Erica Wheeler

Biographic Data

ID3696605
NAMEErica Wheeler
GIVEN NAMESErica
FAMILY NAMEWheeler
SIGNATUREWHEELER E
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Youth perspectives on mental health during Covid-19 lockdown in a Small Island Developing State

    Open AccessMadhuvanti M Murphy, Cecile Pemberton et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Measures taken to address one serious public health concern, COVID-19, led to the aggravation of another serious public health concern, mental ill-health. Mental health initiatives to help young people navigate issues specific to their generation must be developed. In low resourced Small Island Developing States settings. The increased need for mental health services during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for strengthenin…

  • Regional differences in British attitudes to diet in pregnancy

    Judith Stewart, Erica F Wheeler et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1988

    Interviews were carried out with 242 pregnant women in England and Scotland. Attitudes to food, health, and self, in pregnancy were recorded and analysed. The English women articulated a wider range of concepts regarding foetal growth and maternal diet, displayed more concern about weight gain and appearance and reported more physiological disturbances. The Scottish women displayed more pragmatic and less health‐seeking attitudes. The women's cat…

  • To Feed or to Educate

    Open AccessErica F Wheeler, Erica WheelerARTICLEDevelopment and Change1985References: 1

  • How young english children were being fed in 1974

    Peter T Fox, Michael D Elston et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1984

    A survey of preschool children in four areas of England was carried out during 1973 and 1974. Questions on dietary patterns and feeding practices showed that breast feeding was more common in Southern England and in the non‐manual social/occupational classes. Compared with surveys in the 1930's and 1950's, this one showed a trend away from bread and potatoes for feeding children around six months old. Some regional and social class differences in…

  • From concept to practice

    Erica F Wheeler, Erica Wheeler et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1983

    The dietary practices of Chinese families in London are described, and related to their conceptualisation of foods. The pattern is varied and nutritionally excellent. There is some cautious incorporation of English foods

  • Concepts relating to health and food held by Chinese women in London

    Swee Poh Tan, Erica F Wheeler et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1983

    In classical Chinese literature, foods are conceptualised within the framework of the “hot‐cold” system. A survey of 50 Hong Kong families, now settled in London, showed that the women of these families hold to a simplified and pragmatic version of these concepts, at the same time making use of some English foods and developing ways of counter‐balancing the expected effects on their children of eating English foods. They have also developed varyi…

  • Trends in the growth of ethnic Chinese children living in London

    Open AccessErica F Wheeler, Erica Wheeler et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1983

    Height, weight and triceps skinfold thickness of children aged 5 years and under were measured in a semi-longitudinal study of 50 Chinese families in London. Heights and weights of their mothers were also measured once. The children were taller and heavier than Chinese children in Hong Kong, but height-forage, when expressed as a percentage of the UK median value, declined after two years of age. The pattern of growth of triceps skinfold did not …