Heather Brown
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582573 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heather Brown |
| PRENOMES | Heather |
| SOBRENOME | Brown |
| ASSINATURA | BROWN H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0067-991X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Theories of care help explain a peri‐urban tree diversity paradox
Since diversity is often a management objective for peri‐urban tree communities on public land, one might expect to find greater diversity there than on private land, where such objectives are less common. However, this expectation rests on an assumption that people control diversity towards objectives, overlooking the role of relationships between people and trees. Theories of care offer a novel lens for exploring how such relationships relate t…
Dividends and Disconnects
Pharmaceutical pollution from health care
Human pharmaceuticals are increasingly detected in environments around the world, with growing international calls to mitigate the ecological and human health risks posed by these novel entities. Exposure to pharmaceutical pollutants can negatively affect the behaviour, reproduction, and health of wildlife, contributing towards declining ecological health and global biodiversity loss. Pharmaceuticals in the environment are also driving rising lev…
Trauma‐Informed Approaches to Violence Reduction
Trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a public health issue and risk factor for future violence and criminality. This has motivated stakeholders to consider approaches which tackle the root causes of violent crime. One such approach is the dissemination of trauma‐informed practice, funded by the Home Office and led by violence reduction units (VRUs). VRUs broadly seek to prevent and reduce violence through early intervention and collaborat…
Hidden in plain sight
Over the past decade, the food environment has changed dramatically. One significant change has been the evolution of online delivery, which has increasingly become associated with so-called ‘dark kitchens’ – catering operations that only offer food for home delivery. These come in many different guises. This article reviews existing evidence and the potential impacts for local communities and planning. Like much of the gig economy, the jobs crea…
Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing and Engaging With Community‐Based Singing Support Services in Dementia
Background: Community‐based singing services can offer beneficial post‐diagnostic support for people living with dementia and their carers. However, despite the benefits, many people with dementia and their carers encounter barriers when trying to access and engage with such groups. This study examined the barriers and facilitators to access and engagement with a singing community support group. Methods: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted …
Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners
A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ …
Health impacts of climate change in the UK
This qualitative synthesis explores the experiences of UK communities facing growing health risks from climate change and extreme weather. The eight included studies show the profound impacts of extreme weather events such as floods on mental health, including challenges to self-identity and anxiety from the fear of flooding returning. Included data reveal individual and household impacts of extreme weather are mediated by a complex interaction o…
Comparing health service usage of migrant groups in Australia
Migrants are a heterogenous group and health policy needs to consider these differences to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of service provision
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…
Measuring the association between the opening of a new multi-national restaurant with young people's eating behaviours
Out-of-home eating (takeaway, take-out and fast-foods) is associated with intakes of higher energy and fat, and lower intakes of micronutrients, and is associated with excess weight gain. In 2017, a unique opportunity arose to measure the association between the opening of a new multi-national fast-food restaurant (McDonald's) and consumption of fast-food on young people aged 11–16. This study uses a repeated cross-sectional design to explore gro…
Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16-25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure
Young people's mental health globally has been in decline. Because of their low perceived need, young people's services tend to be the first cut when budgets are reduced. There is a lack of evidence on how a reduction in services and opportunities for young people is associated with their mental health. Additionally, how this may be magnified by place and the assets and challenges of place. The aim of this study is to explore trends in young peop…
Natural experiments for the evaluation of place-based public health interventions
Introduction Place-based public health evaluations are increasingly making use of natural experiments. This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the design and use of natural experiment evaluations (NEEs), and an assessment of the plausibility of the as-if randomization assumption. Methods A systematic search of three bibliographic databases (Pubmed, Web of Science and Ovid-Medline) was conducted in January 2020 to capture publications …
Assessing the barriers and facilitators of climate action planning in local governments
To mitigate and adapt to the health impacts of climate change, local government must nurture a culture of innovation and collaboration to ensure that different departments work together This means not just working with external partners, but also collaborating and co-producing with communities to achieve health equity and mitigate the debilitating effect of climate change on public health
Exploring the health and sociodemographic characteristics of people seeking advice with claiming universal credit
