Pauline Norris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Norris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline |
| FAMILY NAME | Norris |
| SIGNATURE | NORRIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1656-871X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Expectations Shaped Elsewhere: Refugee Experiences of Healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
BACKGROUND: We know that many refugees arrive in host countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand, with complex health needs and are at risk of poorer outcomes. Little attention has been paid to the expectations and understandings of care that they bring with them and how these shape their health experiences. Many refugees come from hospital-based healthcare systems with direct, timely access to specialists, tests and procedures but resettle into p…
Understanding police ‘reports of concern’ in child protection: Implications for decision-making, systems and data
If You Thought It Was Going to Make a Difference, You'd Do It Straight Away’: School Staff Decisions to Report to Child Protection
School staff make reports of concern to child protection agencies when they have concerns about child abuse and neglect. This decision has significant consequences for children, parents and communities, and for the data reports generate. Decisions occur within an ecological system context containing external, organisational, case and decision‐maker factors. This article reports on the findings of qualitative interviews with school staff in Aotear…
The heuristic divergence between community reporters and child protection agencies: Negotiating risk amidst shifting sands
Children enter the statutory part of ‘notify-investigate’ child protection systems via the reports of others, combined with acceptance by the statutory agency. This key nexus determines entry or deflection from statutory child protection services. To examine the decision reasoning and processes of community (non-governmental organisation) workers that underpin reports to statutory services. Participants are non-governmental organisation (NGO) wor…
Māori Expert Views of Antimicrobial Resistance Using a One Health Approach: A Qualitative Study
Māori experience disproportionately worse outcomes from infectious diseases compared to non-Māori, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to these inequities. The aim of the study reported in this article was to gain insight into Māori experts’ perspectives on AMR using a One Health approach, which incorporates understandings of human, animal and environmental health. Qualitative methods were applied and were guided by principles of Kaupa…
Bringing Medicine from Pakistan and Self-Medication Among Pakistani Mothers in New Zealand
Recruiting people facing social disadvantage: The experience of the Free Meds study
The Free Meds study is registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12618001486213 )
Access to the healthcare system: Experiences and perspectives of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand
Worldwide, there is limited literature on Pakistani immigrants' challenges and experiences accessing healthcare services for their children and themselves. In this article, we present a case study of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand to explore their experiences and perspectives on navigating the healthcare system of a new country. Data was collected from 23 mothers in Wellington through in-depth semi-structured interviews, which each la…
Living with dementia: The felt worth of support workers
Considering the important role that paid support workers play in care of older people with dementia, it is vital that researchers and relevant organisations understand the factors that lead to them feeling valued for the work that they do, and the consequences of such valuing (or lack thereof). The current study employed semi-structured interviews to understand the individual experiences of 15 support workers based both in residential care homes …
Is expanding service through an outreach programme enough to improve immunisation uptake? A qualitative study in Indonesia
In 1983, the Indonesian government established Pos Pelayanan Terpadu (Integrated Health Post) - commonly known as Posyandu , an outreach programme for improving mothers' and children's health, including immunisation. However, child immunisation coverage is still far below national and world targets. There is also wide variation among regions, with low rates found in areas outside Java. This study aimed to explore mothers' experiences in immunisin…
Becoming a ‘pharmaceutical person’: Medication use trajectories from age 26 to 38 in a representative birth cohort from Dunedin, New Zealand
Despite the abundance of medications available for human consumption, and frequent concerns about increasing medicalization or pharmaceuticalization of everyday life, there is little research investigating medicines-use in young and middle-aged populations and discussing the implications of young people using increasing numbers of medicines and becoming pharmaceutical users over time. We use data from a New Zealand longitudinal study to examine c…
Public engagement and the role of the media in post-marketing drug safety: The case of Eltroxin® (levothyroxine) in New Zealand
The potential for harms from adverse drug reactions (ADR) constitutes a critical patient safety and public health challenge, especially with increased medication usage as populations age. The research reported here explores explanations for a sudden increase in ADR reporting in New Zealand after a new formulation of a medication to treat hypothyroidism, Eltroxin® (levothyroxine), was phased in. The formulation was adjudged to be bioequivalent to …
Pharmaceuticalisation in the city
Cityscapes comprise intense repositories for socio-economic interactions, including those surrounding medicinal products. This raises issues of pharmaceuticalisation, involving the construction of a range of human conditions as targets for pharmaceutical interventions. Employing the metaphoric figure of the flâneur, we traverse the New Zealand cityscape, interrogating the mediation and emplacement of various medicinal products within thoroughfare…
Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households
Pharmacy Students’ Use of and Beliefs About Traditional Healthcare
Geographical access to community pharmacies in New Zealand
Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice
This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a pl…
The debate about the funding of Herceptin: A case study of 'countervailing powers
Ethnic differences in access to prescription medication because of cost in New Zealand
OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to examine ethnic differences in financial barriers to access to prescription medication in New Zealand. METHODS: Data from SoFIE-Health (wave 3), which is an add-on to the Statistics New Zealand-led longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) (N=18 320), were analysed using logistic regression, adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviour and health variables. Financial barriers to acces…
Medicalisation or under-treatment? Psychotropic medication use by elderly people in New Zealand
The increased use of information technology in health care allows researchers to generate data on rates of medication use among population groups, raising questions as to whether these rates are too high or too low. This paper presents findings from a study of records of all prescription medication dispensed in one New Zealand region (Te Tāirawhiti) over a one year period. The study examined patterns of psychotropic medication use amongst older p…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
This body does not want free medicines: South African consumer perceptions of drug quality
OBJECTIVES Like many other developing countries, South Africa provides free medicines through its public health care facilities. Recent policies encourage generic substitution in the private sector. This study explored South African consumer perceptions of drug quality and whether these perceptions influenced how people procured and used their medicines. METHODS The study was undertaken in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa betwee…
Relationships between health and culture in Polynesia – A review
Knowledge and Reported Use of Antibiotics Amongst Immigrant Ethnic Groups in New Zealand
Navigating Between Illness Paradigms: Treatment Seeking by Samoan People in Samoa and New Zealand
There are substantial Samoan communities in New Zealand. Most Samoan people use both palagi (Western) and traditional Samoan health care. Western practitioners sometimes comment on Samoan patients’ seemingly erratic patterns of seeking and using health care. Within a larger study on knowledge and the use of antibiotics, we carried out semistructured interviews with 31 Samoan people in Samoa and New Zealand.Accounts of participants’ responses to i…
How 'we' are different from 'them: Occupational Boundary Maintenance in the Treatment of Musculo-Skeletal Problems
Strategies of occupational control at the macro-level have been described by many sociologists. This paper draws on a study of the division of labour in the treatment of musculo-skeletal problems in New Zealand to look at micro-level strategies of occupational control. These are rhetorical strategies used by individual practitioners to establish and maintain occupational boundaries. Practitioners used these strategies to distinguish their occupat…
Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households
Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice
This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a pl…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
The debate about the funding of Herceptin: A case study of 'countervailing powers
Ethnic differences in access to prescription medication because of cost in New Zealand
OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to examine ethnic differences in financial barriers to access to prescription medication in New Zealand. METHODS: Data from SoFIE-Health (wave 3), which is an add-on to the Statistics New Zealand-led longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) (N=18 320), were analysed using logistic regression, adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviour and health variables. Financial barriers to acces…
This body does not want free medicines: South African consumer perceptions of drug quality
OBJECTIVES Like many other developing countries, South Africa provides free medicines through its public health care facilities. Recent policies encourage generic substitution in the private sector. This study explored South African consumer perceptions of drug quality and whether these perceptions influenced how people procured and used their medicines. METHODS The study was undertaken in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa betwee…
Geographical access to community pharmacies in New Zealand
The state and the market: The impact of pharmacy licensing on the geographical distribution of pharmacies
Access to the healthcare system: Experiences and perspectives of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand
Worldwide, there is limited literature on Pakistani immigrants' challenges and experiences accessing healthcare services for their children and themselves. In this article, we present a case study of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand to explore their experiences and perspectives on navigating the healthcare system of a new country. Data was collected from 23 mothers in Wellington through in-depth semi-structured interviews, which each la…
The state and the market: The impact of pharmacy licensing on the geographical distribution of pharmacies
Assessing and managing risk and uncertainty: Women living with breast implants
This qualitative study explores how people assess and manage being identified as potentially 'at risk' when levels of risk are currently unknown or contested. It uses breast implants as a case study. Their safety has been the subject of much recent controversy. Using a qualitative approach, 23 women were interviewed about their experience of having breast implants. In this article we present three themes pertaining to personal risk assessments an…
How 'we' are different from 'them: Occupational Boundary Maintenance in the Treatment of Musculo-Skeletal Problems
Strategies of occupational control at the macro-level have been described by many sociologists. This paper draws on a study of the division of labour in the treatment of musculo-skeletal problems in New Zealand to look at micro-level strategies of occupational control. These are rhetorical strategies used by individual practitioners to establish and maintain occupational boundaries. Practitioners used these strategies to distinguish their occupat…
Relationships between health and culture in Polynesia – A review
Knowledge and Reported Use of Antibiotics Amongst Immigrant Ethnic Groups in New Zealand
Navigating Between Illness Paradigms: Treatment Seeking by Samoan People in Samoa and New Zealand
There are substantial Samoan communities in New Zealand. Most Samoan people use both palagi (Western) and traditional Samoan health care. Western practitioners sometimes comment on Samoan patients’ seemingly erratic patterns of seeking and using health care. Within a larger study on knowledge and the use of antibiotics, we carried out semistructured interviews with 31 Samoan people in Samoa and New Zealand.Accounts of participants’ responses to i…
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
This body does not want free medicines: South African consumer perceptions of drug quality
