Louise Condon
Biographic Data
| ID | 242243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Condon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Condon |
| SIGNATURE | CONDON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2547-5603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Experiences of Alcohol Use and Harm among Travellers, Roma, and Gypsies
Alcohol is widely used in many cultures as part of everyday life and for special occasions. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the UK, with higher rates among socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Gypsies and Travellers are ethnic and cultural minorities who experience extreme social disadvantage but there is a lack of knowledge about their alcohol use. The study aim was to explore experiences of alcohol use and harm in these distinc…
Alcohol use and harm among Roma, Gypsies, Travellers and Boaters
Knowledge and experience of cancer prevention and screening among Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
This study provides new knowledge about how Gypsies, Roma and Travellers keep healthy and prevent disease, giving insights into similarities and differences between ages, sexes and communities. These culturally distinct and high-need ethnic minorities have specific needs in relation to cancer prevention and screening, which merit targeted and acceptable health promotion to reduce health inequalities
Identifying interventions with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to promote immunisation uptake
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN20019630, Date of registration 01-08-2013, Prospectively registered
How patient stories can improve health services around the world
A health board in Wales, UK1 holds ‘listening events’ where patients tell their stories of service use to NHS and local authority workers, and third sector organisations. Initially a few health professionals were reluctant to engage, saying that they knew their patients well and were familiar with their stories. After the first event one such health professional informed the organiser that, contrary to his expectations, he had learnt much from ta…
Engaging Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in Research
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people are marginalized worldwide and experience severe health inequalities, even in comparison to other ethnic minority groups. While diverse and hard to categorize, these communities are highly cohesive and members have a strong sense of identity as a group apart from the majority population. Researchers commonly experience challenges in accessing, recruiting, and retaining research participants from these communities…
Exploring service users’ views to reduce inequalities in healthcare
The UK has recently celebrated the 70th birthday of the National Health Service, and there has been much reflection on changes in health care since 1948, and focus on how the NHS is currently performing in relation to the health services of other countries. Comparing across health systems is notoriously difficult, even from the perspective of deciding which indicators to measure.1 Simply comparing health care expenditure does not suffice to repre…
Seeking the views of service users
When I was a graduate student nurse in the early 1980s, one assessment was to devise a research project—I suggested asking patients for their views on the care they had received in hospital. Sadly, when I proposed this topic, I was told that asking patients for their views was far too risky and certainly could not be carried out in my training hospital. Imagine my delight therefore at being an editor of Health Expectations journal which seeks to …
Needles, Jabs and Jags
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN20019630
‘You likes your way, we got our own way’
BACKGROUND: Gypsies and Travellers are known to have poor health status and access to health services, even in comparison with other ethnic minority groups. People from this stigmatized ethnic group are rarely consulted about their health needs or health service provision. Optimal infant feeding in the first year of life has the potential to improve lifelong health. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore mothers and grandmothers' views o…
Increasing support for breastfeeding
Britain has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, with particularly low rates among White British families living in disadvantaged communities. As breastfeeding has important long-term health benefits for babies and their mothers, this represents a serious inequality in health. It is part of the remit of Sure Start Children's Centres which serve disadvantaged areas to offer child and family health services, including breastfeeding supp…
Health needs of prisoners in England and Wales
This paper aims to provide evidence of the healthcare needs of prisoners in relation to gender, age and ethnicity, drawing from a larger systematic overview of the policy and research literature concerning primary care nursing in prisons in England and Wales. The literature overview shaped the initial stages of a research project funded by the Department of Health to examine the views and perspectives of prisoners and nurses working in prisons, a…
Engaging Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in Research
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people are marginalized worldwide and experience severe health inequalities, even in comparison to other ethnic minority groups. While diverse and hard to categorize, these communities are highly cohesive and members have a strong sense of identity as a group apart from the majority population. Researchers commonly experience challenges in accessing, recruiting, and retaining research participants from these communities…
Increasing support for breastfeeding
