Stephen Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Association of Mental Health and Substance Use With Retention in HIV Care Among Black Women in Washington, District of Columbia
Risk of Severe Covid-19 Disease and the Pandemic’s Impact on Service Utilization Among a Longitudinal Cohort of Persons with HIV-Washington, DC
Improvements in Virologic Control Among PWH Over Time: Narrowing the Gap Between Those With and Without STIs
Disparities in achieving and sustaining viral suppression among a large cohort of HIV-infected persons in care – Washington, DC
One goal of the HIV care continuum is achieving viral suppression (VS), yet disparities in suppression exist among subpopulations of HIV-infected persons. We sought to identify disparities in both the ability to achieve and sustain VS among an urban cohort of HIV-infected persons in care. Data from HIV-infected persons enrolled at the 13 DC Cohort study clinical sites between January 2011 and June 2014 were analyzed. Univariate and multivariate l…
Simon McBurney’s Ambitious Pursuit of the Pure Maths Play
When Simon McBurney set out to create a play about the fabled relationship between Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy and the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, he was immediately confronted by the question of how to engage the mathematics authentically. Undaunted by his own uneasiness with the subject, McBurney incorporated a host of experts into the rehearsal process, calling on mathematical educators, expositors, and Fields medali…
Collaborative working within UK NHS secondary care and across sectors for COPD and the impact of peer review: Qualitative findings from the UK National COPD Resources and Outcomes Project
The data come from the first randomised controlled trial of organisational peer review, adding to research into UK health service collaborative work, which has had a more restricted focus on inter-professional relations. NCROP peer review may only modestly improve collaboration but these data suggest it might be more effective than top-down exhortations to change when collaboration both across and within organisations is required
Social capital and health: The role of participation
NHS Purchaser–Provider Relationships in England and Wales: The View from Primary Care
Primary care organizations (PCOs) in the National Health Service in England and Wales are required to purchase most hospital‐based health care for their populations. This ‘quasi‐market’ in health care can be seen as ‘relational’, characterized by an emphasis on cooperative long‐term relationships rather than on true competition. The English government has recently introduced new market mechanisms as a response to the perceived weakness of the rel…
A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care
Social capital and health: The problematic roles of social networks and social surveys
Social capital, social networks, social support and health have all been linked, both theoretically and empirically. However, the relationships between them are far from clear. Surveys of social capital and health often use measures of social networks and social support in order to measure social capital, and this is problematic for two reasons. First, theoretical assumptions about social networks and social support being part of social capital a…
Primary Care Trusts: What is the Role of Boards
The role of boards in the public sector is unclear, particularly at a time of increased control of services by central government. This paper looks at the case of primary health care organizations, which are responsible for providing or commissioning the health care required by their local populations. Documentary analysis of board papers from 15 such organizations showed that boards are more likely to discuss `second order' functions (finance, g…
Social Capital and Health: Starting to Make Sense of the Role of Generalized Trust and Reciprocity
Social capital is widely considered to influence health. It is usually defined as a list of components such as social networks, social participation, trust and reciprocity. It is trust and reciprocity that are the subjects of this article. The presumed relationship of each with health is rarely explained in social capital studies. Trust is usually treated simplistically, both conceptually and in relation to measurement, while reciprocity is misun…
The psychosocial effects on health of socioeconomic inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities are thought to impair health in a way that is independent of the effect of material deprivation on health. But the mechanisms whereby inequalities have such an effect have not been thoroughly explained or explored. Two linked but distinct mechanisms have been suggested: social comparison and hierarchical conflict. In the first case, people compare their social status with that of others, and where this comparison is to …
Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Strengthening the voices of individual service users in health‐care organizations
Objective To explore the roles of Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) in their interactions with service users. Context Every National Health Service health‐care provider in England now has a PALS, which provides service users with information and help in resolving concerns and dissatisfactions with health care. Design Longitudinal qualitative study, 2002–4. This paper draws on data from 27 semi‐structured interviews. Setting and participa…
Addressing the learning deficit in breastfeeding: Strategies for change
This paper summarizes the findings of the learning needs assessment described in this issue. Limitations and strengths are discussed. The paper describes a national, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary picture. Our respondents may over-represent those with an interest in breastfeeding; if so, the true picture may be even more problematic than described here. Major deficits were identified in the knowledge and skills of practitioners from all backgr…
