Wendy J Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy J Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9093-4509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Socioeconomic inequalities in physical function decline: Multilevel longitudinal results from the Habitat study
There was little evidence of inequalities in the magnitude of decline in physical function across socioeconomic groups between the two time points. Future research should consider more objective performance-based measures to better understand the complexity of physical function among the ageing population
Changes in neighbourhood walkability and body mass index: An analysis of residential mobility from a longitudinal multilevel study in Brisbane, Australia
This study examined associations between changes in neighbourhood walkability and body mass index (BMI) among 1041 residents who relocated within Brisbane, Australia between 2007 and 2016 over five waves of the HABITAT study. Measures included spatially-derived neighbourhood walkability (dwelling density, street connectivity, and land use mix) and self-reported height and weight. No associations were found between any neighbourhood walkability ch…
Association between the use of weight management strategies and weight change among Australian adults over 12 months: An observational study
The use of weight management strategies appears to be common. Being physically active was associated with greater weight loss. Individuals who accepted their current body weight were less likely to use weight management strategies. Fasting and the use of supplements were associated with poorer mental health. Promoting physical activity as a weight management strategy appears important, particularly considering its multiple health benefits
Day-to-day variability in accelerometer-measured physical activity in mid-aged Australian adults
Results show group-level estimates of average acceleration and MVPA in a single week conceal considerable day-to-day variation in how mid-age Australians accumulate their acceleration and MVPA on a daily basis. Overall, there was no clear relationship between overall volume of activity and variability. Future studies with larger sample sizes and longitudinal data are needed to build on the findings from this study and increase the generalisabilit…
Tensions and Paradoxes of Scaling Up: A Critical Reflection on Physical Activity Promotion
Achieving system-level, sustainable 'scale-up' of interventions is the epitome of successful translation of evidence-based approaches in population health. In physical activity promotion, few evidence-based interventions reach implementation at scale or become embedded within systems for sustainable health impact. This is despite the vast published literature describing efficacy studies of small-scale physical activity interventions. Research int…
Accelerometer-measured physical activity in mid-age Australian adults
This population-based cohort provided a detailed description of physical activity based on raw data from accelerometers in mid-age adults in Australia. Such data can be used to investigate how different patterns and intensities of physical activity vary across the day/week and influence health outcomes
Annual rhythms in adults’ lifestyle and health (Aria): Protocol for a 12-month longitudinal study examining temporal patterns in weight, activity, diet, and wellbeing in Australian adults
Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, identifier ACTRN12619001430123 . Prospectively registered on 16 October 2019
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Examining mediators of intervention efficacy in a randomised controlled m-health trial to improve physical activity and sleep health in adults
Objectives: Examining mediators of intervention efficacy in an m-health intervention targeting physical activity and sleep in 160 Australian adults.Design: Nationwide randomised controlled trial.Main outcome measures: Moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA), assessed using the Active Australia Questionnaire; sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index); and sleep hygiene practices (Sleep Hygiene Index). Hypothesised psychosoci…
Efficacy of a Multi-component m-Health Weight-loss Intervention in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Relative to Controls, the Pooled Intervention groups did not differ on body weight but improved resistance training, and reduced energy intake and insomnia symptom severity. No additional weight loss was apparent when targeting improvements in physical activity, diet and sleep in combination compared with physical activity and diet
Positive Habitats for physical activity: Examining use of parks and its contribution to physical activity levels in mid-to older-aged adults
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Controversies in the Science of Sedentary Behaviour and Health: Insights, Perspectives and Future Directions from the 2018 Queensland Sedentary Behaviour Think Tank
The development in research concerning sedentary behaviour has been rapid over the past two decades. This has led to the development of evidence and views that have become more advanced, diverse and, possibly, contentious. These include the effects of standing, the breaking up of prolonged sitting and the role of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in the association between sedentary behaviour and health outcomes. The present aim is to…
In Initiative Overload”: Australian Perspectives on Promoting Physical Activity in the Workplace from Diverse Industries
Introduction : With two thirds of adults in paid employment and one third physically inactive, workplaces are an important setting for promoting more physical activity. We explored the attitudes and practices of employees and managers from different industries towards sitting and moving at work, to inform the development of acceptable solutions for encouraging businesses to adopt activity-promoting workplaces. Method : We conducted focus groups w…
A hard day’s night: Time use in shift workers
As the occupational tasks for participants in Workplace 2 involved physical activities, the findings do not support the conventional view that shift workers are more sedentary than those who only work during the day. Rather occupational tasks appear to be a more important determinant of physical activity patterns both on work and non-work days than varying shift patterns
The potential for walkability to narrow neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in physical function: A case study of middle-aged to older adults in Brisbane, Australia
Shift Work and Poor Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Background. Shift work is characterized by employees working outside the standard hours of 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. Because shift work includes night work, the normal sleep–wake cycle (circadian rhythm) is disrupted, with potential consequences for shift workers’ physical and mental health. Objectives. To assess the pooled effects of shift work on mental health and to evaluate whether these differ in men and women. Search Methods. We searched PubMed, …
