Eilidh Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eilidh Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eilidh |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0731-278X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Infection and social dislocation
COVID-19 profoundly disrupted children’s lives, with severe impacts in low-income settings. School closures, economic shocks, service disruption and social isolation undermined wellbeing. This study examines how the pandemic and its control measures affected child and adolescent wellbeing in Rwanda, explaining how structural and institutional conditions shaped these effects. Durkheim’s anomie helps explain moral dislocation. We draw on anomie alo…
Cost of Living/Cost of Smoking
Smoking is responsible for over 8 million deaths globally per annum. While socially disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected, few interventions effectively reach these groups. We progressed a participatory action research (PAR) study on smoking‐related health inequalities in the context of the current UK cost‐of‐living crisis. We worked with people living in deprived neighbourhoods in rural northeast Scotland. The objective was t…
Refining circumstances of mortality categories (Comcat)
BACKGROUND: Recognising that the causes of over half the world's deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations. Recently, VA has been developed for use outside research environments, supporting countries and communities to recognise and act on their own health priorities. We developed the Circumstances of Mortality …
Understanding non-communicable diseases
Background: NCDs are non-infectious, long-term conditions that account for 40 million deaths per annum. 87% of premature NCD mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries.Objective: The aims were:develop methods to provide integrated biosocial accounts of NCD mortality; and explore the practical utility of extended mortality data for the primary health care system.Methods: We drew on data from research programmes in the study area. Data we…
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Refining circumstances of mortality categories (Comcat)
BACKGROUND: Recognising that the causes of over half the world's deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations. Recently, VA has been developed for use outside research environments, supporting countries and communities to recognise and act on their own health priorities. We developed the Circumstances of Mortality …
Understanding non-communicable diseases
Background: NCDs are non-infectious, long-term conditions that account for 40 million deaths per annum. 87% of premature NCD mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries.Objective: The aims were:develop methods to provide integrated biosocial accounts of NCD mortality; and explore the practical utility of extended mortality data for the primary health care system.Methods: We drew on data from research programmes in the study area. Data we…
Cost of Living/Cost of Smoking
Smoking is responsible for over 8 million deaths globally per annum. While socially disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected, few interventions effectively reach these groups. We progressed a participatory action research (PAR) study on smoking‐related health inequalities in the context of the current UK cost‐of‐living crisis. We worked with people living in deprived neighbourhoods in rural northeast Scotland. The objective was t…
Infection and social dislocation
COVID-19 profoundly disrupted children’s lives, with severe impacts in low-income settings. School closures, economic shocks, service disruption and social isolation undermined wellbeing. This study examines how the pandemic and its control measures affected child and adolescent wellbeing in Rwanda, explaining how structural and institutional conditions shaped these effects. Durkheim’s anomie helps explain moral dislocation. We draw on anomie alo…
Environmental health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Cause of death (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Pathology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Verbal autopsy (2 works)