Cathy Banwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 123883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy Banwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Banwell |
| SIGNATURE | BANWELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6808-1052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Healthy finances but poor health: A qualitative study of Australian older white-collar workers
Background As governments become more concerned about the costs of supporting an ageing population, some have adopted policy levers to incentivise mature labour force participation. Since 1 July 2023 Australia has increased the age at which government-provided pensions can be accessed from 65 to 67. Currently, some people work beyond 67 even though they can afford to retire, while others leave the workforce well before 67, often because of failin…
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
Hard work, long hours, and Singaporean young adults' health—A qualitative study
Background: As young adults in their 20s to 30s transitioning toward new careers and independence, their dietary and physical activity practices often change, increasing their risk of weight gain. This study explored the ways that Singaporean young adults perceived and experienced the interaction between their working hours, work, and health practices. Methods: This research used semi-structured interviews to explore the perspectives and experien…
Liminality and insecurity: A qualitative study of young adults’ vulnerabilities during the first twelve months of Covid-19 in Australia
COVID-19 has disrupted the normative social order, particularly for young adults. Their deteriorating mental health over 2020 has been associated with the economic and social conditions during the COVID-19 lockdowns. We conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with young adults aged 8 and 29 most of whom lived in Victoria, Australia. The interviews explored participants' experiences and responses to COVID-19, covering areas such as disrupted every…
Regulating the marketing of foods for infants and young children: Lessons from assessment of gaps in monitoring and enforcement in Thailand
Breast milk substitute (BMS) marketing harms breastfeeding and public health. To control BMS marketing, the Member States of the World Health Organization is called upon to adopt all provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (the Code) into national law. In 2017, Thailand adopted many provisions of the Code through the Control of Marketing Promotion of Infant and Young Child Food Act B.E. 2560 (the Act), includin…
The Singaporean foodscape - Convenience, choice, entertainment, and sociality for young workers
Singapore is famous for its diverse, affordable, and exciting foodscape. This paper focuses on understanding the multifaceted role that the Singaporean food environment plays in working young adults' lives, and how young adults interact with this environment to make food choices. Using a focused ethnographic approach, including 33 semi-structured interviews and participant-observation, we explore the ways in which busy working young adults intera…
Bushfire Smoke in Our Eyes: Community Perceptions and Responses to an Intense Smoke Event in Canberra, Australia
The 2019–20 bushfires that raged in eastern Australia were an overwhelming natural disaster leading to lives lost or upended, and communities destroyed. For almost a month, Canberra, Australia's capital city in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), was obscured by smoke from fires which threatened the outer suburbs. While smoke itself is experientially different from many natural disasters, it nevertheless poses a significant public health thre…
Beyond dispensing: Better integration of pharmacists within the Australian primary healthcare system
A well-integrated primary health care system helps address the health needs of an ageing population with complex multiple health conditions. In Australia pharmacists provide services to maximise health gains from medication use, although they are not well integrated into primary care. Using the case of Australia, this study investigates why integrating pharmacists in primary care has not been addressed at the national level and also identifies st…
Shan Migrant Sex Workers Living with HIV Who Remain Active in Sexual Entertainment Venues in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Unencumbered and still unequal? Work hour - Health tipping points and gender inequality among older, employed Australian couples
Could working into older age offer women an opportunity to ‘catch up’ their careers and redress their financial disadvantage in retirement? This is a period of relative ‘unencumbrance’ from childrearing, potentially freeing women's time for more paid work. Here, we examine whether women aged 50 to 70 are able to increase their workhours, and what happens to their mental health, vitality and wealth. We used a representative household-based panel o…
Association between Sociodemographic Factors and Condom Use among Migrant Sex Workers in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
Thailand has the highest HIV burden in the Asia-Pacific region, with the majority of cases occurring in specific populations. Migrant Sex Workers (MSWs) in Thailand are an important population for HIV risk, yet there has been limited literature on this group and their protective sexual behavior. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 396 MSWs 18−49 years old from 23 sex work-identified venues in Chiang Mai. Participants were surveyed on thei…
Facebook Feeds and Child Feeding: A Qualitative Study of Thai Mothers in Online Child Feeding Support Groups
