Nicholas Low
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 993305 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas Low |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas |
| APELLIDO | Low |
| FIRMA | LOW N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4817-8986 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Polarization and health-related behaviors and outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic
A peer-educator driven approach for sampling populations at increased mpox risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The epidemiological risk factors associated with mpox acquisition and severity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are changing. We assessed perceived mpox risk, and behavioral, clinical and sexual histories among key populations at risk of acquisition through sexual contact. Here, we describe a sampling strategy to enroll participants considered to be at increased risk for mpox infection - men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex worker…
Understanding the factors affecting global political priority for controlling sexually transmitted infections
INTRODUCTION: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a significant public health challenge, but there is a perceived lack of political priority in addressing STIs as a global health issue. Our study aimed to understand the determinants of global political priority for STIs since the 1980s and to discern implications for future prioritisation. METHODS: Through semistructured interviews from July 2021 to February 2022, we engaged 20 key stakeho…
The prioritisation of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Zambia and Papua New Guinea
Curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are neglected in public health policy, services and society at large. Effective interventions are available for some STI but seem not to be prioritised at global, regional or local levels. Zambia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have a high burden of STIs among pregnant women but little is known about the prioritisation of STI treatment and care among this group. We undertook a qualitative study to explore…
Authorship inequalities in global health research
BACKGROUND: The International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS conducts research in several regions, including in Southern Africa. We assessed authorship inequalities for the Southern African region, which is led by South African and Swiss investigators. METHODS: We analysed authorships of publications from 2007 to 2020 by gender, country income group, time and citation impact. We used 2020 World Bank categories to define income groups and…
The use of newborn foot length to identify low birth weight and preterm babies in Papua New Guinea
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Condom use and HIV testing among adults in Switzerland
Monitoring of condom use, and HIV testing should continue and contribute to the development of the national sexual health programme. Stronger promotion of condoms for people with opposite-sex partners might be needed, since overall condom use at last intercourse has not changed since 2007
Socio-demographic characteristics associated with Covid-19 vaccination uptake in Switzerland
Our results suggest that socio-demographic factors as well as individual behaviours and attitudes played an important role in COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Switzerland. Therefore, appropriate communication with the public is needed to ensure that public health interventions are accepted and implemented by the population. Tailored COVID-19 vaccination strategies in Switzerland that aim to improve uptake should target specific subgroups such as wo…
Environmental justice dialogues and the struggle for human dignity in the deciduous forest of Bangladesh
The article presents environmental justice dialogues in, and affecting, the Madhupur Garo community in Bangladesh. The Garo community, which identifies itself as adivasi meaning 'indigenous', has occupied the deciduous forest of Madhupur in Bangladesh for centuries, developing a symbiotic relationship with nature. An environmental justice movement, called the "Eco-park Movement" has long protested a government development plan to establishing an …
Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis
OBJECTIVE: To generate estimates of the global prevalence and incidence of urogenital infection with chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis in women and men, aged 15-49 years, in 2016. METHODS: For chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomoniasis, we systematically searched for studies conducted between 2009 and 2016 reporting prevalence. We also consulted regional experts. To generate estimates, we used Bayesian meta-analysis. For syphilis, …
Being and planning, world formation and authenticity in Heideggerian analysis
The theory of being helps us understand the condition of planning in an evanescent, shape-shifting world and how to be a strategic planner in such a world. Martin Heidegger’s investigation of being reveals important and sometimes disconcerting insights into humans and the worlds they inhabit and generate. In this article, we use Heidegger’s framework of thought to reveal what being means for planners and planning. In our investigation, we focus o…
