Catherine Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4928-1061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining food sharing practices in Caribbean Small Island Developing States and their potential for improving health outcomes, through a system-informed lens
Food sharing is an important part of food practices in many settings and contributes to food access and diversity. Food sharing has long been embedded in Caribbean culture, reflecting values of community, care, and social cohesion. These practices are undergoing shifts influenced by various socio-political, economic, and environmental factors. Contemporary trends suggest a decline in food sharing, with increased sharing of convenience-oriented fo…
Advancing marine policy in uncharted waters: Reflections and prospects from the launch of the BBNJ Symposium series
A model for the cognitive assessment of physicians
Introduction With aging in the larger population and physician workforce, there has been growing emphasis on physician cognitive impairment. We propose that the determination of cognitive status in physicians, regardless of the cause, should be based on a comparison to other physicians, rather than against the non-physician populations. Our objective was to develop a normative database of healthy physicians that can be used in physician competenc…
High prevalence of diabetes among young First Nations Peoples with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: A population-based study in Australia
Background Liver disease is an important contributor to the mortality gap between First Nations Peoples and non-Indigenous Australian adults. Despite a high burden of metabolic comorbidities among First Nations Peoples, data about the epidemiology of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in this population is scarce. Methods A retrospective analysis of all adults hospitalized with MASLD or metabolic dysfunction-associat…
A rationale and framework for addressing physician cognitive impairment
Medical error is costly, in terms of the health and wellbeing of the patient, their family, and the financial burden placed on the medical system. Reducing medical error is paramount to minimizing harm and improving outcomes. One potential source of medical error is physician cognitive impairment. Determining how to effectively assess and mange physician cognitive impairment is an important, albeit difficult problem to address. There have been ca…
Think again: The role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias
Stimuli such as surprised faces are ambiguous in that they are associated with both positive and negative outcomes. Interestingly, people differ reliably in whether they evaluate these and other ambiguous stimuli as positive or negative, and we have argued that a positive evaluation relies in part on a biasing of the appraisal processes via reappraisal. To further test this idea, we conducted two studies to evaluate whether increasing the cogniti…
Travel history among persons infected with Sars-CoV-2 variants of concern in the United States, December 2020—February 2021
The first three SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic lineages classified as variants of concern (VOCs) in the United States (U.S.) from December 15, 2020 to February 28, 2021, Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351), and Gamma (P.1) lineages, were initially detected internationally. This investigation examined available travel history of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases reported in the U.S. in whom laboratory testing showed one of these initial VOCs. Travel …
Interventions and policies aimed at improving nutrition in Small Island Developing States: A rapid review
Objective. To describe features of nutritional interventions implemented in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the past 20 years. Methods. A rapid scoping review was conducted by searching PubMed and Web of Science databases for interventions conducted in SIDS that sought to improve the nutrition of their populations between 2000 and 2019 inclusive. The Noncommunicable diseases progress monitor 2020 was also examined to assess nutritional p…
Covid-19 and the social distribution of hunger in three Caribbean Small Island Developing States
Objectives. To determine changes to income and livelihood, food consumption, and hunger due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in three Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Methods. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in July 2020. Participants were selected using telephone directories and lists of mobile numbers. Data were collected through face-to-face…
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words
Ambiguous stimuli are useful for assessing emotional bias. For example, surprised faces could convey a positive or negative meaning, and the degree to which an individual interprets these expressions as positive or negative represents their “valence bias.” Currently, the most well-validated ambiguous stimuli for assessing valence bias include nonverbal signals (faces and scenes), overlooking an inherent ambiguity in verbal signals. This study ide…
A Preparedness Model for Mother–Baby Linked Longitudinal Surveillance for Emerging Threats
A manuscript present: Translatio , media, and mediation in early medieval hispanolatin book culture
