Thomas Keegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 85651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Keegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Keegan |
| SIGNATURE | KEEGAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3691-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eugenic Discourse as Political Argument in Colonial Freetown
This article uses the idea of “fugitive science” to show how early twentieth-century writers and editors in colonial Freetown, Sierra Leone, repurposed eugenic ideas in their efforts to reform the British Empire. In the pages of West Africa’s most widely read newspaper, the Sierra Leone Weekly News , West African authors and editors reinterpreted eugenics to articulate political claims indirectly in the absence of substantive political power. The…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
‘How to cultivate a love for reading’
African popular intellectuals in colonial Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced public writing in which they lamented the danger of reading ‘like a European’, or quick and mechanical reading practices, which they argued led to the degeneration of the ‘African mind’. This chapter’s case study of Orishatukeh Faduma’s 1919 Sierra Leone Weekly News column, ‘How to Cultivate a Love For Reading,’ reve…
Spatial Variation of Survival for Colorectal Cancer in Malaysia
A patient's survival may depend on several known and unknown factors and it may also vary spatially across a region. Socioeconomic status, accessibility to healthcare and other environmental factors are likely to contribute to survival rates. The aim of the study was to model the spatial variation in survival for colorectal cancer patients in Malaysia, accounting for individual and socioeconomic risk factors. We conducted a retrospective study of…
Associations between Length of Stay in Long Term Care Facilities and End of Life Care. Analysis of the Pace Cross-Sectional Study
Long term care facilities (LTCFs) are increasingly a place of care at end of life in Europe. Longer residence in an LTCF prior to death has been associated with higher indicators of end of life care; however, the relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this analysis is to explore associations between length of stay and end of life care. The analysis used data collected in the Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing h…
Socialization, Indifference, and Convenience
The Chief Medical Officer recommends that all health care workers receive an influenza vaccination annually. High vaccination coverage is believed to be the best protection against the spread of influenza within a hospital, although uptake by health care workers remains low. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven medical students and nine early career doctors, to explore the factors informing their influenza vaccination decision making…
Using Administrative Data to Identify Naturally Occurring Networks of Physicians
BACKGROUND: Physicians naturally form networks. Networks could form a rational basis for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for defined populations of Medicare beneficiaries. OBJECTIVES: To use methods from network science to identify naturally occurring networks of physicians that might be best suited to becoming ACOs. RESEARCH DESIGN, SUBJECTS, AND MEASURES: Using nationally representative claims data from the Medicare program for CY 2006 on…
Relative deprivation between neighbouring wards is predictive of coronary heart disease mortality after adjustment for absolute deprivation of wards
BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS: Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Ward-level deprivation was measured using the Carstairs…
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers Chima D. Ndumele, MPH , Beverley E. Russell, PhD, MPH , John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP , Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA , Thomas Keegan, PhD , A. James O’Malley, PhD , and LeRoi S. Hicks, MD, MPH What Is the Purpose of This Study? • This study was intended to gain insight from health care professionals at local community health centers regarding barriers to optima…
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers
Recommendations included adopting case management as a part of usual care for chronic disease patients; additionally, widespread implementation of CHWs may to provide a platform for more comprehensive care for patients
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of British military veterans included in chemical warfare agent experiments at Porton Down
To study whether there may be long-term effects on the mortality and cancer morbidity of participants in experimental research related to chemical warfare agents conducted at the UK research facility at Porton Down. Historical cohort study. 18 276 male members of the UK armed forces who spent one or more short periods at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989 and a comparison group of 17 600 non-Porton Down veterans followed to 31 December, 2004. All …
Inside the Health Disparities Collaboratives
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) based on the Chronic Care Model (CCM) are widely used models for improving medical care, but there has been little information to date about the specific projects undertaken by participants in these collaboratives and their outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To describe initiatives undertaken by community health centers (CHCs) participating in QICs (the Health Disparities Collaboratives) for asthma, cardio…
Free at last? Social dominance, loss aversion, and white and black Americans' differing assessments of racial progress
White Americans tend to believe that there has been greater progress toward racial equality than do Black Americans. The authors explain this difference by combining insights from prospect theory and social dominance theory. According to prospect theory, changes seem greater when framed as losses rather than gains. Social dominance theory predicts that White Americans tend to view increases in equality as losses, whereas Black Americans view them…
Free at last? Social dominance, loss aversion, and white and black Americans' differing assessments of racial progress
White Americans tend to believe that there has been greater progress toward racial equality than do Black Americans. The authors explain this difference by combining insights from prospect theory and social dominance theory. According to prospect theory, changes seem greater when framed as losses rather than gains. Social dominance theory predicts that White Americans tend to view increases in equality as losses, whereas Black Americans view them…
Socialization, Indifference, and Convenience
