Connie Musolino
Biographic Data
| ID | 113278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connie Musolino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connie |
| FAMILY NAME | Musolino |
| SIGNATURE | MUSOLINO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3269-8883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
World Cafés as a method of identifying cross-sectoral policy solutions to social determinants of health equity in Australia
World Cafés are a method to promote inclusive, constructive dialogue to identify solutions to large scale problems. These attributes make World Cafés a potentially valuable tool for multi-sectoral dialogue to identify solutions to health promotion issues such as addressing social determinants of health inequities. However, there are few accounts of World Cafés being used to bring disparate sector knowledges together to address common problems. We…
Marxist concepts of alienation in relation to health: A narrative review of the evidence
Public health scholars are increasingly interested in the Marxist concept of alienation to explain the existence of health inequities. Marx’s use of the term stresses the crucial role of political economic structural factors in creating alienation. This article reports on a narrative review of literature that used Marx’s theory of alienation and focuses on the mental and/or physical health effects of alienation. Our search resulted in 34 relevant…
Medicare Without a Strong Community Health Sector Is a Loss to the Australian Health System
This article explores the politics that drove the interplay between the Whitlam government's 1973 Community Health Program (CHP) and the Hawke government's 1984 Medicare program. We draw on research which examines the history and development of the CHP through archival and oral history research. The CHP instituted a funding program for multidisciplinary, locally based health care with no costs to users. The program included one-on-one care servic…
Civil society and perilous medicine in Africa: A systematic review
Alienation and its relevance to public health: Response to commentaries by Muntaner et al and Dawson
FB, CM TF and JA were funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council GNT2009323 and additional research assistant support provided by internal grant from the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide
Twenty-first century alienation and health: A research agenda
Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The psychosocial impacts it generates are mediated through stress pathways to increase non-communicable physical and mental illnesses. There has been little empirical research on the impact of alienation on health and ways in which the impact might be re…
Non-government advocacy for health equity: Evidence from Australia
The aim of this paper is to identify non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for policy and practices to address rising health inequities in Australia. NGOs can play a critical role in shaping and influencing governance processes including public policy relating to the social and commercial determinants of health inequities. However, scholarship on who the NGOs are that are advocating to address health inequities in Australia and how the…
Health promotion and the need to accelerate advocacy for health equity
It has been 15 years since the final report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH)—‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ (CSDH, 2008)—was published. While there have been gains in overall health since then, improvements in health have not been equitably distributed and there is evidence of increasing inequities within OECD countries (Hu et al., 2016; Mackenbach et al., 2018). Reports from Oxfam and the World Inequality Lab have…
Improving Population Health and Health Equity: The Potential of Transitioning Public Open Spaces to Optimise the Production of Urban Ecological Services in Adelaide, South Australia
This research examines the potential of transitioning public “green spaces” to optimise health benefiting urban ecological services in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The research found strengths but also significant weaknesses. The major weaknesses observed were poor quality amenities and facilities within open spaces, low landscape complexity, poor maintenance and inadequate integration with the built form and pedestrian networks of the…
Thinking politically about intersectoral action: Ideas, Interests and Institutions shaping political dimensions of governing during Covid-19
Our paper examines the political considerations in the intersectoral action that was evident during the SAR-COV-2 virus (COVID-19) pandemic through case studies of political and institutional responses in 16 nations (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, UK, and USA). Our qualitative case study approach involved an iterative process of data gathering a…
Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global Covid-19 pandemic: Thematic analysis of 16 country case studies
Previous research on commercial determinants of health has primarily focused on their impact on non-communicable diseases. However, they also impact on infectious diseases and on the broader preconditions for health. We describe, through case studies in 16 countries, how commercial determinants of health were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they may have influenced national responses and health outcomes. We use a comparative qualita…
Through the wine glass: How biographical midlife transitions and women's affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption
Reviving health promotion in South Australia: The role of ideas, actors and institutional forces
Globally health promotion has remained marginalized while biomedical health systems have maintained and even increased their dominance. During 2019–2021 we drew on the local and historical knowledge of actors from multiple sectors through semi-structured interviews and focus groups, to assess the implications of the withdrawal of the state from health promotion in a suburban region of South Australia. Institutional theory enabled in-depth analysi…
Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity: Lessons from a failed Australian public policy
The 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) targeted Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory in Australia. The NTER imposed draconian measures unfavourable to health, contributing to health inequities. There is little research investigating why the NTER was framed so negatively, and how this framing passed into legislation so unassailably. We used institutional theory to understand what factors contributed to the NTER agenda fr…
Will neighbourhood liveability be promoted by new housing related planning policy in Adelaide, South Australia
Modifying my self: A qualitative study exploring agency, structure and identity for women seeking publicly funded plastic surgery in Australia
