Peter Sainsbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 268087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sainsbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sainsbury |
| SIGNATURE | SAINSBURY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sydney South West Area Health Service |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0638-9438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Five urban health research traditions: A meta-narrative review
Four urban health paradigms: The search for coherence
Scholars, practitioners and policymakers view urban health based on their foundational ontologies, or paradigms, which provide a framework of norms that specifies the policy goals or research questions, the preferred policy instruments or research methodologies, and defines the nature of the urban health issue. This paper identifies four paradigms in current research and practice that address the links between the urban built environment and huma…
City deals and health equity in Sydney, Australia
The institutional dynamics behind limited human health considerations in environmental assessments of coal mining projects in New South Wales, Australia
The Power of Collaborative Planning: How a Health and Planning Collaboration Facilitated Integration of Health Goals in the 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide
This article examines the relationship between theories of urban governance, strategic planning and collaborative planning and the preparation of a strategic spatial plan for the greater Adelaide region. In particular, it analyses the extent to which health professionals involved in the collaborative processes used to formulate the plan were able to advocate for health-related objectives. The analysis was undertaken using data collected in interv…
How well do Australian government urban planning policies respond to the social determinants of health and health equity
Can health and health equity be advanced by urban planning strategies designed to advance global competitiveness? Lessons from two Australian case studies
Creating ‘healthy built environment’ legislation in Australia; a policy analysis
Influencing healthy public policy through health advocacy remains challenging. This policy analysis research uses theories of agenda setting to understand how health came to be considered for specific mention in legislation arising from land-use planning system reform in New South Wales, Australia. This qualitative study follows critical realist methodology to conduct a policy analysis of the case. We collected data from purposively sampled in-de…
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia: A critical, institutional, analysis
Framing health for land-use planning legislation: A qualitative descriptive content analysis
The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory
Killer facts, politics and other influences: What evidence triggered early childhood intervention policies in Australia
Understanding the ‘evidence’ for policy is complicated. This article examines the relationship between evidence and policies on early childhood interventions in two states of Australia, revealing powerful insights into what constitutes the evidence for policy and the importance of ‘killer facts’ to decision makers. The nature of evidence in the policy environment is broad and complex, going well beyond research to incorporate policy context and p…
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Coreq): A 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups
BACKGROUND: Qualitative research explores complex phenomena encountered by clinicians, health care providers, policy makers and consumers. Although partial checklists are available, no consolidated reporting framework exists for any type of qualitative design. OBJECTIVE: To develop a checklist for explicit and comprehensive reporting of qualitative studies (in depth interviews and focus groups). METHODS: We performed a comprehensive search in Coc…
Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies
In public health, the generation, management, and transfer of knowledge all need major improvement. Problems in generating knowledge include an imbalance in research funding, publication bias, unnecessary studies, adherence to fashion, and undue interest in novel and immediate issues. Impaired generation of knowledge, combined with a dated and inadequate process for managing knowledge and an inefficient system for transferring knowledge, mean a d…
Can scientists and policy makers work together: Table 1
This paper addresses a fundamental question in evidence based policy making—can scientists and policy makers work together? It first provides a scenario outlining the different mentalities and imperatives of scientists and policy makers, and then discusses various issues and solutions relating to whether and how scientists and policy makers can work together. Scientists and policy makers have different goals, attitudes toward information, languag…
Diseases of comfort: Primary cause of death in the 22nd century
Context: The world has started to feel the impact of a global chronic disease epidemic, which is putting pressure on our health care systems. If uncurbed, a new generation of “diseases of comfort” (such as those chronic diseases caused by obesity and physical inactivity) will become a major public health problem in this and the next century. Objective: To describe the concept, causes, and prevention and control strategies of diseases of comfort. …
Address to the Asda Conference 2002: 'Visions, Illusions and Delusions'
Address to the Asda Conference 2002: ‘Visions, Illusions and Delusions’
Addressing a conference with the headline 'The Persistence of Vision' seems a risky undertaking. On one hand, as Donald Crombie reminds us in his welcoming programme note, the phrase describes the optical illusion that makes cinema possible. This is perhaps a blessed delusion, in which we take an almost innocent delight. It's a simple fact of life, and one that provides enormous pleasure. But there is not much more to be said about it. On the oth…
Promoting mental health: Recent progress and problems in Australia
In Australia, as elsewhere, the promotion of mental health has lagged far behind the promotion of physical health.1 For instance, despite the publication of a comprehensive review of the evidence for prevention and early intervention in mental illness in 1993,2 the Australian goals for better health published in 1994 saw improved mental health simply as a possible spin off of strategies to reduce the suicide rate and the effects of mental disorde…
Whose dying? A sociological critique of the 'good death
This paper aims to describe and analyse the ideology of the 'good death'; an ideology central to the modern hospice movement and underpinning many of the challenges to the medical management of dying and death. The development of the concept of the 'good death' will be traced from the work of the French historian, Ariès, through the influential writings of Kübler-Ross, to the contemporary contributions within the sociology of dying and death. The…
