Jane Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5952090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2206-4630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public health, trade unions and empowerment
Community empowerment projects aimed at improving health and wellbeing have tended to be ‘place-based’. But they may also be based on ‘communities of interest’. This paper advances an original conception of health-related empowerment by focusing on the work of trade unions, which we treat as being among such communities. Organised labour improves health and reduces inequalities through processes including collective bargaining, even as public hea…
Motions in Pictures
This article analyses three historical fiction films, Footloose, Land and Freedom and The Beguiled, to help illuminate aspects of politics and political theory. We study them to explore the relationship between Habermas’s concepts of the lifeworld and political spheres, which analysts have critiqued as opaque. Drawing on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, we debate prevailing understandings of the implications of his work for deliberative…
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation
How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS
Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area. We assess the framing of the NHS in editorials, opinion and feature articles during the time of the Obama administration to show how media can perform the role of lesson-drawing, a theory adopted from public policy research. The study also applies th…
Accountable care? An analysis of national reporting on local health and social care service integration
Public access to NHS financial information
Hospital inpatients’ experiences of access to food
Background Hospital surveys indicate that overall patients are satisfied with hospital food. However undernutrition is common and associated with a number of negative clinical outcomes. There is little information regarding food access from the patients’ perspective. Purpose To examine in‐patients’ experiences of access to food in hospitals. Methods Qualitative semi‐structured interviews with 48 patients from eight acute wards in two London teach…
Elgin notaries in burgh society and government, 1540–1660
The Canadian Response to Afghanistan
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation
How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS
Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area. We assess the framing of the NHS in editorials, opinion and feature articles during the time of the Obama administration to show how media can perform the role of lesson-drawing, a theory adopted from public policy research. The study also applies th…
Accountable care? An analysis of national reporting on local health and social care service integration
Public access to NHS financial information
The Canadian Response to Afghanistan
Elgin notaries in burgh society and government, 1540–1660
Hospital inpatients’ experiences of access to food
Background Hospital surveys indicate that overall patients are satisfied with hospital food. However undernutrition is common and associated with a number of negative clinical outcomes. There is little information regarding food access from the patients’ perspective. Purpose To examine in‐patients’ experiences of access to food in hospitals. Methods Qualitative semi‐structured interviews with 48 patients from eight acute wards in two London teach…
Public access to NHS financial information
Accountable care? An analysis of national reporting on local health and social care service integration
How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS
Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area. We assess the framing of the NHS in editorials, opinion and feature articles during the time of the Obama administration to show how media can perform the role of lesson-drawing, a theory adopted from public policy research. The study also applies th…
UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation
Motions in Pictures
This article analyses three historical fiction films, Footloose, Land and Freedom and The Beguiled, to help illuminate aspects of politics and political theory. We study them to explore the relationship between Habermas’s concepts of the lifeworld and political spheres, which analysts have critiqued as opaque. Drawing on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, we debate prevailing understandings of the implications of his work for deliberative…
Public health, trade unions and empowerment
Community empowerment projects aimed at improving health and wellbeing have tended to be ‘place-based’. But they may also be based on ‘communities of interest’. This paper advances an original conception of health-related empowerment by focusing on the work of trade unions, which we treat as being among such communities. Organised labour improves health and reduces inequalities through processes including collective bargaining, even as public hea…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works) · Healthcare Systems and Challenges (3 works) · Law (3 works)