R Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 19988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The George Institute for Global Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3988-315X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender inequities in the economic burden of anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, migraine, and rheumatoid arthritis in Mexico, 2005–2021
Anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, migraine, and rheumatoid arthritis are common chronic conditions that contribute substantially to disability, recurrent care needs, and productivity losses, yet remain comparatively under-prioritised in health policy. In Mexico, these conditions disproportionately affect women, but their economic burden has not been comprehensively quantified from a gender perspective. To estimate the direct and indirect e…
Catalysing change in health and medical research policy: An Australian case study of deliberative democracy to reform sex and gender policy recommendations
Revising public health policy based on new data does not happen automatically. This is acutely relevant to the now undeniable evidence that many diseases develop differently between the sexes and may also be affected by gender. Current health and medical practices across the globe generally fail to cater for sex and gender effects in common diseases. Inadequate policy frameworks to guide the comprehensive inclusion of sex and gender in research j…
Gender disparities in lost productivity resulting from non-communicable diseases in Mexico, 2005–2021
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause long-term impacts on health and can substantially affect people's ability to work. Little is known about how such impacts vary by gender, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where productivity losses may affect economic development. This study assessed the long-term productivity loss caused by major NCDs among adult women and men (20-76 years) in Mexico because of premature …
The health workforce conundrum for burn care in Uttar Pradesh, India: A qualitative exploration
Delivering specialised care for major burns requires a multidisciplinary health workforce. While health systems 'hardware' issues, such as shortages of the healthcare workforce and training gaps in burn care are widely acknowledged, there is limited evidence around the systems 'software' aspects, such as interest, power dynamics, and relationships that impact the healthcare workforce performance. This study explored challenges faced by the health…
Why does a public health issue (not) get priority? Agenda setting for the national burns programme in India
There is growing scholarly interest in what leads to global or national prioritization of specific health issues. By retrospectively analysing agenda setting for India’s national burn programme, this study aimed to better understand how the agenda-setting process influenced its design, implementation and performance. We conducted document reviews and key informant interviews with stakeholders and used a combination of analytical frameworks on pol…
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: A policy analysis
BACKGROUND: Snakebite was added to the WHO neglected tropical disease (NTD) list in 2017, followed by a World Health Assembly resolution in 2018, and an explicit global target being set to reduce the burden in 2019. We aimed to understand how and why snakebite became a global health priority. METHODS: 's framework on global health network to guide the analysis. RESULTS: We conducted 20 interviews and examined 91 documents. The prioritisation of s…
Burden of non-communicable diseases and behavioural risk factors in Mexico: Trends and gender observational analysis
Background: There is scarce gender-disaggregated evidence on the burden of disease (BD) worldwide and this is particularly prominent in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study is to compare the BD caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and related risk factors by gender in Mexican adults. Methods: We retrieved disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) estimates for diabetes, cancers and neoplasms, chronic cardiovascular dis…
Evaluation of dedicated Covid-19 hospitals in the pandemic response in Iraq: Pandemic preparation within a recovering healthcare infrastructure
The purpose of this study is to evaluate Iraq’s health facility preparedness for the surge of hospitalised cases associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we review pandemic preparedness at both general and tertiary hospitals throughout all districts of Iraq. COVID-19 pandemic preparedness, for the purpose of this review, is defined as: (1) staff to patient ratio, (2) personal protective equipment (PPE) to staff ratio, (3) i…
Gender roles, generational changes and environmental challenges: An intersectional interpretation of perceptions on healthy diets among iTaukei women and men in Fiji
Objective: To investigate perceptions of iTaukei Fijian women and men around diet and the ability to consume a healthy diet. Design: Six focus groups were conducted with women and men separately. Six to ten women and men participated in each group. Discussions were recorded, transcribed, translated and thematically analysed. Themes were mapped to an intersectionality framework to aid interpretation. Setting: Four villages in Viti Levu, Fiji. Part…