Health promotion research. Towards a new social epidemiology (Book)
Help in Old Age ‐‐ Facing up to Change. A Longitudinal Network Study (Book)
Personal Relationships and Social Support/Human Relationships (Book)
The accuracy of officially reported suicide statistics for purposes of epidemiological research
Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the kind of inaccuracies encountered when ascertaining cases in studies of mortality from any cause. Nevertheless, the evidence from studies designed to see whether these sources of error invalidate the differences reported between cultural and social groups indicate that they are randomise…
The Financial Base of Independent Film Production in the UK
Journal Article The Financial Base of Independent Film Production in the UK Get access Peter Sainsbury Peter Sainsbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 22, Issue 1, May 1981, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/22.1.41 Published: 01 May 1981
Can scientists and policy makers work together: Table 1
This paper addresses a fundamental question in evidence based policy making—can scientists and policy makers work together? It first provides a scenario outlining the different mentalities and imperatives of scientists and policy makers, and then discusses various issues and solutions relating to whether and how scientists and policy makers can work together. Scientists and policy makers have different goals, attitudes toward information, languag…
The accuracy of officially reported suicide statistics for purposes of epidemiological research
Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the kind of inaccuracies encountered when ascertaining cases in studies of mortality from any cause. Nevertheless, the evidence from studies designed to see whether these sources of error invalidate the differences reported between cultural and social groups indicate that they are randomise…
Killer facts, politics and other influences: What evidence triggered early childhood intervention policies in Australia
Understanding the ‘evidence’ for policy is complicated. This article examines the relationship between evidence and policies on early childhood interventions in two states of Australia, revealing powerful insights into what constitutes the evidence for policy and the importance of ‘killer facts’ to decision makers. The nature of evidence in the policy environment is broad and complex, going well beyond research to incorporate policy context and p…
The social relations of suicide
This paper investigates the determinants of individual attitudes towards migration by means of a literature review and an empirical research, which focuses on the case of the Netherlands. Compared to other economic facets of globalization like trade and investment flows, migration seems to be less important. Some argue that this is the result of restrictive migration policies of the governments of the destination countries. The migration policies…
The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory
How well do Australian government urban planning policies respond to the social determinants of health and health equity
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia: A critical, institutional, analysis
Framing health for land-use planning legislation: A qualitative descriptive content analysis
Diseases of comfort: Primary cause of death in the 22nd century
Context: The world has started to feel the impact of a global chronic disease epidemic, which is putting pressure on our health care systems. If uncurbed, a new generation of “diseases of comfort” (such as those chronic diseases caused by obesity and physical inactivity) will become a major public health problem in this and the next century. Objective: To describe the concept, causes, and prevention and control strategies of diseases of comfort. …
The institutional dynamics behind limited human health considerations in environmental assessments of coal mining projects in New South Wales, Australia
Can health and health equity be advanced by urban planning strategies designed to advance global competitiveness? Lessons from two Australian case studies
Four urban health paradigms: The search for coherence
Scholars, practitioners and policymakers view urban health based on their foundational ontologies, or paradigms, which provide a framework of norms that specifies the policy goals or research questions, the preferred policy instruments or research methodologies, and defines the nature of the urban health issue. This paper identifies four paradigms in current research and practice that address the links between the urban built environment and huma…
Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies
In public health, the generation, management, and transfer of knowledge all need major improvement. Problems in generating knowledge include an imbalance in research funding, publication bias, unnecessary studies, adherence to fashion, and undue interest in novel and immediate issues. Impaired generation of knowledge, combined with a dated and inadequate process for managing knowledge and an inefficient system for transferring knowledge, mean a d…
Gestural Movement During Psychiatric Interview
A method is described of measuring the gestural movements made by patients during psychiatric interview by means of an electromyograph and integrator which sums and records only the high amplitude muscle potentials accompanying movements. Gestural movements were measured every half minute in 16 interviews. The interviews were divided into periods in which stressful and unstressful topics were discussed, and it was found that significantly more mo…
Society and Suicide: Social Aspects of Suicide in London
The social relations of suicide
This paper investigates the determinants of individual attitudes towards migration by means of a literature review and an empirical research, which focuses on the case of the Netherlands. Compared to other economic facets of globalization like trade and investment flows, migration seems to be less important. Some argue that this is the result of restrictive migration policies of the governments of the destination countries. The migration policies…
A Hundred Cases of Suicide: Clinical Aspects
Historically, doctors have not always acknowledged that they have an obligation to prevent suicide, partly because they shared the prevalent idea that most suicides were caused by moral crises, no concern of theirs—and indeed suicide was a criminal matter until quite recently; but more, perhaps, because a fatalism has characterized their attitudes to its prevention, even where the suicide was clearly suffering from mental illness. Yet two recent …
The Financial Base of Independent Film Production in the UK