Informal’ learning to support breastfeeding: Local problems and opportunities
This study explored 'informal' learning opportunities in three health economies, both for National Health Service (NHS) staff and lay people wishing to promote and support breastfeeding and for new mothers wishing to breastfeed. The word 'informal' indicates local learning opportunities that are not part of recognized academic or professional training courses. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 31 key informants, including h…
Quality criteria for patient advice and liaison services: What do patients and the public want
Background Every NHS trust and Primary Care Trust (PCT) in England now has a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) which provides an identifiable person to whom service users can turn if they have a problem or need information while using the NHS. This paper reports data from a 2‐year qualitative study of London PALS. Objective To develop patient‐centred criteria by which to assess PALS. Design Data were generated from qualitative interviews …
What is the impact on individual health of services in general practice settings which offer welfare benefits advice
Welfare benefits advice services are increasingly being provided on primary care premises. It is assumed that the relief of financial deprivation will also relieve ill health, although there is only limited evidence to support this. This paper reports the findings of a study designed to measure changes in individual health associated with income increase as a result of such advice. It was a longitudinal observational study of advice to service us…
Flattening the National Health Service Hierarchy: The Case of Public Health
Recent re-structurings of the National Health Service (NHS) in England have illustrated the British government's commitment to a policy of devolving resources and responsibilities to local levels. As a result, public health teams are now located in 303 primary care trusts, and are more numerous, and much smaller, than previously. These changes have coincided with a number of other changes within public health (the introduction of an accreditation…
Horizontal or Vertical Support: Dilemmas for Patient Advice and Liaison Services in the NHS
Every hospital, mental health, primary care and specialist trust in the English National Health Service (NHS) should have a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), to provide information and support to NHS patients with questions or concerns. PALS should also act as a catalyst for service improvement. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of London PALS. In particular, it focuses on data generated during observation of meetin…
Comparative analysis of health policy implementation: The use of documentary analysis
Documentary analysis has been widely used in the comparative analysis of health care policy implementation in England. However, the value of the method is rarely debated, and the process whereby it is carried out rarely described in detail, or justified. Documentary analysis has obvious appeal. Documents may be the only source of data at an early stage of a policy innovation. They also present none of the problems (practical, ethical, interactive…
Who uses welfare benefits advice services in primary care: Welfare benefits advice services use
There is considerable interest among organisations such as primary care trusts and health action zones in commissioning welfare benefits advice services in primary healthcare settings as part of local strategies to reduce health inequalities. However, very little is known about the contribution to health of such services or about the health status of those who use them. The present study reports on a longitudinal study of the contribution to indi…
Partnership Working and Eligibility Criteria: What Can We Learn from the Implementation of Guidance on Continuing Health Care
Current government policy places great importance both on clinical governance and on partnership working between health and social services. Separately and together, these policy emphases require greater clarity in and between organizations about who should provide what care where than has often been achieved in the past. A study of the implementation of continuing health care policies suggests that clarity about appropriate long–term health and …
Bridging the Gap”: New Relationships between Primary Care Groups and Local Authorities
Current policy places great emphasis on the development of “partnerships”, particularly between NHS and local authority services, with the aims of increasing service coordination and delivery and improving health. To this end, primary care groups (PCGs), at the forefront of NHS organizational developments, are required to include a social services representative on their governing boards; similarly, primary care trusts (PCTs) have a social servic…
Social and democratic participation in residential settings for older people: Realities and aspirations
This paper explores some of the experiences of older people living in residential settings (sheltered, very sheltered housing and residential care), in the context of theories of participation, consumerism and citizenship. It draws on material from personal interviews undertaken with over 100 older people in England and Wales, and also from discussions with staff. Two-thirds of respondents were aged over 85. A significant minority of residents ex…
Social Capital and Health: Starting to Make Sense of the Role of Generalized Trust and Reciprocity
