John Eyles

Biographic Data

ID97958
NAMEJohn Eyles
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEEyles
SIGNATUREEYLES J
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University
ORCID0000-0002-7348-4005
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS133
TOTAL CITATIONS1503
AUTHOR COUNT132
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX17

  • South African men’s perceptions of breast cancer: Impact of gender norms on health care accessibility

    Open AccessR Burge, Brown Lekekela et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2022

    Women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often present to the health care system at advanced stages of breast cancer (BC), leading to poor outcomes. A lack of BC awareness and affordability issues are proposed as contributors to delayed presentation. In many areas of the world, however, women lack the autonomy to deal with their health needs due to restrictive gender norms. The role of gender norms has been relatively underexplored in th…

  • Performance management in times of change: Experiences of implementing a performance assessment system in a district in South Africa

    Open AccessNonhlanhla Nxumalo, Jane Goudge et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    To strengthen district health services, there should be improvement of processes that enhance the performance of the health system. Implementation of the PA system relies on the extent of management skills at the local level. There is a need to develop managers who have the ability to manage in a transforming and complex environment. This means developing both hard skills such as planning, co-ordination and monitoring and soft skills where one is…

  • Something Happened: Storytelling in a Violent Field

    Open AccessBronwyn Harris, John Eyles et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    In 2014, something happened. Our colleague, AIDS activist and advocate of restorative justice, Harry Nyathela, was murdered. In the struggle to make sense of his senseless-seeming death, we reflect on the method of telling and listening to stories of violence in a ‘field’ that cannot be separated from everyday living (or dying). For researchers, there is little guidance on how to engage when something violent or traumatic happens. Suffering can n…

  • Exploring the roles and factors influencing community health workers’ performance in managing and referring severe acute malnutrition cases in two subdistricts in South Africa

    Open AccessFaith Nankasa Mambulu-Chikankheni, John Eyles et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2018References: 1

    As primary providers of preventive and curative community case management services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), community health workers (CHWs) have emerged as a formalised part of the health system (HS). However, discourses on their practices as formalised cadres of the HS are limited. Therefore, we examined their role in care, referral (to clinics) and rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases. Focusing on SAM was …

  • Strengthening decentralized primary healthcare planning in Nigeria using a quality improvement model: How contexts and actors affect implementation

    Open AccessEjemai Amaize Eboreime, Nonhlanhla Nxumalo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Cited by: 2References: 24

    Quality improvement models have been applied across various levels of health systems with varying success leading to scepticisms about effectiveness. Health systems are complex, influenced by contexts and characterized by numerous interests. Thus, a shift in focus from examining whether improvement models work, to understanding why, when and where they work most effectively is essential. Nigeria introduced DIVA (Diagnose-Intervene-Verify-Adjust) …

  • Environments, Risks and Health: Social perspectives

    John Eyles, Baxter Jamie et al.BOOKEnvironments, Risks and Health2016

    Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions and the social geographical challenges of the human health-environments linkages. Offering the first comprehensive and cohesive summary of the input from social science to this field, t…

  • Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life

    Allison Williams, John EylesBOOKSense of Place, Health and…2016

    Contents: Preface Introduction, John Eyles and Allison Williams A sense of place, a sense of wellbeing, Lily DeMiglio and Allison Williams Senses of place and emerging social and environmental challenges, Edward Relph Holistic paradigms of health and place: how beneficial are they to environmental policy and practice?, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Qualitative approaches in the investigation of sense of place and health relations, John Eyles Developing…

  • Does treatment collection and observation each day keep the patient away? An analysis of the determinants of adherence among patients with Tuberculosis in South Africa

    Open AccessStephen Birch, Veloshnee Govender et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Cited by: 2References: 14

    Directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) has been the recommended strategy for Tuberculosis (TB) control since 1995. Developed as an alternative to inpatient treatment, it involves observation of patients' medication intake to promote adherence. However, the burden of daily clinic visits may affect access to care. Using a mixed methods approach, we consider whether (1) non-adherence differs systematically between patients required to make …

  • Ways of Doing: Restorative Practices, Governmentality, and Provider Conduct in Post-Apartheid Health Care

    Bronwyn Harris, John Eyles et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology2016Cited by: 4References: 36

    In this article, we consider the conduct of post-apartheid health care in a policy context directed toward entrenching democracy, ensuring treatment-adherent patients, and creating a healthy populace actively responsible for their own health. We ask how tuberculosis treatment, antiretroviral therapy, and maternal services are delivered within South Africa's health system, an institutional site of colonial and apartheid injustice, and democratic r…

  • Built environment interventions aimed at improving physical activity levels in rural Ontario health units: A descriptive qualitative study

    Open AccessCara-Lee Coghill, Ruta Valaitis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Public health interventions, and their evaluations, are complex. Health units who serve large rural populations in Ontario are engaging in numerous activities to address physical activity levels. There is a need to further evaluate the impact of these interventions on population health

  • Acceptable Care? Illness Constructions, Healthworlds, and Accessible Chronic Treatment in South Africa

    Open AccessJacob Fried, Jana Fried et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2015Cited by: 11References: 42

    Achieving equitable access to health care is an important policy goal, with access influenced by affordability, availability, and acceptability of specific services. We explore patient narratives from a 5-year program of research on health care access to examine relationships between social constructions of illness and the acceptability of health services in the context of tuberculosis treatment and antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. Accepta…

  • Risks, benefits and the role of stakeholders in pathogen reduction technology

    K Bruce Newbold, Nancy M Heddle et al.ARTICLEHealth Risk & Society2014

    While Canada’s blood supply is currently very safe, risks remain, prompting blood suppliers to develop a more effective strategy to minimise the risk of transmitting infectious agents through blood transfusion. Pathogen reduction technology provides an additional way to protect the blood supply from new threats. However, the uptake of this new technology has been slow, reflecting the safety of the current system, the success of surveillance and s…

