Helen Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 631062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Community Relations Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Could Parental Rules Play a Role in the Association Between Short Sleep and Obesity in Young Children?
Short sleep duration is associated with obesity in young children. This study develops the hypothesis that parental rules play a role in this association. Participants were 3-year-old children and their parents, recruited at nursery schools in socioeconomically deprived and non-deprived areas of a North-East England town. Parents were interviewed to assess their use of sleep, television-viewing and dietary rules, and given diaries to document the…
Practicing Evolutionary Medicine in a Postnatal Ward: Ameliorating Iatrogenic Obstacles to Breastfeeding
Parent-infant bed-sharing behavior: Effects of feeding type and presence of father
Subversive Materials: Quilts as Social Text
Using a feminist-postmodernist approach to qualitative research, this article explores the crisis of representation in social science writing. The discursive practices of social scientific knowledge production are explored through the creation of quilts as social texts. Women and men who were recovering from childhood trauma were asked to represent their life experience in quilt blocks. Participants provided written descriptions of both their qui…
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss -- P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India -- E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica -- A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guine…
The limits of influence: Ethnic minorities and the partnership programme
This article summarizes and highlights some of the findings of a recent survey on ‘Meeting the Needs of the Community’ carried out by Birmingham Community Relations Council. The survey was undertaken to obtain a consumer reaction from the voluntary sector of perceptions of the grant funding process of the Inner City Partnership (ICCP). Groups, particularly black groups, when contacted, did not perceive of themselves as successful in the process a…
The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss -- P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India -- E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica -- A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guine…
Parent-infant bed-sharing behavior: Effects of feeding type and presence of father
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Practicing Evolutionary Medicine in a Postnatal Ward: Ameliorating Iatrogenic Obstacles to Breastfeeding
The limits of influence: Ethnic minorities and the partnership programme
This article summarizes and highlights some of the findings of a recent survey on ‘Meeting the Needs of the Community’ carried out by Birmingham Community Relations Council. The survey was undertaken to obtain a consumer reaction from the voluntary sector of perceptions of the grant funding process of the Inner City Partnership (ICCP). Groups, particularly black groups, when contacted, did not perceive of themselves as successful in the process a…
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
Contents: R. Cecil, Introduction: An Insignificant Event? Literary and Anthropological Perspectives on Pregnancy Loss -- P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery, Delayed Periods and Falling Babies: The Ethnophysiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North India -- E. Sobo, Cultural Explanations for Pregnancy Loss in Rural Jamaica -- A. Winkvist, Water Spirits, Medicinemen and Witches: Avenues to Successful Reproduction among the Abelam, Papua New Guine…
Subversive Materials: Quilts as Social Text
Using a feminist-postmodernist approach to qualitative research, this article explores the crisis of representation in social science writing. The discursive practices of social scientific knowledge production are explored through the creation of quilts as social texts. Women and men who were recovering from childhood trauma were asked to represent their life experience in quilt blocks. Participants provided written descriptions of both their qui…
Parent-infant bed-sharing behavior: Effects of feeding type and presence of father
Practicing Evolutionary Medicine in a Postnatal Ward: Ameliorating Iatrogenic Obstacles to Breastfeeding
Could Parental Rules Play a Role in the Association Between Short Sleep and Obesity in Young Children?
Short sleep duration is associated with obesity in young children. This study develops the hypothesis that parental rules play a role in this association. Participants were 3-year-old children and their parents, recruited at nursery schools in socioeconomically deprived and non-deprived areas of a North-East England town. Parents were interviewed to assess their use of sleep, television-viewing and dietary rules, and given diaries to document the…
Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Infant Health and Development (2 works) · Pediatrics (2 works)