Clare Blackburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3929148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Blackburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackburn |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKBURN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Health School of Health and Social Studies University of Warwick Coventry UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bridging the gap: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to performance for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic medical students in the United Kingdom
Disabled Children and their Families: A Decade of Policy Change
Focusing mainly on the United Kingdom, this article reviews a decade of national and international policy and legal changes in relation to disabled children and their families. It discusses attempts to transform the ways that disabled children are perceived and the rights accorded to them. The UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons, specific UK policy initiatives and debates on universal and specialist provisions are outlined. Considerat…
Making poverty a practice issue
Trends in poverty and changes in service provision are combining to make the promotion of health in poverty a particular challenge to health and welfare practitioners. The evidence suggests that practitioner groups have failed to respond adequately to this challenge. Factors concerned with professional perceptions of poverty, the nature of qualifying and post-qualifying education and the difficulties associated with taking research into practice …
Carers and the digital divide: Factors affecting Internet use among carers in the UK
This paper presents data from a cross-sectional survey of 3014 adult carers, examining use of the Internet and factors associated with it. Carers recruited from the databases of three local authorities and other carer organisations within their geographical boundaries and that of Carers UK, a national carers organisation, were sent a postal questionnaire (response rate: 40%). A comparison of our data with national data on carers suggests some und…
Smoking behaviour change among fathers of new infants
The Socio-economic Patterning of Health and Smoking Behaviour among Mothers with Young Children on Income Support
The paper is set against the backdrop of the increase in the number of households in the UK in receipt of means-tested benefits. Focusing on women in households with children, it examines two issues: the limitations of conventional measures of socio-economic position and the contribution that alternative measures can make to the analysis of socio-economic variations in health in claimant households. These issues are illustrated by a British surve…
Smoking behaviour change among fathers of new infants
The Socio-economic Patterning of Health and Smoking Behaviour among Mothers with Young Children on Income Support
The paper is set against the backdrop of the increase in the number of households in the UK in receipt of means-tested benefits. Focusing on women in households with children, it examines two issues: the limitations of conventional measures of socio-economic position and the contribution that alternative measures can make to the analysis of socio-economic variations in health in claimant households. These issues are illustrated by a British surve…
Carers and the digital divide: Factors affecting Internet use among carers in the UK
This paper presents data from a cross-sectional survey of 3014 adult carers, examining use of the Internet and factors associated with it. Carers recruited from the databases of three local authorities and other carer organisations within their geographical boundaries and that of Carers UK, a national carers organisation, were sent a postal questionnaire (response rate: 40%). A comparison of our data with national data on carers suggests some und…
Making poverty a practice issue
Trends in poverty and changes in service provision are combining to make the promotion of health in poverty a particular challenge to health and welfare practitioners. The evidence suggests that practitioner groups have failed to respond adequately to this challenge. Factors concerned with professional perceptions of poverty, the nature of qualifying and post-qualifying education and the difficulties associated with taking research into practice …
The Socio-economic Patterning of Health and Smoking Behaviour among Mothers with Young Children on Income Support
The paper is set against the backdrop of the increase in the number of households in the UK in receipt of means-tested benefits. Focusing on women in households with children, it examines two issues: the limitations of conventional measures of socio-economic position and the contribution that alternative measures can make to the analysis of socio-economic variations in health in claimant households. These issues are illustrated by a British surve…
Carers and the digital divide: Factors affecting Internet use among carers in the UK
This paper presents data from a cross-sectional survey of 3014 adult carers, examining use of the Internet and factors associated with it. Carers recruited from the databases of three local authorities and other carer organisations within their geographical boundaries and that of Carers UK, a national carers organisation, were sent a postal questionnaire (response rate: 40%). A comparison of our data with national data on carers suggests some und…
Smoking behaviour change among fathers of new infants
Making poverty a practice issue
Trends in poverty and changes in service provision are combining to make the promotion of health in poverty a particular challenge to health and welfare practitioners. The evidence suggests that practitioner groups have failed to respond adequately to this challenge. Factors concerned with professional perceptions of poverty, the nature of qualifying and post-qualifying education and the difficulties associated with taking research into practice …
Disabled Children and their Families: A Decade of Policy Change
Focusing mainly on the United Kingdom, this article reviews a decade of national and international policy and legal changes in relation to disabled children and their families. It discusses attempts to transform the ways that disabled children are perceived and the rights accorded to them. The UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons, specific UK policy initiatives and debates on universal and specialist provisions are outlined. Considerat…
Bridging the gap: Understanding the barriers and facilitators to performance for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic medical students in the United Kingdom
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works)