Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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How to cut through when talking to anti-vaxxers and anti-fluoriders
Published 2017-02-15Dismissing people’s worries as baseless, whether that’s about the safety of mobile phones or fluoridated drinking water, is one of the least effective ways of communicating public health risks. Yet it is common for people ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low.
Published 2017-02-01In this article, we summarise research that identifies best practice for communicating about hazards where the risk is low but public concern is high. We apply Peter Sandman’s ‘risk = hazard + outrage’ formulation to these ...Open AccessArticle -
Patient Involvement Can Affect Clinicians’ Perspectives and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control: A “Post-Qualitative” Study Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography
Published 2017-01-01This study, set in a mixed, adult surgical ward of a metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, used a novel application of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to engage patients and clinicians in an exploration ...Open AccessArticle -
Eliminating latent tuberculosis in low-burden settings: are the principal beneficiaries to be disadvantaged groups or the broader population?
Published 2017-01-01Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the burdens of this disease continue to track prior disadvantage. In order to galvanise a coordinated global response, WHO has recently ...Open AccessArticle -
Regulating risk and the boundaries of state conduct: a relational perspective on home birth in Australia
Published 2016-01-01The concept of motivated reasoning and conflicting moral domains behind the state’s conduct towards pregnant women, as described by Minkoff and Marshall (2015), can also be observed in the apparent attitudes towards homebirth ...Open AccessArticle