A Daily Cup of Tea or Coffee May Keep You Moving: Association between Tea and Coffee Consumption and Physical Activity
Physical activity (PA) is an independent predictor of mortality and frailty in middle-aged women, but fatigue remains a major barrier in this group. While caffeine intake has been associated with reduced exertion and perceived fatigue, it is not well understood whether consumption of naturally caffeinated drinks is associated with physical activity. The aim of this study was to determine whether habitual consumption of coffee and tea is associate…
Land use proportion and walking: Application of isometric substitution analysis
Do active modes of transport cause lower body mass index? Findings from the Habitat longitudinal study
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the causal relationship between transport mode and body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We examined between-person differences and within-person changes in BMI by transport mode over four time points between 2007 and 2013. Data were from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence HealTh and AcTivity project, a population-representative study of persons aged 40-65 in 2007 (baseline) residing in 200 neighbourhoods in Brisb…
The impact of an m-Health financial incentives program on the physical activity and diet of Australian truck drivers
ANZCTR12616001513404 . Registered November 2nd, 2016 (retrospectively registered)
Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women
Built environment impacts on walking for transport in Brisbane, Australia
Balanced: A randomised trial examining the efficacy of two self-monitoring methods for an app-based multi-behaviour intervention to improve physical activity, sitting and sleep in adults
ACTRN12615000182594 (Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. Registry URL: www.anzctr.org.au ; registered prospectively on 25 February 2015)
The Nurses' Health Study and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health: Providing Infrastructure for Public Health Research
The authors argue that the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) provide infrastructure for public health research as of 2016. The ALSWH, which is funded by the Australian government, is designed to examine the social, psychological, and environmental factors that determine good health and cause ill-health in women. The NHS cohort study of married nurses in America is examined, along with infor…
Determinants of Active Leisure for Women with Young Children—an “Ethic of Care” Prevails
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing Household Sample File, this article analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution by using a quantile regression approach. The results show thatthere is a much larger gender wage gap among high-paid workers than there is among lowpaid workers. Moreover, this wage gap tends to increase reasonably uniformly when one ismoving up through the wage distribution. Institutio…
Perceived Constraints and Social Support for Active Leisure Among Mothers With Young Children
Evidence suggests that women who are mothers of young children have lower levels of physical activity than women of similar age who do not have children (Brown, Lee, Mishra, & Bauman, 2000). The purposes of this study were to explore the factors that constrain mothers of young children from being more physically active, and the relationship between physical activity and levels of social support available to the women. The empirical basis for this…
Time Pressure, Satisfaction with Leisure, and Health Among Australian Women
Expectations associated with the multiple roles adopted by women over the life-course have contributed to feelings of time pressure and stress for many women. There is also a growing body of evidence that leisure participation contributes to individual health and well-being and may serve to moderate levels of stress. Explorations of associations between feelings of time pressure, satisfaction levels with the time spent in active/passive leisure, …
Positive Habitats for physical activity: Examining use of parks and its contribution to physical activity levels in mid-to older-aged adults
Shift Work and Poor Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Background. Shift work is characterized by employees working outside the standard hours of 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. Because shift work includes night work, the normal sleep–wake cycle (circadian rhythm) is disrupted, with potential consequences for shift workers’ physical and mental health. Objectives. To assess the pooled effects of shift work on mental health and to evaluate whether these differ in men and women. Search Methods. We searched PubMed, …
The potential for walkability to narrow neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in physical function: A case study of middle-aged to older adults in Brisbane, Australia
Dose–response relationships between physical activity, walking and health-related quality of life in mid-age and older women
Where is the sex in political theory
Land use proportion and walking: Application of isometric substitution analysis
Do active modes of transport cause lower body mass index? Findings from the Habitat longitudinal study
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the causal relationship between transport mode and body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We examined between-person differences and within-person changes in BMI by transport mode over four time points between 2007 and 2013. Data were from the How Areas in Brisbane Influence HealTh and AcTivity project, a population-representative study of persons aged 40-65 in 2007 (baseline) residing in 200 neighbourhoods in Brisb…
Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis
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Journées Internationales Africaines de Gand, 1954
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Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis
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Comité; Interafricain pour les Sciences Humaines
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The People's Choice
The distribution of body fat in relation to habitual activity
42 young female subjects aged 19-24 years were selected to form 3 groups based on the estimated hours of physical activity taken each week. They represented 1. very active, 2. active, and 3. sedentary people. Their body fat and fat-free mass (FFM) were estimated from densitometry (corrected for the lung residual volume present during total immersion) and the distribution of subcutaneous fat mass (SFM) was examined by measuring skinfold thickness …
Where is the sex in political theory
Jim Miller's Passions
Book Review| July 01 1993 Jim Miller's Passions James Miller. The Passion of Michel Foucault. Simon and Schuster. 1993. Wendy Brown Wendy Brown Wendy Brown is chair and associate professor of Women's Studies, with affiliations in History of Consciousness and Legal Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Manhood and Politics-. A Feminist Reading in Political Theory and is completing a manuscript provisionally ent…
