Petra Sylvia Meier
Biographic Data
| ID | 322550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Sylvia Meier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra Sylvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Meier |
| SIGNATURE | MEIER P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5354-1933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Do Welfare Regimes Matter? A Comparative Analysis of Area‐Level Inequalities in Life Expectancy in Germany and the United Kingdom, 2003–2021
While area‐level inequalities in life expectancy are well documented within individual countries, cross‐national comparisons remain rare. We estimated and compared the magnitude of area‐level life expectancy inequalities across districts in the UK and Germany, representing two distinct welfare regimes. We used mortality data from national statistical offices to estimate life expectancy for all districts between 2003 and 2021. Based on employment …
Prototyping a tool to layer lived experience narratives onto systems maps
Systems mapping approaches have attracted international interest for their value to policy actors. However, the maps they create can seem impersonal and disconnected from the lived experience of the communities that policy actors serve. This paper introduces our prototype tool designed to bring systems mapping, research evidence on causal connections, and lived experience narratives together. Our inspiration came from Community Panels of people w…
Drinking practices: The variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income
Do drinking occasion characteristics differ across individuals using different moderation approaches? A social practice perspective
Background: Limiting alcohol consumption is challenging as alcohol often serves as a ‘social lubricant’ in drinking practices. While individuals adopt different behavioral approaches to reduce drinking, it remains unclear how they align their drinking behaviors with moderation goals. Aim: This study utilizes a unique dataset that captures detailed information about the characteristics of drinking occasions, encompassing key theoretically-informed…
From the Compact City to the X-Minute neighborhood: A Systematic Review of the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Sustainable Urban Development Models (Sudms) on Women
Throughout the past 50 years, sustainable urban development models (SUDMs) have been introduced in cities across the world with the intention of limiting environmental air pollution and, more recently, greenhouse gas emissions. However, the health and wellbeing impacts that these interventions have had on different demographic groups are not well understood. Feminist urbanists have often critiqued hierarchical and non-participatory approaches to …
An Inclusive Economy Classification of British Local Authority Districts and Assessment of Its Association With Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation
Using primarily open‐source data, we curated 13 indicators to consistently capture the concept of the inclusive economy across Local Authority Districts in Great Britain. We used unsupervised k ‐means clustering to identify clusters of similar Local Authority Districts with respect to their economic inclusivity. We identified four distinct clusters of Local Authority Districts, those which are: (1) more economically inclusive; (2) less economical…
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999–2002
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
How could 20-minute neighbourhoods impact health and health inequalities? A policy scoping review
Pathways to assumed health (inequality) outcomes require better specification and evidence. Health inequalities are particularly under-explored, and scenario modelling might provide a means to explore the dynamic aspects necessary to examine these important outcomes pre-implementation
How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis
Alcohol consumption varies substantially across and within fifteen types of drinking occasion in Great Britain. Heavy drinking is common in most occasion types. However, moderate drinking is also common in occasion types often characterised as heavy drinking practices. Mixed-trade drinking occasions are particularly likely to involve heavy drinking
What is the relationship between changes in the size of economies and mortality derived population health measures in high income countries: A causal systematic review
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the Covid-19 economic crisis
Effective alcohol policies and lifetime abstinence: An analysis of the International Alcohol Control policy index
Understanding changes in the locations of drinking occasions in Great Britain: An age‐period‐cohort analysis of repeat cross‐sectional market research data, 2001–2019
Women's alcohol consumption in the early parenting period and influences of socio‐demographic and domestic circumstances: A scoping review and narrative synthesis
Change and stability in British drinking practices and culture between 2009 and 2019: A longitudinal latent class analysis of drinking occasions
Key recent trends in British drinking practices include a decline in routinised wine-drinking at home, a transformation of big nights out and a mixture of stability and change in pub- and meal-based practices
Systems science methods in public health: What can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis
BACKGROUND: Many complex public health evidence gaps cannot be fully resolved using only conventional public health methods. We aim to familiarise public health researchers with selected systems science methods that may contribute to a better understanding of complex phenomena and lead to more impactful interventions. As a case study, we choose the current cost-of-living crisis, which affects disposable income as a key structural determinant of h…
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance
Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography…
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies
Traditional participatory systems modelling demands synchronous time from many experts and face-to-face interaction. This is not always feasible (e.g., during a pandemic) and can restrict which participants can be included. There are additional limitations in the effectiveness of physical paper-based modelling when handling large complex systems with numerous variables and links between them. The key challenge facing practitioners is then how can…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
Is disinvestment from alcohol and drug treatment services associated with treatment access, completions and related harm? An analysis of English expenditure and outcomes data
Benchmarking alcohol policy based on stringency and impact: The International Alcohol Control (IAC) policy index
This study developed a measurement tool to assess stringency and ‘on-the-ground’ impact of four key alcohol policy domains to create an alcohol policy index suitable for benchmarking alcohol policy and assessing change over time in middle- and high-income countries. It involved a collaboration between researchers in 12 diverse countries: New Zealand; Australia; England; Scotland; Netherlands; Vietnam; Thailand; South Africa; Turkey; Chile; Saint …