Social Factors Associated with Readiness for Sexual Activity in Adolescents
Circumcision and HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Britain
Sexual Mixing and HIV Risk Among Ethnic Minority MSM in Britain
Vaginal practices as women's agency in Sub-Saharan Africa
P1-327 Evidence supporting the use of reduced dose schedules for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines
Introduction Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) are designed to protect against Streptococcus pneumoniae disease. The first PCV (7-valent) was licensed based on clinical efficacy of 3 primary doses in infancy and a booster (“3p+1”). Many countries have since introduced reduced dose schedules; in 2010, 19 countries were using 2p+1 and 21 were using 3p+1 schedules. Evidence supporting the use of the 2p+1 schedule was examined in a systematic re…
P1-48 Mathematical models to inform the design, analysis and interpretation of vaccine trials
Background When planning vaccine trials or interpreting results, it is not always clear which outcome measure best estimates the effect of the vaccine and at which time point it should be measured. We used a mathematical model to explore questions arising from the analysis of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage data from conjugate vaccine trials, in which the acquisition-rate ratio (ARR) is the desired effect measure. We determine the time at wh…
Prioritising prevention strategies for patients in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings
Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) offers opportunities to strengthen HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. We invited 27 ART programmes from urban settings in Africa, Asia and South America to participate in a survey, with the aim to examine what preventive services had been integrated in ART programmes. Twenty-two programmes participated; eight (36%) from South Africa, two from Brazil, two from Zambia and one each from Argen…
Testing for sexually transmitted infections in general practice
There are substantial geographical differences in the intensity of chlamydia and HIV testing in general practice. Interventions to facilitate sexually transmitted infection and HIV testing in general practice are needed to improve access to effective sexual health care. The use of routinely-collected laboratory, practice-level and demographic data for monitoring sexual health service provision and informing service planning should be more widely …
Sexual health of ethnic minority MSM in Britain (Mesh project)
The findings from this study will improve our understanding of the sexual health and needs of ethnic minority MSM in Britain
Disclosure, discrimination and desire
Using findings from a qualitative investigation based on in-depth email interviews with 47 Black and South Asian gay men in Britain, this paper explores the cross-cutting identities and discourses in relation to being both gay and from an ethnic minority background. Taking an intersectional approach, detailed accounts of identity negotiation, cultural pressures, experiences of discrimination and exclusion and the relationship between minority eth…
Romantic and Sexual Behavior in Young Adolescents
Adverse outcomes of teenage sexual activity are common in the United Kingdom. The authors used a computer-assisted interview to ask young adolescents aged 11 to 12 years ( N = 6,856) and 12 to 13 years ( N = 6,801) who were part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children about romantic and intimate behaviors. A total of 24% of 11- to 12-year-olds, and 41% of 12- to 13-year-olds reported holding hands, and 17% and 32%, respectively, re…
Institutional, technical and discursive path dependence in transport planning in Pakistan
International development organisations are the main source of technical and financial assistance for transport development in Pakistan. Transport planning and policy is driven by the belief that building roads and achieving a high level of motorisation will bring economic growth, regardless of dangerous levels of pollution and the sharp growth in the number of road traffic accidents. The purpose of this paper is to explore, through institutional…
Does population screening for Chlamydia trachomatisraise anxiety among those tested? Findings from a population based chlamydia screening study
Postal screening for chlamydia does not appear to have a negative impact on overall psychological well-being and can lead to a decrease in anxiety levels among respondents. There is, however, a clear difference between men and women in when this reduction occurs
Planning Politics and the State
Part 1 Planning practice and political theory: planning practice political theory. Part 2 Assenting theory: Max Weber and the rational state pluralism, the game and the rules neo-corporatism and the organic state neo-liberalism and the strong state. Part 3 Dissenting theory: neo-Marxist theory and the philosophy of praxis critical theory - state politics and rationality political theory, the state and planning.
