Rex Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rex Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rex |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A managed clinical network for cardiac services: Set-up, operation and impact on patient care
The Managed Clinical Network made a difference to ways of working, particularly in breaching traditional boundaries and involving the public, and made modest changes in patient care. However, it required a two-year "set-up" period. Managed clinical networks are complex initiatives with an increasing profile in health care policy. This study suggests that they require energetic leadership and improvements are likely to be slow and incremental
The effects of caring on health: A community-based longitudinal study
Differentiating the Elderly: A New Approach Using Automatic Interaction Detection (Aid)
While there has been increasing recognition of the general proposition that the elderly are not a homogenous population there have been few attempts to delineate the characteristics of sub‐groups varying on dimensions of well‐being, such as health and psychological state. This may be due to the difficulty researchers have encountered in finding a rational basis for differentiating elderly people. However, there are also conceptual and methodologi…
Studying the Elderly Cross-Culturally
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The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
The Current State of Social Gerontology in Poland
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Current Trends in British Gerontology: Proceedings of the 1980 Conference of the British Society of Gerontology
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
Rudolf Virchow on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia: An Introduction and Translation
Rudolf Virchow's Report on the 1848 typhus epidemic is one of the neglected classics of 'social medicine'- a term he did much to popularise. His analysis of the epidemic emphasised the economic, social and cultural factors involved in its aetiology and clearly identified the contradictory social forces that prevented any simple solution. Instead of recommending medical changes like more doctors or hospitals, he outlined a revolutionary programme …
Inequalities in Old Age: An examination of age, sex and class differences in a sample of community elderly
This paper examines the distribution of personal resources - financial, social, health and psychological - between age cohorts, sex groups and social classes in a random sample of community elderly. As expected, the young elderly, males and those from middle-class backgrounds have a disproportionate share of three out of four of these resources, but for social support the balance of advantage is reversed. When age, sex and class are combined to y…
Risk groups and selective case finding in an elderly population
Ageing and Illness
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Doctors, paupers and landowners. The evolution of primary medical care in Orkney
Lifestyle and Ageing: Three Traditions in Lifestyle Research
This paper is concerned with the nature, usage and potential of the concept of lifestyle. It concentrates on usage in social gerontology and specifically on the way in which it has been used by three teams of American researchers. Its overall aim is to discover guidelines for establishing the lifestyle concept on a sounder methodological footing. The paper begins with a discussion of diversity within the elderly population and it identifies the n…
Time and the Elderly
This monograph is based on fieldwork conducted in a day centre for the elderly. The fieldworker is an Israeli anthropologist, the day centre is in North East London and its members are all first or second generation Jewish immigrants. On the basis of this combination one might have expected a highly descriptive and culturally specific account of old age, but Haim Hazan has succeeded in transcending the ethnographic details to arrive at a brillian…
The Contribution of Social Science Research to Health Policy: The Royal Commission on the National Health Service
This article adopts a case study approach to examine the contribution of social science research to health policy. It concentrates exclusively on the recent Royal Commission on the National Health Service. After describing its background and modus operandi the paper goes on to assess the Report's utilization of social science research, both in its diagnosis and recommendations. This assessment suggests that while the Commissioners made relatively…
A personal account
Migration and the Residual Community
While all migration involves a sending a receiving and a migrating unit it is rare that equal attention is given to all three. Most migration studies have concentrated on the changing relationship between individual migrants or migrant groups and the receiving or host society. They are in fact studies of immigration; and as such they make an important contribution to our understanding of the processes of assimilation acculturation and since most …
Marilyn's Friends and Rita's Customers: A Study of Party-Selling as Play and as Work
The local health system: An ethnography of interest-groups and decision-making
Community health investment: Health services research in Belgium, France, Federal German Republic and the Netherlands
John Doe, Jr: A Study of His Distribution in Space, Time, and the Social Structure
This is an exploratory paper using unobtrusive measures to study regularities in the American practice of using Jr. and numerical suffixes to indicate patrilateral name inheritance. The practice is shown to be more common on the eastern seaboard than elsewhere in the country. Over the present century it is shown to have increased rapidly and then to have declined. This changing incidence over time is paralleled by a changing distribution in the s…
Society and Population
The effects of caring on health: A community-based longitudinal study
Inequalities in Old Age: An examination of age, sex and class differences in a sample of community elderly
This paper examines the distribution of personal resources - financial, social, health and psychological - between age cohorts, sex groups and social classes in a random sample of community elderly. As expected, the young elderly, males and those from middle-class backgrounds have a disproportionate share of three out of four of these resources, but for social support the balance of advantage is reversed. When age, sex and class are combined to y…
Rudolf Virchow on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia: An Introduction and Translation
Rudolf Virchow's Report on the 1848 typhus epidemic is one of the neglected classics of 'social medicine'- a term he did much to popularise. His analysis of the epidemic emphasised the economic, social and cultural factors involved in its aetiology and clearly identified the contradictory social forces that prevented any simple solution. Instead of recommending medical changes like more doctors or hospitals, he outlined a revolutionary programme …
Lifestyle and Ageing: Three Traditions in Lifestyle Research
This paper is concerned with the nature, usage and potential of the concept of lifestyle. It concentrates on usage in social gerontology and specifically on the way in which it has been used by three teams of American researchers. Its overall aim is to discover guidelines for establishing the lifestyle concept on a sounder methodological footing. The paper begins with a discussion of diversity within the elderly population and it identifies the n…
