Janet Rankin
Biographic Data
| ID | 76517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Rankin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Rankin |
| SIGNATURE | RANKIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5355-454X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Model Development on Adherence to Aspirin in Pregnancy
OBJECTIVE: Low-dose aspirin is proven to reduce the incidence of pre-eclampsia, yet adherence remains low. This systematic review synthesises qualitative evidence on barriers and facilitators to low-dose aspirin adherence in pregnancy and uses a co-production approach to develop an explanatory model of this complex behaviour. The overall aim is to contribute to the development of a theory of adherence, targeting this health issue. METHODS: Data s…
Parent engagement in the achievement society
Parent engagement is promoted in educational policy and literature as being an effective mechanism for raising student achievement. Schools collect and report on vast amounts of student data for the purposes of school improvement and parents are increasingly privy to this data. Yet, surpringly little is known about the implications for parents when data is entwined with parent engagement. This institutional ethnographic inquiry explored the every…
Maternal and early childhood health and social outcomes of migrants in high-income countries and the impact of policies that restrict access to healthcare; a systematic review and meta-analysis
Migrant women and children face mixed maternal and child health outcomes in HICs • Emergency caesarean, low Apgar, and perinatal mental health risks are elevated • Restrictive healthcare policies may contribute to adverse perinatal outcomes • Evidence from countries with inclusive policies and on child health is limited • Further research is needed to inform equitable care and policy for migrant families The “healthy migrant effect” suggests migr…
Time, diagnosis, and medication
The Contributions of Institutional Ethnography to Addressing Mental Health as a Public Health Crisis
Mental illness represents a substantial global public health crisis, marked by high prevalence, significant economic costs, and profound impacts on individuals' lives. Institutional ethnography (IE) is an approach to qualitative public health research that offers a methodologically rigorous way of addressing complex social problems. IE differs from many other qualitative research methods in its materialist, social ontology, which guides researche…
Co-producing an intervention to prevent mental health problems in children and young people in contact with child welfare services
We found that a trauma-informed, activity-based intervention with an embedded family-focused component provided to CYP who have experienced adversity is most likely to prevent mental health problems in those in contact with child welfare services
Innovative local authority public health interventions to support the mental health of children and young people
Purpose Mental health champions (MHCs) and young health ambassadors (YHAs) are two innovative public health interventions. MHCs are practitioners who work in schools and other youth settings and aim to be the “go to” person for mental health in these settings. YHAs are a linked parallel network of young people, who champion mental health and advocate for youth involvement, which was co-produced with young people across all stages of development i…
A Qualitative Evaluation of a Health Access Card for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a City in Northern England
Refugees and asylum seekers residing in the UK face multiple barriers to accessing healthcare. A Health Access Card information resource was launched in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2019 by Newcastle City Council, intended to guide refugees and asylum seekers living in the city, and the professional organisations that support them, to appropriate healthcare services provided locally. The aim of this qualitative evaluation was to explore service user an…
Social Determinants and Prevalence of Antenatal Depression among Women in Rural Bangladesh
The prevalence of antenatal depression in Bangladesh ranges from 18 to 33%. Antenatal depression has negative impacts on the mother and child such as suicidal ideations, low birth weight, and impaired fetal development. This cross-sectional study aims to determine the prevalence and social determinants of antenatal depression in rural Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data were collected from 235 pregnant women between March and November 2021. The validated Ba…
The everyday work of One Welfare in animal sheltering and protection
In animal sheltering and protection, One Welfare initiatives include supporting people who have difficulty providing for their animals because of limitations in their physical or mental health, income or housing. However, little research has focused on the actual work that such initiatives involve for animal shelter staff and animal protection officers. We used institutional ethnography to explore how such work activities occur in frontline pract…
‘A new normal’? Ventricular Assist Device implantation and subsequent heart transplant in children and adolescents
Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) are enabling children experiencing severe heart failure, who would have otherwise died, to be bridged to transplant or recovery. Donated Paediatric hearts are in short supply, so the use of VAD is likely to continue to support paediatric patients for the foreseeable future. This study explored the experiences of children and young people (CYP) being supported by VAD and their families. Semi-structured interviews w…
Experiences and perceptions of nutritional health and wellbeing amongst food insecure women in Europe
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, there has been a rise in the number of people experiencing food insecurity. Particularly vulnerable are mothers with young children, pregnant women, and lone parents (the majority of whom are women). This systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies focused on women's experiences of food insecurity and how it affects their nutritional health and wellbeing. Six electronic databases (Medline,…
What Influences Parents and Practitioners’ Decisions to Share Personal Information within an Early Help (Social Care) Context? Implications for Practice in Sharing Digital Data across Sectors
Meeting the multiple and often complex needs of families (children, young people and adults) within ‘Early Help’ support is dependent upon practitioners from different sectors sharing relevant and timely information, after gaining a family’s voluntary consent to share information. This article reports on qualitative one-to-one interviews with adults in families (n = 32), one mother/father dyad interview (n = 2) and focus groups with practitioners…
Taking sides with patients using institutional ethnography
PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to document the first author's experience of using institutional ethnography (IE) to "take sides" in healthcare research. The authors illustrate the points with data and key findings from a study of cardiovascular disease prevention.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use Dorothy E Smith's IE approach, and particularly the theoretical tool of "standpoint".FindingsStarting with the development of the stu…
Nurses’ knowledge and deliberations crucial to Barcoded Medication Administration technology in a Dutch hospital
This article shows how Barcoded Medication Administration technology institutionally organizes and rules the daily actions of nurses. Although it is widely assumed that Barcoded Medication Administration technology improves quality and safety by reducing the risk of human error, little research has been done on how this technology alters the work of nurses. Drawing on empirical and conceptual strategies of analysis, this qualitative study used ce…
Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications
In this article, we draw on an institutional ethnographic (IE) study of cardiovascular disease prevention in general practice, exploring the work of healthcare professionals who introduce a discussion of risk and preventative medications into consultations with patients. Our aim is to explicate, using IE's theoretical ontology and analytical tools, how troubling patient experiences in this clinical context are coordinated institutionally. We focu…
Eurocat
Estimating the birth prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of congenital malformations worldwide
Congenital anomaly registries have two main surveillance aims: firstly to define baseline epidemiology of important congenital anomalies to facilitate programme, policy and resource planning, and secondly to identify clusters of cases and any other epidemiological changes that could give early warning of environmental or infectious hazards. However, setting up a sustainable registry and surveillance system is resource-intensive requiring national…
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Nurses and electronic health records in a Canadian hospital
Institutional ethnography (IE) is used to examine transformations in a professional nurse's work associated with her engagement with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) which is being updated to integrate professional caregiving and produce more efficient and effective health care. We review in the technical and scholarly literature the practices and promises of information technology and, especially of its applications in health care, fi…
Women's perspectives are required to inform the development of maternal obesity services
BACKGROUND: Increasing maternal obesity trends and accompanying risks have led to the development of guidelines internationally. However, the evidence-base is poor for effective intervention, and there is a lack of representation from the perspective of obese pregnant women in guidelines. Women's engagement with weight management support services is low. OBJECTIVE: To explore obese pregnant women's experiences to better understand factors which n…
Interrogating the Ruling Relations of Thailand’s Post-tsunami Reconstruction
This paper discusses methodological strengths and challenges in doing institutional ethnographic (IE) research in communities devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Southern Thailand. IE is a mode of inquiry used to describe institutional mechanisms of reconstruction, aid, and recovery and to show how recovery efforts affected real people and communities over time. The chaotic nature of a disaster zone, combined with the more common diffi…
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.