The Chief Medical Officer recommends that all health care workers receive an influenza vaccination annually. High vaccination coverage is believed to be the best protection against the spread of influenza within a hospital, although uptake by health care workers remains low. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven medical students and nine early career doctors, to explore the factors informing their influenza vaccination decision making…
Relative deprivation between neighbouring wards is predictive of coronary heart disease mortality after adjustment for absolute deprivation of wards
BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS: Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Ward-level deprivation was measured using the Carstairs…
Free at last? Social dominance, loss aversion, and white and black Americans' differing assessments of racial progress
White Americans tend to believe that there has been greater progress toward racial equality than do Black Americans. The authors explain this difference by combining insights from prospect theory and social dominance theory. According to prospect theory, changes seem greater when framed as losses rather than gains. Social dominance theory predicts that White Americans tend to view increases in equality as losses, whereas Black Americans view them…
Inside the Health Disparities Collaboratives
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) based on the Chronic Care Model (CCM) are widely used models for improving medical care, but there has been little information to date about the specific projects undertaken by participants in these collaboratives and their outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To describe initiatives undertaken by community health centers (CHCs) participating in QICs (the Health Disparities Collaboratives) for asthma, cardio…
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers Chima D. Ndumele, MPH , Beverley E. Russell, PhD, MPH , John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP , Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA , Thomas Keegan, PhD , A. James O’Malley, PhD , and LeRoi S. Hicks, MD, MPH What Is the Purpose of This Study? • This study was intended to gain insight from health care professionals at local community health centers regarding barriers to optima…
Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management in Seven Metro Boston Community Health Centers
Recommendations included adopting case management as a part of usual care for chronic disease patients; additionally, widespread implementation of CHWs may to provide a platform for more comprehensive care for patients
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of British military veterans included in chemical warfare agent experiments at Porton Down
To study whether there may be long-term effects on the mortality and cancer morbidity of participants in experimental research related to chemical warfare agents conducted at the UK research facility at Porton Down. Historical cohort study. 18 276 male members of the UK armed forces who spent one or more short periods at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989 and a comparison group of 17 600 non-Porton Down veterans followed to 31 December, 2004. All …
Relative deprivation between neighbouring wards is predictive of coronary heart disease mortality after adjustment for absolute deprivation of wards
BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS: Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Ward-level deprivation was measured using the Carstairs…
Using Administrative Data to Identify Naturally Occurring Networks of Physicians
BACKGROUND: Physicians naturally form networks. Networks could form a rational basis for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for defined populations of Medicare beneficiaries. OBJECTIVES: To use methods from network science to identify naturally occurring networks of physicians that might be best suited to becoming ACOs. RESEARCH DESIGN, SUBJECTS, AND MEASURES: Using nationally representative claims data from the Medicare program for CY 2006 on…
Socialization, Indifference, and Convenience
The Chief Medical Officer recommends that all health care workers receive an influenza vaccination annually. High vaccination coverage is believed to be the best protection against the spread of influenza within a hospital, although uptake by health care workers remains low. We conducted semistructured interviews with seven medical students and nine early career doctors, to explore the factors informing their influenza vaccination decision making…
Associations between Length of Stay in Long Term Care Facilities and End of Life Care. Analysis of the Pace Cross-Sectional Study
Long term care facilities (LTCFs) are increasingly a place of care at end of life in Europe. Longer residence in an LTCF prior to death has been associated with higher indicators of end of life care; however, the relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this analysis is to explore associations between length of stay and end of life care. The analysis used data collected in the Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing h…
Spatial Variation of Survival for Colorectal Cancer in Malaysia
A patient's survival may depend on several known and unknown factors and it may also vary spatially across a region. Socioeconomic status, accessibility to healthcare and other environmental factors are likely to contribute to survival rates. The aim of the study was to model the spatial variation in survival for colorectal cancer patients in Malaysia, accounting for individual and socioeconomic risk factors. We conducted a retrospective study of…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
‘How to cultivate a love for reading’
African popular intellectuals in colonial Freetown, Sierra Leone, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced public writing in which they lamented the danger of reading ‘like a European’, or quick and mechanical reading practices, which they argued led to the degeneration of the ‘African mind’. This chapter’s case study of Orishatukeh Faduma’s 1919 Sierra Leone Weekly News column, ‘How to Cultivate a Love For Reading,’ reve…
Eugenic Discourse as Political Argument in Colonial Freetown
This article uses the idea of “fugitive science” to show how early twentieth-century writers and editors in colonial Freetown, Sierra Leone, repurposed eugenic ideas in their efforts to reform the British Empire. In the pages of West Africa’s most widely read newspaper, the Sierra Leone Weekly News , West African authors and editors reinterpreted eugenics to articulate political claims indirectly in the absence of substantive political power. The…
Medicine (9 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)