The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
Marilyn's Friends and Rita's Customers: A Study of Party-Selling as Play and as Work
A managed clinical network for cardiac services: Set-up, operation and impact on patient care
The Managed Clinical Network made a difference to ways of working, particularly in breaching traditional boundaries and involving the public, and made modest changes in patient care. However, it required a two-year "set-up" period. Managed clinical networks are complex initiatives with an increasing profile in health care policy. This study suggests that they require energetic leadership and improvements are likely to be slow and incremental
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
Migration and the Residual Community
While all migration involves a sending a receiving and a migrating unit it is rare that equal attention is given to all three. Most migration studies have concentrated on the changing relationship between individual migrants or migrant groups and the receiving or host society. They are in fact studies of immigration; and as such they make an important contribution to our understanding of the processes of assimilation acculturation and since most …
John Doe, Jr: A Study of His Distribution in Space, Time, and the Social Structure
This is an exploratory paper using unobtrusive measures to study regularities in the American practice of using Jr. and numerical suffixes to indicate patrilateral name inheritance. The practice is shown to be more common on the eastern seaboard than elsewhere in the country. Over the present century it is shown to have increased rapidly and then to have declined. This changing incidence over time is paralleled by a changing distribution in the s…
The local health system: An ethnography of interest-groups and decision-making
Society and Population
John Doe, Jr: A Study of His Distribution in Space, Time, and the Social Structure
This is an exploratory paper using unobtrusive measures to study regularities in the American practice of using Jr. and numerical suffixes to indicate patrilateral name inheritance. The practice is shown to be more common on the eastern seaboard than elsewhere in the country. Over the present century it is shown to have increased rapidly and then to have declined. This changing incidence over time is paralleled by a changing distribution in the s…
The local health system: An ethnography of interest-groups and decision-making
Community health investment: Health services research in Belgium, France, Federal German Republic and the Netherlands
Marilyn's Friends and Rita's Customers: A Study of Party-Selling as Play and as Work
A personal account
Migration and the Residual Community
While all migration involves a sending a receiving and a migrating unit it is rare that equal attention is given to all three. Most migration studies have concentrated on the changing relationship between individual migrants or migrant groups and the receiving or host society. They are in fact studies of immigration; and as such they make an important contribution to our understanding of the processes of assimilation acculturation and since most …
Doctors, paupers and landowners. The evolution of primary medical care in Orkney
Lifestyle and Ageing: Three Traditions in Lifestyle Research
This paper is concerned with the nature, usage and potential of the concept of lifestyle. It concentrates on usage in social gerontology and specifically on the way in which it has been used by three teams of American researchers. Its overall aim is to discover guidelines for establishing the lifestyle concept on a sounder methodological footing. The paper begins with a discussion of diversity within the elderly population and it identifies the n…
Time and the Elderly
This monograph is based on fieldwork conducted in a day centre for the elderly. The fieldworker is an Israeli anthropologist, the day centre is in North East London and its members are all first or second generation Jewish immigrants. On the basis of this combination one might have expected a highly descriptive and culturally specific account of old age, but Haim Hazan has succeeded in transcending the ethnographic details to arrive at a brillian…
The Contribution of Social Science Research to Health Policy: The Royal Commission on the National Health Service
This article adopts a case study approach to examine the contribution of social science research to health policy. It concentrates exclusively on the recent Royal Commission on the National Health Service. After describing its background and modus operandi the paper goes on to assess the Report's utilization of social science research, both in its diagnosis and recommendations. This assessment suggests that while the Commissioners made relatively…
Ageing and Illness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Inequalities in Old Age: An examination of age, sex and class differences in a sample of community elderly
This paper examines the distribution of personal resources - financial, social, health and psychological - between age cohorts, sex groups and social classes in a random sample of community elderly. As expected, the young elderly, males and those from middle-class backgrounds have a disproportionate share of three out of four of these resources, but for social support the balance of advantage is reversed. When age, sex and class are combined to y…
Risk groups and selective case finding in an elderly population
The Current State of Social Gerontology in Poland
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Current Trends in British Gerontology: Proceedings of the 1980 Conference of the British Society of Gerontology
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
Rudolf Virchow on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia: An Introduction and Translation
Rudolf Virchow's Report on the 1848 typhus epidemic is one of the neglected classics of 'social medicine'- a term he did much to popularise. His analysis of the epidemic emphasised the economic, social and cultural factors involved in its aetiology and clearly identified the contradictory social forces that prevented any simple solution. Instead of recommending medical changes like more doctors or hospitals, he outlined a revolutionary programme …
Studying the Elderly Cross-Culturally
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
Differentiating the Elderly: A New Approach Using Automatic Interaction Detection (Aid)
While there has been increasing recognition of the general proposition that the elderly are not a homogenous population there have been few attempts to delineate the characteristics of sub‐groups varying on dimensions of well‐being, such as health and psychological state. This may be due to the difficulty researchers have encountered in finding a rational basis for differentiating elderly people. However, there are also conceptual and methodologi…
The effects of caring on health: A community-based longitudinal study
A managed clinical network for cardiac services: Set-up, operation and impact on patient care
The Managed Clinical Network made a difference to ways of working, particularly in breaching traditional boundaries and involving the public, and made modest changes in patient care. However, it required a two-year "set-up" period. Managed clinical networks are complex initiatives with an increasing profile in health care policy. This study suggests that they require energetic leadership and improvements are likely to be slow and incremental
Sociology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works)