Jane Sandall
Biographic Data
| ID | 109440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Sandall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandall |
| SIGNATURE | SANDALL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2000-743X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
I Was an Incubator
A global scoping review of community-based mentoring interventions for adolescent girls during pregnancy and after birth
Background: Integrated, evidence-based interventions across health, education, and social systems are needed to support child and adolescent development, especially for pregnant adolescents. While youth mentoring interventions show promise in improving health and well-being outcomes, existing studies largely exclude this population group. To address this gap, we conducted a global scoping review of community-based mentoring interventions for adol…
Identification of psychosocial problems in routine antenatal care in Ethiopia
In this facility-based cross-sectional survey in primary health care centres in southern Ethiopia, women attending for antenatal care (ANC) were screened for depression (PHQ-9; score ≥ 5 and functionally impaired), anxiety symptoms (GAD-7; score ≥ 10), post-traumatic stress disorder (PCL-5 score ≥ 31), intimate partner violence (IPV; non-graphic language screening test) and risky substance use (ASSIST). Clinical notes were reviewed post-consultat…
The role of poverty-related social determinants in maternal and perinatal health inequities
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Maternal and early childhood health and social outcomes of migrants in high-income countries and the impact of policies that restrict access to healthcare; a systematic review and meta-analysis
Migrant women and children face mixed maternal and child health outcomes in HICs • Emergency caesarean, low Apgar, and perinatal mental health risks are elevated • Restrictive healthcare policies may contribute to adverse perinatal outcomes • Evidence from countries with inclusive policies and on child health is limited • Further research is needed to inform equitable care and policy for migrant families The “healthy migrant effect” suggests migr…
Meaningful community engagement and involvement in global health and research
Empowering and enabling communities to have control over decisions that affect their lives and giving them a genuine voice, is essential to achieving transformational impact and health for all, especially for the most disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalised communities [1]. Much learning has been shared in recent years from a number of programmes and clinical trials [...]
Curating the digital space
Digital health occupies an increasingly important role within the context of managing risk and safety in pregnancy. Women routinely use websites, mobile phone apps and social media platforms to learn about ‘normal’ pregnancy related changes and potential signs of a complication. This paper shifts attention from women's digital experiences to explore staff responsibilities in relation to women's online practices during pregnancy. We draw on Thomas…
Developing shared understanding of pre-eclampsia in Haiti and Zimbabwe using Theory of Change
Pre-eclampsia, a complex and multi-system disorder specific to pregnancy, is a leading cause of preventable maternal and perinatal deaths in low-resource settings. Early detection and appropriate intervention with management of hypertension, prevention of eclampsia and timely delivery are effective at reducing mortality and morbidity. Outcomes can be greatly improved with the provision and uptake of good quality care. Cultural contexts of materna…
HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care
To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…
Sensitive, Challenging, and Difficult Topics
Qualitative researchers often engage in work addressing challenging, difficult, or sensitive topics and are consequently exposed to the participants' narratives which may be emotionally charged, distressing, or compromising. These narratives occasionally rest heavy on a researcher's conscience or may linger in the mind. Much literature has assessed how best to keep participants safe, but less attention has been given to how we keep researchers sa…
Disclosure of non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse
Non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse is an important issue to research, though often regarded as taboo and frequently met with caution, avoidance or even opposition from research ethics committees. Sensitive research, such as that which asks victim-survivors to recount experiences of abuse or harm, has the propensity to be emotionally challenging for both the participant and the researcher. However, most research suggests that any distres…
Project20
The findings of this study contribute to concerns highlighted in previous literature around interpreter services in the wider healthcare arena, particularly around the lack of regulation and access to high-quality interpretation. This is thought to have a significant effect on pregnant women who are living socially complex lives as they are not able to communicate their concerns and access support. This not only impacts on their safety and pregna…
Addressing inequities in maternal health among women living in communities of social disadvantage and ethnic diversity
The response to the coronavirus outbreak and how the disease and its societal consequences pose risks to already vulnerable groups such those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority groups. Researchers and community groups analysed how the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated persisting vulnerabilities, socio-economic and structural disadvantage and discrimination faced by many communities of social disadvantage and ethnic diversit…
A mixed-methods feasibility study of an intervention to improve men’s mental health and wellbeing during their transition to fatherhood
This study assessed recruitment of first-time fathers, time to complete recruitment, and retention rates and identified outcome measures that could be used in a future definitive study. While it wasn't possible to examine the potential changes following the use of the Promotional Guide system, the study reported on the changes in the fathers' 'states' in the antenatal and postnatal period. It provided a narrative on whether first-time fathers fou…
Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth
In a postcolonial, deeply patriarchal culture, decisions are often made for Indian women about every aspect of their life – beginning with whether they will be allowed to be born. This is followed by every life decision, including education and marriage. A ‘surrogate decision-maker’ is a guardian who decides for an adult incapable of making their own decisions due to a mental health condition, or as a substitute based on a patient’s stated or pre…
Health system redesign for equity in maternal and newborn health must be codesigned, country led, adapted to context and fit for purpose
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The Cultural Politics of ‘Implementation Science’
Despite the growing profile of ‘implementation science’, its status as a field of study remains ambiguous. Implementation science originates in the evidence-based movement and attempts to broaden the scope of evidence-based medicine to improve ‘clinical effectiveness’ and close the ‘implementation gap’. To achieve this agenda, implementation science draws on methodologies from the social sciences to emphasise coherence between qualitative and qua…
She was accused of colluding with the mother”; the training and support needs of parent‐and‐child foster carers
Parent‐and‐child foster placements are used to accommodate parents with their children, either when the mother is a looked‐after child or as a setting for a parenting assessment. Despite this being a specialized role with significant potential for affecting outcomes for disadvantaged families, there is currently a lack of accessible learning opportunities for foster carers on the physical and mental well‐being of women with complex needs such as …
Mental health and wellbeing during the transition to fatherhood
Short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children
Employing the arts for knowledge production and translation
OBJECTIVES: This project used animated film to translate research findings into accessible health information aimed at enabling women to speak up and secure professional help for serious safety concerns during pregnancy and after birth. We tested as proof of concept our use of the arts both as product (knowledge production) and process (enabling involvement). BACKGROUND: Emergencies during pregnancy and birth, while unusual, can develop rapidly a…
Place of Birth and Concepts of Wellbeing
A bstract This article is based on analysis of a series of ethnographic case studies of midwifery units in England. Midwifery units 1 are spaces that were developed to provide more home-like and less medically oriented care for birth that would support physiological processes of labour, women’s comfort and a positive experience of birth for women and their families. They are run by midwives, either on a hospital site alongside an obstetric unit (…
Healthcare quality and safety
Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of ergonomics and human factors. These have enabled significant advances in our understanding and management of quality and safety. However, a parallel and at time neglected sociological literature on clinical quality and safety is presented as offering …
Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality
The contributions to this collection address technologies, practices, experiences and the organisation of quality and safety across a wide range of healthcare contexts. Spanning three continents, from hospital to community, maternity to mental health, they shine a light into the boardrooms, back offices and front-lines of healthcare, offering sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians and patients. We review these article…
The social practice of rescue
The normative position in acute hospital care when a patient is seriously ill is to resuscitate and rescue. However, a number ofUKand international reports have highlighted problems with the lack of timely recognition, treatment and referral of patients whose condition is deteriorating while being cared for on hospital wards. This article explores the social practice of rescue, and the structural and cultural influences that guide the categorisat…
Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening
Sensitive, Challenging, and Difficult Topics
Qualitative researchers often engage in work addressing challenging, difficult, or sensitive topics and are consequently exposed to the participants' narratives which may be emotionally charged, distressing, or compromising. These narratives occasionally rest heavy on a researcher's conscience or may linger in the mind. Much literature has assessed how best to keep participants safe, but less attention has been given to how we keep researchers sa…
Decentred comparative research
Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems
Theories of professions and healthcare organisation have difficulty in explaining variation in the organisation of maternity services across developed welfare states. Four countries - the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada - serve as our case examples. While sharing several features, including political and economic systems, publicly-funded universal healthcare and favourable health outcomes, these countries nevertheless have dis…
Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary-work in the IVF/PGD clinic
Implementação da presença de acompanhantes durante a internação para o parto
As evidências sobre os benefícios do apoio contínuo durante o parto levou à recomendação de que este apoio deve ser oferecido a todas as mulheres. No Brasil, ele é garantido por lei desde 2005, mas os dados sobre a sua implementação são escassos. Nosso objetivo foi estimar a frequência e fatores sociodemográficos, obstétricos e institucionais associados à presença de acompanhantes durante o parto na pesquisa Nascer no Brasil. Foi feita análise es…
On being at higher risk
The impact of perceived stigma and mediating social factors on infertility-related stress among women seeking infertility treatment in Southern Ghana
Choosing embryos
The technique of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is commonly explained as a way of checking the genes of embryos produced by IVF for serious genetic diseases. However, complex accounts of this technique emerged during ethics discussion groups held for PGD staff. These form part of a study exploring the social processes, meanings and institutions that frame and produce 'ethical problems' for practitioners, scientists and others working in …
