Jane Cross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5763793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Cross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Cross |
| SIGNATURE | CROSS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Promoting physical activity interventions in communities with poor health and socio-economic profiles
Walking groups have known health benefits but may not operate in communities with the greatest health needs, leading to the potential for increasing health inequity. This study examined the process of implementing a new volunteer led walking group scheme in a deprived community in England with poor physical activity, health and socio-economic indicators. Documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and volunteer walk lead…
Challenging Social Cognition Models of Adherence
Attempts to model individual beliefs as a means of predicting how people follow clinical advice have dominated adherence research, but with limited success. In this article, we challenge assumptions underlying this individualistic philosophy and propose an alternative formulation of context and its relationship with individual actions related to illness. Borrowing from Scollon and Scollon's three elements of social action-historical body, interac…
Resisting medications
Adherence research has been dominated by attitudinal approaches that isolate individual statements made in interviews and then assign a fixed attitude to the individual who made that statement. Despite much sociological research having raised questions about the notion of fixed attitudes, little research has theorised the process by which individual utterances about medicine-taking are produced as a form of resistance to medications within interv…
Age, sex, race, and the perception of facial beauty
Age, sex, race, and the perception of facial beauty
Resisting medications
Adherence research has been dominated by attitudinal approaches that isolate individual statements made in interviews and then assign a fixed attitude to the individual who made that statement. Despite much sociological research having raised questions about the notion of fixed attitudes, little research has theorised the process by which individual utterances about medicine-taking are produced as a form of resistance to medications within interv…
Challenging Social Cognition Models of Adherence
Attempts to model individual beliefs as a means of predicting how people follow clinical advice have dominated adherence research, but with limited success. In this article, we challenge assumptions underlying this individualistic philosophy and propose an alternative formulation of context and its relationship with individual actions related to illness. Borrowing from Scollon and Scollon's three elements of social action-historical body, interac…
Promoting physical activity interventions in communities with poor health and socio-economic profiles
Walking groups have known health benefits but may not operate in communities with the greatest health needs, leading to the potential for increasing health inequity. This study examined the process of implementing a new volunteer led walking group scheme in a deprived community in England with poor physical activity, health and socio-economic indicators. Documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and volunteer walk lead…
Age, sex, race, and the perception of facial beauty
Resisting medications
Adherence research has been dominated by attitudinal approaches that isolate individual statements made in interviews and then assign a fixed attitude to the individual who made that statement. Despite much sociological research having raised questions about the notion of fixed attitudes, little research has theorised the process by which individual utterances about medicine-taking are produced as a form of resistance to medications within interv…
Challenging Social Cognition Models of Adherence
Attempts to model individual beliefs as a means of predicting how people follow clinical advice have dominated adherence research, but with limited success. In this article, we challenge assumptions underlying this individualistic philosophy and propose an alternative formulation of context and its relationship with individual actions related to illness. Borrowing from Scollon and Scollon's three elements of social action-historical body, interac…
Promoting physical activity interventions in communities with poor health and socio-economic profiles
Walking groups have known health benefits but may not operate in communities with the greatest health needs, leading to the potential for increasing health inequity. This study examined the process of implementing a new volunteer led walking group scheme in a deprived community in England with poor physical activity, health and socio-economic indicators. Documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and volunteer walk lead…
Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Beauty (1 work) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (1 work) · Business (1 work)