Fifth anniversary of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (Sager) guidelines: Taking stock and looking ahead
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines,1 which provide recommendations to authors, journal editors, peer-reviewers and publishers for ensuring that sex and gender considerations are appropriately reported in the scholarly literature. The guidelines were developed in recognition of the persistent sex and gender gaps in research across disciplines, especially in health an…
Investigating sex differences in the accuracy of dietary assessment methods to measure energy intake in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Inequalities and Deteriorations in Cardiovascular Health in Premenopausal US Women, 1990–2016
Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates in the United States have declined by up to two thirds in recent decades. Closer examination of these trends reveals substantial inequities in the distribution of mortality benefits. It is worrying that the uneven distribution of CHD that exists from lowest to highest social class—the social gradient—has become more pronounced in the United States since 1990 and is most pronounced for women. Here we co…
Care seeking pathways of older adults with hip fracture in India: Exploratory study protocol
The findings of this study will provide an increased understanding of the care seeking behaviors of older adults with hip fracture, and inform contextually appropriate changes in healthcare program and policy aimed at improving health outcomes
P2-501 Accuracy of self-report of on-road crashes and traffic offences in a cohort of young drivers: The drive study
Introduction Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, particularly among young adults. While surveys are widely used to measure the incidence of on-road crashes and offences, little is known about the validity of self-reports of these events, particularly among young drivers. This study examines the accuracy of self-report of on-road crashes and traffic offences among participants in the DRIVE study: a cohort s…
The Heavy Vehicle Study: A case-control study investigating risk factors for crash in long distance heavy vehicle drivers in Australia
Significant attention has been paid to the enforcement of legislation aiming to deter problems such as excess loading, speeding and substance use; however, there is inconclusive evidence as to the direction and strength of associations of many other postulated risk factors for heavy vehicle crashes. The influence of factors such as remuneration and scheduling on crash risk is unclear; so too the association between sleep apnoea and the risk of he…
Socioeconomic status and risk of car crash injury, independent of place of residence and driving exposure: Results from the DRIVE Study
BACKGROUND: Previous studies that found increased crash risks for young drivers of low socioeconomic status (SES) have failed to adjust for factors such as driving exposure and rural residence. This aim of this study is to examine the independent effect of SES on crash risk, adjusting for such factors, and to examine the relationship between injury severity following a crash and SES. METHODS: Information on risk factors for crash collected from 2…
Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain's Age of Reform
Novice Drivers' Risky Driving Behavior, Risk Perception, and Crash Risk: Findings From the DRIVE Study
Objectives. We explored the risky driving behaviors and risk perceptions of a cohort of young novice drivers and sought to determine their associations with crash risk. Methods. Provisional drivers aged 17 to 24 (n = 20 822) completed a detailed questionnaire that included measures of risk perception and behaviors; 2 years following recruitment, survey data were linked to licensing and police-reported crash data. Poisson regression models that ad…
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
This is an admirably concise yet comprehensive survey of our current state of knowledge concerning the history of British homosexuality. The chronological organisation suggests a uniformity of treatment, but each author's methodology and outlook differs from that of his colleagues, and the overseeing editor, Matt Cook, was not quite able to draw his contributors together for a genuine ‘conversation’. For example, Trumbach's and Cocks's citations …
Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
The sensational title trivialises what is in fact an in-depth study of homosexual lives in late nineteenth-century England, thoroughly documented by original archival research and engagingly told with humane good humour. Kaplan's traditional employment of historical narrative, or ‘storytelling,’ focuses on three main stories: the trials of the cross-dressers Frederick William Park and Ernest Boulton (a.k.a. Fanny and Stella) in 1870–71; the hotho…
Motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status: A cohort study with prospective and retrospective driver injuries
Study objective: To investigate the association between motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status. Design: Cohort study with prospective and retrospective outcomes. Setting: New Zealand. Participants: 10 525 adults (volunteer sample of a multi-industry workforce, n=8008; and a random sample of urban electoral rolls, n=2517). Outcome measure: Motor vehicle driver injury resulting in admission of the driver to hospital or the driver’s de…