Overcoming gendered and professional hierarchies in order to facilitate escalation of care in emergency situations
Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality
The contributions to this collection address technologies, practices, experiences and the organisation of quality and safety across a wide range of healthcare contexts. Spanning three continents, from hospital to community, maternity to mental health, they shine a light into the boardrooms, back offices and front-lines of healthcare, offering sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians and patients. We review these article…
Someone's rooting for you
Cesariana e resultados neonatais em hospitais privados no Brasil
Objetiva-se comparar a prevalência de cesariana e desfechos neonatais de dois modelos de atenção ao parto em hospitais privados brasileiros, utilizando-se dados do estudo Nascer no Brasil, coorte de base hospitalar realizada nos anos 2011/2012. Foram analisadas 1.664 puérperas e seus conceptos, atendidos em 13 hospitais localizados na Região Sudeste, divididos em "típico" - modelo de atenção padrão, e "atípico" - Hospital Amigo da Criança com equ…
Social Service Professional or Market Expert
Recent developments in the organization and practice of healthcare, driven by the introduction of (quasi-) markets and privatization, are altering traditional forms of professionalism found in high- and middle-income countries. Yet there remains debate about whether these neoliberal trends are universal or country specific, and whether they have any effect (positive or negative) on health service delivery. This article develops a comparative anal…
The social practice of rescue
The normative position in acute hospital care when a patient is seriously ill is to resuscitate and rescue. However, a number ofUKand international reports have highlighted problems with the lack of timely recognition, treatment and referral of patients whose condition is deteriorating while being cared for on hospital wards. This article explores the social practice of rescue, and the structural and cultural influences that guide the categorisat…
The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care
The social dimensions of safety incident reporting in maternity care
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
Continuity of Midwifery Care in England
Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has examined the relationship between gender and professionalization using female professional projects to illustrate how the generic notion of a profession has been a gendered one. This paper develops Witz's (1990) theory of professional strategies in female‐dominated occupations particularly regarding midwives in Britain in the twentieth century and suggests that an important dimension that…
She was accused of colluding with the mother”; the training and support needs of parent‐and‐child foster carers
Parent‐and‐child foster placements are used to accommodate parents with their children, either when the mother is a looked‐after child or as a setting for a parenting assessment. Despite this being a specialized role with significant potential for affecting outcomes for disadvantaged families, there is currently a lack of accessible learning opportunities for foster carers on the physical and mental well‐being of women with complex needs such as …
The impact of birthplace on women's birth experiences and perceptions of care
How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study
Born in the USA
In lay terms, childbirth is regarded as a purely biological event: what is more natural than birth and death? On the other hand, social scientists have long understood that 'natural' events are socially structured. In the case of birth, sociologists have examined the social and cultural shaping of its timing, outcome, and the organization of care throughout the perinatal period. Continuing in this tradition, we examine the peculiar social design …
Continuity of Midwifery Care in England
Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has examined the relationship between gender and professionalization using female professional projects to illustrate how the generic notion of a profession has been a gendered one. This paper develops Witz’s (1990) theory of professional strategies in female‐dominated occupations particularly regarding midwives in Britain in the twentieth century and suggests that an important dimension that…
Surrogate decision-making’ in India for women competent to consent and choose during childbirth
In a postcolonial, deeply patriarchal culture, decisions are often made for Indian women about every aspect of their life – beginning with whether they will be allowed to be born. This is followed by every life decision, including education and marriage. A ‘surrogate decision-maker’ is a guardian who decides for an adult incapable of making their own decisions due to a mental health condition, or as a substitute based on a patient’s stated or pre…
Continuity of Midwifery Care in England
Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has examined the relationship between gender and professionalization using female professional projects to illustrate how the generic notion of a profession has been a gendered one. This paper develops Witz's (1990) theory of professional strategies in female‐dominated occupations particularly regarding midwives in Britain in the twentieth century and suggests that an important dimension that…
Continuity of Midwifery Care in England
Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has examined the relationship between gender and professionalization using female professional projects to illustrate how the generic notion of a profession has been a gendered one. This paper develops Witz’s (1990) theory of professional strategies in female‐dominated occupations particularly regarding midwives in Britain in the twentieth century and suggests that an important dimension that…
Effect of Experimenter Attire and Sex on Participant Productivity