Youth drinking in decline: What are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate
Youth drinking has declined across most high-income countries in the last 20 years. Although researchers and commentators have explored the nature and drivers of decline, they have paid less attention to its implications. This matters because of the potential impact on contemporary and future public health, as well as on alcohol policy-making. This commentary therefore considers how youth drinking trends may develop in future, what this would mea…
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey
This analysis provides a useful platform for further work, using prospective or intervention designs, to test the relative effectiveness of different moderation strategies for alcohol consumers who want to reduce their alcohol consumption
Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11–15‐year‐olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly‐substance use in England
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review
INTRODUCTION: Applying a complex systems perspective to public health evaluation may increase the relevance and strength of evidence to improve health and reduce health inequalities. In this review of methods, we aimed to: (i) classify and describe different complex systems methods in evaluation applied to public health; and (ii) examine the kinds of evaluative evidence generated by these different methods. METHODS: We adapted critical review met…
Imams in Flanders: A Research Note
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, mixed-method study on imams in Flanders. The research question was mainly who are they?, in an attempt to draw the first picture of their socio-demographic background, ethnicity, functions, and expectations with respect to their position in Flanders, or in Belgium more broadly speaking. The first three sections give context information about Muslims, Islam, and mosques in Belgium and Flanders. In…
Negotiating identities of 'responsible drinking: Exploring accounts of alcohol consumption of working mothers in their early parenting period
Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between motherhood and morality. Refracted through the disciplinary lens of public health, mothers' alcohol consumption has been the target of numerous messages and discourses designed to monitor and regulate women's bodies and reproductive health. This study explores how mothers …
Convergence and Divergence: The Federalization of Belgian Equality Policies
The development of an asymmetrical federal structure profoundly changed the institutional setting for Belgian gender equality policies. This contribution assesses the influence of this process on the development of the Belgian women's policy agencies and its gender equality policies. It argues that while the characteristics of the Belgian federal system—its asymmetrical structure and dual, centrifugal nature—stimulate the development of diverging…
Public attitudes towards alcohol control policies in Scotland and England: Results from a mixed-methods study
The harmful effects of heavy drinking on health have been widely reported, yet public opinion on governmental responsibility for alcohol control remains divided. This study examines UK public attitudes towards alcohol policies, identifies underlying dimensions that inform these, and relationships with perceived effectiveness. A cross-sectional mixed methods study involving a telephone survey of 3477 adult drinkers aged 16-65 and sixteen focus gro…
Systems science methods in public health: What can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis
BACKGROUND: Many complex public health evidence gaps cannot be fully resolved using only conventional public health methods. We aim to familiarise public health researchers with selected systems science methods that may contribute to a better understanding of complex phenomena and lead to more impactful interventions. As a case study, we choose the current cost-of-living crisis, which affects disposable income as a key structural determinant of h…
Junge Frauen — junge Männer
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the Covid-19 economic crisis
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance
Advocates of inclusive growth claim it provides policymakers with a means of combining economic success with social inclusivity, making it highly attractive across a wide range of settings. Here, we explore how three UK policy organizations (a devolved national government, a city region combined authority, and a local council) are pursuing inclusive growth goals. Drawing on 51 semistructured interviews, documentary analysis and policy ethnography…
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey
This analysis provides a useful platform for further work, using prospective or intervention designs, to test the relative effectiveness of different moderation strategies for alcohol consumers who want to reduce their alcohol consumption
Inclusions and Exclusions in the Brussels Gay Neighbourhood: An Intersectional Analysis
A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of inclusive economies
Traditional participatory systems modelling demands synchronous time from many experts and face-to-face interaction. This is not always feasible (e.g., during a pandemic) and can restrict which participants can be included. There are additional limitations in the effectiveness of physical paper-based modelling when handling large complex systems with numerous variables and links between them. The key challenge facing practitioners is then how can…
Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period
Junge Frauen — junge Männer
The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of substance misuse: A critical review of the literature
Background In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings are brought together in a comprehensive review. Aims This paper has two principal aims: (1) to assess the degree to which the relationship between drug user and counsellor predicts treatment outcome and (2) to examine critically the evidence on determinants of the qua…
State Feminism and Women’s Movements in Belgium: Complex Patterns in a Multilevel System
In the aftermath of the Second World War Belgium developed a welfare system with extensive unemployment allowances, social security, pension rights, accessible health and care infrastructure. Notwithstanding a rather conservative gender regime, fed by the Catholic tradition and its impact on politics, the participation of women in the labour market is higher than in the neighbouring countries like Germany or the Netherlands. A decrease in the num…
The Pregnant Worker and Caring Mother: Framing Family Policies across Europe
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
European Union Gender Policy Since Beijing: Shifting Concepts and Agendas
The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality: Stretching, Bending and Policy-Making
1. Stretching and Bending Gender Equality: A Discursive Politics Approach Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo 2. The Issue of Intentionality in Frame Theory: The Need for Reflexive Framing Carol Bacchi 3. Beyond the Politics of Location: The Power of Argument in Gender Equality Politics Sylvia Walby 4. Stretching and Bending the Meanings of Gender in Equality Policies Vlasta Jalusic 5. Stretching Gender Equality to other Inequalities:…
