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Kevin Dew

Professor of sociology
Verified email at vuw.ac.nz
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'Choosing'to work when sick: workplace presenteeism

K Dew, V Keefe, K Small - Social science & medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
Presenteeism is a concept used to describe the phenomenon of working through illness and
injury. This paper is based on interviews and focus groups undertaken at three different work …

[HTML][HTML] A health researcher's guide to qualitative methodologies

K Dew - Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 2007 - Elsevier
Objective: To provide an overview of qualitative methodologies for health researchers in
order to inform better research practices. Approach: Different possible goals in health …

Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: the role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service factors

S Hill, D Sarfati, T Blakely, B Robson… - … of Epidemiology & …, 2010 - jech.bmj.com
Background Ethnic disparities in cancer survival have been documented in many
populations and cancer types. The causes of these inequalities are not well understood but …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of comorbidity on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and survival from colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study

D Sarfati, S Hill, T Blakely, B Robson, G Purdie… - BMC cancer, 2009 - Springer
Background Comorbidity has a well documented detrimental effect on cancer survival.
However it is difficult to disentangle the direct effects of comorbidity on survival from indirect …

Ethnicity and management of colon cancer in New Zealand: do indigenous patients get a worse deal?

S Hill, D Sarfati, T Blakely, B Robson, G Purdie… - Cancer, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Racial and ethnic inequalities in colon cancer treatment have been
reported in the United States but not elsewhere. The authors of this report compared cancer …

Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice

K Dew, K Chamberlain, D Hodgetts… - Sociology of health & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by
people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was …

When does neighbourhood matter? Multilevel relationships between neighbourhood social fragmentation and mental health

VC Ivory, SC Collings, T Blakely, K Dew - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Studies investigating relationships between mental health and residential areas suggest that
certain characteristics of neighbourhood environments matter. After developing a conceptual …

[HTML][HTML] Public beliefs about antibiotics, infection and resistance: a qualitative study

P Norris, K Chamberlain, K Dew, J Gabe, D Hodgetts… - Antibiotics, 2013 - mdpi.com
We aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of public views and ways of talking about
antibiotics. Four focus groups were held with members of the public. In addition, 39 …

[PDF][PDF] General practitioners' attitudes toward (and use of) complementary and alternative medicine: a New Zealand nationwide survey

L Poynton, A Dowell, K Dew, T Egan - The New Zealand Medical Journal …, 2006 - Citeseer
THE NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL Page 1 THE NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL
Vol 119 No 1247 ISSN 1175 8716 NZMJ 15 December 2006, Vol 119 No 1247 Page 1 of 10 …

Primary health care in New Zealand: the impact of organisational factors on teamwork

S Pullon, E McKinlay, K Dew - British Journal of General Practice, 2009 - bjgp.org
Background Although teamwork is known to optimise good health care, organisational
arrangements and funding models can foster, discourage, or preclude functional …