Britain has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, with particularly low rates among White British families living in disadvantaged communities. As breastfeeding has important long-term health benefits for babies and their mothers, this represents a serious inequality in health. It is part of the remit of Sure Start Children's Centres which serve disadvantaged areas to offer child and family health services, including breastfeeding supp…
Health needs of prisoners in England and Wales
This paper aims to provide evidence of the healthcare needs of prisoners in relation to gender, age and ethnicity, drawing from a larger systematic overview of the policy and research literature concerning primary care nursing in prisons in England and Wales. The literature overview shaped the initial stages of a research project funded by the Department of Health to examine the views and perspectives of prisoners and nurses working in prisons, a…
Health needs of prisoners in England and Wales
This paper aims to provide evidence of the healthcare needs of prisoners in relation to gender, age and ethnicity, drawing from a larger systematic overview of the policy and research literature concerning primary care nursing in prisons in England and Wales. The literature overview shaped the initial stages of a research project funded by the Department of Health to examine the views and perspectives of prisoners and nurses working in prisons, a…
Increasing support for breastfeeding
Britain has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, with particularly low rates among White British families living in disadvantaged communities. As breastfeeding has important long-term health benefits for babies and their mothers, this represents a serious inequality in health. It is part of the remit of Sure Start Children's Centres which serve disadvantaged areas to offer child and family health services, including breastfeeding supp…
‘You likes your way, we got our own way’
BACKGROUND: Gypsies and Travellers are known to have poor health status and access to health services, even in comparison with other ethnic minority groups. People from this stigmatized ethnic group are rarely consulted about their health needs or health service provision. Optimal infant feeding in the first year of life has the potential to improve lifelong health. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore mothers and grandmothers' views o…
Seeking the views of service users
When I was a graduate student nurse in the early 1980s, one assessment was to devise a research project—I suggested asking patients for their views on the care they had received in hospital. Sadly, when I proposed this topic, I was told that asking patients for their views was far too risky and certainly could not be carried out in my training hospital. Imagine my delight therefore at being an editor of Health Expectations journal which seeks to …
Needles, Jabs and Jags
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN20019630
Exploring service users’ views to reduce inequalities in healthcare
The UK has recently celebrated the 70th birthday of the National Health Service, and there has been much reflection on changes in health care since 1948, and focus on how the NHS is currently performing in relation to the health services of other countries. Comparing across health systems is notoriously difficult, even from the perspective of deciding which indicators to measure.1 Simply comparing health care expenditure does not suffice to repre…
How patient stories can improve health services around the world
A health board in Wales, UK1 holds ‘listening events’ where patients tell their stories of service use to NHS and local authority workers, and third sector organisations. Initially a few health professionals were reluctant to engage, saying that they knew their patients well and were familiar with their stories. After the first event one such health professional informed the organiser that, contrary to his expectations, he had learnt much from ta…
Engaging Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in Research
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people are marginalized worldwide and experience severe health inequalities, even in comparison to other ethnic minority groups. While diverse and hard to categorize, these communities are highly cohesive and members have a strong sense of identity as a group apart from the majority population. Researchers commonly experience challenges in accessing, recruiting, and retaining research participants from these communities…
Identifying interventions with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to promote immunisation uptake
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN20019630, Date of registration 01-08-2013, Prospectively registered
Knowledge and experience of cancer prevention and screening among Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
This study provides new knowledge about how Gypsies, Roma and Travellers keep healthy and prevent disease, giving insights into similarities and differences between ages, sexes and communities. These culturally distinct and high-need ethnic minorities have specific needs in relation to cancer prevention and screening, which merit targeted and acceptable health promotion to reduce health inequalities
Experiences of Alcohol Use and Harm among Travellers, Roma, and Gypsies
Alcohol is widely used in many cultures as part of everyday life and for special occasions. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the UK, with higher rates among socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Gypsies and Travellers are ethnic and cultural minorities who experience extreme social disadvantage but there is a lack of knowledge about their alcohol use. The study aim was to explore experiences of alcohol use and harm in these distinc…
Alcohol use and harm among Roma, Gypsies, Travellers and Boaters
Medicine (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public health (7 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works)