No improvement in socioeconomic inequalities in birthweight and preterm birth over four decades
Socioeconomic inequalities did not narrow over the four decades for birthweight and widened for preterm birth. Mean birthweight adjusted for gestational age increased in all socioeconomic groups, suggesting an overall increase in fetal growth
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Nurses and electronic health records in a Canadian hospital
Institutional ethnography (IE) is used to examine transformations in a professional nurse's work associated with her engagement with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) which is being updated to integrate professional caregiving and produce more efficient and effective health care. We review in the technical and scholarly literature the practices and promises of information technology and, especially of its applications in health care, fi…
Taking sides with patients using institutional ethnography
PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to document the first author's experience of using institutional ethnography (IE) to "take sides" in healthcare research. The authors illustrate the points with data and key findings from a study of cardiovascular disease prevention.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use Dorothy E Smith's IE approach, and particularly the theoretical tool of "standpoint".FindingsStarting with the development of the stu…
Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications
In this article, we draw on an institutional ethnographic (IE) study of cardiovascular disease prevention in general practice, exploring the work of healthcare professionals who introduce a discussion of risk and preventative medications into consultations with patients. Our aim is to explicate, using IE's theoretical ontology and analytical tools, how troubling patient experiences in this clinical context are coordinated institutionally. We focu…
The Dancing Plague
Editors’ practice and views on terminology in ethnicity and health research
There has been a burgeoning of literature on ethnicity and health in recent years. Although quality research in this field is most welcome, concern is mounting over the confusing and often inappropriate labelling of populations under study. We have undertaken a questionnaire survey of journal editors' views on terminology in relation to health research on ethnic minority groups. We found that although most of the journals surveyed did not have a …
Interrogating the Ruling Relations of Thailand’s Post-tsunami Reconstruction
This paper discusses methodological strengths and challenges in doing institutional ethnographic (IE) research in communities devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Southern Thailand. IE is a mode of inquiry used to describe institutional mechanisms of reconstruction, aid, and recovery and to show how recovery efforts affected real people and communities over time. The chaotic nature of a disaster zone, combined with the more common diffi…
Quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation interventions among UK Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults
Objective: To explore attitudes to quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation among Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic minority communities. Design: Qualitative study using community participatory methods, purposeful sampling, interviews and focus groups, and a grounded approach to data generation and analysis. Setting: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2000–2002. Participants: 53 men and 20 women aged 18–80 years, including smokers, former smoker…
The early history of Scottish child welfare
There is a growing interest in the history of childhood and child care. This article brings together from disparate sources some of the details and themes concerning the emergence and development of public and voluntary child welfare in Scotland. Particular attention is given to residential and foster care arrangements under the Poor Law and to the influence of ‘philanthropic’ individuals and organisations. Comparative references are made to the …
Editors’ practice and views on terminology in ethnicity and health research
There has been a burgeoning of literature on ethnicity and health in recent years. Although quality research in this field is most welcome, concern is mounting over the confusing and often inappropriate labelling of populations under study. We have undertaken a questionnaire survey of journal editors' views on terminology in relation to health research on ethnic minority groups. We found that although most of the journals surveyed did not have a …
The Dancing Plague
Texts in action
Canada's publicly insured system of socialized health care is coming under intense scrutiny by governments firmly focused on the politics of national indebtedness and public spending. Contemporary health care reforms aimed at cutting costs and increasing productivity place new emphasis on “official knowledge” constituted through particular textual practices. Since 1994 the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) has become a powerful regu…
Institutional Ethnography
Folic acid supplementation and social deprivation
Objective To assess the use of folic acid supplementation in relation to small-area measures of social deprivation. Design Cohort study. Setting Antenatal clinic, Women's Outpatients Services, Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, UK. Subjects Four hundred and fifty women attending their 18-week antenatal clinic appointment. No selection criteria were applied. Townsend scores were allocated using postcodes to provide a small-area measure (enumeration d…
Quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation interventions among UK Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults
Objective: To explore attitudes to quitting smoking and experience of smoking cessation among Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic minority communities. Design: Qualitative study using community participatory methods, purposeful sampling, interviews and focus groups, and a grounded approach to data generation and analysis. Setting: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2000–2002. Participants: 53 men and 20 women aged 18–80 years, including smokers, former smoker…
Understanding feticide
A retrospective analysis of changing outcomes for pregnant substance users with the establishment of specialist antenatal services
The misuse of substances (alcohol and illicit drugs) during pregnancy is increasingly common in the UK and is associated with poor maternal and foetal outcomes. Current estimates are that 2–3% of children have a substance misusing parent. There is a poor understanding of the demographics of pregnant substance misusers, of the patterns of antenatal service provision and little evidence about which service model is most effective at optimising care…
Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619 323 births in England, UK, 1989–2007
preterm. Number of grandchildren increased with increasing number of children in both sexes, providing no evidence for a trade-off between quantity of offspring and their subsequent reproductive ''quality''. Conclusions: Early life characteristics can affect reproductive success even in post-demographic transition populations. These effects operate via multiple pathways and include ''biological'' characteristics such as birthweight having an effe…
Twenty-year survival of children born with congenital anomalies
Objective: To estimate the survival, up to age 20 years, for a range of congenital anomaly groups and subtypes.Design: Population-based registry (Northern Congenital Abnormality Survey, NorCAS)
Predictors of survival in children born with Down syndrome
Objective To investigate the influences of survival in children born with Down Syndrome. Design Population-based case-series derived from the Northern Congenital Abnormality Survey. Setting A geographically distinct area of Northeast England, incorporating North Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Country Durham, and the Tees Valley. Participants 1101 individuals with Down Syndrome delivered between 01 January 1985 and 31 December 2003, of wh…
P1-533 Trends in prevalence, pregnancy outcome, and survival of children born with Spina Bifida
Introduction Spina bifida is a serious congenital anomaly associated with life-long disability. This study describes trends in the prevalence and survival of spina bifida, to 10 years, using data from a long-standing congenital anomaly register in Northern England. Methods Cases of isolated spina bifida, delivered during 1985–2003, were identified from the population-based Northern Congenital Abnormality Survey (NorCAS). Survival status was deter…
P1-91 Prevalence and temporal trends in the prevalence of small intestinal atresia in Europe
Introduction Small intestinal atresia (SIA) is a congenital anomaly characterised by the abnormal closure, discontinuity or narrowing of the duodenum, jejunum or ileum. This study used multilevel regression to examine the total prevalence and temporal trends in the prevalence of SIA in Europe. Methods Cases of SIA delivered during 1990–2006 and notified to 21 European congenital anomaly registers formed this population-based case series. Total pr…
O2-6.4 Impact of maternal obesity on stillbirth and infant death
Introduction UK guidelines advocate that obese pregnant women (body mass index, BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 ) be made aware of the increased risks to them and their offspring. This study hence pooled data from several sources to derive estimates of the absolute and attributable risks of stillbirth and infant death for obese women in England, and predict changes in prevalence resulting from trends in BMI. Methods The BMI profile of the maternal population of E…
PS46 The Complex Association Between Blood Glucose Concentration and Birth Weight in Women with Pre-Gestational Diabetes
Background Large fetal size (macrosomia) is a frequent pregnancy complication in women with diabetes. High blood glucose during pregnancy is hypothesised to explain much of the association, but previous investigations have presented equivocal results. This could be due to inadequate adjustment for confounding factors or a non-uniform association between blood glucose concentration and birth weight. This study investigated the association between …
No improvement in socioeconomic inequalities in birthweight and preterm birth over four decades
Socioeconomic inequalities did not narrow over the four decades for birthweight and widened for preterm birth. Mean birthweight adjusted for gestational age increased in all socioeconomic groups, suggesting an overall increase in fetal growth
PP27 Pre-Gestational Diabetes and the Risks of Fetal and Infant Death
Background Pre-gestational diabetes is associated with a range of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including an increased risk of major congenital anomalies. The impact on normally-formed offspring, however, is less well defined. This study utilised data from a long-running population-based survey of women with pre-gestational diabetes to explore the risks of foetal and infant death and examine which factors modify these risks. Methods All normally-fo…
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.
Women's perspectives are required to inform the development of maternal obesity services
BACKGROUND: Increasing maternal obesity trends and accompanying risks have led to the development of guidelines internationally. However, the evidence-base is poor for effective intervention, and there is a lack of representation from the perspective of obese pregnant women in guidelines. Women's engagement with weight management support services is low. OBJECTIVE: To explore obese pregnant women's experiences to better understand factors which n…
Interrogating the Ruling Relations of Thailand’s Post-tsunami Reconstruction
This paper discusses methodological strengths and challenges in doing institutional ethnographic (IE) research in communities devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Southern Thailand. IE is a mode of inquiry used to describe institutional mechanisms of reconstruction, aid, and recovery and to show how recovery efforts affected real people and communities over time. The chaotic nature of a disaster zone, combined with the more common diffi…
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Conducting Analysis in Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is being taken up by researchers across diverse disciplines, many who do not have a background in sociology and the antecedents and influences that underpin Dorothy Smith's distinctive IE method. Novice IEers, who often work with advisors who have not studied or conducted an IE, are at risk of straying from IE's core epistemology and ontology. This second of a two-volume set provides a broad overview to approaching …
Nurses and electronic health records in a Canadian hospital
Institutional ethnography (IE) is used to examine transformations in a professional nurse's work associated with her engagement with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) which is being updated to integrate professional caregiving and produce more efficient and effective health care. We review in the technical and scholarly literature the practices and promises of information technology and, especially of its applications in health care, fi…
Eurocat
Medicine (32 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Population (14 works) · Pregnancy (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Pediatrics (11 works) · Health care (10 works)