The experimental environment is complex and many subtle variables can influence the research findings. We investigated whether the sex of experimenter, the formality of experimenter attire, and the sex of participant affected respondents' productivity when asked to describe a business executive. The results revealed a significant interaction between experimenter sex and attire. Participants generated more terms and took longer to describe the bus…
Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening
Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems
Theories of professions and healthcare organisation have difficulty in explaining variation in the organisation of maternity services across developed welfare states. Four countries - the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada - serve as our case examples. While sharing several features, including political and economic systems, publicly-funded universal healthcare and favourable health outcomes, these countries nevertheless have dis…
Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary-work in the IVF/PGD clinic
Decentred comparative research
On being at higher risk
The impact of perceived stigma and mediating social factors on infertility-related stress among women seeking infertility treatment in Southern Ghana
Choosing embryos
The technique of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is commonly explained as a way of checking the genes of embryos produced by IVF for serious genetic diseases. However, complex accounts of this technique emerged during ethics discussion groups held for PGD staff. These form part of a study exploring the social processes, meanings and institutions that frame and produce 'ethical problems' for practitioners, scientists and others working in …
Knowledge to Action
Dopson, S. and Fitzgerald, L. (eds) Knowledge to Action: Evidence-based Healthcare in Context . Oxford : Oxford University Press 2005 xi + 223pp £55.00 ISBN 0-19-925901-1 (hbk) In this book the editors aim to explore why implementation of change (and evidence-based healthcare) is so difficult in professionalised organisations. The authors aim to shed light on why some attempts succeed and some fail by exploring what they call under-researched iss…
Someone's rooting for you
How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study
Born in the USA
In lay terms, childbirth is regarded as a purely biological event: what is more natural than birth and death? On the other hand, social scientists have long understood that 'natural' events are socially structured. In the case of birth, sociologists have examined the social and cultural shaping of its timing, outcome, and the organization of care throughout the perinatal period. Continuing in this tradition, we examine the peculiar social design …
Social Service Professional or Market Expert
Recent developments in the organization and practice of healthcare, driven by the introduction of (quasi-) markets and privatization, are altering traditional forms of professionalism found in high- and middle-income countries. Yet there remains debate about whether these neoliberal trends are universal or country specific, and whether they have any effect (positive or negative) on health service delivery. This article develops a comparative anal…
Overcoming gendered and professional hierarchies in order to facilitate escalation of care in emergency situations
Inside ‘Inside View’
BACKGROUND: The role of applied theatre in engaging both lay and professional publics with debate on health policy and practice is an emergent field. This paper discusses the development, production performance and discussion of 'Inside View'. OBJECTIVES: The objectives were to produce applied theatre from research findings of a completed study on genetic prenatal screening, exploring the dilemmas for women and health professionals of prenatal ge…
Implementing 'translational' biomedical research
Freestanding midwifery units versus obstetric units
Background: Social inequity in perinatal and maternal health is a well-documented health problem even in countries with a high level of social equality. We aimed to study whether the effect of birthplace on perinatal and maternal morbidity, birth interventions and use of pain relief among low risk women intending to give birth in two freestanding midwifery units (FMU) versus two obstetric units in Denmark differed by level of social disadvantage
The social dimensions of safety incident reporting in maternity care
The impact of birthplace on women's birth experiences and perceptions of care
PP21 Organisational Influences on Variation in Rates of Caesarean Section Among English NHS Trusts after Accounting for Maternal and Clinical Risk
Background The proportion of women in England having a caesarean has increased from 9% to 24.8% between 1980 and 2012. There is increasing attention focused on the short and long term effects on the mother and the baby and efforts to have an increased understanding of associated influences. Previous research has adjusted for population case-mix (Bragg al 2010), but there has been less research on the relative impact of organisational factors whic…
Nd Sociology Of Health & Illness Monograph Call For Abstracts
Improving the quality and safety of healthcare is a global priority. The 22nd Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph will bring together empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions to progress a distinctive sociological understanding of this rapidly developing field. The intention is to showcase papers that apply sociological conceptualisations and critiques to quality and safety across diverse international contexts, expand orthodox…
To what extent are women free to choose where to give birth? How discourses of risk, blame and responsibility influence birth place decisions
Over the past 50 years, two things have changed for women giving birth in high-income nations; birth has become much safer, and now takes place in hospital rather than at home. The extent to which these phenomena are related is a source of ongoing debate, but concern about high intervention rates in hospitals, and financial pressures on health care systems, have led governments, clinicians and groups representing women to support a return to birt…
The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care
Medicine (35 works) · Political science (31 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Nursing (23 works) · Health care (22 works) · Public relations (16 works) · Pregnancy (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (14 works)