Social capital is widely considered to influence health. It is usually defined as a list of components such as social networks, social participation, trust and reciprocity. It is trust and reciprocity that are the subjects of this article. The presumed relationship of each with health is rarely explained in social capital studies. Trust is usually treated simplistically, both conceptually and in relation to measurement, while reciprocity is misun…
Social capital and health: The role of participation
Comparative analysis of health policy implementation: The use of documentary analysis
Documentary analysis has been widely used in the comparative analysis of health care policy implementation in England. However, the value of the method is rarely debated, and the process whereby it is carried out rarely described in detail, or justified. Documentary analysis has obvious appeal. Documents may be the only source of data at an early stage of a policy innovation. They also present none of the problems (practical, ethical, interactive…
Social and democratic participation in residential settings for older people: Realities and aspirations
This paper explores some of the experiences of older people living in residential settings (sheltered, very sheltered housing and residential care), in the context of theories of participation, consumerism and citizenship. It draws on material from personal interviews undertaken with over 100 older people in England and Wales, and also from discussions with staff. Two-thirds of respondents were aged over 85. A significant minority of residents ex…
NHS Purchaser–Provider Relationships in England and Wales: The View from Primary Care
Primary care organizations (PCOs) in the National Health Service in England and Wales are required to purchase most hospital‐based health care for their populations. This ‘quasi‐market’ in health care can be seen as ‘relational’, characterized by an emphasis on cooperative long‐term relationships rather than on true competition. The English government has recently introduced new market mechanisms as a response to the perceived weakness of the rel…
Who uses welfare benefits advice services in primary care: Welfare benefits advice services use
There is considerable interest among organisations such as primary care trusts and health action zones in commissioning welfare benefits advice services in primary healthcare settings as part of local strategies to reduce health inequalities. However, very little is known about the contribution to health of such services or about the health status of those who use them. The present study reports on a longitudinal study of the contribution to indi…
A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care
Social capital and health: The problematic roles of social networks and social surveys
Social capital, social networks, social support and health have all been linked, both theoretically and empirically. However, the relationships between them are far from clear. Surveys of social capital and health often use measures of social networks and social support in order to measure social capital, and this is problematic for two reasons. First, theoretical assumptions about social networks and social support being part of social capital a…
Bridging the Gap”: New Relationships between Primary Care Groups and Local Authorities
Current policy places great emphasis on the development of “partnerships”, particularly between NHS and local authority services, with the aims of increasing service coordination and delivery and improving health. To this end, primary care groups (PCGs), at the forefront of NHS organizational developments, are required to include a social services representative on their governing boards; similarly, primary care trusts (PCTs) have a social servic…
Primary Care Trusts: What is the Role of Boards
The role of boards in the public sector is unclear, particularly at a time of increased control of services by central government. This paper looks at the case of primary health care organizations, which are responsible for providing or commissioning the health care required by their local populations. Documentary analysis of board papers from 15 such organizations showed that boards are more likely to discuss `second order' functions (finance, g…
Flattening the National Health Service Hierarchy: The Case of Public Health
Recent re-structurings of the National Health Service (NHS) in England have illustrated the British government's commitment to a policy of devolving resources and responsibilities to local levels. As a result, public health teams are now located in 303 primary care trusts, and are more numerous, and much smaller, than previously. These changes have coincided with a number of other changes within public health (the introduction of an accreditation…
Continuing health care: The local development of policies and eligibility criteria
In 1995 the Department of Health issued guidance on continuing health care following the health service commissioner's finding against Leeds Health Authority for failing to provide long-term care. Under this guidance, health authorities were required to agree continuing health care policies and eligibility criteria with fundholders and local authorities. This study sought to investigate the extent to which the drafting of local policies and crite…
Dynamic bone remodeling in later Pleistocene fossil hominids
Histomorphometric analysis of femoral and tibial diaphyseal fragments from seven Late Archaic and three Early Modern humans are compared with those of the Pecos, a pre-Columbian Native American population. The ten samples, from Broken Hill (EM-793), Shanidar 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Tabun 1, and Skhul 3, 6, and 7, provide age-at death results consistent with earlier estimates for most individuals. The Pleistocene groups exhibit less bone turnover and s…
Continuing health care: The local development of policies and eligibility criteria