As the rollout for UC continues, it is important to understand how changes in eligibility for UC may impact on those who need help with applying for UC. Ensuring that the advice process and application process is responsive to a range of people with different needs can help to reduce the likelihood that the process of claiming UC will exacerbate health inequalities
The rural–urban poverty gap in England after the 2008 financial crisis
A rural–urban poverty gap exists in most countries around the world, and this paper employs a novel approach to explain this difference, using logistic regression to examine the effects of rural–urban residence type, individual socio-economic and demographic characteristics, and changes in government policies on the likelihood of being poor in England. Unusually, rural areas in England have lower poverty rates than urban areas, so the direction o…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in Australia
Promoting good health across the life course is high on countries agenda. There is a growing evidence base that health is correlated across generations. We examine the persistence of physical and mental health status across generations and explore how different early life factors and adult outcomes impact on this association. In particular, we focus on childhood disadvantage and childhood health, educational attainment, and social mobility measur…
Socioeconomic risks of food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK
Policies providing additional financial support may help to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on food insecurity in the UK
Investigating the impact on mental wellbeing of an increase in pensions
In 1997 approximately two million people aged 60 years or over were living poverty in the UK. In 1999 the UK Government raised real pension incomes of low-income pensioners by around a third through the introduction of the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG). This study explores the implications of this change for pensioners' mental wellbeing with a focus on differences by area level deprivation in England. We explore mental wellbeing outcomes of 205 …
No new fast-food outlets allowed! Evaluating the effect of planning policy on the local food environment in the North East of England
The environment in which we live impacts on our health. The food available to us in our environment is likely to influence what we eat and subsequently our weight. The use of planning policy can be one way for both local and national government to help shape a healthy environment. In England there are three main types of planning policy used to promote a healthy food environment: 1) restricting new fast-food outlets near schools; 2) restricting n…
Explaining the deprivation gap in Covid-19 mortality rates
One of the most consistent and worrying features of the COVID-19 pandemic globally has been the disproportionate burden of the epidemic in the most deprived areas. Most of the literature so far though has focused on estimating the extent of these inequalities. There has been much less attention paid to exploring the main pathways underpinning them. In this study, we employ the syndemic pandemic theoretical framework and apply novel decomposition …
Navigating Infodemics, Unlocking Social Capital and Maintaining Food Security during the Covid-19 First Wave in the UK
In March 2020, a national UK lockdown was implemented in response to rapidly rising COVID-19 infections. Those experiencing the most severe public health restrictions were 'shielding' groups as well as those over 70 years of age. Older age adults, many of whom were active, independent, and socially connected were immediately instructed to stay at home, to limit all external social contact and consider contingency for maintaining personal food sec…
Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all…
Shedding Light on the Reality of Smart Girls
Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa
Two investigations of ?female modesty? in achievement situations
Exercising choice
The impact of New Labour’s English health inequalities strategy on geographical inequalities in infant mortality
BACKGROUND: The English health inequalities strategy (1999-2010) aimed to reduce health inequalities between the most deprived local authorities and the rest of England. The multifaceted strategy included increased investment in healthcare, the early years, education and neighbourhood renewal. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the strategy was associated with a reduction in geographical inequalities in the infant mortality ra…
No new fast-food outlets allowed! Evaluating the effect of planning policy on the local food environment in the North East of England
The environment in which we live impacts on our health. The food available to us in our environment is likely to influence what we eat and subsequently our weight. The use of planning policy can be one way for both local and national government to help shape a healthy environment. In England there are three main types of planning policy used to promote a healthy food environment: 1) restricting new fast-food outlets near schools; 2) restricting n…
Intergenerational transfer of time and risk preferences
There is a growing interest in individual time and risk preferences. Little is known about how these preferences are formed. It is hypothesised that parents may transmit their preferences to their offspring. This paper examines the correlation in offspring and parental time and risk preferences using data from an annual household survey in Australia (the HILDA survey). Both time and risk preferences are examined and we explored whether the correl…
Abortion Service Provision in South Africa Three Years After Liberalization of the Law
In 1996, South Africa introduced legislation that liberalized women's access to termination of pregnancy. This study presents the findings of a survey undertaken to describe the availability and accessibility of abortion services in 1999, three years after the law was passed. All facilities that had been officially designated to perform these services were contacted by telephone to determine whether they were providing the services, their capacit…
The rural–urban poverty gap in England after the 2008 financial crisis
