Alison Hann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Hann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Hann |
| SIGNATURE | HANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the ‘cure’ for cervical cancer
Shaping Health PolicyCase Study Methods and Analysis
This book examines the role that case studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The book explores and promotes the case study as an under-used met…
Shaping Health Policy: Case Study Methods and Analysis
Cholesterol screening and the Gold Effect
This paper explores the concept of the ‘Gold Effect’ in relation to the use of serum cholesterol measurement as a screening test for cardiovascular disease. The Gold Effect explains the phenomenon of the process by which an idea comes to be held as a generally accepted truth. In this paper we argue that cholesterol screening is the product of the Gold Effect. Screening tests need to be sufficiently robust as an indicator of risk and thus their ev…
Public Health Ethics and Practice
The Sociology of Healthcare: A Reader for Health Professionals
General practice and public health: Assessing the impact of the new GMS contract
Over the past 30 years, the important role of primary care in public health has been widely recognised, and in the UK a range of measures to support public health in general practice have been introduced since the late 1980s. In 2004 a new general medical services contract was introduced changing the way general practitioners are reimbursed in the NHS. The new contract shifted the emphasis from the individual practitioner to the practice and intr…
Cancer test smeared: Preventive medicine or an expensive mistake
Screening women for cancer: A time for reappraisal
Sharpening up Sabatier: Belief Systems and Public Policy
What causes public policies to come into being and to change has been a matter of primary concern to political scientists for a very long time. This article examines very briefly a few approaches to this problem, and then focusses on one model in particular: that proposed by Paul Sabatier which looks at the relationship between beliefs and policy making. We then examine some of the problems associated with Sabatier's approach, and suggest some po…
Sharpening up Sabatier: Belief Systems and Public Policy
What causes public policies to come into being and to change has been a matter of primary concern to political scientists for a very long time. This article examines very briefly a few approaches to this problem, and then focusses on one model in particular: that proposed by Paul Sabatier which looks at the relationship between beliefs and policy making. We then examine some of the problems associated with Sabatier's approach, and suggest some po…
Screening women for cancer: A time for reappraisal
Sharpening up Sabatier: Belief Systems and Public Policy
What causes public policies to come into being and to change has been a matter of primary concern to political scientists for a very long time. This article examines very briefly a few approaches to this problem, and then focusses on one model in particular: that proposed by Paul Sabatier which looks at the relationship between beliefs and policy making. We then examine some of the problems associated with Sabatier's approach, and suggest some po…
Cancer test smeared: Preventive medicine or an expensive mistake
General practice and public health: Assessing the impact of the new GMS contract
Over the past 30 years, the important role of primary care in public health has been widely recognised, and in the UK a range of measures to support public health in general practice have been introduced since the late 1980s. In 2004 a new general medical services contract was introduced changing the way general practitioners are reimbursed in the NHS. The new contract shifted the emphasis from the individual practitioner to the practice and intr…
Public Health Ethics and Practice
The Sociology of Healthcare: A Reader for Health Professionals
Cholesterol screening and the Gold Effect
This paper explores the concept of the ‘Gold Effect’ in relation to the use of serum cholesterol measurement as a screening test for cardiovascular disease. The Gold Effect explains the phenomenon of the process by which an idea comes to be held as a generally accepted truth. In this paper we argue that cholesterol screening is the product of the Gold Effect. Screening tests need to be sufficiently robust as an indicator of risk and thus their ev…
Shaping Health PolicyCase Study Methods and Analysis
This book examines the role that case studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The book explores and promotes the case study as an under-used met…
Shaping Health Policy: Case Study Methods and Analysis
Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the ‘cure’ for cervical cancer
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Health care (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)