P Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 11605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5559-9714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 147 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 292 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 147 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Mechanisms for advancing universal health coverage in Kenya: A qualitative study
Background Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a cornerstone of Sustainable Development Goal 3, yet its implementation in Africa shows mixed results. This study explores mechanisms driving UHC progress in Kenya. Method Realist interviews were conducted with 44 key informants across Kenya's health ecosystem, including government officials, private sector representatives, insurance agency members, and community and faith-based organizations. The stu…
Frailty Among Older African Migrants in Australia: Validation, Item and Domain‐Level Analysis of a Culturally Adapted Instrument
From Despair to Hope: Perceptions and Experiences of Belonging in a ‘Hopeful Place’ for Men Who Have Sex with Men in Indonesia
The concept of hope is fundamentally intertwined with the notion of human freedom. In this paper, we explore the hopes of 24 men who have sex with men (MSM) interviewed in Yogyakarta in relation to place, which we refer to as a ‘hopeful place‘, a place that enables them to have hope for the future. This topic is significant because a place and its characteristics can influence, hinder, transform, create, or foster hope for the future. Data analys…
The Accordion Process: An Emancipatory Methodology for ‘How to’ Co-design Options for Health Policy to ‘Accord’ With Lay Priorities
Evidence supports the value of co-designing health policy through meaningful engagement with communities, ensuring their priorities are central to the process. However, there has been limited guidance for ‘how to’ authentically engage community members to create ideas for health policy guided by equity. This paper outlines a clear, actionable process for co-designing health policy that ‘accords’ with lay priorities - the Accordion Process. Using …
Over 30 years of HIV interventions in Indonesia: A bibliometric analysis and scoping review
Globally, approximately 40.8 million individuals are currently living with HIV, with over one million new infections and over half a million AIDS-related deaths reported each year, indicating the need for more tailored HIV interventions. HIV interventions in Indonesia have been delivered for over 30 years, yet recent data indicate a notable increase in new HIV infections over the past decade. This review comprehensively synthesises available evid…
HIV risk perception through unprotected sex after traditional male circumcision (the practice of sifon ) using the health belief model in West Timor, Indonesia
This study aimed to explore the HIV risk perception of having unprotected sexual intercourse following traditional male circumcision (TMC), a practice known as sifon, in West Timor, Indonesia. Guided by the Health Belief Model, we interviewed 34 men who underwent TMC, 7 traditional practitioners and 13 women who had engaged and analysed them thematically. The result showed that most of the participants had low HIV risk perception towards sifon pr…
Stakeholder Consensus on Strategies for Collaboration Between Traditional and Biomedical Mental Health Services in Post-Conflict Tigray, Ethiopia
Ongoing conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa negatively affect the population's mental health and weaken health care systems. Collaboration among stakeholders is recommended to strengthen mental health services in post-conflict settings, despite limited evidence on context-specific strategies. This paper aimed to identify strategies for collaboration between traditional and biomedical services to improve mental health care. An adapted nominal group te…
The mediating role of social networks and safety perceptions in the frailty–quality of life relationship among older people in rural and urban regions of Ghana
Frailty is a major public health concern among older people, particularly in resource-limited settings where it significantly reduces Quality of Life (QoL) and increases vulnerability to poor health outcomes. While social and environmental factors influencing frailty have been studied in high-income countries, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa remains scarce. This study examined the relationship between frailty and QoL in Ghana, focusing on the me…
Gendered marketing on takeaway alcohol products in Australia: A semiotic analysis of advertising to women
Alcohol companies invest heavily in marketing to shape consumer perceptions of what drinking means in social contexts. An international literature documents the way gendered expectations and associations are used in marketing campaigns to encourage women to drink alcohol. Our paper contributes new insight about gendered marketing on takeaway products in alcohol retail outlets with a particular focus on gendered affective (feeling) expectations an…
Sugar consumption in Aboriginal children explored from a social practice perspective
Australian Aboriginal children have higher sugar intake and are disproportionately affected by sugar-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes and dental caries than non-Aboriginal children. The intention of this paper was to highlight the need for approaches that can capture the complexity of health practices without reducing them to either individual choice or structural determination. We explore sugar consumption in Aboriginal children from a…
