Peter Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5374-9726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Out of focus
Addressing men's own specific health concerns in the context of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) remains a largely neglected topic, despite growing levels of unmet SRH needs among men and the broader benefits of engaging men in the SRH of women and others. A comprehensive policy analysis explored how men are currently addressed and characterized within 37 key global and regional SRH-focused policies. Men's own SRH was found to be a significan…
Global effects of increased taxation of tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages on tax receipts
INTRODUCTION: The taxation of harmful commodities-including tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)-can reduce avertable health burdens while generating tax revenue to fund key government programmes. These tools are particularly useful in the current environment of constrained global fiscal space but remain underused. METHODS: We simulated the economic effects of taxing cigarettes, alcohol and SSBs over a 5-year period employing mat…
Autographic Praxis
The article is an experiment in autographic writing that addresses the question of the role of autography in infrapolitics, thereby clarifying the stakes of autography as a praxis, without turning to a methodological discussion – whether theoretical or prescriptive. It engages critically with the traditional modes of academic praxis and explores an alternative, interactive way of writing as the necessary complement to a novel approach to existent…
Ways out of the Void? Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories in Relation to Armenia and Armenianness
The application of postcolonial theory to former Soviet socialist republics is much debated. For Tlostanova (2012) , Western theorizations of colonialism consign former Soviet socialist republics, including Armenia, to an undifferentiated void, not fully part of the Global North or South. Spivak's (2008) discussion of the Armenian case highlights the inability of conceptualizations of colonialism focused on the nation-state to account for the imp…
The writing of existence in the latest work of Alberto Moreiras
This article approaches the latest work of Alberto Moreiras on infrapolitics as self-conscious acts of writing which thinks its own conditions, or its own contingent textual inscription. In this sense, I propose that we can read this work as being informed by a question, even a preoccupation, over what form or style of writing is appropriate to announce or re-veal the existential dimensions proposed by the notion of infrapolitics. In exploring th…
The United States Establishes Fund for the Afghan People from Frozen Afghan Central Bank Assets
international agreement to regulate space resources.The head of the U.S. delegation explained: "Of course, the Outer Space Treaty does not provide a comprehensive international regime for space resource utilization activities.At this stage, the United States sees neither a need nor a practical basis to create such a regime.We do, however, see an urgent need to ensure that all nations engaged in space resource activities share a common set of fund…
The Prodigal Returns? Karl Barth’s Christological Interpretation of Luke 15
At the heart of his doctrine of reconciliation, Karl Barth offers a unique but underexamined christological interpretation of the parable of the prodigal son. Displaying both respect for and resistance to the interpretative paradigm for Jesus’s parables established by Adolf Jülicher, Barth’s interpretation rejects allegorical interpretation and appeals to the narrative’s literary characteristics, but it hermeneutically privileges Barth’s percepti…
Tobacco Harm Reduction with Vaporised Nicotine (THRiVe)
People living with HIV (PLHIV) have high rates of tobacco smoking. Nicotine vaping products (NVPs) may promote tobacco smoking cessation and/or harm reduction. This study aimed to trial the feasibility of NVPs for promoting tobacco smoking cessation among PLHIV. The Tobacco Harm Reduction with Vaporised Nicotine (THRiVe) study was a mixed-methods trial among 29 PLHIV who used tobacco daily. Participants trialled a 12-week intervention of NVPs. Th…
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game
Epidemics and pandemics, like COVID-19, are not gender neutral. Much of the current work on gender, sex, and COVID-19, however, has seemed implicitly or explicitly to be attempting to demonstrate that either men or women have been hardest hit, treating differences between women and men as though it is not important to understand how each group is affected by the virus. This approach often leaves out the effect on gender and sexual minorities enti…
The Association of Ambient Temperature with Extremely Preterm Births
Trump Administration Brokers Accords to Normalize Relations Between Israel and Six Countries
In September and October 2020, Kosovo, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel in a flurry of agreements brokered by the United States. President Donald Trump suggested that, in addition to being valuable on their own terms, the agreements were part of a broader diplomatic effort to pressure the Palestinians into negotiating a peace deal with Israel. In December, the White House announced normal…
Biden Administration Reverses Trump Administration Policies on Immigration and Asylum
After taking office, the Biden administration quickly moved to reverse or revoke a number of the Trump administration's immigration-related policies. On inauguration day, President Joseph Biden announced several significant changes, including termination of the national emergency at the southern border, halting border wall construction, and removal of discriminatory travel restrictions imposed primarily on Muslim-majority countries. In the follow…
Distributional equity as a consideration in economic and modelling evaluations of health taxes
Understanding the Prevalence of Smoking Among People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Australia and Factors Associated with Smoking and Quitting
