Ruth Pinder
Biographic Data
| ID | 216574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Pinder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinder |
| SIGNATURE | PINDER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7010-6009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Experiences of nurses providing maternity care in a public hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic in Nepal: A qualitative study
Maternity service providers have struggled to provide high-quality services to women and newborns during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has substantially impacted health systems and disrupted maternity services globally. Nepal is a resources-limited country that reported a significant impact of the pandemic on maternal health services. It is therefore important to understand better the perspective of health care professionals in this context…
A qualitative evaluation of Southwark Council’s public health response to mitigating the mental health impact of the 2017 London bridge and borough market terror attack
This article highlights a potential public health approach and need for developing robust practical guidance in the aftermath of terror attacks. This approach has already influenced the response to the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019
Observational study of the association between diverse licensed premises types and alcohol-related violence in an inner-London borough
Background An ecological correlation has been observed between licensed premises and alcohol-related violence (ARV). In the UK to date, no evidence directly connects alcohol-related harm to a single premises type. Recent policies have called for a diversified alcohol offer, yet quantitative evidence in support remains sparse. This study aims to inform policy by determining whether diversification of the alcohol economy is desirable and to inform …
Self-harm and attempted suicide among UK Armed Forces personnel: Results of a cross-sectional survey
AIMS: Little has been reported on self-harm among the UK Armed Forces, partly due to the difficulties in recording self-harm, within an often-difficult-to-reach population. This study assesses the lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide and self-harm within currently serving and ex-service personnel of the UK Armed Forces. METHODS: Telephone interviews were conducted with 821 personnel who had previously participated in the King's Centre for Mil…
A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Perceptions of the Media by Members of the British Forces during the Iraq War
Little is known about service personnel’s perceptions of the media’s coverage of war and its impact on the personnel and their families. Using data collected from a major cohort study of the British Armed Forces, this article examines perceptions of the coverage of the Iraq War among British personnel deployed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Operation Telic 1). It draws on the theories of media’s effects and gauges whether hostile media effect …
Exploring perceptions of health and the environment: A qualitative study of Thames Chase Community Forest
On movement and stillness
This article reflects on a series of ethnographic encounters that took place in a Community Forest during an afternoon bird-watching with seniors suffering mental health impairments. This was part of a wider research project undertaken with epidemiologists to explore the links between health and the environment, and the therapeutic benefits of contact with nature. Through a programme of guided walks and education in countryside lore, this initiat…
Residential mobility in the California Teachers Study: Implications for Geographic Differences in Disease Rates
What's in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS
Maps are increasingly understood as socio-cultural and political constructs, rather than mirrors of nature. Drawing on the insights of cultural cartographers, this paper presents a critical analysis of a specific instance of map-making in health policy, namely the growing use of care pathways in care planning and service delivery. Widely regarded to date as devices for ensuring quality of care, equity of treatment, optimal resource allocation and…
Whose terms? Observations on 'development management' in an English city
Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may take place, and leaving no room for legitimate local interests which may not …
A Reply to Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson
Shakespeare and Watson's paper is well conceived and argued. I particularly enjoyed the way that the debate about the social model was set in a wider context, as this contained some features that I had not previously fully appreciated. In many respects there is more to agree than to disagree with in this critique. SETTING THE SCENE Firstly, for the sake of brevity I will refer to the two papers upon which Shakespeare and Watson's critique concent…
Bringing back the body without the blame: The Experience of Ill and Disabled People at Work
This paper tussles with the policy question, that of integrating people with arthritis into employment, in terras of a dialectic between trouble and trust. It suggests that disability theorists' emphasis on the 'social model of disability' as the definitive explanation for disabled people's unfavourable position in the labour market is limited without an understanding of the body as a set of relationships linking self and outer world together. Fo…
Turning Points and Adaptations: One Man's Journey into Chronic Homelessness
Coherence and incoherence: Doctors' and patients' perspectives on the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease
This paper describes part of a qualitative project on patient‐doctor communication in the management of Parkinson's Disease. It explores how a group of general practitioners conceptualised the task of diagnosing patients with PD and the impact of diagnosis on a separate group of patients in terms of coherence and incoherence. My argument is that for GPs diagnosis represented a point of maximum theoretical coherence, whereas for patients it was a …
What to Expect: Information and the Management of Uncertainty in Parkinson's Disease
The onset of a chronic illness such as Parkinson's Disease (PD) demands an urgent response to life's fundamental questions. General practitioners (GPs) who care for people with PD may also face anxieties, but these affect their professional rather than their personal lives. However, uncertainty at whatever level requires managing. Both patients and GPs adopt various strategies to resolve their difficulties. One aspect of this process concerns com…
Religious Change in the Process of Secularization
Bringing back the body without the blame: The Experience of Ill and Disabled People at Work
This paper tussles with the policy question, that of integrating people with arthritis into employment, in terras of a dialectic between trouble and trust. It suggests that disability theorists' emphasis on the 'social model of disability' as the definitive explanation for disabled people's unfavourable position in the labour market is limited without an understanding of the body as a set of relationships linking self and outer world together. Fo…
What's in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS
Maps are increasingly understood as socio-cultural and political constructs, rather than mirrors of nature. Drawing on the insights of cultural cartographers, this paper presents a critical analysis of a specific instance of map-making in health policy, namely the growing use of care pathways in care planning and service delivery. Widely regarded to date as devices for ensuring quality of care, equity of treatment, optimal resource allocation and…
Coherence and incoherence: Doctors' and patients' perspectives on the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease
This paper describes part of a qualitative project on patient‐doctor communication in the management of Parkinson's Disease. It explores how a group of general practitioners conceptualised the task of diagnosing patients with PD and the impact of diagnosis on a separate group of patients in terms of coherence and incoherence. My argument is that for GPs diagnosis represented a point of maximum theoretical coherence, whereas for patients it was a …
Exploring perceptions of health and the environment: A qualitative study of Thames Chase Community Forest
On movement and stillness
This article reflects on a series of ethnographic encounters that took place in a Community Forest during an afternoon bird-watching with seniors suffering mental health impairments. This was part of a wider research project undertaken with epidemiologists to explore the links between health and the environment, and the therapeutic benefits of contact with nature. Through a programme of guided walks and education in countryside lore, this initiat…
Turning Points and Adaptations: One Man's Journey into Chronic Homelessness
Residential mobility in the California Teachers Study: Implications for Geographic Differences in Disease Rates
A Reply to Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson
Shakespeare and Watson's paper is well conceived and argued. I particularly enjoyed the way that the debate about the social model was set in a wider context, as this contained some features that I had not previously fully appreciated. In many respects there is more to agree than to disagree with in this critique. SETTING THE SCENE Firstly, for the sake of brevity I will refer to the two papers upon which Shakespeare and Watson's critique concent…
Religious Change in the Process of Secularization
What to Expect: Information and the Management of Uncertainty in Parkinson's Disease
The onset of a chronic illness such as Parkinson's Disease (PD) demands an urgent response to life's fundamental questions. General practitioners (GPs) who care for people with PD may also face anxieties, but these affect their professional rather than their personal lives. However, uncertainty at whatever level requires managing. Both patients and GPs adopt various strategies to resolve their difficulties. One aspect of this process concerns com…
Coherence and incoherence: Doctors' and patients' perspectives on the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease
This paper describes part of a qualitative project on patient‐doctor communication in the management of Parkinson's Disease. It explores how a group of general practitioners conceptualised the task of diagnosing patients with PD and the impact of diagnosis on a separate group of patients in terms of coherence and incoherence. My argument is that for GPs diagnosis represented a point of maximum theoretical coherence, whereas for patients it was a …
Turning Points and Adaptations: One Man's Journey into Chronic Homelessness
Bringing back the body without the blame: The Experience of Ill and Disabled People at Work
This paper tussles with the policy question, that of integrating people with arthritis into employment, in terras of a dialectic between trouble and trust. It suggests that disability theorists' emphasis on the 'social model of disability' as the definitive explanation for disabled people's unfavourable position in the labour market is limited without an understanding of the body as a set of relationships linking self and outer world together. Fo…
A Reply to Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson
Shakespeare and Watson's paper is well conceived and argued. I particularly enjoyed the way that the debate about the social model was set in a wider context, as this contained some features that I had not previously fully appreciated. In many respects there is more to agree than to disagree with in this critique. SETTING THE SCENE Firstly, for the sake of brevity I will refer to the two papers upon which Shakespeare and Watson's critique concent…
Whose terms? Observations on 'development management' in an English city
Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may take place, and leaving no room for legitimate local interests which may not …
Residential mobility in the California Teachers Study: Implications for Geographic Differences in Disease Rates
What's in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS
Maps are increasingly understood as socio-cultural and political constructs, rather than mirrors of nature. Drawing on the insights of cultural cartographers, this paper presents a critical analysis of a specific instance of map-making in health policy, namely the growing use of care pathways in care planning and service delivery. Widely regarded to date as devices for ensuring quality of care, equity of treatment, optimal resource allocation and…
On movement and stillness
This article reflects on a series of ethnographic encounters that took place in a Community Forest during an afternoon bird-watching with seniors suffering mental health impairments. This was part of a wider research project undertaken with epidemiologists to explore the links between health and the environment, and the therapeutic benefits of contact with nature. Through a programme of guided walks and education in countryside lore, this initiat…
Exploring perceptions of health and the environment: A qualitative study of Thames Chase Community Forest
A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Perceptions of the Media by Members of the British Forces during the Iraq War
Little is known about service personnel’s perceptions of the media’s coverage of war and its impact on the personnel and their families. Using data collected from a major cohort study of the British Armed Forces, this article examines perceptions of the coverage of the Iraq War among British personnel deployed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Operation Telic 1). It draws on the theories of media’s effects and gauges whether hostile media effect …
Self-harm and attempted suicide among UK Armed Forces personnel: Results of a cross-sectional survey
AIMS: Little has been reported on self-harm among the UK Armed Forces, partly due to the difficulties in recording self-harm, within an often-difficult-to-reach population. This study assesses the lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide and self-harm within currently serving and ex-service personnel of the UK Armed Forces. METHODS: Telephone interviews were conducted with 821 personnel who had previously participated in the King's Centre for Mil…
Observational study of the association between diverse licensed premises types and alcohol-related violence in an inner-London borough
Background An ecological correlation has been observed between licensed premises and alcohol-related violence (ARV). In the UK to date, no evidence directly connects alcohol-related harm to a single premises type. Recent policies have called for a diversified alcohol offer, yet quantitative evidence in support remains sparse. This study aims to inform policy by determining whether diversification of the alcohol economy is desirable and to inform …
A qualitative evaluation of Southwark Council’s public health response to mitigating the mental health impact of the 2017 London bridge and borough market terror attack
This article highlights a potential public health approach and need for developing robust practical guidance in the aftermath of terror attacks. This approach has already influenced the response to the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019
Experiences of nurses providing maternity care in a public hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic in Nepal: A qualitative study
Maternity service providers have struggled to provide high-quality services to women and newborns during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has substantially impacted health systems and disrupted maternity services globally. Nepal is a resources-limited country that reported a significant impact of the pandemic on maternal health services. It is therefore important to understand better the perspective of health care professionals in this context…
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