Lived Experience of Secondary Vicarious Trauma Among the Tegaru Australian Diaspora in the Postwar Context of Tigray
Background The war in Tigray has caused humanitarian and public health crises in North Ethiopia in addition to a high prevalence of mental health symptoms among the Tegaru (people from Tigray) diaspora in Australia. To date, there have been no studies that have explored mechanisms of vicarious mental health and resilience among Tegaru diasporas in Australia. Methods We conducted 14 in‐depth interviews with Tegaru people living in South Australia …
Development and validation of the S-TIMHSS: A quality metric to inform and evaluate interventions to (re)build trust
Introduction: Public acceptance of health messaging, recommendations, and policy is heavily dependent on the public's trust in doctors, health systems and health policy. Any erosion of public trust in these domains is thus a concern for public health as it can no longer be assumed that the public will follow official health recommendations. In response, the health policy and health services communities have emphasized a commitment to (re)building…
From past to present: Tracing Africa’s path to universal health coverage
At the 58th World Health Assembly in 2005, the international community charted a course for universal health coverage (UHC), aiming to ensure access to health care for all in need, of sufficient quality, and without causing financial hardship. At the time, barriers to accessing health care were overwhelming, particularly in low-and middle-income countries like Africa. Currently, 50 of Africa’s 54 countries are in various phases of UHC implementat…
‘Moderation Is the Holy Grail’: The Acceptability of ‘Sober Curious’ Tools for Alcohol Reduction Among Midlife Women
Pregnancy Termination Among Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence from the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey
The consequences associated with pregnancy termination have garnered attention from healthcare professionals, particularly in Indonesia. However, national-level evidence on the factors driving pregnancy termination in Indonesia remains limited. This research aimed to identify patterns and characteristics associated with pregnancy termination among reproductive-age women in Indonesia. A cross-sectional study analyzed secondary data from the 2012 a…
The Impacts of Parental Migration on the Mental and Physical Health, Daily Needs, and Social Lives of Indonesian Caregivers of Left-Behind Children: A Qualitative Study
Despite its positive impact on household income, parental labour migration negatively affects left-behind children (LBC) and their caregivers. Studies in various settings have reported different impacts on LBC, but less is known about the consequences faced by their caregivers. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to collect data from caregivers of LBC whose parents migrated for employment. Participants were recruited using the snowbal…
Understanding HIV-Related Mental Health Challenges and Contributing Factors Among Indonesian Adolescents Living with HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has disproportionately affected various population groups, including adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV). In many contexts, ALHIV have been reported to experience mental health issues following their HIV diagnosis. However, there is a limited understanding of the mental health issues faced by ALHIV in Indonesia and the various contributing factors globally. This study aimed to explore the mental health challenge…
A Hope for Hope: Refocusing Health Promotion on Hopefulness to Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer
Our perspective paper focuses on the sociology of hope and is a call to action for health promotion policy makers to create the conditions for hopefulness in alcohol reduction policy, advocacy and programs for/with midlife women. Alcohol is a major risk factor for breast cancer, and high proportions of midlife women in most high-income countries drink at "risky" levels, increasing the chances of breast cancer (due to both age and alcohol consumpt…
Structural conditions, social networks, and the HIV vulnerability among Indonesian male labour migrants and motorbike taxi drivers
The findings underscore the importance of social network peer interventions that consider the dynamics of these networks. Such interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing HIV-risk behaviours and transmission, as well as in promoting HIV prevention and treatment among diverse population groups
Factors influencing the adoption of Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Insights from a realist synthesis
Aging Perceptions and Experiences Among Older Migrants from Low-and Middle-Income Countries to High-Income Countries: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Perceived and Experienced Social and Psychological Implications of Not Undergoing Traditional Male Circumcision in West Timor, Indonesia: A Qualitative Study
Traditional male circumcision (TMC) in some cultures is to some degree considered obligatory for men, with men who do not undergo such practice often facing negative consequences. This qualitative study aimed to explore the social and psychological implications of not undergoing the practice of TMC in the Atoni Meto tribe in West Timor, Indonesia. A total of 46 participants were recruited and interviewed including men who had performed sifon, tra…
