Rebecca Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 3928922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1526-3263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Primary school food education policy worldwide: A scoping review
Purpose This study establishes the extent and nature of international literature about primary school food education. It investigates what type of policies are analysed, which methods are used, what policy recommendations were made and what gaps exist in research. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review method was used to analyse the policy aspect of primary school food education original research papers. Searches were conducted in a range o…
The media playbook for food taxes: An analysis of UK print and online news media coverage of food and non-alcoholic beverage tax debates 2017-2023
Analysis of media coverage of food tax debates is limited, with most focusing on taxation of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs). This study explored UK media coverage of food tax debates, extending beyond SSBs to other food products. We investigated trends in print and online news media coverage and how the UK media presented anti- and pro-tax arguments. A mixed-methods content analysis of eight UK news publishers between 2017 and 2023 was undertak…
Improving food system outcomes with beans, peas and pulses: A prospective mapping review of research in the UK
Objective: To map the spread of research on legumes, including beans, peas and other pulses; to identify research gaps and opportunities relating to the use of legumes for improved human nutrition, health and environmental outcomes; and to develop a novel method for clarifying research priorities. Design: Prospective mapping review, identifying and mapping ongoing research (2019–2023) across the value chain. Setting: UK. Participants/sample: Acad…
Associations between inclusive community coalition leadership and use of evidence‐based practices
Community coalitions have the potential to elicit diverse participants' perspectives on complex issues and generate shared commitment to adaptive strategies. Ideally, these approaches have been found effective elsewhere. Despite evidence that leadership plays a generally important role in coalitions, there have been limited prior findings about how leadership may support the use of evidence‐based practices. The purpose of the current study was to…
Mismatches between UK food supply and dietary guidelines: A dietary gap assessment
Objective: To examine how aligned the UK food supply is with the Eatwell Guide and identify discrepancies that should be addressed to support the availability of healthy diets for the population. Design: A dietary gap assessment was carried out on the 2022 UK food supply with FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets (FAO-FBS) data, including domestic production, imports and exports and excluding animal feed, seeds and non-food uses. Foods were grouped into po…
Effects of advice‐seeking patterns on community coalitions' outcomes: A social network analysis
Community coalitions are well‐positioned to address local conditions affecting health. Coalitions rely on interactions among members to address community issues and plan for sustainability. Individuals and agencies participate voluntarily, and substantive decisions are generally made as a group. Hence, coalitions operate largely through advice rather than top‐down directives. This study examined whether advice‐seeking patterns within coalitions i…
Using social network analysis to identify influential community organizations
Student perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in higher education
The aim of this project was to understand student perspectives on generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technologies such as Chat generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT), in order to inform changes to the University of Liverpool Academic Integrity code of practice. The survey for this study was created by a library student team and vetted through focus groups. A total of 2555 students participated in the survey. Results showed that only 7…
Examining Social Work Engagement in Healthcare-Focused Interprofessional Education: A Systematic Scoping Review
Social workers frequent interprofessional healthcare teams. However, there are no identified systematic reviews to analyze efforts in social work education to engage in healthcare-focused interprofessional education (IPE). The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines for a systematic scoping review were utilized for reporting purposes. Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework was used to 1) iden…
Usual Source of Care and Contraceptive Use
BACKGROUND: A high proportion of people in the United States at risk of unintended pregnancy also have limited primary care access. STUDY DESIGN: We pooled data for analyses from separate 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth. Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate associations between the usual source of health care and self-reported use of a comprehensive range of contraceptive options, as well as…
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Factors Affecting Successful Transition to Adulthood for Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances
Black with ‘Baby Blues’: A Systematic Scoping Review of Programs to Address Postpartum Depression in African American Women
Contraception Use by Title X Clients and Clients of Other Providers, 2015–2019
Initial conditions and functioning over time among community coalitions
Developing operationally strong community coalitions is critical to actualizing their potential for public health improvement. The purpose of this study was to measure how substance use prevention coalitions in Mexico functioned across their first 1.5 years, and to test associations between initial community contextual factors and subsequent coalition functioning and outcomes. Members of 19 coalitions participated in three waves of surveys about …
How Primary School Curriculums in 11 Countries around the World Deliver Food Education and Address Food Literacy: A Policy Analysis
(1) Background: As one of the biggest drivers of health and climate change, the food system has unrealised potential to influence consumption toward affordable, healthy, sustainable diets. A range of policy levers, including mandating food education, are needed. Schools are considered the best place for food education and childhood is a crucial period when eating habits that persist into adulthood are formed. Food education as part of the curricu…
Insights from the national maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center on Title V Teams’ collaborative readiness and goal accomplishment
Title V teams with lower levels of initial collaborative readiness may benefit from additional support in skill development, connections to key partners, and convening power. Given the crucial and increasing role of Medicaid in maternal and child health systems, more attention may be warranted to supporting all Title V programs in partnering with this funder
Beyond Cheerleading: Navigating the Boundaries of Science Journalism in South Africa
Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are contrasted by the relentless rise of corporate communication and public relations. Institutional science communication has become a booming industry, operating, at least partially, by bypassing the traditional roles of journalists. To interrogate how science journalists per…
Framing of policy responses to migrant horticultural labour shortages during Covid-19 in the Italian print media
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press
Environmental Racism and the Contamination of Black Lives: A Literature Review
Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity
This paper presents work surrounding INJECT, a newsroom innovation offering digital tools to support journalists. Research showing increasing time and resource pressure on journalists has led to concerns about the demise of investigative reporting and the ability of today’s journalists to interrogate information adequately. Some digital innovations (e.g. tools facilitating robot journalism) have been viewed with suspicion by newsrooms. This paper…
Brexit-related food issues in the UK print media: Setting the agenda for post-Brexit food policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how Brexit-related food issues are being presented in the UK print media. Design/methodology/approach Using the news database Nexis UK, relevant articles were identified based on key search terms, “Brexit” and “Food” or “Farm!” or “Agriculture!”. The search criteria were set to include articles with three or more mentions of these terms. The search period was 6 April to 5 July 2018. Findings The qua…
Wellness project implementation within Houston’s Faith and Diabetes initiative: A mixed methods study
Initial commitment from faith organizations' leadership and volunteers may not suffice to implement even relatively short and low cost health promotion programs. Faith organizations might benefit from realistic previews about just how challenging it is to make these programs a sufficiently high organizational and individual priority
Using the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory to Strengthen Collaborations for Improving Maternal and Child Health
The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory provided a feasible tool for identifying opportunities for improvement in several local, cross-sector partnerships, suggesting promise for other communities seeking to enhance their collective impact on maternal and child health
System Dynamics Approaches and Collective Action for Community Health: An Integrative Review
System dynamics ( SD ) methods, from qualitative causal loop diagramming to quantitative simulation modeling, have the potential to be powerful tools for engaging community stakeholders interested in improving health. However, the extent to which SD drives collective action to improve community health is unclear. The objective of this review was to understand how often, why, and how SD has been used by cross‐sector community collectives. Of 409 i…
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Mental Health Agencies: A Multiple Stakeholder Analysis
Objectives. We sought to identify factors believed to facilitate or hinder evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation in public mental health service systems as a step in developing theory to be tested in future studies. Methods. Focusing across levels of an entire large public sector mental health service system for youths, we engaged participants from 6 stakeholder groups: county officials, agency directors, program managers, clinical staff, …
The role of inter-agency collaboration in facilitating receipt of behavioral health services for youth involved with child welfare and juvenile justice
Managing child welfare agencies: What do we know about what works
Status Differences in Cross-Functional Teams: Effects on Individual Member Participation, Job Satisfaction, and Intent to Quit
Cross-functional teams (CFTs) play an increasingly important role in health care. However, despite their potential, CFTs often fail to function effectively. This paper contributes to the literature in medical sociology by examining how the steep and well-defined hierarchy characteristic of the health occupations proves to be dysfunctional in the CFT setting. Previous research has shown that status differences among members of work teams negativel…
New directions for research on the organizational and institutional context of child welfare agencies: Introduction to the symposium on “The Organizational and Managerial Context of Private Child Welf…
Collaboration, competition, and co-opetition: Interorganizational dynamics between private child welfare agencies and child serving sectors
An empirical typology of private child and family serving agencies
Trends in local public child welfare agencies 1999–2009
What Motivates People to Participate More in Community‐based Coalitions
The purpose of this study was to identify potential opportunities for improving member participation in community‐based coalitions. We hypothesized that opportunities for influence and process competence would each foster higher levels of individual member participation. We tested these hypotheses in a sample of 818 members within 79 youth‐oriented coalitions. Opportunities for influence were measured as members' perceptions of an inclusive board…
Team leadership and patient outcomes in US psychiatric treatment settings
Beyond Cheerleading: Navigating the Boundaries of Science Journalism in South Africa
Science journalism faces an issue that is part of a bigger picture of media change. The economic pressures which have seen shrinking resources available for reporting news are contrasted by the relentless rise of corporate communication and public relations. Institutional science communication has become a booming industry, operating, at least partially, by bypassing the traditional roles of journalists. To interrogate how science journalists per…
Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity
This paper presents work surrounding INJECT, a newsroom innovation offering digital tools to support journalists. Research showing increasing time and resource pressure on journalists has led to concerns about the demise of investigative reporting and the ability of today’s journalists to interrogate information adequately. Some digital innovations (e.g. tools facilitating robot journalism) have been viewed with suspicion by newsrooms. This paper…
Caregiver involvement in behavioural health services in the context of child welfare service referrals: A qualitative study
Human service agencies serve a growing number of adults with behavioral health needs. Despite these agencies' key role in identifying need and facilitating services, many individuals do not receive care or end services prematurely. Few studies have explored the experiences of families referred to behavioral health services by such agencies or the extent to which families' perceptions of service need align with those of treatment providers and fro…
Child Welfare Caseworker Education and Caregiver Behavioral Service Use and Satisfaction With the Caseworker