In 1995 the Department of Health issued guidance on continuing health care following the health service commissioner's finding against Leeds Health Authority for failing to provide long-term care. Under this guidance, health authorities were required to agree continuing health care policies and eligibility criteria with fundholders and local authorities. This study sought to investigate the extent to which the drafting of local policies and crite…
Social and democratic participation in residential settings for older people: Realities and aspirations
This paper explores some of the experiences of older people living in residential settings (sheltered, very sheltered housing and residential care), in the context of theories of participation, consumerism and citizenship. It draws on material from personal interviews undertaken with over 100 older people in England and Wales, and also from discussions with staff. Two-thirds of respondents were aged over 85. A significant minority of residents ex…
Bridging the Gap”: New Relationships between Primary Care Groups and Local Authorities
Current policy places great emphasis on the development of “partnerships”, particularly between NHS and local authority services, with the aims of increasing service coordination and delivery and improving health. To this end, primary care groups (PCGs), at the forefront of NHS organizational developments, are required to include a social services representative on their governing boards; similarly, primary care trusts (PCTs) have a social servic…
Partnership Working and Eligibility Criteria: What Can We Learn from the Implementation of Guidance on Continuing Health Care
Current government policy places great importance both on clinical governance and on partnership working between health and social services. Separately and together, these policy emphases require greater clarity in and between organizations about who should provide what care where than has often been achieved in the past. A study of the implementation of continuing health care policies suggests that clarity about appropriate long–term health and …
Who uses welfare benefits advice services in primary care: Welfare benefits advice services use
There is considerable interest among organisations such as primary care trusts and health action zones in commissioning welfare benefits advice services in primary healthcare settings as part of local strategies to reduce health inequalities. However, very little is known about the contribution to health of such services or about the health status of those who use them. The present study reports on a longitudinal study of the contribution to indi…
Comparative analysis of health policy implementation: The use of documentary analysis
Documentary analysis has been widely used in the comparative analysis of health care policy implementation in England. However, the value of the method is rarely debated, and the process whereby it is carried out rarely described in detail, or justified. Documentary analysis has obvious appeal. Documents may be the only source of data at an early stage of a policy innovation. They also present none of the problems (practical, ethical, interactive…
Quality criteria for patient advice and liaison services: What do patients and the public want
Background Every NHS trust and Primary Care Trust (PCT) in England now has a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) which provides an identifiable person to whom service users can turn if they have a problem or need information while using the NHS. This paper reports data from a 2‐year qualitative study of London PALS. Objective To develop patient‐centred criteria by which to assess PALS. Design Data were generated from qualitative interviews …
What is the impact on individual health of services in general practice settings which offer welfare benefits advice
Welfare benefits advice services are increasingly being provided on primary care premises. It is assumed that the relief of financial deprivation will also relieve ill health, although there is only limited evidence to support this. This paper reports the findings of a study designed to measure changes in individual health associated with income increase as a result of such advice. It was a longitudinal observational study of advice to service us…
Flattening the National Health Service Hierarchy: The Case of Public Health
Recent re-structurings of the National Health Service (NHS) in England have illustrated the British government's commitment to a policy of devolving resources and responsibilities to local levels. As a result, public health teams are now located in 303 primary care trusts, and are more numerous, and much smaller, than previously. These changes have coincided with a number of other changes within public health (the introduction of an accreditation…
Horizontal or Vertical Support: Dilemmas for Patient Advice and Liaison Services in the NHS
Every hospital, mental health, primary care and specialist trust in the English National Health Service (NHS) should have a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), to provide information and support to NHS patients with questions or concerns. PALS should also act as a catalyst for service improvement. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of London PALS. In particular, it focuses on data generated during observation of meetin…
Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Strengthening the voices of individual service users in health‐care organizations
Objective To explore the roles of Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) in their interactions with service users. Context Every National Health Service health‐care provider in England now has a PALS, which provides service users with information and help in resolving concerns and dissatisfactions with health care. Design Longitudinal qualitative study, 2002–4. This paper draws on data from 27 semi‐structured interviews. Setting and participa…