Strengthening health technology assessment systems in the global south
BACKGROUND: Resource allocation in health is universally challenging, but especially so in resource-constrained contexts in the Global South. Pursuing a strategy of evidence-based decision-making and using tools such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), can help address issues relating to both affordability and equity when allocating resources. Three BRICS and Global South countries, China, India and South Africa have committed to strengthening…
Men’s health
he United Nation' s (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health and well-being contains important commitments to reducing by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), promoting mental health and well-being, strengthening the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol, and halving the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents. The Goal al…
Tobacco Harm Reduction with Vaporised Nicotine (THRiVe)
Smoking is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV), who have high rates of tobacco smoking. Vaporised nicotine products (VNPs) are growing in popularity as a quit aid and harm reduction tool. However, little is known about their acceptability and use among PLHIV. Using a pragmatic, uncontrolled, mixed methods design this exploratory clinical trial aims to examine the feasibility of conducting a po…
Role of emerging private hospitals in a post-Soviet mixed health system
BACKGROUND: The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 severely impacted the health sector in Mongolia. Limited public funding for the post-Soviet model public system and a rapid growth of poorly regulated private providers have been pressing issues for a government seeking to re-establish universal health coverage. However, the evidence available on the role of private providers that would inform sector management is very limited. This study analy…
The men’s health gap
Including both women and men in efforts to reduce gender inequalities in health as part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda would improve everyone's health and well-being. That men tend to be in worse health than women has now been made clear by robust evidence from various sources. The Global Burden of Disease study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010 (GBD 2010 study) showed that throughout the period from …
Processed foods and the nutrition transition
This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in A sia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet‐related non‐communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt, saturated and trans‐fats. This paper identifies the most significant ‘product vectors’ for these nutrients and describes changes in their consumption in a selection of A sian countries. Sugar, salt and f…
Farmers, mining and mental health
Introduction: In Australia where the economic benefits of minerals resources development accrue at the national and regional levels, it is farming communities that are at the forefront of the challenges resulting from competing land use. This paper maps the mental health impacts on a farming community in the Clarence–Moreton coal basin, QLD, after a minerals development proposal was announced. Methods: An exploratory study was conducted using an …
Farmers, Mining and Mental Health
Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies
Kremlin Rising
Physical abuse and physical interventions in learning disabilities
People with learning disabilities who present challenging behaviour are particularly vulnerable to physical abuse. It is argued that training in physical intervention could well be a critical variable in determining whether this abuse takes place. Recommendations designed to minimise the risks associated with physical intervention training are made
Kremlin Rising
Spatial Outcomes of Capital Restructuring
This article considers the spatial outcomes of post-Fordist economic developments with particular reference to the flexible specialisation models of the ‘new industrial spaces’. It is argued that greater consideration must be given to the claimed role of these new industrial spaces in developing theory. Furthermore, the concept of transaction costs, which is located at the centre of such theories, must be treated with caution. A more profitable a…
Production restructuring in the textiles and clothing industries
This article analyses the processes of restructuring in the textiles and clothing industries in a locality. Particular attention here is focused on new technology, labour flexibility, sub‐contracting patterns and skill factors. The extent to which the process of restructuring involves a conscious and deliberate move to new patterns of work organization is considered
Convivial Poems (Part I)
The poet’s body
Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry
Production restructuring in the textiles and clothing industries
This article analyses the processes of restructuring in the textiles and clothing industries in a locality. Particular attention here is focused on new technology, labour flexibility, sub‐contracting patterns and skill factors. The extent to which the process of restructuring involves a conscious and deliberate move to new patterns of work organization is considered
The Terrorist as Interpreter
The Terrorist as Interpreter: Mao II in Postmodern Context Peter Baker Through the issues it raises, the kind of writing style it employs, and coming as it does in a series of other novels by Don DeLillo, Mao II demands to be treated seriously in the context of postmodern work and theory. Rather than spend time developing that theory explicitly, hooking in to the arguments presented by, say, Fredric Jameson and Jean-Francois Lyotard, Brian McHale…
Obdurate Brilliance
Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of exteriority. Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic I, he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life. His analysis, informed by postmodern literary theory,…
Land and property in local economic development
Spatial Outcomes of Capital Restructuring
