Health outcomes in populations are the product of three factors:(1) the size of effect of the
intervention;(2) the reach or penetration of an intervention into a population and (3) the …

Personal identity is self‐evidently important to us all. Identity is a philosophically complex
subject, but there is some agreement that memory, embodiment and continuity are essential …

Narrative analysis is well established as a means of examining the subjective experience of
those who suffer chronic illness and cancer. In a study of perceptions of the outcomes of …

Many adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors live with ongoing adverse
consequences of their cancer experience. While an increasing number of these young …

Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common
ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each …

This paper draws on social linguistics to inquire into the meaning and function of complexity
in illness narratives. According to social linguists, five different story-type genres occur in …

In this article, we examine participants' talk about qualitative research. We provide empirical
support for post-structural theorizations of the interview and propose three distinct but …

Abstract On March, 24, 2020, 818 cases of COVID-19 had been reported in New South
Wales, Australia, and new cases were increasing at an exponential rate. In anticipation of …

Health industries attempt to influence the public through the news media and through their
relationships with expert academics and opinion leaders. This study reports journalists' …

Background Many women giving birth in Australian hospitals can choose to donate their
child's umbilical cord blood to a public cord blood bank or pay to store it privately. We …