A rural–urban poverty gap exists in most countries around the world, and this paper employs a novel approach to explain this difference, using logistic regression to examine the effects of rural–urban residence type, individual socio-economic and demographic characteristics, and changes in government policies on the likelihood of being poor in England. Unusually, rural areas in England have lower poverty rates than urban areas, so the direction o…
Explaining the deprivation gap in Covid-19 mortality rates
One of the most consistent and worrying features of the COVID-19 pandemic globally has been the disproportionate burden of the epidemic in the most deprived areas. Most of the literature so far though has focused on estimating the extent of these inequalities. There has been much less attention paid to exploring the main pathways underpinning them. In this study, we employ the syndemic pandemic theoretical framework and apply novel decomposition …
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all…
Financial hardship and health in a refugee population in Australia
Refugees and asylum seekers are at a higher risk than the host population to poor health and financial stress. This study uses a unique longitudinal panel from Australia, the Building a New life in Australia (BNLA cohort) to understand the relationship over time between the social determinants of health, health, and financial hardship in refugees and asylum seekers. We employ a longitudinal; dynamic multivariate logistic regression to firstly est…
Multilinearism, Contingency, and Resistance
With his belief in the progressive nature of history in terms of social, economic and technological development, Marx is perhaps the quintessential modernist. Thus, it is not surprising that Edward Said (1979) would find that Marx made a sharp distinction between the progressive West and the stagnant, ahistorical “Orient.” While Marx certainly made a number of disparaging comments on non-European societies, his work on non-Western societies was n…
Angola
Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16-25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure
Young people's mental health globally has been in decline. Because of their low perceived need, young people's services tend to be the first cut when budgets are reduced. There is a lack of evidence on how a reduction in services and opportunities for young people is associated with their mental health. Additionally, how this may be magnified by place and the assets and challenges of place. The aim of this study is to explore trends in young peop…
Marriage, Bmi, and Wages
Obesity rates have been rising over the past decade. As more people become obese, the social stigma of obesity may be reduced. Marriage has typically been used as a positive signal to employers. If obese individuals possess other characteristics that are valued in the labour market they may no longer face a wage penalty for their physical appearance. This paper investigates the relationship between marital status, body mass index (BMI), and wages…
Fictional power and control and the reality of abusive behaviour
In response to recent sociological studies that suggest that the seriousness of psychological, emotional and verbal abuse are not only dismissed but are also the least identified in dating relationships, this article undertakes an analysis of these underexplored, ‘less visible’, elements using Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar’s ‘Power and Control’ and ‘Equality’ wheels, it compares Stephanie Meyer’s 10th anniversary re-release of Twilight, and Life…
Exploring the relationship between time preference, body fatness, and educational attainment
Angola
Two investigations of ?female modesty? in achievement situations
Hormone Replacement Reduces Vasoconstriction and Mean Blood Pressure at Rest and During Stress in Healthy Postmenopausal Women
Light, Kathleen C.; Girdler, Susan S.; West, Sheila G.; Grewen, Karen M.; Steege, John F.; Stanwyck, Catherine L.; Ranc, Jean; Lamothe, Traci L.; Chung, Sunny H.; Brown, Heather; Hinderliter, Alan L. Author Information
Abortion Service Provision in South Africa Three Years After Liberalization of the Law
In 1996, South Africa introduced legislation that liberalized women's access to termination of pregnancy. This study presents the findings of a survey undertaken to describe the availability and accessibility of abortion services in 1999, three years after the law was passed. All facilities that had been officially designated to perform these services were contacted by telephone to determine whether they were providing the services, their capacit…
Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa
Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa
Multilinearism, Contingency, and Resistance
With his belief in the progressive nature of history in terms of social, economic and technological development, Marx is perhaps the quintessential modernist. Thus, it is not surprising that Edward Said (1979) would find that Marx made a sharp distinction between the progressive West and the stagnant, ahistorical “Orient.” While Marx certainly made a number of disparaging comments on non-European societies, his work on non-Western societies was n…
Marriage, Bmi, and Wages
Obesity rates have been rising over the past decade. As more people become obese, the social stigma of obesity may be reduced. Marriage has typically been used as a positive signal to employers. If obese individuals possess other characteristics that are valued in the labour market they may no longer face a wage penalty for their physical appearance. This paper investigates the relationship between marital status, body mass index (BMI), and wages…
Exercising choice
Silver
Silver (Ag, argentum ) is a soft, precious metal admired for its brilliant luster.
Lead
Lead (Pb, plumbum ) is a soft, dense, corrosion‐resistant metal used for a wide variety of purposes in the ancient world. Its ores frequently contain Silver, and it was primarily mined, until the Roman period, for the extraction of silver. Despite the widespread occurrence of lead ores, exploitation was dependent on economic factors, including the richness of silver content, depth of deposit, proximity to sea transport, and availability of labor.
