the majority of Australian children is imperative in reducing chronic disease risk. The objective of this research was to determine whether there was a relationship between food security determinants (FSD) (i.e., food availability, access, and utilisation dimensions) and adequate vegetable consumption among children living in regional and remote Western Australia (WA). Caregiver-child dyads ( n…

  • Culture, management and finances as key aspects for healthy workplace initiatives

    Open AccessPippa Waterworth, Griffith Trio et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2016

    The aim of this study was to qualitatively explore the barriers and enablers to implementing healthy workplace initiatives in a sample of workplaces based in Perth, Western Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with representatives from 31 organizations representing small, medium and large businesses in the Perth metropolitan area which reported having healthy workplace initiatives. In total, 43 factors were mentioned as influencing the i…

  • Which ecological determinants influence Australian children’s fruit and vegetable consumption?

    Open AccessStephanie Godrich, Christina Davies et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2016

    This study investigated determinants of fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among regional and remote Western Australian (WA) children, using an Ecological Model of Health Behaviour. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 key informants (Health Workers, Food Supply Workers, and School/Youth Workers) purposively sampled from across regional and remote WA. Interviews were transcribed, analysed thematically using QSR-NVivo 10 software, …

  • The art of being mentally healthy

    Open AccessChristina Davies, Matthew Knuiman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Evidence of an arts-mental health relationship was found in this study. Those who engaged in 100 or more hours/year of arts engagement (i.e. two or more hours/week) reported significantly better mental well-being than other levels of engagement. The suitability of the arts as a population based strategy to influence the mental well-being of the general population should be investigated further

  • Arts practice and disconnected youth in Australia

    Open AccessP Wright, Christina Davies et al.ARTICLEArts & Health2013Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    Background : This paper describes research conducted with Big h ART, Australia's most awarded participatory arts company. It considers three projects, LUCKY, GOLD and NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI across separate sites in Tasmania, Western NSW and Northern Territory, respectively, in order to understand project impact from the perspective of project participants, Arts workers, community members and funders. Methods : Semi-structured interviews were conduct…

  • Defining arts engagement for population-based health research

    Christina Davies, M Rosenberg et al.ARTICLEArts & Health2012Citada por: 5Referencias: 3

    Background: The arts and health evidence base needs to be grounded by common terminology and concepts from which original research and comparative studies can be developed. The aim of this study was to elucidate terminology central to understanding the arts and health causal pathway by defining arts engagement via art forms, activities and level (magnitude) of engagement. Method: The study design was cross-sectional. International experts (n = 28…