What Can Alcohol Reduction 'Do' for/in Midlife Women's Hopes? A Qualitative Study in Australia
The proportion of midlife Australian women (45-64 years) whose alcohol consumption is defined as 'long-term risky drinking' increased between 2001 and 2019, with serious health, economic and social impacts. Although overall population consumption trends towards a decline, consumption for this population remains stable, suggesting that current alcohol reduction policies and strategies are ineffective for this population. In this paper, we employ s…
A political economy of hope: Materialisations of social class and inequity in women's imaginings of alcohol (free) futures
Understanding Social Practices Within Public Health Research: Developing an Innovative, Integrative and Qualitative 'Methods Menu
Social practice theory offers valuable insights for public health research, particularly in understanding how health inequalities are sustained through everyday practices. A recent increase in social practice theory scholarship has focused on the development of flexible methodologies which allow for empirical investigations of social practices. This paper introduces a flexible, practice-based approach designed to address methodological challenges…
Short horizons and obesity futures: Disjunctures between public health interventions and everyday temporalities
Do-it-yourself: Vaccine rejection and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
How the Media Places Responsibility for the Covid-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis
Global pandemics are likely to increase in frequency and severity, and media communication of key messages represents an important mediator of the behavior of individuals in response to public health countermeasures. Where the media places responsibility during a pandemic is therefore important to study as blame is commonly used as a tool to influence public behavior but can also lead to the subjective persecution of groups. The aim of this paper…
Reconnecting Australian consumers and producers: Identifying problems of distrust
Consumerism and professional work in the community pharmacy
In this paper we consider the professional role and status of the community pharmacist (chemist) in the context of consumerist health care. The sociological perspective of pharmacy as an incomplete or marginal profession has been challenged in more recent work, which describes how pharmacists act to 'transform'natural objects (drugs) into more valued social objects (medicines). We consider this process as it applies to the everyday and 'taken-for…
Innovating Qualitative Framing Analysis for Purposes of Media Analysis Within Public Health Inquiry
Public health is said to lack methodological diversity and creativity in media analysis. Although the framing paradigm offers important conceptual and operational insights for undertaking media analysis in public health research, frames are described as "elusive" to measure with their analysis a "methodological black box." With this article, we aim to foster creative thinking around media analysis in public health and to make the "black box" of f…
Differentiating between trust and dependence of patients with coronary heart disease: Furthering the Sociology of Trust
Sociological health research on the concept of trust has been bedevilled by its multivocalities. This article extends Luhmann's attempts to clarify a sociology of trust. Luhmann argued a semantic distinction between trust and confidence. In this article, we use empirical data on patient 'trust' in doctors to argue that there is also a semantic distinction between trust and dependence. We conducted 37 semi-structured interviews with patients with …
How to’ Use Social Theory Within and Throughout Qualitative Research in Healthcare Contexts
The role of theory in qualitative health research is paramount for translation into practice and policy, since it moves beyond pure description of data, allowing interpretation of the social processes underpinning and potentially ‘explaining’ findings. However, the use of theory in empirical research proves challenging to undertake and subsequently articulate in theses and publications. This paper offers insight into how theory may be used in emp…
The Dependent Consumer: Reflections on Accounts of the Risks of Non-Prescription Medicines
Although academic writing about risk as a conceptual and theoretical category has burgeoned in recent years, debates about the characteristics of the risk society have tended to by-pass more mundane but ubiquitous dimensions of health and health-related behaviour. In this article, we argue that focusing on lay people's understanding of the risks of a relatively commonplace example of modern medical technology (the use of non-prescription medicine…
Risk, responsibility and negative responses: A qualitative study of parental trust in childhood vaccinations
Childhood vaccination programmes have benefits that far outweigh risks, in public health terms. However, some parents decide not to immunise their children. This paper explores the ways in which such parents talk about the perceived risks and benefits incurred by vaccinating (or not vaccinating) their children. Between 2013 and 2016, we undertook 29 in-depth interviews with non-vaccinating and/or ‘vaccine hesitant’ parents in Fremantle, Western A…
Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories
A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists
During the early part of 2020, there has been an abundance of critically important research on Covid-19 from medical, epidemiological and virological disciplines. There is now an urgent need for sociologists to engage theoretically and empirically on the social impact of issues related to Covid-19. As we have moved further into 2020, governments around the world have imposed different types of restrictions on social life, in order to quell the sp…
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research: Epistemological dissonance and the know-do gap
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or simply as 'good practice'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study in the UK of researchers' experiences and views of consumer involvement in health research. Two main themes are presented. First, we explore the 'kno…
The Land Market in Mexico under Salinas: A Real-Estate Boom Revisited
It is a central contention of urban political economy that changes in the macroeconomy will have demonstrable effects on land and housing markets. However, in few empirical studies has this relationship been investigated, particularly in cities of developing economies. The structure of the land market in Mexico under the changing economic conditions heralded by the election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Mexican President for the six-year ( sexe…
Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness
This article responds to calls for empirically grounded and critically analytical research on the sociology of happiness. We explore how 35 Australian women in midlife (45-64 years) navigate alcohol use in the context of gendered lifecourses. In response to emerging themes around happiness in and through alcohol consumption during inductive analysis, data were re-analysed using neo-Aristotlean notions of flourishing. This illuminated alcohol cons…
Trust, choice and obligation: A qualitative study of enablers of colorectal cancer screening in South Australia
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has the second highest cancer prevalence and mortality rates in Australia. The Australian National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) aims to increase early detection of CRC by offering free faecal occult blood testing. The NBCSP aims to offer choice to consumers about whether or not to participate in screening. This article presents data on trust, choice and perceived obligation to participate in the NBCSP by populati…
Urban American Indians: A Comparison of Father Involvement Predictors across Race
Father involvement in families of urban American Indians has been a neglected area of research. In this study, the authors examined the associations among parental relationship quality, father involvement, and coresidence. The authors conducted a multiple group analysis through structural equation modeling comparing 107 American Indian fathers with fathers of the general population in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Although the r…
From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality
Place of alcohol in the 'wellness toolkits' of midlife women in different social classes: A qualitative study in South Australia
In this article, we explore how women in different social classes had differential access to resources and services to enhance their 'wellness'-resulting in classed roles in alcohol consumption. We analyse data from a qualitative study on alcohol by midlife women in South Australia and employ the analogy of a 'toolkit' in order to understand the structural patterning of 'wellness tools'. Bourdieu's relational model of class guides our exploration…
How do South Australian consumers negotiate and respond to information in the media about food and nutrition: The importance of risk, trust and uncertainty
The amount of information in the media about food and nutrition is increasing. As part of the risk society, consumers have a moral imperative to synthesize this information in order to manage their diet. This article explores how media information about food affects how consumers place trust in the food system and strategies adopted to manage conflicting nutritional information. Qualitative interviews were undertaken with 47 shoppers drawn from h…
If your child's vaccinated, why do you care about mine?' Rhetoric, responsibility, power and vaccine rejection
The social responsibility logic underpinning vaccination is omnipresent in the rhetoric surrounding its acceptance and rejection. People who reject vaccination are constantly faced with arguments from the vaccinating mainstream to which they must respond. Understanding the conceptual world of vaccine rejection requires us to understand how vaccine sceptics construct answers to complaints that their choices endanger other people. This article anal…
Fat as Productive: Enactments of Fat in an Australian Suburb
By foregrounding positive and productive capacities of fat, we explore experiences of expanding, maintaining, or diminishing body sizes to accommodate the different meanings and enactments of fat. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantage, we detail how the "problem" of fat in public health discourse is countered in the lived experience of people targeted for obesity…
Refugee Cities: Reflections on the Development and Impact of UNHCR Urban Refugee Policy in the Middle East
Ward P. “Refugee cities: Reflections on the development and impact of UNHCR urban refugee policy in the Middle East.” . Refugee Survey Quarterly . 2014;33(1):77-93
Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers
Consumer Faith: An Exploration of Trust in Food and the Impact of Religious Dietary Norms and Certification
Formal affiliation or subscription to a religious group presents an additional element or layer of trust that people negotiate throughout their experiences in purchasing and consuming food. This paper reports qualitative findings from an Australian pilot study of food and consumer trust, derived from in-depth interviews with nineteen participants across four religious groups. The grounded theory approach reveals that religion is, in varying degre…
Treatment of elderly adults with impaired hearing: Resources, outcome, and efficiency
The general relationship between treatment and response is illustrated with reference to the response of elderly people to rehabilitation treatment after a hearing aid has been prescribed. The evidence of the effects of treatment is reviewed and a tentative empirical relationship is proposed between treatment input (therapist time) and effect (hours of use of the hearing aids). This illustrates a rapid improvement in the effect of treatment for u…
The Land Market in Mexico under Salinas: A Real-Estate Boom Revisited
It is a central contention of urban political economy that changes in the macroeconomy will have demonstrable effects on land and housing markets. However, in few empirical studies has this relationship been investigated, particularly in cities of developing economies. The structure of the land market in Mexico under the changing economic conditions heralded by the election of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as Mexican President for the six-year ( sexe…
From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality
Appropriateness measurement: Application to Advice-Giving in Community Pharmacies
The Dependent Consumer: Reflections on Accounts of the Risks of Non-Prescription Medicines
Although academic writing about risk as a conceptual and theoretical category has burgeoned in recent years, debates about the characteristics of the risk society have tended to by-pass more mundane but ubiquitous dimensions of health and health-related behaviour. In this article, we argue that focusing on lay people's understanding of the risks of a relatively commonplace example of modern medical technology (the use of non-prescription medicine…
Consumerism and professional work in the community pharmacy
In this paper we consider the professional role and status of the community pharmacist (chemist) in the context of consumerist health care. The sociological perspective of pharmacy as an incomplete or marginal profession has been challenged in more recent work, which describes how pharmacists act to 'transform'natural objects (drugs) into more valued social objects (medicines). We consider this process as it applies to the everyday and 'taken-for…
Are GP practice prescribing rates for coronary heart disease drugs equitable? A cross sectional analysis in four primary care trusts in England
Study objective: To analyse the associations between proxies of healthcare need and GP practice prescribing rates for five major coronary heart disease (CHD) drug groups. Design: Cross sectional secondary analysis. Setting: Four primary care trusts (PCTs 1–4) in the north west of England, encompassing 132 GP practices. Results: Prescribing rates were generally positively associated with the percentage of patients aged 55–74 years and PASS-PUs (re…
Exploring the equity of GP practice prescribing rates for selected coronary heart disease drugs: A multiple regression analysis with proxies of healthcare need
BACKGROUND: There is a small, but growing body of literature highlighting inequities in GP practice prescribing rates for many drug therapies. The aim of this paper is to further explore the equity of prescribing for five major CHD drug groups and to explain the amount of variation in GP practice prescribing rates that can be explained by a range of healthcare needs indicators (HCNIs). METHODS: The study involved a cross-sectional secondary analy…
How equitable are GP practice prescribing rates for statins: An ecological study in four primary care trusts in North West England
Overall, this study found inequitable relationships between actual and expected prescribing rates, and possible inequities in statin prescribing rates on the basis of ethnicity, deprivation, single-handed practices and the proportion of patients aged over 75 years
Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885-1945: Perspectives from the 'Four Nations'. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards
Journal Article Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Get access Debating Nationhood and Governance in Britain, 1885–1945: Perspectives from the ‘Four Nations’. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams, Wil Griffith and Andrew Edwards. Manchester University Press (Devolution Series), Manchester, 2006. xii + 270 pp. IS…
Health researchers’ attitudes towards public involvement in health research
Objective To investigate health researchers’ attitudes to involving the public in research. Background Public involvement in research is encouraged by the Department of Health in the UK. Despite this, the number of health researchers actively involving the public in research appears to be limited. There is little research specifically addressing the attitudes of health researchers towards involving the public: how they interpret the policy, what …
The importance of resilience and stress to maintaining smoking abstinence and cessation: A qualitative study in Australia with people diagnosed with depression