Our sociological knowledge base about plastic surgery has been predominantly constructed in free market contexts, leaving uncertainties as to how sociological theory around agency, identity, and structure apply in the context of publicly funded plastic surgeries. We draw on narratives of Australian women while waiting for abdominoplasty in the public system and recounting their post-surgical realities to understand the relational, dependent and i…
Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity: Examining Australia’s Northern Territory Emergency Response
The 2007 Australian Northern Territory Emergency Response policy was harmful to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thematically analysed 72 speech acts and reports from the three prominent perspectives: a Northern Territory government inquiry report, the Federal government, and an Aboriginal civil society coalition to examine how framings during the policy agenda setting phase constrained or supported scope for equitab…
The Feasibility of Transitioning Low-density Suburbs into Healthy Walkable Neighbourhoods: The Case of Adelaide, South Australia
Research has demonstrated that there are health and equity benefits attached to residing in neighbourhoods with the design, diversity and density required for walkability. Research has tended to show that the very low residential densities found in Australian suburbs are major obstacles to retrofitting walkability. We undertook a survey of 27 neighbourhoods and their activity centres in Adelaide, South Australia to ascertain the minimum residenti…
New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals
we demonstrate the value of combing a SDH and Bourdieu's capital lens to investigate GLED. We proposed a theoretical framework to guide future research
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Understanding and Treating SE-AN: Locating the Self in Culture
There has been a growing call for sociologically engaged research to better understand the complex processes underpinning Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN). Based on a qualitative study with women in Adelaide, South Australia who were reluctant to seek help for their disordered eating practices, this paper draws on anthropological concepts of embodiment to examine how SE-AN is experienced as culturally grounded. We argue that experienc…
Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All
The practical long-term experiences of the PHM activists examined in this study contribute to a better understanding of the processes and motivations that lead to and sustain health activism, and the dilemmas, strategies, impacts and achievements of such activism
Punching above their weight: A network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Further research using this framework has considerable potential to advance effective policies to advance health and equity
Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating
This article explores how desire operates in the daily lives of women with disordered eating. Based on qualitative findings from a South Australian study investigating why women with disordered eating are reluctant to seek help, we trace the multiple “tipping points” and triggers that are central to participants’ everyday experiences. Employing anthropological interpretations of desire, we argue that triggers are circulations of productive desire…
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Twenty-first century alienation and health: A research agenda
Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The psychosocial impacts it generates are mediated through stress pathways to increase non-communicable physical and mental illnesses. There has been little empirical research on the impact of alienation on health and ways in which the impact might be re…
Will neighbourhood liveability be promoted by new housing related planning policy in Adelaide, South Australia
Healthy anorexia: The complexity of care in disordered eating
Punching above their weight: A network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Further research using this framework has considerable potential to advance effective policies to advance health and equity
Positioning relapse and recovery through a cultural lens of desire: A South Australian case study of disordered eating
This article explores how desire operates in the daily lives of women with disordered eating. Based on qualitative findings from a South Australian study investigating why women with disordered eating are reluctant to seek help, we trace the multiple “tipping points” and triggers that are central to participants’ everyday experiences. Employing anthropological interpretations of desire, we argue that triggers are circulations of productive desire…
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Understanding and Treating SE-AN: Locating the Self in Culture
There has been a growing call for sociologically engaged research to better understand the complex processes underpinning Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN). Based on a qualitative study with women in Adelaide, South Australia who were reluctant to seek help for their disordered eating practices, this paper draws on anthropological concepts of embodiment to examine how SE-AN is experienced as culturally grounded. We argue that experienc…
Global health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All
The practical long-term experiences of the PHM activists examined in this study contribute to a better understanding of the processes and motivations that lead to and sustain health activism, and the dilemmas, strategies, impacts and achievements of such activism
The Feasibility of Transitioning Low-density Suburbs into Healthy Walkable Neighbourhoods: The Case of Adelaide, South Australia
Research has demonstrated that there are health and equity benefits attached to residing in neighbourhoods with the design, diversity and density required for walkability. Research has tended to show that the very low residential densities found in Australian suburbs are major obstacles to retrofitting walkability. We undertook a survey of 27 neighbourhoods and their activity centres in Adelaide, South Australia to ascertain the minimum residenti…
New Perspective on Why Women Live Longer Than Men: An Exploration of Power, Gender, Social Determinants, and Capitals
we demonstrate the value of combing a SDH and Bourdieu's capital lens to investigate GLED. We proposed a theoretical framework to guide future research
Reviving health promotion in South Australia: The role of ideas, actors and institutional forces
Globally health promotion has remained marginalized while biomedical health systems have maintained and even increased their dominance. During 2019–2021 we drew on the local and historical knowledge of actors from multiple sectors through semi-structured interviews and focus groups, to assess the implications of the withdrawal of the state from health promotion in a suburban region of South Australia. Institutional theory enabled in-depth analysi…
Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity: Lessons from a failed Australian public policy
