Weight of Modernity
An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity
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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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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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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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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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Manual interpretation of variants remains rate limiting in precision oncology. The increasing scale and complexity of molecular data generated from comprehensive sequencing of cancer samples requires advanced ...
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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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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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Different framings of food may shape food policies and their impact. Despite acknowledging food systems’ complexities, the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy still addresses food as a commodity instea...
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Advanced and metastatic tumors with complex treatment histories drive cancer mortality. Here we describe the POG570 cohort, a comprehensive whole-genome, transcriptome and clinical dataset, amenable for explor...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...