This article considers the spatial outcomes of post-Fordist economic developments with particular reference to the flexible specialisation models of the ‘new industrial spaces’. It is argued that greater consideration must be given to the claimed role of these new industrial spaces in developing theory. Furthermore, the concept of transaction costs, which is located at the centre of such theories, must be treated with caution. A more profitable a…
Physical abuse and physical interventions in learning disabilities
People with learning disabilities who present challenging behaviour are particularly vulnerable to physical abuse. It is argued that training in physical intervention could well be a critical variable in determining whether this abuse takes place. Recommendations designed to minimise the risks associated with physical intervention training are made
Kremlin Rising
Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies
Farmers, mining and mental health
Introduction: In Australia where the economic benefits of minerals resources development accrue at the national and regional levels, it is farming communities that are at the forefront of the challenges resulting from competing land use. This paper maps the mental health impacts on a farming community in the Clarence–Moreton coal basin, QLD, after a minerals development proposal was announced. Methods: An exploratory study was conducted using an …
Farmers, Mining and Mental Health
The men’s health gap
Including both women and men in efforts to reduce gender inequalities in health as part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda would improve everyone's health and well-being. That men tend to be in worse health than women has now been made clear by robust evidence from various sources. The Global Burden of Disease study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010 (GBD 2010 study) showed that throughout the period from …
Processed foods and the nutrition transition
This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in A sia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet‐related non‐communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt, saturated and trans‐fats. This paper identifies the most significant ‘product vectors’ for these nutrients and describes changes in their consumption in a selection of A sian countries. Sugar, salt and f…
Role of emerging private hospitals in a post-Soviet mixed health system
BACKGROUND: The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 severely impacted the health sector in Mongolia. Limited public funding for the post-Soviet model public system and a rapid growth of poorly regulated private providers have been pressing issues for a government seeking to re-establish universal health coverage. However, the evidence available on the role of private providers that would inform sector management is very limited. This study analy…
Men’s health
he United Nation' s (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health and well-being contains important commitments to reducing by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), promoting mental health and well-being, strengthening the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol, and halving the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents. The Goal al…
Tobacco Harm Reduction with Vaporised Nicotine (THRiVe)
Smoking is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV), who have high rates of tobacco smoking. Vaporised nicotine products (VNPs) are growing in popularity as a quit aid and harm reduction tool. However, little is known about their acceptability and use among PLHIV. Using a pragmatic, uncontrolled, mixed methods design this exploratory clinical trial aims to examine the feasibility of conducting a po…
Strengthening health technology assessment systems in the global south
BACKGROUND: Resource allocation in health is universally challenging, but especially so in resource-constrained contexts in the Global South. Pursuing a strategy of evidence-based decision-making and using tools such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), can help address issues relating to both affordability and equity when allocating resources. Three BRICS and Global South countries, China, India and South Africa have committed to strengthening…
Understanding the Prevalence of Smoking Among People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Australia and Factors Associated with Smoking and Quitting
Distributional equity as a consideration in economic and modelling evaluations of health taxes
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game
Epidemics and pandemics, like COVID-19, are not gender neutral. Much of the current work on gender, sex, and COVID-19, however, has seemed implicitly or explicitly to be attempting to demonstrate that either men or women have been hardest hit, treating differences between women and men as though it is not important to understand how each group is affected by the virus. This approach often leaves out the effect on gender and sexual minorities enti…
The Association of Ambient Temperature with Extremely Preterm Births
Trump Administration Brokers Accords to Normalize Relations Between Israel and Six Countries
In September and October 2020, Kosovo, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel in a flurry of agreements brokered by the United States. President Donald Trump suggested that, in addition to being valuable on their own terms, the agreements were part of a broader diplomatic effort to pressure the Palestinians into negotiating a peace deal with Israel. In December, the White House announced normal…
Biden Administration Reverses Trump Administration Policies on Immigration and Asylum
After taking office, the Biden administration quickly moved to reverse or revoke a number of the Trump administration's immigration-related policies. On inauguration day, President Joseph Biden announced several significant changes, including termination of the national emergency at the southern border, halting border wall construction, and removal of discriminatory travel restrictions imposed primarily on Muslim-majority countries. In the follow…
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