Christine Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cerebral Palsy Alliance |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3505-9742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Faith-based Community Engagement in HIV-Testing and Awareness of HIV Status in Southern, Rural, African American Communities
The Deep South is the epicenter of the HIV-epidemic in the United States, with rural AAs bearing the greatest burden. Traditional efforts to improve testing efforts have been largely unsuccessful due to their failure to recognize and leverage the sociopolitical and cultural factors that affect the uptake of HIV-screening interventions at the community level. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural contex…
Lee B. Wilson, Bonds of Empire
Understanding the experiences of stigma in relation to social support among an Australian community cohort of people living with epilepsy
The deleterious impact of stigma on the well‐being and quality of life of people living with epilepsy (PWE) is well known but given the social nature of stigma, it is important to understand what stigma means to PWE in different social contexts. To date, there are few qualitative studies on the experience of stigma for PWE in Australia and few studies examining social support as a possible mitigating factor. The current study set out to examine (…
Where Does Value Lie in Peer Support? An Exploratory Discussion of the Theories and Methods Underpinning Effective Research in Peer Support
A literature review was undertaken in 2019 to review research into the effectiveness of peer support in chronic disease self-management. As with an earlier literature review, we found the results disappointing due to poor reporting and poor research design. Lack of information on training of peer supporters, unrealistically short timeframes to produce changes in health behaviors, and lack of any theoretical underpinning of the research design con…
Jamaica Ladies
Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its develo…
Children of Uncertain Fortune
As though She “Was a Virtuous Woman
As this article shows, the dearth of literature on the first half of the eighteenth century has produced a skewed account of the gendered and sexualized dynamics of colonialism in the Anglo-Atlantic world—one that characterizes an era that was increasingly restrictive of female sexuality and marriage. Using Jamaica as a case study, it argues, instead, that the colony’s lax handling of the sexual activities of all free people—men and women alike—w…
Are medicare and pharmaceutical benefit scheme services too costly for patients? An epilepsy‐based study
Based on evidence of the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and inequalities in health, this study provides an example of how inequality is experienced by a group of people with epilepsy and the impacts of out‐of‐pocket costs ( OOP s) on their access to essential healthcare. This study examines healthcare inequity based on socioeconomic disadvantage, demonstrated through a sample of people with epilepsy with OOP for Medical Benefits Sc…
EHealth and Integrated Primary Health Care Centres
Background: Integrated primary health care (PHC) relies on connectivity and seamless information-sharing across primary, secondary, acute, aged and social care. eHealth tools can promote a better patient journey and avoid duplication of care processes such as pathology and imaging or unplanned attendances at emergency departments and hospitalisations.Conceptual framework: This encompasses integration, Informatics Capability Maturity (ICM), multid…
Multiple conditions
Pursuing Her Profits
This article addresses the double erasure of both women and the slaves they owned from the conjoined histories of slavery and empire. It shows how the economic practices of free women of European and African descent helped to make Jamaica the wealthiest and largest slaveholding colony in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic world. The growth of Britain's American colonies created novel financial and social opportunities for women. They acted as vigoro…
Exploring the role of self‐management programmes in caring for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Melbourne, Australia
Background Chronic disease self‐management programmes are now an important adjunct to the treatment and care of Australians with chronic illnesses. Most programmes are delivered in English and cater for ‘Anglo’ views of health and illness. The Peer‐Led Self‐Management of Chronic Illness Project was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to test the hypothesis that the Stanford University Chronic Disease Self‐Management…
Social structures of science and approaches to outcomes-based medical research
Recently, two seemingly divergent approaches have emerged in outcomes-based medical research. Proponents of evidence-based medicine (EBM) argue that the most effective treatments will be found by adopting a hierarchical approach that gives pre-eminence to randomized controlled clinical trials, where these are available. Proponents of participatory medical research argue that research undertaken with consumers and other partners in the community w…
Overcoming the stigma of chronic illness
This paper addresses the concept of chronic illness as a socially constructed experience of stigma. The stigma of having a chronic illness affects the person’s self-concept, capacity to adapt to the illness and the quality of his/her social networks. Social stigma is a delegitimising social process derived from both popular and medical views of chronic illness. Based on research into the coping strategies of a range of people with long-term, seri…
A test of the proposal to label containers of alcoholic drink with alcohol content in Standard Drinks
Health education about alcohol increasingly relies on setting maximum limits for low-risk consumption expressed in terms of ‘Standard Drinks’ (1 SD = 10g ethyl akohol). In a sample of 257 West Australian drinkers contacted in a shopping mall, 173 (67.3%) had heard of SDs before but only 46(17.9%) could correctly define one. Subsequently, all subjects were taught how to use the SD system and had to pass a comprehension test before proceeding with …
Overcoming the stigma of chronic illness
This paper addresses the concept of chronic illness as a socially constructed experience of stigma. The stigma of having a chronic illness affects the person’s self-concept, capacity to adapt to the illness and the quality of his/her social networks. Social stigma is a delegitimising social process derived from both popular and medical views of chronic illness. Based on research into the coping strategies of a range of people with long-term, seri…
Pursuing Her Profits