Effectiveness of a bilingual heart health program for Greek-Australian women
Women from Southern European countries have the highest body mass index and physical inactivity levels of any of Australia's migrant groups. Health promotion programs aimed at the wider community often fail to reach these women because of language and cultural barriers. The project examined the impact of a 12-week minimal-intervention heart health program on a community sample of Greek-Australian women. The program, conducted in a bilingual, inte…
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
Women's Health Australia: Recruitment for a National Longitudinal Cohort Study
The Women's Health Australia (WHA) project is a longitudinal study of several cohorts of Australian women, which aims to examine the relationships between biological, psychological, social and lifestyle factors and women's physical health, emotional well-being, and their use of and satisfaction with health care. Using the Medicare database as a sampling frame (with oversampling of women from rural and remote areas), 106,000 women in the three age…
The Anti Cancer Council of Victoria FFQ: Relative validity of nutrient intakes compared with weighed food records in young to middle‐aged women in a study of iron supplementation
Iron deficiency, general health and fatigue: Results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
Time Pressure, Satisfaction with Leisure, and Health Among Australian Women
Expectations associated with the multiple roles adopted by women over the life-course have contributed to feelings of time pressure and stress for many women. There is also a growing body of evidence that leisure participation contributes to individual health and well-being and may serve to moderate levels of stress. Explorations of associations between feelings of time pressure, satisfaction levels with the time spent in active/passive leisure, …
Perceived Constraints and Social Support for Active Leisure Among Mothers With Young Children
Evidence suggests that women who are mothers of young children have lower levels of physical activity than women of similar age who do not have children (Brown, Lee, Mishra, & Bauman, 2000). The purposes of this study were to explore the factors that constrain mothers of young children from being more physically active, and the relationship between physical activity and levels of social support available to the women. The empirical basis for this…
Correlates of adults??? participation in physical activity: Review and update
PURPOSE: To review and update the evidence relating to the personal, social, and environmental factors associated with physical activity (PA) in adults. METHODS: Systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature to identify papers published between 1998 and 2000 with PA (and including exercise and exercise adherence). Qualitative reports or case studies were not included. RESULTS: Thirty-eight new studies were located. Most confirmed the existenc…
Relationships between nutrition screening checklists and the health and well-being of older Australian women
Objectives: To examine associations between nutrition screening checklists and the health of older women. Design: Cross-sectional postal survey including measures of health and health service utilisation, as well as the Australian Nutrition Screening Initiative (ANSI), adapted from the Nutrition Screening Initiative (NSI). Setting: Australia, 1996. Subjects: In total, 12 939 women aged 70–75 years randomly selected as part of the Australian Longi…
Physical and mental health: Changes during menopause transition
Determinants of Active Leisure for Women with Young Children—an “Ethic of Care” Prevails
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing Household Sample File, this article analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution by using a quantile regression approach. The results show thatthere is a much larger gender wage gap among high-paid workers than there is among lowpaid workers. Moreover, this wage gap tends to increase reasonably uniformly when one ismoving up through the wage distribution. Institutio…
How does the health and well-being of young Australian vegetarian and semi-vegetarian women compare with non-vegetarians
Objective To compare the sociodemographic characteristics, health status and health service use of vegetarians, semi-vegetarians and non-vegetarians. Design In cross-sectional data analyses of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health in 2000, 9113 women (aged 22–27 years) were defined as non-vegetarians if they reported including red meat in their diet, as semi-vegetarians if they excluded red meat and as vegetarians if they excluded m…
Do walking and leisure-time physical activity protect against arthritis in older women
OBJECTIVE: To examine the prospective dose-response relationships between both leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and walking with self-reported arthritis in older women. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Data came from women aged 73-78 years who completed mailed surveys in 1999, 2002 and 2005 for the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Women reported their weekly minutes of walking and moderate to vigorous physical activities. Th…
Prospective association between physical activity and falls in community-dwelling older women
OBJECTIVE: To explore associations between physical activity and the risk of falls and fractured bones in community-dwelling older women. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A prospective observational survey with three and six-year follow-ups. The sample included 8188 healthy, community-dwelling women, aged 70-75 years in 1996, who completed surveys as participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Women who reported a recent…
Evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial resilience training for heart health, and the added value of promoting physical activity: A cluster randomized trial of the Ready program
ACTRN12608000017325
Habitat: A longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity change in mid-aged adults
HABITAT will provide unique information to improve our understanding of the determinants of physical activity, and to help identify "people" and "place" priority targets for public policy and health promotion aimed at increasing physical activity participation among mid-aged men and women
Editor’s Introduction We are all democrats now
Measurement of Adults' Sedentary Time in Population-Based Studies
Medicine (46 works) · Physical therapy (28 works) · Gerontology (25 works) · Physical activity (22 works) · Physical Activity and Health (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Demography (17 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Public health (17 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (14 works)