Convergence and Divergence: The Federalization of Belgian Equality Policies
The development of an asymmetrical federal structure profoundly changed the institutional setting for Belgian gender equality policies. This contribution assesses the influence of this process on the development of the Belgian women's policy agencies and its gender equality policies. It argues that while the characteristics of the Belgian federal system—its asymmetrical structure and dual, centrifugal nature—stimulate the development of diverging…
O4-6.4 The development of models to underpin public health guidance
The distinction between the developments of health economics decision models provides a mechanism to synthesise evidence from a range of different sources to inform policy debates and public health guidance decisions. In this session, exemplified by a discussion of the development of the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model, we will discuss some of the main generic steps in model development. These iterative steps include a clear understanding of the s…
The Politics of Belgium
The third edition of this highly respected book covers the numerous political developments that have taken place in Belgium since 2012. This book features topics such as the implementation of the sixth state reform, the rebranding of political parties with new party leaders, several elections at all levels of government (from local to European) leading to new governing coalitions, democratic innovations in several parliaments, and, of course, the…
A theory-based online health behavior intervention for new university students: Study protocol
Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN67684181
A theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni): Results from a randomised controlled trial
Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN67684181
Imams in Flanders: A Research Note
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, mixed-method study on imams in Flanders. The research question was mainly who are they?, in an attempt to draw the first picture of their socio-demographic background, ethnicity, functions, and expectations with respect to their position in Flanders, or in Belgium more broadly speaking. The first three sections give context information about Muslims, Islam, and mosques in Belgium and Flanders. In…
Inclusions and Exclusions in the Brussels Gay Neighbourhood: An Intersectional Analysis
Unravelling the alcohol harm paradox: A population-based study of social gradients across very heavy drinking thresholds
Low socioeconomic status groups are more likely to drink at extreme levels, which may partially explain the alcohol harm paradox. Policies that address alcohol-related health inequalities need to consider extreme drinking levels in some sub-groups that may be associated with multiple markers of deprivation. This will require a more disaggregated understanding of drinking practices
Use of aids for smoking cessation and alcohol reduction: A population survey of adults in England
In England, the use of pharmacotherapy is prevalent for smoking cessation but not alcohol reduction. Other aids are used at a low rate, with face-to-face counselling being more common for alcohol reduction than smoking cessation
Public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer in England in 2015: A population-based survey
There is generally low awareness of the relationship between alcohol consumption and cancer, particularly breast cancer. Greater awareness of the relationship between alcohol and breast cancer in North-East England, where a mass media campaign highlighted this relationship, suggests that population awareness can be influenced by social marketing
Mapping Patterns and Trends in the Spatial Availability of Alcohol Using Low-Level Geographic Data: A Case Study in England 2003–2013
Much literature examines the relationship between the spatial availability of alcohol and alcohol-related harm. This study aims to address an important gap in this evidence by using detailed outlet data to examine recent temporal trends in the sociodemographic distribution of spatial availability for different types of alcohol outlet in England. Descriptive analysis of measures of alcohol outlet density and proximity using extremely high resoluti…
Public attitudes towards alcohol control policies in Scotland and England: Results from a mixed-methods study
The harmful effects of heavy drinking on health have been widely reported, yet public opinion on governmental responsibility for alcohol control remains divided. This study examines UK public attitudes towards alcohol policies, identifies underlying dimensions that inform these, and relationships with perceived effectiveness. A cross-sectional mixed methods study involving a telephone survey of 3477 adult drinkers aged 16-65 and sixteen focus gro…
All drinking is not equal: How a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours
Exposure to revised drinking guidelines and ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change: Descriptive analysis of a monthly cross-sectional survey in England
Following the publication of revised drinking guideline in January 2016, there was a transient increase in exposure to guidelines, and capability and opportunity to drink within the guidelines that diminished over time. The transience and size of the changes indicate that behaviour change is unlikely. Well-designed, theory-based promotional campaigns may be required for drinking guidelines to be an effective public health intervention
Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines: Findings from an interrupted time series analysis
Background In January 2016, the UK announced and began implementing revised guidelines for low-risk drinking of 14 units (112 g) per week for men and women. This was a reduction from the previous guidelines for men of 3–4 units (24–32 g) per day. There was no large-scale promotion of the revised guidelines beyond the initial media announcement. This paper evaluates the effect of announcing the revised guidelines on alcohol consumption among adult…
Trends in the psychosocial characteristics of 11–15‐year‐olds who still drink, smoke, take drugs and engage in poly‐substance use in England
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review
INTRODUCTION: Applying a complex systems perspective to public health evaluation may increase the relevance and strength of evidence to improve health and reduce health inequalities. In this review of methods, we aimed to: (i) classify and describe different complex systems methods in evaluation applied to public health; and (ii) examine the kinds of evaluative evidence generated by these different methods. METHODS: We adapted critical review met…
Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period
Medicine (28 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (23 works) · Environmental health (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Public health (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works)