Mothers have traditionally sought child feeding information from social connections. While mothers are heavily engaged on social media and value peer support in online communities, very little is known about how they use online communities for information about child feeding practices after exclusive breastfeeding cessation. This study explores mothers' perceptions of joining Facebook child feeding support groups. Individual semi-structured inter…
I didn’t feel safe inside’: Navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke
Bushfires, and resulting bushfire smoke, were major environmental, social and health crises in Australia in the summer of 2019–20. In Australia’s national capital the smoke pollution index topped global charts, and public health communications were rapidly developed that advised people to stay indoors to avoid smoke exposure. Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of housed residents, we explore people’s experiences of navigating public healt…
Regulation of baby food marketing in Thailand: A NetCode analysis
Objective: To report on the prevalence of different types of breast-milk substitutes (BMS) marketing and the compliance of such marketing with the ‘Control of Marketing of Infant and Young Child Food Act 2017’ (The Act) and the ‘International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (WHO Code)’ in Thailand. Design: Cross-sectional quantitative study, guided by the WHO/UNICEF NetCode Periodic Assessment Protocol. Setting: Health facilities and…
How to Fit In? Acculturation and Risk of Overweight and Obesity. Experiences of Australian Immigrant Mothers From South Asia and Their 8- to 11-Year-Old Children
This study of 14 Australian immigrant mothers from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan and their 12 children aged 8 to 11 years aims to explore the interplay of cultural and social processes that might elevate the risk of obesity. Mothers and their children were asked in semi-structured, face-to-face interviews about changes in their diet and physical activities after immigration to Australia. Thematic analysis of these interviews showed a transforma…
Pathways to care: A case study of traffic injury in Vietnam
Analysis using the three-delay model for road traffic injury in Vietnam has revealed important barriers to emergency care. Hospital care needs to improve to enhance patient experiences and trust. Socioculture affects each of the three delays and needs to inform thinking of future developments of the EMS system, especially for countries with limited resources
Developing a conceptual framework for implementation science to evaluate a nutrition intervention scaled-up in a real-world setting
Objective: The aim of this paper is to identify and develop a comprehensive conceptual framework using implementation science that can be applied to assess a nutrition intervention in a real-world setting. Design: We conducted a narrative review using electronic databases and a manual search to identify implementation science frameworks, models and theories published in peer-reviewed journals. We performed a qualitative thematic analysis of these…
Use of concurrent evaluation to improve implementation of a home fortification programme in Bangladesh: A methodological innovation
Objective: This paper focuses on the use of ‘concurrent evaluation’ to evaluate a nationally scaled-up programme in Bangladesh that was implemented by BRAC (an international development organisation) using Shasthya Shebika (SS) – volunteer community health workers – to promote home fortification with micronutrient powders (MNP) for children under-five. Design: We developed a programme impact pathway to conceptualise the implementation and evaluat…
Role of home visits by volunteer community health workers: To improve the coverage of micronutrient powders in rural Bangladesh
Objective: We assessed the role of home visits by Shasthya Shebika (SS) – female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) – in improving the distribution of micronutrient powder (MNP), and explored the independent effects of caregiver–provider interaction on coverage variables. Design: We used data from three cross-sectional surveys undertaken at baseline ( n 1927), midline ( n 1924) and endline ( n 1540) as part of an evaluation of a home forti…
Factors associated with home visits by volunteer community health workers to implement a home-fortification intervention in Bangladesh: A multilevel analysis
Objective: BRAC, an international development organization based in Bangladesh, engages community health workers called Shasthya Shebikas (SS) to implement home fortification of foods with micronutrient powders (MNP). We identified factors associated with home visits by SS, at different levels of the BRAC programme-delivery hierarchy, to implement home-fortification interventions. Design: We conducted a cross-sectional survey, semi-structured int…
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 12 Australian workers, the study ex…
Child feeding practices and concerns: Thematic content analysis of Thai virtual communities
Parents' child feeding practices are influenced not only by family but also by a broader circle of networks, including online groups. Peer-to-peer platforms such as Facebook groups facilitate a learning environment and may influence the transmission of user-generated content into practice. These digital data not only benefit participants but also offer new opportunities for researchers to study related phenomena. Therefore, this study employs the…
Blue collar timescapes: Work, health, and pension eligibility age for mature age Australian bus drivers