Ecosocialisation and Environmental Planning
Karl Polanyi provided a theoretically astute guide to the political economy of the developed world in the 20th century. He left us with important concepts that can inform thought and action in the 21st century. Most importantly his work brings together a critical understanding of society, nature, and economy and can therefore provide conceptual keys to placing that elusive concept 'ecologically sustainable development' in the broad flow of social…
Vaginal practices as women's agency in Sub-Saharan Africa
Growth Machines and Regulation Theory
Experiential Learning in Planning Education
This paper presents the authors' views on the radical use of experien tial learning in a planning course. The paper begins by comparing the ories of education, explaining what is meant by the radical approach, and arguing for the adoption of such an approach in planning education. A well-known conceptual model of experiential learning is briefly out lined, that of D. A. Kolb, and an illustrative example is given of a particular experience: an int…
The Green State, Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty
Knowing and Steering
Habermas suggests that democracy means that a society is able to know itself and steer itself. This article builds on Habermas’ conception that mediatization is a central impediment to the realization of democracy, while recognizing the locally particular resolution of democratic dilemmas represented by any planning system. Using Victoria, Australia as an example, the article seeks to demonstrate that Habermas’ project offers a means of critiquin…
Ecosocialization or Countermodernization? Reviewing the Shifting ‘Storylines’ of Transport Planning
In recent decades, in most western countries, conventional transport planning has encountered growing social opposition from environmentalists and increasing scientific criticism on the grounds of its unsustainability. In some places, including the United Kingdom, the assumptions, beliefs and values (‘storylines’) about transport have shifted to some degree away from the car in favour of public and slow forms of transport. The article elaborates …
Romantic and Sexual Behavior in Young Adolescents
Adverse outcomes of teenage sexual activity are common in the United Kingdom. The authors used a computer-assisted interview to ask young adolescents aged 11 to 12 years ( N = 6,856) and 12 to 13 years ( N = 6,801) who were part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children about romantic and intimate behaviors. A total of 24% of 11- to 12-year-olds, and 41% of 12- to 13-year-olds reported holding hands, and 17% and 32%, respectively, re…
Sexually transmitted infections among Black young people in south-east London
Epidemiological research has found a ten-fold ethnic disparity in rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people in south-east London. A rapid ethnographic assessment was conducted as part of a first phase of work to reduce the risk of bacterial sexually transmitted infections among heterosexual youth of Black Caribbean and African extraction. Methods included secondary data-collection, semi-structured street and group observations, …
Homeless Youth
Public policies, as Edelman (1977) has pointed out ‘rest on the beliefs and perceptions of those who help to make them’. Policy on youth homelessness is no exception. A full understanding of youth homelessness. it is argued, requires an understanding of the belief systems of those who define the problem and who shape policy. This paper reports the results of a study of the perceptions of policy makers and the providers of services to youth
Situating Justice in the Environment
The rubric of sustainable development has now gained wide theoretical and political acceptance in the global community. However, after the Rio Declaration, each nation must now confront the specific question of how to decide between those industries and activities that are sustainable and those that are not when conflicting social and ecological interests are at stake. Any fundamental change to resource allocation will have social distributional …
Justice in and to the Environment
As the world moves towards increasing rather than reducing inequality, the question of justice forces itself on to the political agenda. But that agenda is also shaped today by people's growing fears for the future of the planetary environment. In this paper we explore the connection between just distributions of environmental values-justice in the environment-and the just relationship between humanity and nature-justice to the environment. We di…
The Central Business District of Melbourne and the Dispersal and Reconcentration of Capital
This paper is a discussion of the complex spatial dynamic at work in the second largest state capital in Australia. What is happening to the central business district, it is argued, has to be seen in the context of the interaction between the state government and private capital. The evolving sociospatial structure of Melbourne will continue to be conditioned by the changing balance between the opportunities for capital which arise in the course …
How many people actually use condoms? An investigation of motel clients in Managua
Spatial Equity in the Allocation of Funds to State Secondary Schools
Disproportionate attention is often focused on government programs which are adopted as part of a political platform. Yet these are often marginal in terms of the expenditures involved. Such is the case with education. The disadvantaged schools program introduced by the Whitlam Labor government involved only a very small outlay compared with the annual expenditure on education in Victoria. This paper argues that it is important to find ways of ev…
