Rebecca Armstrong

Datos Biográficos

ID4205341
NOMBRERebecca Armstrong
NOMBRESRebecca
APELLIDOArmstrong
FIRMAARMSTRONG R
AFILIACIONESThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0003-4146-7427
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAS47
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1966
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • The Ancient World

    Open AccessRebecca Armstrong, Rebecca M ArmstrongCHAPTERCambridge Handbook of Literature…2025

    This chapter takes three plant types – the shady tree, the happy crop, and the wayside flower – as starting points for an exploration of ancient attitudes towards plants as both in harmony with and divergent from human worldviews and goals. It demonstrates how the same or similar plants can represent very different moods in different settings, sometimes positively reinforcing a human view, sometimes obstructing it. The connection between the sens…

  • Une loi en préparation, de nouvelles perspectives de politiques culturelles

    Ester Bonal Sarró, Gemma Carbó Ribugent et al.ARTICLENectart2025

  • Trees and Time

    Open AccessRebecca Armstrong, Rebecca M ArmstrongARTICLEGreen Letters2025

    Roman literature includes many reflections on the overlaps and differences between time as perceived and experienced by humans and by trees. Trees can offer ways for humans to conceptualise expanses of time which go far beyond their own lifespans, even stretching back to the primordial, as well as mapping onto more readily understood annual and generational cycles. Moreover, trees offer particularly fertile material for thinking about the more fl…

  • Sombre horizon

    Rebecca Armstrong, Rebecca M ArmstrongARTICLENectart2024

  • Depression, Vascular Burden, and Dementia Prevalence in Late Middle-Aged and Older Black Adults

    Open AccessShellie‐Anne Levy, Maria Misiura et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referencias: 1

    Results suggest late-life depression and WMH have independent and joint relationships with dementia and that Black individuals may be particularly at risk due to these factors

  • Comparison of Health Literacy Assessment Tools among Beijing School-Aged Children

    Open AccessShuaijun Guo, Xiaoming Yu et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Health literacy is a broad and multidimensional construct, making its measurement and conclusions inconsistent. This study aims to compare the patterning of health literacy using different assessment tools and examine their impact on children's developmental outcomes. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 650 students in Years 7-9 from four secondary schools in Beijing. Health literacy was measured by the eight-item health literacy assessmen…

  • Adolescent Health Literacy in Beijing and Melbourne

    Open AccessShuaijun Guo, Xiaoming Yu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    While adolescent health literacy has gained momentum, it is under-researched from a cross-cultural perspective. This study aims to compare health literacy among two cultural groups of secondary students in Beijing and Melbourne. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 770 students from five secondary schools in Beijing and Melbourne. A self-administered questionnaire was designed to collect information on health literacy (the eight-item health…

  • Hercules and the Stone Tree

    Open AccessRebecca ArmstrongARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2020Referencias: 3

    In ancient literature and religion, Hercules—in common with many other deities—is frequently associated with particular trees or types of tree. There are tales connecting him with the wild olive, laurel and oak, but his most prominent and frequent arboreal link is with the poplar ( populus Alcidae gratissima , ‘the poplar is most delightful to Hercules’, Verg. Ecl . 7.61), an association mentioned twice in the Hercules-heavy first half of Aeneid …

  • Behind the Mask

    Angela M Heap, J P Taylor et al.BOOKBehind the Mask2019

    This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the ninet…

  • A cross-country study of mis-implementation in public health practice

    Open AccessKarishma Furtado, Elizabeth L Budd et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Decisions about continuing or ending a program were often seen as a function of program popularity and funding availability as opposed to effectiveness. Policies and practices pertaining to programmatic decision-making should be improved in light of these findings. Future studies are needed to understand and minimize the individual, organizational, and political-level drivers of mis-implementation

  • Evaluation outcomes of a knowledge translation platform

    Tahna Pettman, Rebecca Armstrong et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2018

  • Evaluation outcomes of a knowledge translation platform

    Tahna Pettman, Rebecca Armstrong et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Obesity prevention is an urgent public health priority that requires action at multiple levels. Collaboration between academics, policy and practice is necessary to ensure best-practice implementation. A national knowledge translation and exchange (KT) platform, the Collaboration of Community-based Obesity Prevention Sites (CO-OPS), was delivered and evaluated over three years (2013–15). A mixed-methods evaluation used communications and website …

  • A snapshot of the scope of obesity prevention practice in Australia

    Open AccessTahna Pettman, Kristy A Bolton et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2016