The culture of our digital age has a wide streak of nostalgia for digits of flesh, blood, and bone. A good present moment, then, for a present of manuscript. The manuscript codex was digital before we were—only, the digits that made it were flesh and blood fingers instead of zeros and ones. The illuminated codices of early medieval Latin Iberia are particularly articulate about their own status as handmade, handwritten objects. This essay studies…
"We used to get food from the garden." Understanding changing practices of local food production and consumption in small island states
The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts
A detailed assessment of D. H. Lawrence’s wide-ranging engagements across the verbal, visual and performance arts Offers the most comprehensive assessment yet of Lawrence’s relationship with the arts Places Lawrence in the context of the latest developments in fields including life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and technology studies Considers Lawrence's continued reception in other people's art, and the nature of his relevance today This …
Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts
Myth, History, and the Idea of the Nation in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul
This article compares how two contemporaneous Anglophone Caribbean writers – Trinidadian V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) and St. Lucian Derek Walcott (1930–2017) – explore the challenges posed to ontological security and nationhood in the Caribbean by considering how myth (broadly interpreted), knowledge, and ignorance of Caribbean history interact in understandings of their respective islands. The article focuses on one work by each – Naipaul’s The Los…
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018
Objectives. To describe and control an outbreak of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID). Methods. The investigation included people diagnosed with HIV infection during 2015 to 2018 linked to 2 cities in northeastern Massachusetts epidemiologically or through molecular analysis. Field activities included qualitative interviews regarding service availability and HIV risk behaviors. Results. We identified 129 people meeting the case de…
Health and other impacts of community food production in Small Island Developing States: A systematic scoping review
Evidence of impacts of CPFIs in Small Island Developing States is limited and the approaches taken are inconsistent. This review demonstrates the need and provides a basis for developing a coherent body of methods to examine the impacts of CFPIs and provide evidence to guide policy, especially as it relates to health
An updated systematic review and meta-analysis on the social determinants of diabetes and related risk factors in the Caribbean
Caribbean Wellness Day: Promoting a region-wide day of action
In response to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, "Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases" and declared the second Saturday in September to be "Caribbean Wellness Day" (CWD). CWD is a call-to-action for engaging the population of the Member States in confronting NCDs and their risk fact…
Scratching the Surface
According to a tenth-century grammarian from St. Gall, “reading [lectio] is so called as if it were litterarum statio, the station of letters.” That station — the place where letters stand, is a very material place, composed, as the grammarian tells us, of the encounter of human perception with “pen, hand, ink, wax, and parchment.” This essay takes its stand in three manuscript artifacts made in Iberia during the early Middle Ages: Verona, Biblio…
Factors influencing the reasons why mothers stop breastfeeding
Health-Compromising Behaviors Among a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Canadian High School Students: Risk-Enhancing Effects of Discrimination and Acculturation
This article examines whether acculturation and experiences of discrimination help to explain observed ethnic disparities in rates of three health-compromising behaviors: interpersonal violence, drinking, and cannabis use. Data were drawn from a cross-sectional survey of 3,400 high school students from Toronto, Canada, sampled in 1998-2000. Multivariate ordinary least squares and logistic regression models tested for baseline differences in the h…
What is ‘Comparative’ Literature
This article approaches the problems of self-definition surrounding ‘comparative literature’ by analysing the nature of comparison per se, and the place of this practice in literary criticism past and present. It argues that comparison in its broadest sense is involved in all thought, but that comparison in the strictest sense is involved in only a minority of all criticism, whether described as comparative or otherwise. Certain works of literatu…
Inner‐City African American Parental Involvement in Children's Schooling: Racial Socialization and Social Support from the Parent Community
Parents ( n = 161) and teachers ( n = 18) from an urban elementary school serving primarily African American children completed questionnaires regarding racial socialization, social support, and involvement in activities that support youth educational achievement at home and school. Parental reports of racism awareness, and contact with school staff were significantly correlated with parent reports of at‐home involvement and at‐school involvement…
In the Middle
Research Article| September 01 2000 In the Middle Catherine Brown Catherine Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 547–574. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Catherine Brown; In the Middle. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 September 2000; 30 (3)…
Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018
