Therese Dowswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 361407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Therese Dowswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Therese |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowswell |
| SIGNATURE | DOWSWELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking in pregnancy remains one of the few preventable factors associated with complications in pregnancy, low birthweight, preterm birth and has serious long-term health implications for women and babies. Smoking in pregnancy is decreasing in high-income countries and increasing in low- to middle-income countries and is strongly associated with poverty, low educational attainment, poor social support and psychological illnes…
Mental and physical frailty in older people
The financial, opportunity and social costs and benefits of providing informal support to frail older people are described within an economic framework. Mentally and/or physically frail older people were identified through screening interviews with random community samples of people aged 65 and over in four UK areas: 884 frail older people living in private households nominated key informal supporters and 650 of these supporters were interviewed.…
Joining the Learning Society and working in the NHS
In this paper we discuss the concept of the Learning Society in relation to staff working in the NHS (National Health Service) and taking part in formal courses. We outline the changing context within the NHS and draw on evidence from interviews with 38 participants on two courses. While motives for participation in courses were mixed, many staff felt under some pressure to engage in formal courses and in some cases undertook work‐related trainin…
Schools, Maternal Employment and Child Health Care
For primary school children episodes of illness are almost inevitable and their occurrence is frequently unpredictable. To examine whether maternal employment is a factor which is associated with school sickness absence a study was carried out in Leeds of 139 families with children aged 6‐7 attending five study schools. Some 282 episodes of illness leading to school absence occurred over two school terms. Children of mothers working full‐time had…
Mother's Employment and Child Health Care
A decline in the number of young people entering the UK labour force has led to growing interest in the recruitment and retention of women workers. As yet the child care needs of school age children have not been addressed. Using interview data the strategies mothers employ to meet their work commitments outside of school hours and during childhood illnesses are described. Although mothers remained the main carers of their children, they frequent…
Society for Social Medicine
Mental and physical frailty in older people
The financial, opportunity and social costs and benefits of providing informal support to frail older people are described within an economic framework. Mentally and/or physically frail older people were identified through screening interviews with random community samples of people aged 65 and over in four UK areas: 884 frail older people living in private households nominated key informal supporters and 650 of these supporters were interviewed.…
Mother's Employment and Child Health Care
A decline in the number of young people entering the UK labour force has led to growing interest in the recruitment and retention of women workers. As yet the child care needs of school age children have not been addressed. Using interview data the strategies mothers employ to meet their work commitments outside of school hours and during childhood illnesses are described. Although mothers remained the main carers of their children, they frequent…
Joining the Learning Society and working in the NHS
In this paper we discuss the concept of the Learning Society in relation to staff working in the NHS (National Health Service) and taking part in formal courses. We outline the changing context within the NHS and draw on evidence from interviews with 38 participants on two courses. While motives for participation in courses were mixed, many staff felt under some pressure to engage in formal courses and in some cases undertook work‐related trainin…
Society for Social Medicine
Mother's Employment and Child Health Care
A decline in the number of young people entering the UK labour force has led to growing interest in the recruitment and retention of women workers. As yet the child care needs of school age children have not been addressed. Using interview data the strategies mothers employ to meet their work commitments outside of school hours and during childhood illnesses are described. Although mothers remained the main carers of their children, they frequent…
Schools, Maternal Employment and Child Health Care
For primary school children episodes of illness are almost inevitable and their occurrence is frequently unpredictable. To examine whether maternal employment is a factor which is associated with school sickness absence a study was carried out in Leeds of 139 families with children aged 6‐7 attending five study schools. Some 282 episodes of illness leading to school absence occurred over two school terms. Children of mothers working full‐time had…
Joining the Learning Society and working in the NHS
In this paper we discuss the concept of the Learning Society in relation to staff working in the NHS (National Health Service) and taking part in formal courses. We outline the changing context within the NHS and draw on evidence from interviews with 38 participants on two courses. While motives for participation in courses were mixed, many staff felt under some pressure to engage in formal courses and in some cases undertook work‐related trainin…
Mental and physical frailty in older people
The financial, opportunity and social costs and benefits of providing informal support to frail older people are described within an economic framework. Mentally and/or physically frail older people were identified through screening interviews with random community samples of people aged 65 and over in four UK areas: 884 frail older people living in private households nominated key informal supporters and 650 of these supporters were interviewed.…
Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking in pregnancy remains one of the few preventable factors associated with complications in pregnancy, low birthweight, preterm birth and has serious long-term health implications for women and babies. Smoking in pregnancy is decreasing in high-income countries and increasing in low- to middle-income countries and is strongly associated with poverty, low educational attainment, poor social support and psychological illnes…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 work) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (1 work) · Business (1 work)