Assumptions about time, value, labour, and health coalesce in the policy decision to extend the pension eligibility age in Australia from 65 to 67 years. Acknowledging the multiple, often incompatible ways in which time is conceptualised and experienced, we question the expectation of extending Australians’ working lives. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 19 male and female bus drivers over the age of 55 in Australia, we illustrate that …
Implementation of the World’s largest measles-rubella mass vaccination campaign in Bangladesh: A process evaluation
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, supported a mass vaccination Measles-Rubella Campaign (MRC) in Bangladesh during January–February 2014. We conducted a mixed-method process evaluation to understand the successes and challenges in implementation of the MRC. We reviewed documents for the MRC and the immunization programme in Bangladesh; observed meetings, vaccination sessions, and health facilities; and conducted 58 key informant interviews, 574 exit in…
‘Telling our story… Creating our own history’: Caregivers’ reasons for participating in an Australian longitudinal study of Indigenous children
Our findings support the assertion that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be involved in research when it is done 'the right way'. Footprints in Time has successfully recruited and retained the current-largest cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia through the use of participatory research methodologies, suggesting effective study implementation and processes. Participants indicated ongoing commit…
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 …
Integrating paid work and chronic illness in daily life: A space-time approach to understanding the challenges
Theory driven research designs for explaining behavioural health risk transitions: The case of smoking
Food and nutrition labelling in Thailand: A long march from subsistence producers to international traders
This paper reviews the evolution of Thai food and nutrition label policies and Thailand's international role relating to food product safety and standards. The historical record has been interpreted to identify future trends and challenges related to food labelling. These challenges are arising in Thailand and many similar emerging economies. Thailand has a good reputation in world food markets and is now becoming a global leader in food producti…
Sexual perceptions and practices of young people in Northern Thailand
This study draws together survey and qualitative data on sexual practices among more than 1,750 young Northern Thai people aged 17-20 years. The survey data indicate that sexually active young people frequently engage in, or are subjected to, risk-taking behaviours that may expose them to sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies. These include having multiple sexual partners and quite frequent partner turnover. High percentages al…
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 12 Australian workers, the study ex…
Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
Reinforced Biographies Among Women Living With Hepatitis C
In a growing body of social research it is suggested that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a low priority for people who inject drugs. We expand on the evidence to explore the link between identity and health using biographical adaptation theories. We examined experiences of HCV infection and illness among women who inject drugs, women who are no longer injecting drugs, and women who have never injected drugs. We investigated the relationship…
Trust: The Missing Dimension in the Food Retail Transition in Thailand
Thailand has experienced dramatic growth of large national and international modern food retailers, such as supermarkets, hypermarkets and convenience stores in large cities and regional centres in the last two decades. Nevertheless, Thai consumers continue to purchase perishables (fruits, vegetables and animal products) from fresh markets (wet markets, talat sot) contradicting predictions from analysts that modern food retail chains will rapidly…
Competition, adaptation and mutation: Fresh market and supermarket conventions in Thailand
The speed at which international supermarkets chains have integrated themselves into Thai diets and food practices is without prior historical precedent. This article uses ethnographic data from Chiang Mai, Thailand, to examine how values surrounding food and food cultures are being sustained, are adapting and are being transformed. It examines both supermarkets and fresh markets as places where the values unfold in different ways. In discussing …
Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students
BACKGROUND: Thailand is undergoing a health-risk transition with overweight and obesity emerging as an important population health problem. This paper reports on a study of the transition, focusing on "lifestyle" factors such as diet (fried foods, soft drinks, Western-style fast foods) and physical activity (mild, moderate, strenuous exercise, housework/gardening and screen time). METHODS: A baseline survey was administered to 87 134 adult studen…
Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little about how ethnic diversity in the population is reflected in employment participation and within-family time exchange. This paper investigates how nonmarket time and labour market time vary across migrant groups from non-English speaking country backgrounds (NESCB) compared with English-speaking countr…
The Singaporean foodscape - Convenience, choice, entertainment, and sociality for young workers