Objectives. To describe and control an outbreak of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID). Methods. The investigation included people diagnosed with HIV infection during 2015 to 2018 linked to 2 cities in northeastern Massachusetts epidemiologically or through molecular analysis. Field activities included qualitative interviews regarding service availability and HIV risk behaviors. Results. We identified 129 people meeting the case de…
Factors influencing the reasons why mothers stop breastfeeding
Burma: The Political Economy of Violence
Protracted conflict and violence in Burma have been conducive to the growth of the opium industry, Burma's single financial success in recent years of economic crisis and authoritarian rule. This in turn has fed violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis. This paper argues that the underlying political economy of the conflict has been overlooked, while conflict itself has been treated as a peripheral factor in questions of 'development', and fur…
Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner
Michel Serres, Catherine Brown, William Paulson, Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner, SubStance, Vol. 26, No. 2, Issue 83: An Ecology of Knowledge: Michel Serres: A Special Issue (1997), pp. 6-21
What is ‘Comparative’ Literature
This article approaches the problems of self-definition surrounding ‘comparative literature’ by analysing the nature of comparison per se, and the place of this practice in literary criticism past and present. It argues that comparison in its broadest sense is involved in all thought, but that comparison in the strictest sense is involved in only a minority of all criticism, whether described as comparative or otherwise. Certain works of literatu…
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
Manuscript thinking: Stories by hand
A manuscript present: Translatio , media, and mediation in early medieval hispanolatin book culture
The culture of our digital age has a wide streak of nostalgia for digits of flesh, blood, and bone. A good present moment, then, for a present of manuscript. The manuscript codex was digital before we were—only, the digits that made it were flesh and blood fingers instead of zeros and ones. The illuminated codices of early medieval Latin Iberia are particularly articulate about their own status as handmade, handwritten objects. This essay studies…
"We used to get food from the garden." Understanding changing practices of local food production and consumption in small island states
Health-Compromising Behaviors Among a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Canadian High School Students: Risk-Enhancing Effects of Discrimination and Acculturation
This article examines whether acculturation and experiences of discrimination help to explain observed ethnic disparities in rates of three health-compromising behaviors: interpersonal violence, drinking, and cannabis use. Data were drawn from a cross-sectional survey of 3,400 high school students from Toronto, Canada, sampled in 1998-2000. Multivariate ordinary least squares and logistic regression models tested for baseline differences in the h…
Gypsy Wedding at Skoplje
Three Folk Tales from the Roumanian Village of Duboka in N.E. Serbia
Some Dynamics of Indo-Tibetan Trade Through Uttarakhanda (Kumaon-Garhwal), India
Play Interactions: The Contribution of Play Materials and Parental Involvement to Children's Development
The Meretricious Letter of the Libro de Buen Amor
Quoniam non cognovi litteraturam, introibo in potentias Domini.Because I have not known letters, I shall enter into the powers of the Lord.Ps. 70:15–16
Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner
Michel Serres, Catherine Brown, William Paulson, Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner, SubStance, Vol. 26, No. 2, Issue 83: An Ecology of Knowledge: Michel Serres: A Special Issue (1997), pp. 6-21
Burma: The Political Economy of Violence
Protracted conflict and violence in Burma have been conducive to the growth of the opium industry, Burma's single financial success in recent years of economic crisis and authoritarian rule. This in turn has fed violence and subsequent humanitarian crisis. This paper argues that the underlying political economy of the conflict has been overlooked, while conflict itself has been treated as a peripheral factor in questions of 'development', and fur…
In the Middle
Research Article| September 01 2000 In the Middle Catherine Brown Catherine Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 547–574. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Catherine Brown; In the Middle. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 September 2000; 30 (3)…
Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in "Celestina" . James F. Burke
Inner‐City African American Parental Involvement in Children's Schooling: Racial Socialization and Social Support from the Parent Community
Parents ( n = 161) and teachers ( n = 18) from an urban elementary school serving primarily African American children completed questionnaires regarding racial socialization, social support, and involvement in activities that support youth educational achievement at home and school. Parental reports of racism awareness, and contact with school staff were significantly correlated with parent reports of at‐home involvement and at‐school involvement…
Heat stress in older individuals and patients with common chronic diseases