Addressing the learning deficit in breastfeeding: Strategies for change
This paper summarizes the findings of the learning needs assessment described in this issue. Limitations and strengths are discussed. The paper describes a national, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary picture. Our respondents may over-represent those with an interest in breastfeeding; if so, the true picture may be even more problematic than described here. Major deficits were identified in the knowledge and skills of practitioners from all backgr…
Informal’ learning to support breastfeeding: Local problems and opportunities
This study explored 'informal' learning opportunities in three health economies, both for National Health Service (NHS) staff and lay people wishing to promote and support breastfeeding and for new mothers wishing to breastfeed. The word 'informal' indicates local learning opportunities that are not part of recognized academic or professional training courses. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 31 key informants, including h…
The psychosocial effects on health of socioeconomic inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities are thought to impair health in a way that is independent of the effect of material deprivation on health. But the mechanisms whereby inequalities have such an effect have not been thoroughly explained or explored. Two linked but distinct mechanisms have been suggested: social comparison and hierarchical conflict. In the first case, people compare their social status with that of others, and where this comparison is to …
Primary Care Trusts: What is the Role of Boards
The role of boards in the public sector is unclear, particularly at a time of increased control of services by central government. This paper looks at the case of primary health care organizations, which are responsible for providing or commissioning the health care required by their local populations. Documentary analysis of board papers from 15 such organizations showed that boards are more likely to discuss `second order' functions (finance, g…
Social Capital and Health: Starting to Make Sense of the Role of Generalized Trust and Reciprocity
Social capital is widely considered to influence health. It is usually defined as a list of components such as social networks, social participation, trust and reciprocity. It is trust and reciprocity that are the subjects of this article. The presumed relationship of each with health is rarely explained in social capital studies. Trust is usually treated simplistically, both conceptually and in relation to measurement, while reciprocity is misun…
NHS Purchaser–Provider Relationships in England and Wales: The View from Primary Care
Primary care organizations (PCOs) in the National Health Service in England and Wales are required to purchase most hospital‐based health care for their populations. This ‘quasi‐market’ in health care can be seen as ‘relational’, characterized by an emphasis on cooperative long‐term relationships rather than on true competition. The English government has recently introduced new market mechanisms as a response to the perceived weakness of the rel…
A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care
Social capital and health: The problematic roles of social networks and social surveys
Social capital, social networks, social support and health have all been linked, both theoretically and empirically. However, the relationships between them are far from clear. Surveys of social capital and health often use measures of social networks and social support in order to measure social capital, and this is problematic for two reasons. First, theoretical assumptions about social networks and social support being part of social capital a…
Collaborative working within UK NHS secondary care and across sectors for COPD and the impact of peer review: Qualitative findings from the UK National COPD Resources and Outcomes Project
The data come from the first randomised controlled trial of organisational peer review, adding to research into UK health service collaborative work, which has had a more restricted focus on inter-professional relations. NCROP peer review may only modestly improve collaboration but these data suggest it might be more effective than top-down exhortations to change when collaboration both across and within organisations is required
Social capital and health: The role of participation
Simon McBurney’s Ambitious Pursuit of the Pure Maths Play
When Simon McBurney set out to create a play about the fabled relationship between Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy and the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, he was immediately confronted by the question of how to engage the mathematics authentically. Undaunted by his own uneasiness with the subject, McBurney incorporated a host of experts into the rehearsal process, calling on mathematical educators, expositors, and Fields medali…
Disparities in achieving and sustaining viral suppression among a large cohort of HIV-infected persons in care – Washington, DC
One goal of the HIV care continuum is achieving viral suppression (VS), yet disparities in suppression exist among subpopulations of HIV-infected persons. We sought to identify disparities in both the ability to achieve and sustain VS among an urban cohort of HIV-infected persons in care. Data from HIV-infected persons enrolled at the 13 DC Cohort study clinical sites between January 2011 and June 2014 were analyzed. Univariate and multivariate l…
Risk of Severe Covid-19 Disease and the Pandemic’s Impact on Service Utilization Among a Longitudinal Cohort of Persons with HIV-Washington, DC
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