  • Adverse or acceptable: Negotiating access to a post-apartheid health care contract

    Open AccessBronwyn Harris, John Eyles et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2014

    BACKGROUND: As in many fragile and post-conflict countries, South Africa's social contract has formally changed from authoritarianism to democracy, yet access to services, including health care, remains inequitable and contested. We examine access barriers to quality health services and draw on social contract theory to explore ways in which a post-apartheid health care contract is narrated, practiced and negotiated by patients and providers. We …

  • The socio-spatial (re)configuration of legitimacy, knowledge, and practice in chemical risk governance: Integrating Boundary-Work and Scale-Frame Analytics

    Sarah Edge, Sara Edge et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Politics2014Cited by: 3References: 32

    In multiple jurisdictions, diverse stakeholders are increasingly challenging where, how, and by whom environmental health risks from chemicals should be governed. Using the case of Bisphenol A assessed under Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan, we analyse how political and epistemic legitimacy is being (re)configured, situated, and contested. We conceptually integrate distinct literatures on ‘politics of scale’, ‘scale frames’ and ‘boundary work’ …

  • Message in a bottle: Claims disputes and the reconciliation of precaution and weight-of-evidence in the regulation of risks from Bisphenol A in Canada

    Sarah Edge, Sara Edge et al.ARTICLEHealth Risk & Society2013

    In this article, we examine scientific and political controversies surrounding the assessment and management of environmental health risks from the substance Bisphenol A. The Government of Canada recently declared the substance toxic and implemented a ban of baby bottles containing Bisphenol A to reduce infant exposures despite objections from industry, some scientists and policy makers in other jurisdictions that the current weight-of-evidence d…

  • Bringing Justice to Unacceptable Health Care Services? Street-Level Reflections from Urban South Africa

    Bronwyn Harris, John Eyles et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013Cited by: 4

    Transforming repressive institutions into respected instruments of justice is necessary for the social reconstruction of fragile and postconflict states. Yet, little attention has been given to the role of health systems in facilitating such change. We situate South Africa’s right to access health care as part of a broader sociopolitical endeavour to ‘bring justice’ in the aftermath of apartheid and argue that street-level bureaucrats tasked with…

  • Redacted in Nebraska: The noises of conspiracy around nuclear power problems

    Open AccessJohn Eyles, Jacob Fried et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2013References: 13

  • School and Community Predictors of Smoking: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian High Schools

    Chris Y Lovato, Chris Lovato et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Cited by: 2References: 39

    Objectives. We identified the most effective mix of school-based policies, programs, and regional environments associated with low school smoking rates in a cohort of Canadian high schools over time. Methods. We collected a comprehensive set of student, school, and community data from a national cohort of 51 high schools in 2004 and 2007. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to predict school and community characteristics associated with school …

  • The reason that I did not go - determinants of the use of antenatal care services in South Africa, two decades after the end of apartheid

    Jacob Fried, Jana Fried et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2013References: 22

    According to South Africa's new constitution, access to health care is a fundamental right. Equitable provision of maternal health care is important in redressing past legacies and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We analyse the utilisation of antenatal care (ANC) services under South Africa's public health system to inform policy concerned with equity of access.We conceptualise access to care as covering three distinct but interacting…

  • Air Quality in Hamilton: Who is Concerned? Perceptions from Three Neighbourhoods

    Open AccessDylan Simone, John Eyles et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2012Cited by: 3References: 40

  • Does accessibility to antiretroviral care improve after down-referral of patients from hospitals to health centres in rural South Africa

    Mosa Moshabela, Hp Schneider et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2011

    We conducted an evaluation of healthcare accessibility among patients taking antiretroviral treatment (ART) after they were 'down-referred' from hospital-based programmes to primary healthcare (PHC) centres in a rural South African setting. A cross-sectional design was used to study 109 PHC users compared to a randomly selected control group of 220 hospital-based users. Both groups were matched for a minimum duration on ART of six months. Using a…

  • Do expert assessments converge? An exploratory case study of evaluating and managing a blood supply risk

    Open AccessJohn Eyles, Nancy M Heddle et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Expert assessments did not fully converge and it is possible that these different risk logics and discourses may affect the risk management process more generally, although not necessarily in a negative way. Patient safety is not to be compromised but management of blood risk in publicly funded systems may vary. We suggest ways of managing blood risk using formal and safety case approaches

  • Welcome waste – interpreting narratives of radioactive waste disposal in two small towns in Ontario, Canada

    Jacob Fried, John EylesARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2011Cited by: 4References: 17

    After briefly reviewing the production of nuclear energy and waste in Canada, this paper uses two small Ontario towns as case studies to examine the treatment of low-level radioactive waste and the communities’ responses and narratives to it. Both towns, Port Hope and Kincardine, have long histories of dealing with such waste. Using interviews, relevant websites and past accounts, this paper employs a discourse analysis to understand the differen…

  • Sense of Place in Hamilton, Ontario: Empirical Results of a Neighborhood-Based Survey

    Allison Williams, Peter Kitchen et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2010Cited by: 16References: 7

    Although the concept of sense of place has a long history in the social sciences, relatively few studies have attempted a quantitative analysis of sense of place at the neighborhood level. This study reports on the empirical findings of a sense of place survey developed and tested in two contrasting neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Southwest Mountain, an upper-middle-class suburban neighborhood and Northeast Industrial, a lower-income,…

  • It all depends: Conceptualizing public involvement in the context of health technology assessment agencies

    Open AccessFrançois-Pierre Gauvin, François‐pierre Gauvin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Cited by: 16References: 42