Regular breastfeeding surveillance is essential to determine to what extent national breastfeeding targets are being met and how breastfeeding practices change over time. There have been irregular infant feeding studies or national surveys carried out in Kuwait so it is difficul…
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a significant increased morbidity and mortality resulting from microvascular and macrovascular complications, in particular diabetic nephropathy and cardiovascular disease. Treatment of these conditions has involved improving diabetic …
Cerebral palsy (CP) affects around every one in 500 children born. It isn’t a particular illness or disease, but an umbrella term used to describe a physical condition that affects movement as a result of injury to the brain. There are several types of CP, the main ones being sp…
The environment of Jordanian private hospitals has never been so complex and challenging as at present. There are huge influences on these hospitals in the current climate. Managers in these hospitals are finding themselves, more than ever before, confronted by increasing pressu…
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) 'Health for All by the Year 2000' (HFA2000) resolution is intended to promote improvements in the equality of health care provision, the basis of which is universal accessibility to basic health care. The Jordanian Government, in accordance …
Laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis is often difficult and time consuming. This study has evaluated some new strategies for improved isolation and detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens. This work was conducted over several years examining samples from th…
This Thesis is concerned with the history of health care and medicine in the State of Qatar. I have traced its evolution from the first man, through to the presence of Islam until oil was discovered in 1939. I then continued with close personal interest to follow the development…
How can marginalised communities organise a project to yield significant social change? This thesis theorises the resources which enable such community organisation to work. Participation, empowerment and conscientisation are understood, not through a logic of quantity which cre…
This thesis charts the rising importance of the state in extending the influence of modern medicine, contexualised within the history and political-economic dynamics of the health care reforms in Taiwan, a leading Newly Industrialised Country (NIC) which has a distinguished reco…
This thesis focuses on the experiences of women and couples who have undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) unsuccessfully and who have subsequently stopped treatment. The thesis is feminist in that it aims to make visible the gendered power relations within which IVF failure is…
This study aims to make a sociological contribution to understanding the experience of medical students from graduate-entry medicine degree programmes. In this study, I asked the research question ‘what are the challenges experienced by graduate-entry medicine degree programme s…
Introduction: CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (C.P.R.) is a critical clinical intervention widely recognised (Laws, 2001) to evoke stress in attending clinicians. Little is known about how junior clinicians (doctors) understand their early experiences in performing C.P.R., or whet…
The work presented here is a sociological and bioethical analysis of the medical condition known as Syndrome X/Metabolic Syndrome. The term is a recent name given to a group of cardiac/diabetic risk factors that include high cholesterol, insulin resistance, obesity, high blood p…
Background: Although research suggests that obese children and adolescents are stigmatised, experience victimisation, have poor body image, body dissatisfaction, depression and low self-esteem, these findings have been inconsistent. There is increasing evidence to suggest that b…
The current “obesity epidemic” is a global concern for governments and healthcare organisations. Obesity is seen as a medical problem of excess body weight which can be resolved through interventions to encourage weight loss, most particularly diet and exercise regimes. Much exi…
Despite the vast literature surrounding tobacco use, there is little work looking at the question of smoking among women in a historical context. The work which has been done on women and smoking has largely looked at the issue from a sociological viewpoint. In addressing this g…
Cancer research has been revolutionised by recent technological advances that allow scientists to produce extensive collections of experimental data, especially on the molecular and cellular level. Formal modelling is a necessary tool for integrating massive amounts of diverse m…
High quality population based data are essential to evaluate breast cancer. This study has improved data quality at the West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit through the development of a staging algorithm which significantly increased the proportion of cases with stage recorded…