    Community-based initiatives (CBIs) that build capacity and promote healthy environments hold promise for preventing obesity and non-communicable disease, however their characteristics remain poorly understood and lessons are learned in isolation. This limits understanding of likely effectiveness of CBIs; the potential for actively supporting practice; and the translation of community-based knowledge into policy. Building on an initial survey (201…

  • Evaluation of a knowledge translation and exchange platform to advance non-communicable disease prevention

    Tahna Pettman, Rebecca Armstrong et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2015Citada por: 1

    Coordinated systems are required to ensure evidence-informed practice and evaluation of community-based interventions (CBIs). Knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) strategies show promise, but these require evaluation. This paper describes implementation and evaluation of COOPS, a national KTE platform to support best practice in obesity prevention CBIs. A logic model guides KTE activities including knowledge brokering, networking, tailored co…

  • Evidence and obesity prevention

    Rachel Clark, Elizabeth Waters et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2013Citada por: 1

    Public health practitioners make decisions based on research evidence in combination with a variety of other influences. Evidence summaries are one of a range of knowledge translation options used to support evidence-informed decision making. The literature relevant to obesity prevention requires synthesis for it to be accessible and relevant to end-users. As part of a national collaboration on obesity prevention, we used a stakeholder-focused ap…

  • Journeys and Nostalgia in Catullus

    Rebecca Armstrong, REBECCA ARMSTRONG REBECCA ARMSTRONGARTICLEThe Classical Journal2013Citada por: 3Referencias: 6

    This article explores the themes of travel, homecoming and homesickness in Catullus' poetry. A recurrent interest throughout much of the poet's oeuvre, the idea of the journey offers the reader multiple angles of interpretation: from the emotional to the metapoetic, and from contemporary social contexts to far-off mythical ones, all along the way contributing to the complex presentation of the poet himself. Ultimately, the reader is left with a p…

  • Staple food choices in Samoa

    Open AccessAndrew Maxwell Phineas Jones, Hannes Dempewolf et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2012

    The prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease has become a considerable health problem throughout the South Pacific, including Samoa. The increase in these diseases is most often associated with changes in dietary intake; including increased consumption of fats and sugars concurrent with reduced consumption of fibre and complex carbohydrates. We conducted this study in order to better understand …

  • Interventions for preventing obesity in children

    Elizabeth Waters, Andrea De Silva et al.ARTICLECochrane Database of Systematic…2011

    BACKGROUND: Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development and well-being. The international evidence base for strategies that governments, communities and families can implement to prevent obesity, and promote health, has been accumulating but remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: This review primarily aims to update the previous…

  • 'Scoping the scope' of a cochrane review

    Rebecca Armstrong, Belinda J Hall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health2011

    Systematic reviews use a transparent and systematic process to define a research question, search for studies, assess their quality and synthesize findings qualitatively or quantitatively. A crucial step in the systematic review process is to thoroughly define the scope of the research question. This requires an understanding of existing literature, including gaps and uncertainties, clarification of definitions related to the research question an…

  • An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)

    Open AccessElizabeth Waters, Rebecca Armstrong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12609000953235

  • Engaging policy makers in action on socially determined health inequities

    Naomi Priest, Elizabeth Waters et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2009Referencias: 2

    This article describes an innovative knowledge translation project involving researchers and key stakeholders commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). The project aimed to develop ‘cameo’ reports of evidence-based policies and interventions addressing social determinants of health, intended for use by leaders and advocates, as well as policy and programme decision makers, to a…

  • Virgil's Cucumber

    Open AccessRebecca ArmstrongARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2008Citada por: 3

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  • The nature of evidence resources and knowledge translation for health promotion practitioners

    Open AccessRebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2007

    Governments and other public health agencies have become increasingly interested in evidence-informed policy and practice. Translating research evidence into programmatic change has proved challenging and the evidence around how to effectively promote and facilitate this process is still relatively limited. This paper presents the findings from an evaluation of a series of evidence-based health promotion resources commissioned by the Victorian De…

  • The Aeneid

    Rebecca Armstrong, Rebecca M ArmstrongCHAPTEREpic interactions2006

  • Cretan Women

    Rebecca Armstrong, Rebecca M ArmstrongBOOKCretan women2006Citada por: 10Referencias: 49

    This book studies in detail the representations of Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry. It investigates both the literary history of the myths (the Greek roots, the interactions between Roman versions) and their cultural resonance. In addition to close readings of the major treatments of each woman's story (in Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca), the book offers extended thematic explorations of the importance of memory, wildness, and …