Marx on Gender and the Family
This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns. Although Marx's writings sometimes exhibit sexism, especially through the naturalization of certain female social functions, his work often transcends these. Brown studies those writings on gender, as well as his 1879-1882 notebooks on precapitalist societies and gender…
PS35 The Role of Time Preference in Smoking Cessation
Background ‘Time preference’ is an economic concept that describes the trade-offs that individuals make between costs and benefits occurring at different points of time. Related psychological concepts include time perspective, impulsivity and delay of gratification. Present orientated people prefer immediate over future gains and place more value on these. Differences in how much value different individuals place on future outcomes are likely to …
Marx on Gender and the Family
In recent years, there has been little discussion of Marx's writings on gender and the family, but in the 1970s and '80s, these writings were subject to a great deal of debate. In a number of cases, elements of Marx's overall theory were merged with psychoanalytic or other forms of feminist theory....These scholars viewed Marx's theory as primarily gender-blind and in need of an additional theory to understand gender-relations as well. However, t…
Boosting health insurance coverage in developing countries
BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health insurance coverage is a goal for many developing countries. Even when universal health insurance programmes are in place, there are significant barriers to reaching the lowest socio-economic groups such as a lack of awareness of the programmes or knowledge of the benefits to participating in the insurance market. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes can encourage participation through mandatory health …
Intergenerational transfer of time and risk preferences
There is a growing interest in individual time and risk preferences. Little is known about how these preferences are formed. It is hypothesised that parents may transmit their preferences to their offspring. This paper examines the correlation in offspring and parental time and risk preferences using data from an annual household survey in Australia (the HILDA survey). Both time and risk preferences are examined and we explored whether the correl…
Prevalence of Medical Conditions Potentially Amenable to Cellular Therapy among Families Privately Storing Umbilical Cord Blood
Introduction Little is known about the prevalence of conditions potentially amenable to cellular therapy among families storing umbilical cord blood in private cord blood banks. Methods A cross-sectional study of families with at least one child who stored umbilical cord blood in the largest private cord blood bank in the United States was performed. Respondent families completed a questionnaire to determine whether children with stored cord bloo…
Post-Communist Poland and the European Union
In the past two decades Europe as a whole has undergone a transformation, and Poland has been an integral part of these changes. Poland has transitioned from a communist nation to a democratic European Union (EU) member. This transition was not without trials, but through this history Poland has established itself as a significant international actor. This article aims to analyze post-communist Poland, within its membership in both the EU and the…
Exploring the relationship between time preference, body fatness, and educational attainment
Frequency of eating home cooked meals and potential benefits for diet and health
Reported associations between preparing and eating home cooked food, and both diet and health, are inconsistent. Most previous research has focused on preparing, rather than eating, home cooked food; used small, non-population based samples; and studied markers of nutrient intake, rather than overall diet quality or health. We aimed to assess whether frequency of consuming home cooked meals was cross-sectionally associated with diet quality and c…
Health and social determinants and outcomes of home cooking
Perinatal health outcomes and care among asylum seekers and refugees
“There’s always stomach on the table and then I gotta write!”
Dominant “obesity” discourse research shows a strong correlation between fatness and poor academic outcomes among fat female learners at the postsecondary level. Little attention has been paid, however, to understanding the experiences of fat female learners from their own perspective. Interviews with 13 undergraduate women suggest that fat college women students experience the interactions of their fat bodies with the physical learning environme…
Sociodemographic characteristics and frequency of consuming home-cooked meals and meals from out-of-home sources
Objective To identify sociodemographic characteristics associated with frequency of consuming home-cooked meals and meals from out-of-home sources. Design Cross-sectional analysis of a population-based cohort study. Frequency of consuming home-cooked meals, ready meals, takeaways and meals out were derived from a participant questionnaire. Sociodemographic characteristics regarding sex, age, ethnicity, working overtime and socio-economic status (…
Fictional power and control and the reality of abusive behaviour
In response to recent sociological studies that suggest that the seriousness of psychological, emotional and verbal abuse are not only dismissed but are also the least identified in dating relationships, this article undertakes an analysis of these underexplored, ‘less visible’, elements using Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar’s ‘Power and Control’ and ‘Equality’ wheels, it compares Stephanie Meyer’s 10th anniversary re-release of Twilight, and Life…
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