Centrism and the Provision of Services in Residential Areas
Being and planning, world formation and authenticity in Heideggerian analysis
The theory of being helps us understand the condition of planning in an evanescent, shape-shifting world and how to be a strategic planner in such a world. Martin Heidegger’s investigation of being reveals important and sometimes disconcerting insights into humans and the worlds they inhabit and generate. In this article, we use Heidegger’s framework of thought to reveal what being means for planners and planning. In our investigation, we focus o…
Social Factors Associated with Readiness for Sexual Activity in Adolescents
Circumcision and HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Britain
Institutional, technical and discursive path dependence in transport planning in Pakistan
International development organisations are the main source of technical and financial assistance for transport development in Pakistan. Transport planning and policy is driven by the belief that building roads and achieving a high level of motorisation will bring economic growth, regardless of dangerous levels of pollution and the sharp growth in the number of road traffic accidents. The purpose of this paper is to explore, through institutional…
Spatial equity and housing policy
Centrism and the Provision of Services in Residential Areas
Spatial Equity in the Allocation of Funds to State Secondary Schools
Disproportionate attention is often focused on government programs which are adopted as part of a political platform. Yet these are often marginal in terms of the expenditures involved. Such is the case with education. The disadvantaged schools program introduced by the Whitlam Labor government involved only a very small outlay compared with the annual expenditure on education in Victoria. This paper argues that it is important to find ways of ev…
Beyond General Systems Theory
Since modem town planning was first promulgated in the nineteenth century it has developed through three phases. Each phase has built on earlier ideas and grown out of the testing of these ideas in practice. The first phase was dominated by the visionary concerned with the physical city; the focus of the second phase was the decision-making structures which create the city. In the third and current phase the town planner has emerged as just one s…
Spatial equity and housing policy
Homeless Youth
Public policies, as Edelman (1977) has pointed out ‘rest on the beliefs and perceptions of those who help to make them’. Policy on youth homelessness is no exception. A full understanding of youth homelessness. it is argued, requires an understanding of the belief systems of those who define the problem and who shape policy. This paper reports the results of a study of the perceptions of policy makers and the providers of services to youth
The Central Business District of Melbourne and the Dispersal and Reconcentration of Capital
This paper is a discussion of the complex spatial dynamic at work in the second largest state capital in Australia. What is happening to the central business district, it is argued, has to be seen in the context of the interaction between the state government and private capital. The evolving sociospatial structure of Melbourne will continue to be conditioned by the changing balance between the opportunities for capital which arise in the course …
Experiential Learning in Planning Education
This paper presents the authors' views on the radical use of experien tial learning in a planning course. The paper begins by comparing the ories of education, explaining what is meant by the radical approach, and arguing for the adoption of such an approach in planning education. A well-known conceptual model of experiential learning is briefly out lined, that of D. A. Kolb, and an illustrative example is given of a particular experience: an int…
Class, Politics, and Planning
The fashion for Marxist analysis in planning theory has all but passed without a satisfactory answer being given to the question: what does the theory tell planners to do? This question can only be answered by conceiving of planning as a political activity in the broadest sense, and by examining Marxian political theory which deals with its subject through the perspective of class conflict. The Marxian concept of class, however, is problematic. I…
How many people actually use condoms? An investigation of motel clients in Managua
Growth Machines and Regulation Theory
Justice in and to the Environment
As the world moves towards increasing rather than reducing inequality, the question of justice forces itself on to the political agenda. But that agenda is also shaped today by people's growing fears for the future of the planetary environment. In this paper we explore the connection between just distributions of environmental values-justice in the environment-and the just relationship between humanity and nature-justice to the environment. We di…
Situating Justice in the Environment
The rubric of sustainable development has now gained wide theoretical and political acceptance in the global community. However, after the Rio Declaration, each nation must now confront the specific question of how to decide between those industries and activities that are sustainable and those that are not when conflicting social and ecological interests are at stake. Any fundamental change to resource allocation will have social distributional …
Contrasting trends in rates of genital chlamydial infection and ectopic pregnancy in South East Thames Region, England and Uppsala County, Sweden
