Dorothy H Broom
Biographic Data
| ID | 123367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy H Broom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy H |
| FAMILY NAME | Broom |
| SIGNATURE | BROOM D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 434 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Broom, Leonard (1911–2009)
Leonard Broom (1911–2009) became a distinguished professor of sociology in a career spanning nearly 70 years in several departments of sociology in the United States and Australia. A lifelong interest in stratification, differentiation, and inequality was shaped by disciplinary skills in anthropology and social demography as well as sociology
Feminism in the Social Sciences of Health and Illness
When feminism informs and shapes social scientific thinking, it often yields strongly applied perspectives. The business of engaging in the application, however, presents challenges to both feminist practice and the academic disciplines. These issues are
The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: Results from a longitudinal national household panel survey
OBJECTIVES: Although employment is associated with health benefits over unemployment, the psychosocial characteristics of work also influence health. We used longitudinal data to investigate whether the benefits of having a job depend on its psychosocial quality (levels of control, demands and complexity, job insecurity, and unfair pay), and whether poor quality jobs are associated with better mental health than unemployment. METHOD: Analysis of …
Time limits? Reflecting and responding to time barriers for healthy, active living in Australia
Lack of time is the main reason people say they do not exercise or use public transport, so addressing time barriers is essential to achieving health promotion goals. Our aim was to investigate how time barriers are viewed by the people who develop programs to increase physical activity or use active transport. We studied five interventions and explored the interplay between views and strategies. Some views emphasized personal choice and attitude…
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
Kuhlman, E. and Annandale, E. ( eds ) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare . Houndsmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2010 £50 (hbk ) xxii + 482 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-23031-6 This collection opens with the bold claim that it appears at ‘an optimum time to draw state-of-the-art thinking on gender and healthcare together into one compilation’. The ascendancy of neoliberalism, the election of many conservative governments, and the global…
Gendered and Class Relations of Obesity: Confusing Findings, Deficient Explanations
Rising attention to the 'social determinants of health' puts questions of gender and class squarely on the public health agenda. Most health outcomes and health risk factors are inversely correlated with social class: people with better education, better
Time Scarcity: Another Health Inequality
Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores …
Television Viewing by School-Age Children: Associations with Physical Activity, Snack Food Consumption and Unhealthy Weight
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Job quality and inequality: Parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties
Do working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood
Gendered configurations of diabetes: From Rules to Exceptions
Diabetes type 2 is a growing public health problem worldwide resulting in substantial costs both to the public purse and to individual health and wellbeing. The disease has long been associated with sexual and reproductive health problems, but otherwise, there has been little attention to the way gender might shape the experience of diabetes. Diabetes prevention and management place heavy emphasis on ‘lifestyle’ which foregrounds several gendered…
Men's health and women's health–deadly enemies or strategic allies
The women's and men's health movements in developed societies have had distinct but related histories, including periods of suspicion and occasionally explicit opposition. Nevertheless, they have a number of interests in common, suggesting the potential for strategic alliances. This article uses international literature, and Australia as a case study, to review the potential for gender collaboration, and to identify possible obstacles that must b…
The Sex of Slimming: Mobilizing Gender in Weight-loss Programmes and Fat Acceptance
Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments
Objectives: To examine whether area level socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have different relations with women’s and men’s self rated health. Methods: The study used data from 15 112 respondents to the 1998 Tasmanian (Australia) healthy communities study (60% response rate) nested within 41 statistical local areas. Gender stratified analyses were conducted of the associations between the index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage (…
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Unsociable Work? Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Relationships, and Children's Well-Being
Many children live in families where one or both parents work evenings, nights, or weekends. Do these work schedules affect family relationships or well-being? Using cross-sectional survey data from dual-earner Canadian families (N= 4,306) with children aged 2 - 11 years (N= 6,156), we compared families where parents worked standard weekday times with those where parents worked nonstandard schedules. Parents working nonstandard schedules reported…
The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: An analysis of a sample of Australian government employees
Measures of work stress and not employee level affect the mental health and well-being of government employees. For governments with responsibility for funding health care services, reducing work stress experienced by their own employees offers potential benefits by improving the health of their workforce and reducing outlays for such services
Around-the-clock: Parent Work Schedules and Children's Well-Being in a 24-H Economy
Acts of Love (and Work): Gender Imbalance in Emotional Work and Women’s Psychological Distress
Family members do work to meet people's emotional needs, improve their well-being, and maintain harmony. When emotional work is shared equally, both men and women have access to emotional resources in the family. However, like housework and child care, the distribution of emotional work is gendered. This study examines the psychological health consequences of gender divisions in emotional work. Quantitative and qualitative data from a sample of 1…
Representing gender in publications for diabetics