Association of environmental tobacco smoke exposure with socioeconomic status in a population of 7725 New Zealanders
In this study population, ETS exposure was inversely associated with socioeconomic status. Greater ETS exposure might therefore contribute to the higher risks of disease and death among low socioeconomic groups. These results provide a further rationale for targeting tobacco control measures to people in low socioeconomic groups
The economic cost of homicide in New Zealand
Child pedestrian injury rates: The importance of "exposure to risk" relating to socioeconomic and ethnic differences, in Auckland, New Zealand
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine how child pedestrian exposure to risk, as measured by the mean number of streets crossed, varies according to indices of material disadvantage and ethnic group. DESIGN: A questionnaire on pedestrian exposure to risk was distributed to children for completion by parents and return to school. Children from 40 schools were selected using a probability cluster design. SETTING: The Auckland region of New Zealand. SUBJECTS: …
Ethno-nationalism and the Constitutive Power of Cultural Politics: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Fiji
A discussion of Sinhalese ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka and indigenous Fijian ethno-nationalism in the Pacific island state of Fiji shows how the volatility of ethnic conflict can be affected by the particular manner in which collective identities are constituted. A distinction is drawn between a reconstructive process aggressively focussed against "the other," and the routine living of identity in established social relations and cultural pract…
Novice Drivers' Risky Driving Behavior, Risk Perception, and Crash Risk: Findings From the DRIVE Study
Objectives. We explored the risky driving behaviors and risk perceptions of a cohort of young novice drivers and sought to determine their associations with crash risk. Methods. Provisional drivers aged 17 to 24 (n = 20 822) completed a detailed questionnaire that included measures of risk perception and behaviors; 2 years following recruitment, survey data were linked to licensing and police-reported crash data. Poisson regression models that ad…
Physician breach of patient confidentiality among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection: Patterns of decision
To determine whether the sex, race, or sexual preference of a patient infected with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences a physician's decision to breach patient confidentiality, Tennessee primary care physicians were mailed a questionnaire containing a case study in which an HIV-infected patient presented a risk to a third party. Eight different descriptions of the sex, race, and sexual preference of the hypothetical patient were distributed …
Motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status: A cohort study with prospective and retrospective driver injuries
Study objective: To investigate the association between motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status. Design: Cohort study with prospective and retrospective outcomes. Setting: New Zealand. Participants: 10 525 adults (volunteer sample of a multi-industry workforce, n=8008; and a random sample of urban electoral rolls, n=2517). Outcome measure: Motor vehicle driver injury resulting in admission of the driver to hospital or the driver’s de…
Child pedestrian injury rates: The importance of "exposure to risk" relating to socioeconomic and ethnic differences, in Auckland, New Zealand
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine how child pedestrian exposure to risk, as measured by the mean number of streets crossed, varies according to indices of material disadvantage and ethnic group. DESIGN: A questionnaire on pedestrian exposure to risk was distributed to children for completion by parents and return to school. Children from 40 schools were selected using a probability cluster design. SETTING: The Auckland region of New Zealand. SUBJECTS: …
Socioeconomic status and risk of car crash injury, independent of place of residence and driving exposure: Results from the DRIVE Study
BACKGROUND: Previous studies that found increased crash risks for young drivers of low socioeconomic status (SES) have failed to adjust for factors such as driving exposure and rural residence. This aim of this study is to examine the independent effect of SES on crash risk, adjusting for such factors, and to examine the relationship between injury severity following a crash and SES. METHODS: Information on risk factors for crash collected from 2…
Ethno-nationalism and the Constitutive Power of Cultural Politics: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Fiji
A discussion of Sinhalese ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka and indigenous Fijian ethno-nationalism in the Pacific island state of Fiji shows how the volatility of ethnic conflict can be affected by the particular manner in which collective identities are constituted. A distinction is drawn between a reconstructive process aggressively focussed against "the other," and the routine living of identity in established social relations and cultural pract…
Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain's Age of Reform
Disasters and Settlements
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov
Dmitri Shostakovich. Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov. Translated from the Russian by Antonia W. Bouis. New York: Harper and Row, 1979. 289 pages
Nicaragua Report
Music and the Bourgeois; Music and the Proletarian
János Maróthy, Music and the Bourgeois; Music and the Proletarian. Translated by Eva Rona. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1974. 588 pages. Approximately $27.00
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov
Dmitri Shostakovich. Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov. Translated from the Russian by Antonia W. Bouis. New York: Harper and Row, 1979. 289 pages
Nicaragua Report
Disasters and Settlements
Physician breach of patient confidentiality among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection: Patterns of decision
To determine whether the sex, race, or sexual preference of a patient infected with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences a physician's decision to breach patient confidentiality, Tennessee primary care physicians were mailed a questionnaire containing a case study in which an HIV-infected patient presented a risk to a third party. Eight different descriptions of the sex, race, and sexual preference of the hypothetical patient were distributed …
Ethno-nationalism and the Constitutive Power of Cultural Politics: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Fiji
A discussion of Sinhalese ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka and indigenous Fijian ethno-nationalism in the Pacific island state of Fiji shows how the volatility of ethnic conflict can be affected by the particular manner in which collective identities are constituted. A distinction is drawn between a reconstructive process aggressively focussed against "the other," and the routine living of identity in established social relations and cultural pract…
Child pedestrian injury rates: The importance of "exposure to risk" relating to socioeconomic and ethnic differences, in Auckland, New Zealand
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine how child pedestrian exposure to risk, as measured by the mean number of streets crossed, varies according to indices of material disadvantage and ethnic group. DESIGN: A questionnaire on pedestrian exposure to risk was distributed to children for completion by parents and return to school. Children from 40 schools were selected using a probability cluster design. SETTING: The Auckland region of New Zealand. SUBJECTS: …
The economic cost of homicide in New Zealand
Association of environmental tobacco smoke exposure with socioeconomic status in a population of 7725 New Zealanders
In this study population, ETS exposure was inversely associated with socioeconomic status. Greater ETS exposure might therefore contribute to the higher risks of disease and death among low socioeconomic groups. These results provide a further rationale for targeting tobacco control measures to people in low socioeconomic groups
Motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status: A cohort study with prospective and retrospective driver injuries
Study objective: To investigate the association between motor vehicle driver injury and socioeconomic status. Design: Cohort study with prospective and retrospective outcomes. Setting: New Zealand. Participants: 10 525 adults (volunteer sample of a multi-industry workforce, n=8008; and a random sample of urban electoral rolls, n=2517). Outcome measure: Motor vehicle driver injury resulting in admission of the driver to hospital or the driver’s de…
Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
The sensational title trivialises what is in fact an in-depth study of homosexual lives in late nineteenth-century England, thoroughly documented by original archival research and engagingly told with humane good humour. Kaplan's traditional employment of historical narrative, or ‘storytelling,’ focuses on three main stories: the trials of the cross-dressers Frederick William Park and Ernest Boulton (a.k.a. Fanny and Stella) in 1870–71; the hotho…
Novice Drivers' Risky Driving Behavior, Risk Perception, and Crash Risk: Findings From the DRIVE Study
Objectives. We explored the risky driving behaviors and risk perceptions of a cohort of young novice drivers and sought to determine their associations with crash risk. Methods. Provisional drivers aged 17 to 24 (n = 20 822) completed a detailed questionnaire that included measures of risk perception and behaviors; 2 years following recruitment, survey data were linked to licensing and police-reported crash data. Poisson regression models that ad…
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
This is an admirably concise yet comprehensive survey of our current state of knowledge concerning the history of British homosexuality. The chronological organisation suggests a uniformity of treatment, but each author's methodology and outlook differs from that of his colleagues, and the overseeing editor, Matt Cook, was not quite able to draw his contributors together for a genuine ‘conversation’. For example, Trumbach's and Cocks's citations …
The Heavy Vehicle Study: A case-control study investigating risk factors for crash in long distance heavy vehicle drivers in Australia
Significant attention has been paid to the enforcement of legislation aiming to deter problems such as excess loading, speeding and substance use; however, there is inconclusive evidence as to the direction and strength of associations of many other postulated risk factors for heavy vehicle crashes. The influence of factors such as remuneration and scheduling on crash risk is unclear; so too the association between sleep apnoea and the risk of he…
