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Do your patients trust you? A sociological understanding of the implications of patient mistrust in healthcare professionals
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2008)
The trust that patients invest in healthcare professionals and their advice has been shown to facilitate
positive clinical outcomes, although there is evidence that patient trust in expertise, including healthcare
professionals, ...
'Health is the number one thing we go for': healthism, citizenship and food choice
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)
This paper explores the centrality of pursuit of health to discourse around food
purchasing and eating behaviours. Forty-seven participants from metropolitan and
rural South Australia were interviewed about how they decided ...
Trust, social quality and wellbeing: a sociological exegesis
(Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Korea, 2009)
This paper provides an argument regarding the centrality of ‘trust’ for the development
and maintenance of ‘social quality,’ and ultimately for the health and wellbeing of individuals,
communities and societies. Within the ...
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research: epistemological dissonance and the know-do gap
(SAGE Publications, 2009)
Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and
internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research
process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or ...
Reworking the sociology of trust: making a semantic distinction between trust and dependence
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)
Trust, as a sociological construct, has become increasingly important in recent times
but an agreed definition is yet to be found. A potentially useful way of ‘defining’ trust
is by distinguishing it from other semantically ...
Learning to prescribe - pharmacists' experiences of supplementary prescribing training in England
(2008)
Background
The introduction of non-medical prescribing for professions such as pharmacy and nursing in recent years offers additional responsibilities and opportunities but attendant training issues. In the UK and in ...