In recent decades, increasing emphasis has been placed on health education to encourage people to take responsibility for their own health. Representations of health and illness for lay audiences are particularly important when the disease is highly prevalent, so prevention and effective management can make a significant difference to the overall burden of disease. Diabetes mellitus is such a condition.We report here on analysis of printed materi…
Embodied risk: My body, myself
Medicalisation reconsidered: Toward a Collaborative Approach to Care
The concept of 'medicalisation' has informed the sociology of health and illness for several decades. Typically, it has been discussed with critical connotations, although some commentators have suggested that it is not unequivocally negative. This paper seeks to clarify the concept, suggests that medicalisation can be both helpful and unhelpful, and identifies the characteristics of beneficial medicalisation. Using data from doctors and patients…
Damned If We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care
Unsociable Work? Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Relationships, and Children's Well-Being
Many children live in families where one or both parents work evenings, nights, or weekends. Do these work schedules affect family relationships or well-being? Using cross-sectional survey data from dual-earner Canadian families (N= 4,306) with children aged 2 - 11 years (N= 6,156), we compared families where parents worked standard weekday times with those where parents worked nonstandard schedules. Parents working nonstandard schedules reported…
Embodied risk: My body, myself
Around-the-clock: Parent Work Schedules and Children's Well-Being in a 24-H Economy
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Acts of Love (and Work): Gender Imbalance in Emotional Work and Women’s Psychological Distress
Family members do work to meet people's emotional needs, improve their well-being, and maintain harmony. When emotional work is shared equally, both men and women have access to emotional resources in the family. However, like housework and child care, the distribution of emotional work is gendered. This study examines the psychological health consequences of gender divisions in emotional work. Quantitative and qualitative data from a sample of 1…
Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments
Objectives: To examine whether area level socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have different relations with women’s and men’s self rated health. Methods: The study used data from 15 112 respondents to the 1998 Tasmanian (Australia) healthy communities study (60% response rate) nested within 41 statistical local areas. Gender stratified analyses were conducted of the associations between the index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage (…
Medicalisation reconsidered: Toward a Collaborative Approach to Care
The concept of 'medicalisation' has informed the sociology of health and illness for several decades. Typically, it has been discussed with critical connotations, although some commentators have suggested that it is not unequivocally negative. This paper seeks to clarify the concept, suggests that medicalisation can be both helpful and unhelpful, and identifies the characteristics of beneficial medicalisation. Using data from doctors and patients…
Time Scarcity: Another Health Inequality
Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores …
Job quality and inequality: Parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties
Do working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
Kuhlman, E. and Annandale, E. ( eds ) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare . Houndsmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2010 £50 (hbk ) xxii + 482 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-23031-6 This collection opens with the bold claim that it appears at ‘an optimum time to draw state-of-the-art thinking on gender and healthcare together into one compilation’. The ascendancy of neoliberalism, the election of many conservative governments, and the global…
Gendered and Class Relations of Obesity: Confusing Findings, Deficient Explanations
Rising attention to the 'social determinants of health' puts questions of gender and class squarely on the public health agenda. Most health outcomes and health risk factors are inversely correlated with social class: people with better education, better
The social distribution of illness: Is Australia more equal
Television Viewing by School-Age Children: Associations with Physical Activity, Snack Food Consumption and Unhealthy Weight
Gendered configurations of diabetes: From Rules to Exceptions
Diabetes type 2 is a growing public health problem worldwide resulting in substantial costs both to the public purse and to individual health and wellbeing. The disease has long been associated with sexual and reproductive health problems, but otherwise, there has been little attention to the way gender might shape the experience of diabetes. Diabetes prevention and management place heavy emphasis on ‘lifestyle’ which foregrounds several gendered…
Feminism in the Social Sciences of Health and Illness
When feminism informs and shapes social scientific thinking, it often yields strongly applied perspectives. The business of engaging in the application, however, presents challenges to both feminist practice and the academic disciplines. These issues are
The Sex of Slimming: Mobilizing Gender in Weight-loss Programmes and Fat Acceptance
The occupational health of houseworkers
The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic: Parents, Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies. P. M. Strong
The social distribution of illness: Is Australia more equal
The occupational health of houseworkers
Managing Gender: The State, the New Middle Class and Women Workers 1830- 1930
Deacon here examines the complex relationships between state, gender and class during a central period of Australia's history. The book focuses on the emergence of a new middle class centrally concerned with the consolidation and extension of state bureaucratic power and professional privilege, and the ambivalent role played by the men of that class in establishing the twentieth-century managerial state and its prescriptive policies towards gende…
Damned If We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care
Medicalisation reconsidered: Toward a Collaborative Approach to Care
The concept of 'medicalisation' has informed the sociology of health and illness for several decades. Typically, it has been discussed with critical connotations, although some commentators have suggested that it is not unequivocally negative. This paper seeks to clarify the concept, suggests that medicalisation can be both helpful and unhelpful, and identifies the characteristics of beneficial medicalisation. Using data from doctors and patients…