This study explored stress in relation to smoking and how non-smokers (never-smoked and ex-smokers) are 'resilient' to smoking in a population where there is a high prevalence of smoking (people diagnosed with depression). In-depth oral history interviews were conducted with 34 adult participants from metropolitan Adelaide, and who were medically diagnosed with depression. Participants were recruited according to their smoking status (currently s…
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research: Epistemological dissonance and the know-do gap
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or simply as 'good practice'. This article presents findings from a qualitative study in the UK of researchers' experiences and views of consumer involvement in health research. Two main themes are presented. First, we explore the 'kno…
Complex problems require complex solutions: The utility of social quality theory for addressing the Social Determinants of Health
Applying social quality theory allows researchers and policy makers to measure and respond to the multiple sources of oppression and advantage experienced by certain population groups, and to monitor the effectiveness of interventions over time
Food insecurity in South Australian single parents: An assessment of the livelihoods framework approach
Single parent households experience periods of food insecurity more frequently than other Australian families. Despite elevated risk, many single parents achieve food security with limited means. This article applies and evaluates the utility of the livelihoods framework approach as a tool for understanding food insecurity in this population and generating relevant policy recommendations. The approach is adapted here to provide insight into the s…
Form and semantics of communication in dental encounters: Oral health, probability and time
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it introduces a new method for capturing the intricacy of communication in contemporary healthcare encounters. The method, termed ‘form analysis’, was developed from the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. It is hoped that the paper will introduce form analysis as a new method to help understand complex communications in health systems. Second, the paper demonstrates an application of form analysis in …
Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers
Fruit and vegetable consumption – the influence of aspects associated with trust in food and safety and quality of food
Objective To profile adults who eat less than the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables per day. Design Australia-wide population telephone survey on a random sample of the Australian population, with results analysed by univariate and multivariate models. Setting Australia. Subjects One thousand one hundred and eight interviews, respondents’ (49·3 % males) mean age was 45·12 ( sd 17·63) years. Results Overall 54·8 % and 10·7 % were eating…
Reconnecting Australian consumers and producers: Identifying problems of distrust
Investigating Australians' Trust: Findings from a National Survey
Trust has been identified as an indicator within Social Quality theory. As an important component of social quality, trust has become increasingly important in modern society because literature suggests that trust in a number of democratic countries is declining. Modern technologies and specialties are often beyond the understanding of lay individuals and thus, the need for trusting relations between lay individuals and organizations/individuals …
Perceptual-cognitive expertise, practice history profiles and recall performance in soccer
We examined whether high- or low-performing soccer players, classified based on established measures of perceptual-cognitive expertise, differed in regard to their practice history profiles and ability to recall elements of match performance. In Study 1, we measured perceptual-cognitive expertise in elite (n= 48) and non-elite (n= 12) youth soccer players using empirical tests of perceptual-cognitive skill. We then used a quartile split to strati…
How do South Australian consumers negotiate and respond to information in the media about food and nutrition: The importance of risk, trust and uncertainty
The amount of information in the media about food and nutrition is increasing. As part of the risk society, consumers have a moral imperative to synthesize this information in order to manage their diet. This article explores how media information about food affects how consumers place trust in the food system and strategies adopted to manage conflicting nutritional information. Qualitative interviews were undertaken with 47 shoppers drawn from h…
A Trial of Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Anger and Violence in Thai Youth
The impact of education programs on smoking prevention: A randomized controlled trial among 11 to 14 year olds in Aceh, Indonesia
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register, ACTRN12612001070820
Never testing for HIV’ among Men who have Sex with Men in Viet Nam: Results from an internet-based cross-sectional survey
Never testing for HIV is common among Internet-using men who have sex with men in Viet Nam. Given the dangerously high prevalence of this high-risk behaviour, our findings underscore the urgent need for segmented and targeted HIV prevention, care and treatment strategies, focusing on drastically reducing the number of men who have sex with men never testing for HIV in Viet Nam
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