Contrasting trends in rates of genital chlamydial infection and ectopic pregnancy in South East Thames Region, England and Uppsala County, Sweden: ecological study
Ecosocialization or Countermodernization? Reviewing the Shifting ‘Storylines’ of Transport Planning
In recent decades, in most western countries, conventional transport planning has encountered growing social opposition from environmentalists and increasing scientific criticism on the grounds of its unsustainability. In some places, including the United Kingdom, the assumptions, beliefs and values (‘storylines’) about transport have shifted to some degree away from the car in favour of public and slow forms of transport. The article elaborates …
Sexually transmitted infections among Black young people in south-east London
Epidemiological research has found a ten-fold ethnic disparity in rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people in south-east London. A rapid ethnographic assessment was conducted as part of a first phase of work to reduce the risk of bacterial sexually transmitted infections among heterosexual youth of Black Caribbean and African extraction. Methods included secondary data-collection, semi-structured street and group observations, …
Global Ethics and Environment
Introduction Nicholas Low. An Outline of the Problems Ahead Arne Naess. Part I: Environmental Justice Challenges. Environmental Justice Challenges at Home and Abroad Robert Bullard. Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalisation Vandana Shiva. Chernobyl, Global Environmental Injustice and Mutagenic Threats Kristin Shrader-Frechette. Justice, the Market and Climate Change Clive Hamilton. Part II: Environmental Justice: Issues of Principle. Consider…
Justice, Society and Nature
Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice of global institutions, the authors trace the layered structure of the philosophy of justice as it applies to environmental and ecological issues. Philo…
Ecosocialisation and Environmental Planning
Karl Polanyi provided a theoretically astute guide to the political economy of the developed world in the 20th century. He left us with important concepts that can inform thought and action in the 21st century. Most importantly his work brings together a critical understanding of society, nature, and economy and can therefore provide conceptual keys to placing that elusive concept 'ecologically sustainable development' in the broad flow of social…
Knowing and Steering
Habermas suggests that democracy means that a society is able to know itself and steer itself. This article builds on Habermas’ conception that mediatization is a central impediment to the realization of democracy, while recognizing the locally particular resolution of democratic dilemmas represented by any planning system. Using Victoria, Australia as an example, the article seeks to demonstrate that Habermas’ project offers a means of critiquin…
The Green State, Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty
Does population screening for Chlamydia trachomatisraise anxiety among those tested? Findings from a population based chlamydia screening study
Postal screening for chlamydia does not appear to have a negative impact on overall psychological well-being and can lead to a decrease in anxiety levels among respondents. There is, however, a clear difference between men and women in when this reduction occurs
Institutional, technical and discursive path dependence in transport planning in Pakistan
International development organisations are the main source of technical and financial assistance for transport development in Pakistan. Transport planning and policy is driven by the belief that building roads and achieving a high level of motorisation will bring economic growth, regardless of dangerous levels of pollution and the sharp growth in the number of road traffic accidents. The purpose of this paper is to explore, through institutional…
Romantic and Sexual Behavior in Young Adolescents
Adverse outcomes of teenage sexual activity are common in the United Kingdom. The authors used a computer-assisted interview to ask young adolescents aged 11 to 12 years ( N = 6,856) and 12 to 13 years ( N = 6,801) who were part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children about romantic and intimate behaviors. A total of 24% of 11- to 12-year-olds, and 41% of 12- to 13-year-olds reported holding hands, and 17% and 32%, respectively, re…
Prioritising prevention strategies for patients in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings
Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) offers opportunities to strengthen HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. We invited 27 ART programmes from urban settings in Africa, Asia and South America to participate in a survey, with the aim to examine what preventive services had been integrated in ART programmes. Twenty-two programmes participated; eight (36%) from South Africa, two from Brazil, two from Zambia and one each from Argen…
Testing for sexually transmitted infections in general practice
There are substantial geographical differences in the intensity of chlamydia and HIV testing in general practice. Interventions to facilitate sexually transmitted infection and HIV testing in general practice are needed to improve access to effective sexual health care. The use of routinely-collected laboratory, practice-level and demographic data for monitoring sexual health service provision and informing service planning should be more widely …
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