This article addresses the double erasure of both women and the slaves they owned from the conjoined histories of slavery and empire. It shows how the economic practices of free women of European and African descent helped to make Jamaica the wealthiest and largest slaveholding colony in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic world. The growth of Britain's American colonies created novel financial and social opportunities for women. They acted as vigoro…
As though She “Was a Virtuous Woman
As this article shows, the dearth of literature on the first half of the eighteenth century has produced a skewed account of the gendered and sexualized dynamics of colonialism in the Anglo-Atlantic world—one that characterizes an era that was increasingly restrictive of female sexuality and marriage. Using Jamaica as a case study, it argues, instead, that the colony’s lax handling of the sexual activities of all free people—men and women alike—w…
A test of the proposal to label containers of alcoholic drink with alcohol content in Standard Drinks
Health education about alcohol increasingly relies on setting maximum limits for low-risk consumption expressed in terms of ‘Standard Drinks’ (1 SD = 10g ethyl akohol). In a sample of 257 West Australian drinkers contacted in a shopping mall, 173 (67.3%) had heard of SDs before but only 46(17.9%) could correctly define one. Subsequently, all subjects were taught how to use the SD system and had to pass a comprehension test before proceeding with …
Overcoming the stigma of chronic illness
This paper addresses the concept of chronic illness as a socially constructed experience of stigma. The stigma of having a chronic illness affects the person’s self-concept, capacity to adapt to the illness and the quality of his/her social networks. Social stigma is a delegitimising social process derived from both popular and medical views of chronic illness. Based on research into the coping strategies of a range of people with long-term, seri…
Social structures of science and approaches to outcomes-based medical research
Recently, two seemingly divergent approaches have emerged in outcomes-based medical research. Proponents of evidence-based medicine (EBM) argue that the most effective treatments will be found by adopting a hierarchical approach that gives pre-eminence to randomized controlled clinical trials, where these are available. Proponents of participatory medical research argue that research undertaken with consumers and other partners in the community w…
Exploring the role of self‐management programmes in caring for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Melbourne, Australia
Background Chronic disease self‐management programmes are now an important adjunct to the treatment and care of Australians with chronic illnesses. Most programmes are delivered in English and cater for ‘Anglo’ views of health and illness. The Peer‐Led Self‐Management of Chronic Illness Project was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to test the hypothesis that the Stanford University Chronic Disease Self‐Management…
Pursuing Her Profits
This article addresses the double erasure of both women and the slaves they owned from the conjoined histories of slavery and empire. It shows how the economic practices of free women of European and African descent helped to make Jamaica the wealthiest and largest slaveholding colony in the early modern Anglo-Atlantic world. The growth of Britain's American colonies created novel financial and social opportunities for women. They acted as vigoro…
Multiple conditions
EHealth and Integrated Primary Health Care Centres
Background: Integrated primary health care (PHC) relies on connectivity and seamless information-sharing across primary, secondary, acute, aged and social care. eHealth tools can promote a better patient journey and avoid duplication of care processes such as pathology and imaging or unplanned attendances at emergency departments and hospitalisations.Conceptual framework: This encompasses integration, Informatics Capability Maturity (ICM), multid…
Are medicare and pharmaceutical benefit scheme services too costly for patients? An epilepsy‐based study
Based on evidence of the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and inequalities in health, this study provides an example of how inequality is experienced by a group of people with epilepsy and the impacts of out‐of‐pocket costs ( OOP s) on their access to essential healthcare. This study examines healthcare inequity based on socioeconomic disadvantage, demonstrated through a sample of people with epilepsy with OOP for Medical Benefits Sc…
Jamaica Ladies
Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its develo…
Children of Uncertain Fortune
As though She “Was a Virtuous Woman
As this article shows, the dearth of literature on the first half of the eighteenth century has produced a skewed account of the gendered and sexualized dynamics of colonialism in the Anglo-Atlantic world—one that characterizes an era that was increasingly restrictive of female sexuality and marriage. Using Jamaica as a case study, it argues, instead, that the colony’s lax handling of the sexual activities of all free people—men and women alike—w…
Where Does Value Lie in Peer Support? An Exploratory Discussion of the Theories and Methods Underpinning Effective Research in Peer Support
A literature review was undertaken in 2019 to review research into the effectiveness of peer support in chronic disease self-management. As with an earlier literature review, we found the results disappointing due to poor reporting and poor research design. Lack of information on training of peer supporters, unrealistically short timeframes to produce changes in health behaviors, and lack of any theoretical underpinning of the research design con…
Lee B. Wilson, Bonds of Empire
Understanding the experiences of stigma in relation to social support among an Australian community cohort of people living with epilepsy
The deleterious impact of stigma on the well‐being and quality of life of people living with epilepsy (PWE) is well known but given the social nature of stigma, it is important to understand what stigma means to PWE in different social contexts. To date, there are few qualitative studies on the experience of stigma for PWE in Australia and few studies examining social support as a possible mitigating factor. The current study set out to examine (…
Faith-based Community Engagement in HIV-Testing and Awareness of HIV Status in Southern, Rural, African American Communities
The Deep South is the epicenter of the HIV-epidemic in the United States, with rural AAs bearing the greatest burden. Traditional efforts to improve testing efforts have been largely unsuccessful due to their failure to recognize and leverage the sociopolitical and cultural factors that affect the uptake of HIV-screening interventions at the community level. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural contex…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works)