Socioeconomic status and risk of car crash injury, independent of place of residence and driving exposure: Results from the DRIVE Study
BACKGROUND: Previous studies that found increased crash risks for young drivers of low socioeconomic status (SES) have failed to adjust for factors such as driving exposure and rural residence. This aim of this study is to examine the independent effect of SES on crash risk, adjusting for such factors, and to examine the relationship between injury severity following a crash and SES. METHODS: Information on risk factors for crash collected from 2…
Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain's Age of Reform
P2-501 Accuracy of self-report of on-road crashes and traffic offences in a cohort of young drivers: The drive study
Introduction Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, particularly among young adults. While surveys are widely used to measure the incidence of on-road crashes and offences, little is known about the validity of self-reports of these events, particularly among young drivers. This study examines the accuracy of self-report of on-road crashes and traffic offences among participants in the DRIVE study: a cohort s…
Care seeking pathways of older adults with hip fracture in India: Exploratory study protocol
The findings of this study will provide an increased understanding of the care seeking behaviors of older adults with hip fracture, and inform contextually appropriate changes in healthcare program and policy aimed at improving health outcomes
Inequalities and Deteriorations in Cardiovascular Health in Premenopausal US Women, 1990–2016
Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates in the United States have declined by up to two thirds in recent decades. Closer examination of these trends reveals substantial inequities in the distribution of mortality benefits. It is worrying that the uneven distribution of CHD that exists from lowest to highest social class—the social gradient—has become more pronounced in the United States since 1990 and is most pronounced for women. Here we co…
Fifth anniversary of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (Sager) guidelines: Taking stock and looking ahead
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Sex And Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines,1 which provide recommendations to authors, journal editors, peer-reviewers and publishers for ensuring that sex and gender considerations are appropriately reported in the scholarly literature. The guidelines were developed in recognition of the persistent sex and gender gaps in research across disciplines, especially in health an…
Investigating sex differences in the accuracy of dietary assessment methods to measure energy intake in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Evaluation of dedicated Covid-19 hospitals in the pandemic response in Iraq: Pandemic preparation within a recovering healthcare infrastructure
The purpose of this study is to evaluate Iraq’s health facility preparedness for the surge of hospitalised cases associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we review pandemic preparedness at both general and tertiary hospitals throughout all districts of Iraq. COVID-19 pandemic preparedness, for the purpose of this review, is defined as: (1) staff to patient ratio, (2) personal protective equipment (PPE) to staff ratio, (3) i…
Gender roles, generational changes and environmental challenges: An intersectional interpretation of perceptions on healthy diets among iTaukei women and men in Fiji
Objective: To investigate perceptions of iTaukei Fijian women and men around diet and the ability to consume a healthy diet. Design: Six focus groups were conducted with women and men separately. Six to ten women and men participated in each group. Discussions were recorded, transcribed, translated and thematically analysed. Themes were mapped to an intersectionality framework to aid interpretation. Setting: Four villages in Viti Levu, Fiji. Part…
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: A policy analysis
BACKGROUND: Snakebite was added to the WHO neglected tropical disease (NTD) list in 2017, followed by a World Health Assembly resolution in 2018, and an explicit global target being set to reduce the burden in 2019. We aimed to understand how and why snakebite became a global health priority. METHODS: 's framework on global health network to guide the analysis. RESULTS: We conducted 20 interviews and examined 91 documents. The prioritisation of s…
Burden of non-communicable diseases and behavioural risk factors in Mexico: Trends and gender observational analysis
Background: There is scarce gender-disaggregated evidence on the burden of disease (BD) worldwide and this is particularly prominent in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study is to compare the BD caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and related risk factors by gender in Mexican adults. Methods: We retrieved disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) estimates for diabetes, cancers and neoplasms, chronic cardiovascular dis…
Medicine (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Public health (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Injury prevention (6 works)