Journal Article The Financial Base of Independent Film Production in the UK Get access Peter Sainsbury Peter Sainsbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 22, Issue 1, May 1981, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/22.1.41 Published: 01 May 1981
The accuracy of officially reported suicide statistics for purposes of epidemiological research
Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the kind of inaccuracies encountered when ascertaining cases in studies of mortality from any cause. Nevertheless, the evidence from studies designed to see whether these sources of error invalidate the differences reported between cultural and social groups indicate that they are randomise…
Personal Relationships and Social Support/Human Relationships (Book)
Health promotion research. Towards a new social epidemiology (Book)
Help in Old Age ‐‐ Facing up to Change. A Longitudinal Network Study (Book)
Whose dying? A sociological critique of the 'good death
This paper aims to describe and analyse the ideology of the 'good death'; an ideology central to the modern hospice movement and underpinning many of the challenges to the medical management of dying and death. The development of the concept of the 'good death' will be traced from the work of the French historian, Ariès, through the influential writings of Kübler-Ross, to the contemporary contributions within the sociology of dying and death. The…
Promoting mental health: Recent progress and problems in Australia
In Australia, as elsewhere, the promotion of mental health has lagged far behind the promotion of physical health.1 For instance, despite the publication of a comprehensive review of the evidence for prevention and early intervention in mental illness in 1993,2 the Australian goals for better health published in 1994 saw improved mental health simply as a possible spin off of strategies to reduce the suicide rate and the effects of mental disorde…
Address to the Asda Conference 2002: 'Visions, Illusions and Delusions'
Address to the Asda Conference 2002: ‘Visions, Illusions and Delusions’
Addressing a conference with the headline 'The Persistence of Vision' seems a risky undertaking. On one hand, as Donald Crombie reminds us in his welcoming programme note, the phrase describes the optical illusion that makes cinema possible. This is perhaps a blessed delusion, in which we take an almost innocent delight. It's a simple fact of life, and one that provides enormous pleasure. But there is not much more to be said about it. On the oth…
Can scientists and policy makers work together: Table 1
This paper addresses a fundamental question in evidence based policy making—can scientists and policy makers work together? It first provides a scenario outlining the different mentalities and imperatives of scientists and policy makers, and then discusses various issues and solutions relating to whether and how scientists and policy makers can work together. Scientists and policy makers have different goals, attitudes toward information, languag…
Diseases of comfort: Primary cause of death in the 22nd century
Context: The world has started to feel the impact of a global chronic disease epidemic, which is putting pressure on our health care systems. If uncurbed, a new generation of “diseases of comfort” (such as those chronic diseases caused by obesity and physical inactivity) will become a major public health problem in this and the next century. Objective: To describe the concept, causes, and prevention and control strategies of diseases of comfort. …
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Coreq): A 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups
BACKGROUND: Qualitative research explores complex phenomena encountered by clinicians, health care providers, policy makers and consumers. Although partial checklists are available, no consolidated reporting framework exists for any type of qualitative design. OBJECTIVE: To develop a checklist for explicit and comprehensive reporting of qualitative studies (in depth interviews and focus groups). METHODS: We performed a comprehensive search in Coc…
Vision for a Global Registry of Anticipated Public Health Studies
In public health, the generation, management, and transfer of knowledge all need major improvement. Problems in generating knowledge include an imbalance in research funding, publication bias, unnecessary studies, adherence to fashion, and undue interest in novel and immediate issues. Impaired generation of knowledge, combined with a dated and inadequate process for managing knowledge and an inefficient system for transferring knowledge, mean a d…
Killer facts, politics and other influences: What evidence triggered early childhood intervention policies in Australia
Understanding the ‘evidence’ for policy is complicated. This article examines the relationship between evidence and policies on early childhood interventions in two states of Australia, revealing powerful insights into what constitutes the evidence for policy and the importance of ‘killer facts’ to decision makers. The nature of evidence in the policy environment is broad and complex, going well beyond research to incorporate policy context and p…
The fit between health impact assessment and public policy: Practice meets theory
Framing health for land-use planning legislation: A qualitative descriptive content analysis
Creating ‘healthy built environment’ legislation in Australia; a policy analysis
Influencing healthy public policy through health advocacy remains challenging. This policy analysis research uses theories of agenda setting to understand how health came to be considered for specific mention in legislation arising from land-use planning system reform in New South Wales, Australia. This qualitative study follows critical realist methodology to conduct a policy analysis of the case. We collected data from purposively sampled in-de…
Including health in environmental impact assessments of three mega transport projects in Sydney, Australia: A critical, institutional, analysis
Can health and health equity be advanced by urban planning strategies designed to advance global competitiveness? Lessons from two Australian case studies
The Power of Collaborative Planning: How a Health and Planning Collaboration Facilitated Integration of Health Goals in the 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide
This article examines the relationship between theories of urban governance, strategic planning and collaborative planning and the preparation of a strategic spatial plan for the greater Adelaide region. In particular, it analyses the extent to which health professionals involved in the collaborative processes used to formulate the plan were able to advocate for health-related objectives. The analysis was undertaken using data collected in interv…
How well do Australian government urban planning policies respond to the social determinants of health and health equity
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