Scientists have predicted that extremes in climate are likely to increase in frequency and severity. [1][1] These changes may have a direct impact on population health, as heat waves can exceed the physiological adaptive capacity of vulnerable population groups. Individuals over the age of 60 years
Manuscript thinking: Stories by hand
What is ‘Comparative’ Literature
This article approaches the problems of self-definition surrounding ‘comparative literature’ by analysing the nature of comparison per se, and the place of this practice in literary criticism past and present. It argues that comparison in its broadest sense is involved in all thought, but that comparison in the strictest sense is involved in only a minority of all criticism, whether described as comparative or otherwise. Certain works of literatu…
Scratching the Surface
According to a tenth-century grammarian from St. Gall, “reading [lectio] is so called as if it were litterarum statio, the station of letters.” That station — the place where letters stand, is a very material place, composed, as the grammarian tells us, of the encounter of human perception with “pen, hand, ink, wax, and parchment.” This essay takes its stand in three manuscript artifacts made in Iberia during the early Middle Ages: Verona, Biblio…
Factors influencing the reasons why mothers stop breastfeeding
Health-Compromising Behaviors Among a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Canadian High School Students: Risk-Enhancing Effects of Discrimination and Acculturation
This article examines whether acculturation and experiences of discrimination help to explain observed ethnic disparities in rates of three health-compromising behaviors: interpersonal violence, drinking, and cannabis use. Data were drawn from a cross-sectional survey of 3,400 high school students from Toronto, Canada, sampled in 1998-2000. Multivariate ordinary least squares and logistic regression models tested for baseline differences in the h…
Health and other impacts of community food production in Small Island Developing States: A systematic scoping review
Evidence of impacts of CPFIs in Small Island Developing States is limited and the approaches taken are inconsistent. This review demonstrates the need and provides a basis for developing a coherent body of methods to examine the impacts of CFPIs and provide evidence to guide policy, especially as it relates to health
An updated systematic review and meta-analysis on the social determinants of diabetes and related risk factors in the Caribbean
Caribbean Wellness Day: Promoting a region-wide day of action
In response to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, "Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases" and declared the second Saturday in September to be "Caribbean Wellness Day" (CWD). CWD is a call-to-action for engaging the population of the Member States in confronting NCDs and their risk fact…
The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts
A detailed assessment of D. H. Lawrence’s wide-ranging engagements across the verbal, visual and performance arts Offers the most comprehensive assessment yet of Lawrence’s relationship with the arts Places Lawrence in the context of the latest developments in fields including life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and technology studies Considers Lawrence's continued reception in other people's art, and the nature of his relevance today This …
Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts
Myth, History, and the Idea of the Nation in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul
This article compares how two contemporaneous Anglophone Caribbean writers – Trinidadian V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) and St. Lucian Derek Walcott (1930–2017) – explore the challenges posed to ontological security and nationhood in the Caribbean by considering how myth (broadly interpreted), knowledge, and ignorance of Caribbean history interact in understandings of their respective islands. The article focuses on one work by each – Naipaul’s The Los…
Public administration reform for Aboriginal affairs: An institutionalist analysis
Persistent underperformance of public policy and program implementation in Aboriginal affairs is widely recognised. We analysed the results of two case studies of attempted reforms in public administration of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, using a framework based on the institutionalist and systemic racism literatures, with the aim of better understanding the sources of implementation failure. Implementation of the agre…
Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018
Objectives. To describe and control an outbreak of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID). Methods. The investigation included people diagnosed with HIV infection during 2015 to 2018 linked to 2 cities in northeastern Massachusetts epidemiologically or through molecular analysis. Field activities included qualitative interviews regarding service availability and HIV risk behaviors. Results. We identified 129 people meeting the case de…
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words
Ambiguous stimuli are useful for assessing emotional bias. For example, surprised faces could convey a positive or negative meaning, and the degree to which an individual interprets these expressions as positive or negative represents their “valence bias.” Currently, the most well-validated ambiguous stimuli for assessing valence bias include nonverbal signals (faces and scenes), overlooking an inherent ambiguity in verbal signals. This study ide…
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