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0000-0002-0173-3690
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University of Sydney
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Sociology | Sociology of migration ethnicity and multiculturalism | Sociology of health
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2022-061513
Abstract: General practitioners (GPs) and their staff have been at the frontline of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Australia. However, their experiences of responding to and managing the risks of viral transmission within their facilities are poorly described. The aim of this study was to describe the experiences, and infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies adopted by general practices, including enablers of and challenges to implementation, to contribute to our understanding of the pandemic response in this critical sector. Semistructured interviews were conducted in person, by telephone or online video conferencing software, between November 2020 and August 2021. Twenty general practice personnel working in New South Wales, Australia, including nine GPs, one general practice registrar, four registered nurses, one nurse practitioner, two practice managers and two receptionists. Participants described implementing wide-ranging repertoires of IPC strategies—including telehealth, screening of patients and staff, altered clinic layouts and portable outdoor shelters, in addition to appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE)—to manage the demands of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Strategies were proactive, influenced by the varied contexts of different practices and the needs and preferences of in idual GPs as well as responsive to local, state and national requirements, which changed frequently as the pandemic evolved. Using the ‘hierarchy of controls’ as a framework for analysis, we found that the different strategies adopted in general practice often functioned in concert with one another. Most strategies, particularly administrative and PPE controls, were subjected to human variability and so were less reliable from a human factors perspective. However, our findings highlight the creativity, resilience and resourcefulness of general practice staff in developing, implementing and adapting their IPC strategies amidst constantly changing pandemic conditions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Date: 15-03-2023
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-0151
Abstract: For three years, COVID-19 has circulated among our communities and around the world, fundamentally changing social interactions, health care systems, and service delivery. For people living with (and receiving treatment for) cancer, pandemic conditions presented significant additional hurdles in an already unstable and shifting environment, including disrupted personal contact with care providers, interrupted access to clinical trials, distanced therapeutic encounters, multiple immune vulnerabilities, and new forms of financial precarity. In a 2020 perspective in this journal, we examined how COVID-19 was reshaping cancer care in the early stages of the pandemic and how these changes might endure into the future. Three years later, and in light of a series of interviews with patients and their caregivers from the United States and Australia conducted during the pandemic, we return to consider the potential legacy effects of the pandemic on cancer care. While some challenges to care provision and survivorship were unforeseen, others accentuated and lified existing problems experienced by patients, caregivers, and health care providers. Both are likely to have enduring effects in the “post-pandemic” world, raising the importance of focusing on lessons that can be learned for the future.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-01-2022
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 05-2023
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2022-065753
Abstract: To explore informal caregivers’ perspectives on precision medicine in cancer care. Semi-structured interviews with the informal caregivers of people living with cancer and receiving targeted/immunotherapies. Interview transcripts were analysed thematically using a framework approach. Recruitment was facilitated by two hospitals and five Australian cancer community groups. Informal caregivers (n=28 16 men, 12 women aged 18–80) of people living with cancer and receiving targeted/immunotherapies. Thematic analysis identified three findings, centred largely on the pervasive theme of hope in relation to precision therapies including: (1) precision as a key component of caregivers’ hope (2) hope as a collective practice between patients, caregivers, clinicians and others, which entailed work and obligation for caregivers and (3) hope as linked to expectations of further scientific progress, even if there may be no personal, immediate benefit. Innovation and change in precision oncology are rapidly reconfiguring the parameters of hope for patients and caregivers, creating new and difficult relational moments and experiences in everyday life and in clinical encounters. In the context of a shifting therapeutic landscape, caregivers’ experiences illustrate the need to understand hope as collectively produced, as emotional and moral labour, and as entangled in broader cultural expectations of medical advances. Such understandings may help clinicians as they guide patients and caregivers through the complexities of diagnosis, treatment, emerging evidence and possible futures in the precision era. Developing a better understanding of informal caregivers’ experiences of caring for patients receiving precision therapies is important for improving support to patients and their caregivers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-06-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-09-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211041402
Abstract: Debates about the state of Australian sociology have raged for as long as sociology has existed in Australia. Concerns about the discipline’s future may be inevitable for a critical, reflexive discipline, but to those entering the discipline, it is neither instructive nor productive to be subjected to lingering disciplinary anxieties. After more than fifty years, it is time to take stock of the differing visions of sociology, and examine the arguments about the health, or otherwise, of Australian sociology. To advance this debate, we consider the signs and benchmarks of a ‘successful’ sociology as expressed in The Australian Sociological Association magazine, NEXUS, and key writings from Australian sociologists. We suggest that much of the disagreement over the status of sociology derives from the way ‘disciplines’ and ‘success’ are defined. Regarding sociology to be an heterogeneous, multi-modal, social institution and practice, we propose a way forward in our efforts to represent ourselves.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00380261211019266
Abstract: What does migrancy mean for personhood, and how does this flow through caring relations? Drawing on life history interviews and photo elicitation with 43 people who identify as migrants and live with cancer, here we argue for the significance of recognising complex personhood as it inflects illness and care. Drawing on social science theory around temporalities, moralities and belonging, we assemble a series of cross-cutting themes at the intersection of personhood and care relations that transcend cultural origins yet are vividly illustrated in relation to migrant pasts. In seeking a multidimensional view of personhood, we attend to the intersecting layers of complexity that make up care in this context vis-a-vis an emphasis on forms of difference, vulnerability and otherness. In this way, we develop an approach to personhood and care that broadens the lens on migrancy and cancer, but also, one that speaks to the importance of recognition of complexity and how it shapes care more generally.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2024
End Date: 12-2026
Amount: $469,114.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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