Singapore is famous for its diverse, affordable, and exciting foodscape. This paper focuses on understanding the multifaceted role that the Singaporean food environment plays in working young adults' lives, and how young adults interact with this environment to make food choices. Using a focused ethnographic approach, including 33 semi-structured interviews and participant-observation, we explore the ways in which busy working young adults intera…
Advancing Food Sovereignty or Nostalgia: The Construction of Japanese Diets in the NationalShokuikuPolicy
Food sovereignty is a trans-national movement that asserts the right of people to govern their own food system as an alternative to neoliberal food policies. In 2005, the Japanese government introduced the Basic Law of Shokuiku (food and nutrition education) to promote national food self-sufficiency, improve public health, and preserve local culinary culture through domestic food consumption. This paper argues that the campaign attempts to advanc…
Coital Experience Among Adolescents in Three Social-Educational Groups in Urban Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article compares coital experience of Chiang Mai 17-20-year-olds who were: (1) out-of-school; (2) studying at vocational schools; and (3) studying at general schools or university. Four-fifths, two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of males in these groups had had intercourse, compared to 53, 62 and 15 per cent of females. The gender difference for general school/university students, but not vocational school students, probably reflects HI…
Birth Control, Pregnancy and Abortion Among Adolescents in Chiang Mai, Thailand
The authors studied more than 1750 young urban Chiang Mai residents regarding pre-marital sex, contraception and reproductive health outcomes. Almost two-thirds of the males had had sexual intercourse, compared to one-third of the females. Withdrawal was the most popular method of birth control followed by condom use. There were more females (30.5 per cent) reporting that they had been pregnant than males (17.5 per cent) reporting that they had c…
Positioning Policy: The Epistemology of Social Capital and Its Application in Applied Rural Research in Australia
Place, community, and identity have emerged as central issues in our ongoing research in a small rural community in Australia. We reflect upon the spatialization of the concept of social capital and the uncritical use of the term community and participation within this policy discourse. We describe the links between projects to improve community capacity and movements that are changing the nature of governance and forging new relationships betwee…
Re-embedding trust: Unravelling the construction of modern diets
Recent controversies surrounding the food industry and its contribution to diet-related illnesses provide fertile ground for re-examining where power lies in food systems. A review of the literature reveals a wide range of powerful actors, contradictory assessments about consumer power and numerous examples of producers and medical authorities expending significant effort to shape the criteria by which consumers exercise choice. Expertise from th…
Australian Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health and Social Experiences of Living with Hepatitis C
We recruited women in two Australian locations to complete a questionnaire on their health and social experiences of living with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Among 462 respondents 9% identified themselves as lesbian and 14% as bisexual. Bisexuals were more disadvantaged than lesbians or heterosexuals on income, work status, home ownership, and level of education. Lesbians and bisexuals were less likely to be referred for HCV treatment and were mo…
Maternal habits: Narratives of mothering, social position and drug use
Car-centered Diets, Social Stratification and Cultural Mobility: F ood S ystems R esearch D irections
This article describes the centrality of cars to food provisioning in Australia. We provide an overview of ethnographic research conducted to explore a range of car-centered diets. This research, augmented by a handful of interviews with managers and consumers of four car-centered points of food exchange, suggests that the car provides a vehicle for multiple dietary practices. We note that in the Australian context lack of access to a car constra…
Associations between urbanisation and components of the health-risk transition in Thailand. A descriptive study of 87,000 Thai adults
BACKGROUND: Social and environmental changes have accompanied the ongoing rapid urbanisation in a \nnumber of countries during recent decades. Understanding of its role in the health-risk transition is important \nfor health policy development at national and local level. Thailand is one country facing many of the health \nchallenges of urbanisation. \nOBJECTIVE: To identify potential associations between individual migration between rural and ur…
Associations between urbanisation and components of the health-risk transition in Thailand. A descriptive study of 87,000 Thai adults
BACKGROUND: Social and environmental changes have accompanied the ongoing rapid urbanisation in a number of countries during recent decades. Understanding of its role in the health-risk transition is important for health policy development at national and local level. Thailand is one country facing many of the health challenges of urbanisation. OBJECTIVE: To identify potential associations between individual migration between rural and urban area…
Internal or Infernal Devices: Experiences of Contraception Among Australian Women Living With Hepatitis C