OBJECTIVES Like many other developing countries, South Africa provides free medicines through its public health care facilities. Recent policies encourage generic substitution in the private sector. This study explored South African consumer perceptions of drug quality and whether these perceptions influenced how people procured and used their medicines. METHODS The study was undertaken in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa betwee…
Ethnic differences in access to prescription medication because of cost in New Zealand
OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to examine ethnic differences in financial barriers to access to prescription medication in New Zealand. METHODS: Data from SoFIE-Health (wave 3), which is an add-on to the Statistics New Zealand-led longitudinal Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) (N=18 320), were analysed using logistic regression, adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviour and health variables. Financial barriers to acces…
Medicalisation or under-treatment? Psychotropic medication use by elderly people in New Zealand
The increased use of information technology in health care allows researchers to generate data on rates of medication use among population groups, raising questions as to whether these rates are too high or too low. This paper presents findings from a study of records of all prescription medication dispensed in one New Zealand region (Te Tāirawhiti) over a one year period. The study examined patterns of psychotropic medication use amongst older p…
The debate about the funding of Herceptin: A case study of 'countervailing powers
Pharmacy Students’ Use of and Beliefs About Traditional Healthcare
Geographical access to community pharmacies in New Zealand
Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice
This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a pl…
Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households
Becoming a ‘pharmaceutical person’: Medication use trajectories from age 26 to 38 in a representative birth cohort from Dunedin, New Zealand
Despite the abundance of medications available for human consumption, and frequent concerns about increasing medicalization or pharmaceuticalization of everyday life, there is little research investigating medicines-use in young and middle-aged populations and discussing the implications of young people using increasing numbers of medicines and becoming pharmaceutical users over time. We use data from a New Zealand longitudinal study to examine c…
Public engagement and the role of the media in post-marketing drug safety: The case of Eltroxin® (levothyroxine) in New Zealand
The potential for harms from adverse drug reactions (ADR) constitutes a critical patient safety and public health challenge, especially with increased medication usage as populations age. The research reported here explores explanations for a sudden increase in ADR reporting in New Zealand after a new formulation of a medication to treat hypothyroidism, Eltroxin® (levothyroxine), was phased in. The formulation was adjudged to be bioequivalent to …
Pharmaceuticalisation in the city
Cityscapes comprise intense repositories for socio-economic interactions, including those surrounding medicinal products. This raises issues of pharmaceuticalisation, involving the construction of a range of human conditions as targets for pharmaceutical interventions. Employing the metaphoric figure of the flâneur, we traverse the New Zealand cityscape, interrogating the mediation and emplacement of various medicinal products within thoroughfare…
Is expanding service through an outreach programme enough to improve immunisation uptake? A qualitative study in Indonesia
In 1983, the Indonesian government established Pos Pelayanan Terpadu (Integrated Health Post) - commonly known as Posyandu , an outreach programme for improving mothers' and children's health, including immunisation. However, child immunisation coverage is still far below national and world targets. There is also wide variation among regions, with low rates found in areas outside Java. This study aimed to explore mothers' experiences in immunisin…
Bringing Medicine from Pakistan and Self-Medication Among Pakistani Mothers in New Zealand
Recruiting people facing social disadvantage: The experience of the Free Meds study
The Free Meds study is registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12618001486213 )
Access to the healthcare system: Experiences and perspectives of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand
Worldwide, there is limited literature on Pakistani immigrants' challenges and experiences accessing healthcare services for their children and themselves. In this article, we present a case study of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand to explore their experiences and perspectives on navigating the healthcare system of a new country. Data was collected from 23 mothers in Wellington through in-depth semi-structured interviews, which each la…
Living with dementia: The felt worth of support workers
Considering the important role that paid support workers play in care of older people with dementia, it is vital that researchers and relevant organisations understand the factors that lead to them feeling valued for the work that they do, and the consequences of such valuing (or lack thereof). The current study employed semi-structured interviews to understand the individual experiences of 15 support workers based both in residential care homes …
Māori Expert Views of Antimicrobial Resistance Using a One Health Approach: A Qualitative Study
Māori experience disproportionately worse outcomes from infectious diseases compared to non-Māori, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to these inequities. The aim of the study reported in this article was to gain insight into Māori experts’ perspectives on AMR using a One Health approach, which incorporates understandings of human, animal and environmental health. Qualitative methods were applied and were guided by principles of Kaupa…
The heuristic divergence between community reporters and child protection agencies: Negotiating risk amidst shifting sands
Children enter the statutory part of ‘notify-investigate’ child protection systems via the reports of others, combined with acceptance by the statutory agency. This key nexus determines entry or deflection from statutory child protection services. To examine the decision reasoning and processes of community (non-governmental organisation) workers that underpin reports to statutory services. Participants are non-governmental organisation (NGO) wor…
Medicine (21 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Family medicine (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Public health (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · Population (7 works)