Weight of Modernity
An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity
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Open AccessCross Sectional Survey of Antenatal Educators’ Views About Current Antenatal Education Provision
Antenatal education (ANE) is part of National Health Service (NHS) care and is recommended by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to increase birth preparedness and help pregnant women...
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Open AccessEquity of travel to access surgery and radiation therapy for lung cancer in New Zealand
Centralisation of lung cancer treatment can improve outcomes, but may result in differential access to care for those who do not reside within treatment centres.
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Open AccessProtocol for a multi-site randomised controlled feasibility study investigating intermittently scanned blood continuous glucose monitoring use for gestational diabetes: the RECOGNISE study
Incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes including macrosomia, pre-eclampsia, and pre-term delivery. Optimum glycaemic control can reduce...
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Open AccessInterventions to enhance medication adherence in pregnancy- a systematic review
Sub-optimal medication adherence in pregnant women with chronic disease and pregnancy-related indications has the potential to adversely affect maternal and perinatal outcomes. Adherence to appropriate medicat...
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Open AccessDisaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities
Simulation models can be used to quantify the projected health impact of interventions. Quantifying heterogeneity in these impacts, for example by socioeconomic status, is important to understand impacts on he...
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Open AccessPregnant women’s experiences of social distancing behavioural guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic ‘lockdown’ in the UK, a qualitative interview study
Covid-19 triggered the rapid roll-out of mass social distancing behavioural measures for infection control. Pregnant women were categorised as ‘at risk’ requiring extra vigilance with behavioural guidelines. T...
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Open AccessCan cost-effectiveness results be combined into a coherent league table? Case study from one high-income country
Doubts exist around the value of compiling league tables for cost-effectiveness results for health interventions, primarily due to methods differences. We aimed to determine if a reasonably coherent league tab...
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Open AccessMethods used to address fidelity of receipt in health intervention research: a citation analysis and systematic review
The American Behaviour Change Consortium (BCC) framework acknowledges patients as active participants and supports the need to investigate the fidelity with which they receive interventions, i.e. receipt. Acco...
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Open AccessDoes telecare prolong community living in dementia? A study protocol for a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial
Assistive technology and telecare (ATT) are relatively new ways of delivering care and support to people with social care needs. It is claimed that ATT reduces the need for community care, prevents unnecessary...
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An Intergenerational Study Design
We describe the data collection methods we employed with three generations of Australians (the Lucky Generation, the Baby Boomers and the Gen Ys) and analysis techniques used. We conducted interviews with peop...
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The Big Australian: Obesity in the Modern World
Here we describe the problem of obesity worldwide and in Australia. Readers are introduced to the book’s conceptual approach to exploring the way social structures can impact on key health behaviours. The book...
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How Convenience Is Sha** Australian Diets: The Disappearing Dessert
Chapter 4 deals more directly with a socio-cultural trend that is repeatedly implicated in rising levels of obesity, namely the rise of convenience foods and the ...
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Fitness Marginalises Fun and Friendship
Chapter 6 emerges from one of the key findings from Chap. 5, namely that leisure time physical activity has been far more str...
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The Weight of Time: From Full to Fragmented in 50 Years
Chapter 8 takes up the complex and sometimes contradictory ways time pressure is represented and experienced, and the changes that draw from its rise during the twentieth century. Unlike dietary practices and ...
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From Habit to Choice: Transformations in Family Dining Over Three Generations
Changes in family dining are explored in Chap. 3, focusing in particular on the meal that Australians have most consistently eaten together: the evening meal. The plain and pr...
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From Sociable Leisure to Exhaustion: A Tale of Two Revolutions
Chapter 5 weaves together cultural economy accounts of leisure (focusing specifically on non-obligatory physical exertion) and sporting activity (both organised a...
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The Rise of Automobility
The gradual evolution of car reliance is the subject of Chapter 7. It builds on a detailed social history of transport and cars in Melbourne undertaken by our former doctoral student, Sarah Hinde. Her material...
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Social Forces Sha** Life Chances and Life Choices
Chapter 9 is divided into two parts. First, we summarise the findings from previous chapters and then report on three additional socio-cultural trends which repeatedly appeared when the three generations were ...
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Restoring Coherence to a Stressed Social System
Chapter 10 begins by asking what pressure points for action exist in societies like Australia to reverse the rise in obesity. We focus on the realm of culture as an overlooked and contested sphere of both deli...