In this article we seek to delineate the experiences of contraceptive use by Australian women living with hepatitis C. Using semi-structured, in-depth interviews, 109 women with hepatitis C from two cities in Australia, Melbourne (Victoria) and Canberra (the Australian Capital Territory), were interviewed about their alcohol and other drug use, their contraceptive history, and their experiences of hepatitis C. We aimed to understand why such a hi…
Body mass index and health-related behaviours in a national cohort of 87 134 Thai open university students
BACKGROUND: Thailand is undergoing a health-risk transition with overweight and obesity emerging as an important population health problem. This paper reports on a study of the transition, focusing on "lifestyle" factors such as diet (fried foods, soft drinks, Western-style fast foods) and physical activity (mild, moderate, strenuous exercise, housework/gardening and screen time). METHODS: A baseline survey was administered to 87 134 adult studen…
Theory driven research designs for explaining behavioural health risk transitions: The case of smoking
Sexual identities and lifestyles among non-heterosexual urban Chiang Mai youth: Implications for health
Using quantitative and qualitative data we explore perspectives on and experiences of sexual lifestyles and relationships among more than 1750 young people aged 17-20 years who reside in urban Chiang Mai, Thailand. We focus on respondents' representations and understandings of their sexual/gender identities derived mainly from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, supplemented with observations and field notes. Our results show that wh…
Fresh market to supermarket: Nutrition transition insights from Chiang Mai, Thailand
Objective A preliminary investigation into different eating patterns among Thai consumers who shop at fresh markets as opposed to supermarkets in Chiang Mai. Design A short questionnaire adopted from a previous study was administered to the forty-four participants, who comprised supermarket users, fresh market users and people who consistently shopped at both supermarkets and fresh markets. Setting Participants were recruited within four fresh ma…
Sexual perceptions and practices of young people in Northern Thailand
This study draws together survey and qualitative data on sexual practices among more than 1,750 young Northern Thai people aged 17-20 years. The survey data indicate that sexually active young people frequently engage in, or are subjected to, risk-taking behaviours that may expose them to sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies. These include having multiple sexual partners and quite frequent partner turnover. High percentages al…
Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
Competition, adaptation and mutation: Fresh market and supermarket conventions in Thailand
The speed at which international supermarkets chains have integrated themselves into Thai diets and food practices is without prior historical precedent. This article uses ethnographic data from Chiang Mai, Thailand, to examine how values surrounding food and food cultures are being sustained, are adapting and are being transformed. It examines both supermarkets and fresh markets as places where the values unfold in different ways. In discussing …
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…
Birth Control, Pregnancy and Abortion Among Adolescents in Chiang Mai, Thailand
The authors studied more than 1750 young urban Chiang Mai residents regarding pre-marital sex, contraception and reproductive health outcomes. Almost two-thirds of the males had had sexual intercourse, compared to one-third of the females. Withdrawal was the most popular method of birth control followed by condom use. There were more females (30.5 per cent) reporting that they had been pregnant than males (17.5 per cent) reporting that they had c…
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 …
Socio-cultural reflections on heat in Australia with implications for health and climate change adaptation
BACKGROUND: Australia has a hot climate with maximum summer temperatures in its major cities frequently exceeding 35°C. Although 'heat waves' are an annual occurrence, the associated heat-related deaths among vulnerable groups, such as older people, suggest that Australians could be better prepared to deal with extreme heat. OBJECTIVE: To understand ways in which a vulnerable sub-population adapt their personal behaviour to cope with heat within …
Positive health beliefs and behaviours in the midst of difficult lives: Women who inject drugs
Coital Experience Among Adolescents in Three Social-Educational Groups in Urban Chiang Mai, Thailand
This article compares coital experience of Chiang Mai 17-20-year-olds who were: (1) out-of-school; (2) studying at vocational schools; and (3) studying at general schools or university. Four-fifths, two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of males in these groups had had intercourse, compared to 53, 62 and 15 per cent of females. The gender difference for general school/university students, but not vocational school students, probably reflects HI…
When Culture Impacts Health
When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, methodological and practical insights into understan…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Evolving food retail environments in Thailand and implications for the health and nutrition transition
Objective To investigate evolving food retail systems in Thailand. Design Rapid assessment procedures based on qualitative research methods including interviews, focus groups discussions and site visits. Setting Seven fresh markets located in the four main regions of Thailand. Subjects Managers, food specialists, vendors and shoppers from seven fresh markets who participated in interviews and focus group discussions. Results Fresh markets are und…
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