The 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) targeted Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory in Australia. The NTER imposed draconian measures unfavourable to health, contributing to health inequities. There is little research investigating why the NTER was framed so negatively, and how this framing passed into legislation so unassailably. We used institutional theory to understand what factors contributed to the NTER agenda fr…
Will neighbourhood liveability be promoted by new housing related planning policy in Adelaide, South Australia
Modifying my self: A qualitative study exploring agency, structure and identity for women seeking publicly funded plastic surgery in Australia
Our sociological knowledge base about plastic surgery has been predominantly constructed in free market contexts, leaving uncertainties as to how sociological theory around agency, identity, and structure apply in the context of publicly funded plastic surgeries. We draw on narratives of Australian women while waiting for abdominoplasty in the public system and recounting their post-surgical realities to understand the relational, dependent and i…
Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity: Examining Australia’s Northern Territory Emergency Response
The 2007 Australian Northern Territory Emergency Response policy was harmful to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thematically analysed 72 speech acts and reports from the three prominent perspectives: a Northern Territory government inquiry report, the Federal government, and an Aboriginal civil society coalition to examine how framings during the policy agenda setting phase constrained or supported scope for equitab…
Illustrating the impact of commercial determinants of health on the global Covid-19 pandemic: Thematic analysis of 16 country case studies
Previous research on commercial determinants of health has primarily focused on their impact on non-communicable diseases. However, they also impact on infectious diseases and on the broader preconditions for health. We describe, through case studies in 16 countries, how commercial determinants of health were visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they may have influenced national responses and health outcomes. We use a comparative qualita…
Through the wine glass: How biographical midlife transitions and women's affective interpretations interact with alcohol consumption
Non-government advocacy for health equity: Evidence from Australia
The aim of this paper is to identify non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for policy and practices to address rising health inequities in Australia. NGOs can play a critical role in shaping and influencing governance processes including public policy relating to the social and commercial determinants of health inequities. However, scholarship on who the NGOs are that are advocating to address health inequities in Australia and how the…
Health promotion and the need to accelerate advocacy for health equity
It has been 15 years since the final report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH)—‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ (CSDH, 2008)—was published. While there have been gains in overall health since then, improvements in health have not been equitably distributed and there is evidence of increasing inequities within OECD countries (Hu et al., 2016; Mackenbach et al., 2018). Reports from Oxfam and the World Inequality Lab have…
Improving Population Health and Health Equity: The Potential of Transitioning Public Open Spaces to Optimise the Production of Urban Ecological Services in Adelaide, South Australia
This research examines the potential of transitioning public “green spaces” to optimise health benefiting urban ecological services in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The research found strengths but also significant weaknesses. The major weaknesses observed were poor quality amenities and facilities within open spaces, low landscape complexity, poor maintenance and inadequate integration with the built form and pedestrian networks of the…
Thinking politically about intersectoral action: Ideas, Interests and Institutions shaping political dimensions of governing during Covid-19
Our paper examines the political considerations in the intersectoral action that was evident during the SAR-COV-2 virus (COVID-19) pandemic through case studies of political and institutional responses in 16 nations (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, UK, and USA). Our qualitative case study approach involved an iterative process of data gathering a…
Civil society and perilous medicine in Africa: A systematic review
Alienation and its relevance to public health: Response to commentaries by Muntaner et al and Dawson
FB, CM TF and JA were funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council GNT2009323 and additional research assistant support provided by internal grant from the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide
Twenty-first century alienation and health: A research agenda
Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The psychosocial impacts it generates are mediated through stress pathways to increase non-communicable physical and mental illnesses. There has been little empirical research on the impact of alienation on health and ways in which the impact might be re…
World Cafés as a method of identifying cross-sectoral policy solutions to social determinants of health equity in Australia
World Cafés are a method to promote inclusive, constructive dialogue to identify solutions to large scale problems. These attributes make World Cafés a potentially valuable tool for multi-sectoral dialogue to identify solutions to health promotion issues such as addressing social determinants of health inequities. However, there are few accounts of World Cafés being used to bring disparate sector knowledges together to address common problems. We…
Marxist concepts of alienation in relation to health: A narrative review of the evidence
Public health scholars are increasingly interested in the Marxist concept of alienation to explain the existence of health inequities. Marx’s use of the term stresses the crucial role of political economic structural factors in creating alienation. This article reports on a narrative review of literature that used Marx’s theory of alienation and focuses on the mental and/or physical health effects of alienation. Our search resulted in 34 relevant…
Medicare Without a Strong Community Health Sector Is a Loss to the Australian Health System
This article explores the politics that drove the interplay between the Whitlam government's 1973 Community Health Program (CHP) and the Hawke government's 1984 Medicare program. We draw on research which examines the history and development of the CHP through archival and oral history research. The CHP instituted a funding program for multidisciplinary, locally based health care with no costs to users. The program included one-on-one care servic…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Business (6 works)