Embodied risk: My body, myself
Representing gender in publications for diabetics
In recent decades, increasing emphasis has been placed on health education to encourage people to take responsibility for their own health. Representations of health and illness for lay audiences are particularly important when the disease is highly prevalent, so prevention and effective management can make a significant difference to the overall burden of disease. Diabetes mellitus is such a condition.We report here on analysis of printed materi…
The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: An analysis of a sample of Australian government employees
Measures of work stress and not employee level affect the mental health and well-being of government employees. For governments with responsibility for funding health care services, reducing work stress experienced by their own employees offers potential benefits by improving the health of their workforce and reducing outlays for such services
Around-the-clock: Parent Work Schedules and Children's Well-Being in a 24-H Economy
Acts of Love (and Work): Gender Imbalance in Emotional Work and Women’s Psychological Distress
Family members do work to meet people's emotional needs, improve their well-being, and maintain harmony. When emotional work is shared equally, both men and women have access to emotional resources in the family. However, like housework and child care, the distribution of emotional work is gendered. This study examines the psychological health consequences of gender divisions in emotional work. Quantitative and qualitative data from a sample of 1…
Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments
Objectives: To examine whether area level socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have different relations with women’s and men’s self rated health. Methods: The study used data from 15 112 respondents to the 1998 Tasmanian (Australia) healthy communities study (60% response rate) nested within 41 statistical local areas. Gender stratified analyses were conducted of the associations between the index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage (…
The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians
Unsociable Work? Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Relationships, and Children's Well-Being
Many children live in families where one or both parents work evenings, nights, or weekends. Do these work schedules affect family relationships or well-being? Using cross-sectional survey data from dual-earner Canadian families (N= 4,306) with children aged 2 - 11 years (N= 6,156), we compared families where parents worked standard weekday times with those where parents worked nonstandard schedules. Parents working nonstandard schedules reported…
The Sex of Slimming: Mobilizing Gender in Weight-loss Programmes and Fat Acceptance
Men's health and women's health–deadly enemies or strategic allies
The women's and men's health movements in developed societies have had distinct but related histories, including periods of suspicion and occasionally explicit opposition. Nevertheless, they have a number of interests in common, suggesting the potential for strategic alliances. This article uses international literature, and Australia as a case study, to review the potential for gender collaboration, and to identify possible obstacles that must b…
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusion
This evidence underlines the difficulty of moving from unemployment into good quality work and highlights the need for social inclusion policies to consider people's pre-existing health conditions and promote job quality
Job quality and inequality: Parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficulties
Do working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood
Gendered configurations of diabetes: From Rules to Exceptions
Diabetes type 2 is a growing public health problem worldwide resulting in substantial costs both to the public purse and to individual health and wellbeing. The disease has long been associated with sexual and reproductive health problems, but otherwise, there has been little attention to the way gender might shape the experience of diabetes. Diabetes prevention and management place heavy emphasis on ‘lifestyle’ which foregrounds several gendered…
The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: Results from a longitudinal national household panel survey
OBJECTIVES: Although employment is associated with health benefits over unemployment, the psychosocial characteristics of work also influence health. We used longitudinal data to investigate whether the benefits of having a job depend on its psychosocial quality (levels of control, demands and complexity, job insecurity, and unfair pay), and whether poor quality jobs are associated with better mental health than unemployment. METHOD: Analysis of …
Time limits? Reflecting and responding to time barriers for healthy, active living in Australia
Lack of time is the main reason people say they do not exercise or use public transport, so addressing time barriers is essential to achieving health promotion goals. Our aim was to investigate how time barriers are viewed by the people who develop programs to increase physical activity or use active transport. We studied five interventions and explored the interplay between views and strategies. Some views emphasized personal choice and attitude…
Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adults
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health. DESIGN: Self-report panel data (2000, 2004) on mental health (symptoms of depression and generalised anxiety) and job demands, control and insecurity. Changes in exposures and outcomes were calculated by subtracting wave 1 from wave 2 scores. Changes in mental health were regressed onto cha…
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
Kuhlman, E. and Annandale, E. ( eds ) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare . Houndsmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2010 £50 (hbk ) xxii + 482 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-23031-6 This collection opens with the bold claim that it appears at ‘an optimum time to draw state-of-the-art thinking on gender and healthcare together into one compilation’. The ascendancy of neoliberalism, the election of many conservative governments, and the global…
Gendered and Class Relations of Obesity: Confusing Findings, Deficient Explanations
Rising attention to the 'social determinants of health' puts questions of gender and class squarely on the public health agenda. Most health outcomes and health risk factors are inversely correlated with social class: people with better education, better
Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (7 works)