Social work has long been identified with child welfare, and research has generally found that child welfare caseworkers with a social work degree are better prepared than aseworkers with other degrees. Little knowledge exists though about the relationship between caseworker professional background and caregiver behavioral health service use or their satisfaction with the caseworker. Using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Wel…
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press
Mediating the spaces of diet and health: A critical analysis of reporting on nutrition and colorectal cancer in the UK
A critical review of recent US market level health care strategy literature
An Examination of Infrastructures for Health Information Dissemination in the United States
The U.S. federal government has devoted substantial resources to health promotion and disease prevention research, yet there is currently no systematic published information about the infrastructures through which this research is disseminated to local levels. This article addresses that gapby using a common framework (Dynamic Network) developed by Miles and Snow to examine five national health information networks: the Regional Alcohol and Drug …
Status Differences in Cross-Functional Teams: Effects on Individual Member Participation, Job Satisfaction, and Intent to Quit
Cross-functional teams (CFTs) play an increasingly important role in health care. However, despite their potential, CFTs often fail to function effectively. This paper contributes to the literature in medical sociology by examining how the steep and well-defined hierarchy characteristic of the health occupations proves to be dysfunctional in the CFT setting. Previous research has shown that status differences among members of work teams negativel…
Health Services Usage by Alaskan Injection Drug Users
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore health services usage among injection drug users in Anchorage, Alaska.Design: 645 participants were recruited as part of a federally funded study of needle exchanges. They completed a health services usage questionnaire that elicited information on use of a health care provider (physician or nurse) and emergency room services. Chi-square and t-tesls were used for the bivariate analyses, and mult…
Health Services Usage by Alaskan Injection Drug Users
The role of public assistance benefits enabling access to health care for IDUs has policy implications. Large public programs, such as the Indian Health Service, paid for much of the health care received by the IDUs recruited as part of this study
Managing child welfare agencies: What do we know about what works
Team leadership and patient outcomes in US psychiatric treatment settings
Tailoring of Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment to Women, 1995–2005
BACKGROUND: Tailoring substance abuse treatment to women often leads to better outcomes. Previous evidence, however, suggests limited availability of such options. OBJECTIVES: This investigation sought to depict recent changes in outpatient substance abuse treatment (OSAT) tailoring to women and to identify unit and contextual factors associated with these practices. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data were from 2 waves of a national OSAT unit survey (N = 618 …
What Motivates People to Participate More in Community‐based Coalitions
The purpose of this study was to identify potential opportunities for improving member participation in community‐based coalitions. We hypothesized that opportunities for influence and process competence would each foster higher levels of individual member participation. We tested these hypotheses in a sample of 818 members within 79 youth‐oriented coalitions. Opportunities for influence were measured as members' perceptions of an inclusive board…
Coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health service providers, children's service use, and outcomes
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Community Mental Health Agencies: A Multiple Stakeholder Analysis
Objectives. We sought to identify factors believed to facilitate or hinder evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation in public mental health service systems as a step in developing theory to be tested in future studies. Methods. Focusing across levels of an entire large public sector mental health service system for youths, we engaged participants from 6 stakeholder groups: county officials, agency directors, program managers, clinical staff, …
The role of inter-agency collaboration in facilitating receipt of behavioral health services for youth involved with child welfare and juvenile justice
Implementing a case management initiative in high-need schools
Effects of Maternity Care Coordination on Pregnancy Outcomes: Propensity-Weighted Analyses
New directions for research on the organizational and institutional context of child welfare agencies: Introduction to the symposium on “The Organizational and Managerial Context of Private Child Welf…
An empirical typology of private child and family serving agencies
Trends in local public child welfare agencies 1999–2009
Collaboration, competition, and co-opetition: Interorganizational dynamics between private child welfare agencies and child serving sectors
Child Welfare Caseworker Education and Caregiver Behavioral Service Use and Satisfaction With the Caseworker
Social work has long been identified with child welfare, and research has generally found that child welfare caseworkers with a social work degree are better prepared than aseworkers with other degrees. Little knowledge exists though about the relationship between caseworker professional background and caregiver behavioral health service use or their satisfaction with the caseworker. Using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Wel…
The political economy of a public health case management program's transition into medical homes
Caregiver involvement in behavioural health services in the context of child welfare service referrals: A qualitative study
Human service agencies serve a growing number of adults with behavioral health needs. Despite these agencies' key role in identifying need and facilitating services, many individuals do not receive care or end services prematurely. Few studies have explored the experiences of families referred to behavioral health services by such agencies or the extent to which families' perceptions of service need align with those of treatment providers and fro…
Mediating the spaces of diet and health: A critical analysis of reporting on nutrition and colorectal cancer in the UK
Do Maternity Care Coordination Services Encourage Use of Behavioral Health Treatment among Pregnant Women on Medicaid
Comparing Traditional Versus Retrospective Pre-/Post-assessment in an Interdisciplinary Leadership Training Program
Using the Relational Coordination Instrument With a Diverse Patient Sample
BACKGROUND: The Relational Coordination (RC) instrument has been used extensively in the context of health care interprofessional coordination. However, the instrument's applicability to patient experiences of their interactions with professionals is largely untested. OBJECTIVES: This study's objectives were to determine: (1) whether the RC instrument could be modified for phone administration to yield internally consistent results when used with…
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