Perspectives in Health
Menopause Research Project
View information on the Menopause Research Project here.
Members
| Staff: 'Patient Experience' and 'Community Health Wellbeing' | |
|---|---|
| Damien Ridge (Group Co-ordinator) David Goosey Nicky Howard-Kemp Brian Isbell Mark Paine | Karen Pilkington Mary Webb |
| Research Students | |
| Tim Lomas Natasha Gravil | |
| Staff: EASTmedicine | |
|---|---|
| Dr Volker Sheid (Director) Hanya Chala Mary Dobbing Rosy Grandage | Katie Scampton |
| Research Student | |
| Trina Ward | |
Summary
Health Perspectives brings together staff in the School of Life Sciences, with three major foci of research, namely:
- EASTmedicine (led by Dr Volker Scheid)
- Patient Experience Research (led by Dr Damien Ridge)
- Community Health and Wellbeing (led by Dr Damien Ridge)
The vision of Health Perspectives is to work with the best researchers internationally to establish new and challenging perspectives in health that have the best utility for improving patient experience, professional approaches and ultimately the health of communities.
EASTmedicine
(East Asian Sciences and Traditions in Medicine) is an innovative interdisciplinary research centre focusing on the understanding, development and evaluation of East Asian medicines as living traditions. This implies a perception of these traditions as complex and evolving systems able to adapt to changing contexts, and capable of assimilating ideas, technologies, practices and institutions from other medical and cultural systems. EASTmedicine seeks to describe and analyse the dynamics of these transformations with a specific view of managing their integration into contemporary health care. Specifically, we aim to:
- Describe and analyse East Asian medicines’ understanding of the body in health and disease.
- Gain an exhaustive understanding of the historical, cultural and economic factors that shaped East Asian medicines at particular places and times.
- Facilitate the development of effective solutions to contemporary health care problems by integrating East Asian medicines and cutting edge biomedical science.
To this end we employ approaches from across the humanities, the social and natural sciences including history, anthropology, science studies, philosophy, the biosciences and clinically applied research.
Patient Experience Research
The UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 found that the research outputs in this research cluster are international in quality (2* and above), and this research was singled out as an upcoming strength. Our research in patient experience focuses on putting patients at the centre of all health considerations and consultations. In particular, we are interested in investigating:
- self-management approaches to health;
- how being a patient is meaningful and adds value to understanding illness and promoting recovery; and
- how to promote service-user health and wellbeing at the social level
- how to improve services - including the therapeutic relationship - for service-user benefit
Projects here include depression and recovery, evaluation of integrated health services in the NHS, self-care interventions, self-management of chronic conditions (e.g. pain), patient experiences of schizophrenia, rethinking the placebo effect, student practitioners and stressful consultations, and cancer and survivorship.
Community Health and Wellbeing
Health Perspectives also has a key focus on investigating and promoting health and positive well-being in the community, for instance via health-seeking behaviours. The work here connects with the vision and values of the new public health, especially in areas like promoting positive community wellbeing, effective service delivery, evaluation, community engagement and good governance. Projects here include public sector research such as the Well London project evaluation, community participation and its role in health improvements, early year’s dietary interventions, men’s health, men's successful ageing, and men and mindfulness.
Recent Publications
Scheid, V., V. Tuffrey & T. Ward. (forthcoming). What Should Researchers Evaluate in Chinese Medicine Research: The Case of Menopause.
Ward, T., V. Scheid & V. Tuffrey. (forthcoming). Women's mid-life health experiences in urban UK: a cross-cultural comparison.
Ridge, D., Emslie, C., and White, A. (2011) Understanding how men experience, express and cope with mental distress: Where next?
Pilkington, K (2010) Anxiety, depression and acupuncture: a review of the clinical research. Autonomic Neuroscience, 2010 Oct 28;157(1-2):91-5. Epub 2010 May 6. ISSN 1566-0702
Shariff, Fauzia and Carter, Jane and Dow, Clare and Polley, Marie J. and Salinas, Maria and Ridge, Damien T. (2009)
Seers, HE, Gale, N, Paterson, C, Cooke, HJ, Tuffrey, V, and Polley, Marie J. (2009) Individualised and complex experiences of integrative cancer support care: combining qualitative and quantitative data. Support Care Cancer, 17 (9). pp. 1159-1167. ISSN 0941-4355
Ridge, Damien T. (2009)
Scheid, V., A. Ellis, D. Bensky & R. Barolet. 2009. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies (2nd enlarged edition). Seattle: Eastland Press. ISBN 9780939616671
Pilkington, K and Rampes, H (2009) Complementary and alternative therapies. In: Norman, Ian J. and Ryrie, Iain, (eds.) The art and science of mental health nursing. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780335222933
Pilkington, K (2009) Self care and CAM: defining the differences, recognising the similarities. Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 6 (2). pp. 29-34. ISSN 1743-9493
Scheid, V. 2008. Globalising Chinese medical understandings of menopause. East Asia Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2 (4). pp. 485-506. ISSN 1875-2160
Withers, Robert (2008)
Ridge, Damien T. and Williams, Jane and Anderson, Ian and Elford, Jonathan (2008)
Isbell, Brian (2008)
Barr, Hugh and Goosey, David and Webb, Mary (2008)
MacPherson Hugh, Thomas Kate, Armstrong Bo, de Valois Beverly, Relton C, Mullinger B, White A, Flower Andrew & S. Volker. 2008. Developing research strategies in complementary and alternative medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 16, 359362. ISSN 0965-2299
Scheid, V. 2008. Authenticity, best practice, and the evidence mosaic. The challenge of integrating traditional East Asian medicines into Western Health Care. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 16, 107-108. ISSN 0965-2299
Scheid, V. 2008. The mangle of practice and the practice of Chinese medicine: a case study from nineteenth-century China. In The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming (eds) A. Pickering & K. Guzik. Durham and London: Duke University Press, Durham ; London, pp. 110-128. ISBN 9780822343516
Polley, Marie J. and Seers, Helen E. and Cooke, Helen J. and Hoffman, Caroline and Paterson, Charlotte (2007)
Ridge, Damien T. and Ziebland, Sue and Williams, Jane and Anderson, Ian and Elford, Jonathan (2007)
Emslie, Carol and Ridge, Damien T. and Ziebland, Sue and Hunt, Kate (2007)
Scheid, V. 2007. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626 - 2006. Seattle: Eastland Press, USA. ISBN 9780939616565
Scheid, V. 2007. Ding Ganren, Fei Boxiong, Yun Tieqiao. In Dictionary of Medical Biography (eds) W.F. Bynum & H. Bynum: Greenwood Press.
Scheid, V. 2002. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822328577
Current Grants
- 240,000 for Designing and Evaluating the ‘Beating Back Pain Service’ for the Kensington & Chelsea PCT, Peters, Ridge, Polley and Cheshire, 2010-2012.
- 205,000 for Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine Project Grant: 2009-2012; Treating the Liver: Towards a Transnational History of East Asian Medicine
- 45,000 for Masculinity and identifying strategies for establishing positive mental wellbeing in later life, University of Westminster PhD Scholarship, Ridge, Cartwright & Knight, 2008-2011.
- 60,000 for Men, mindfulness & wellbeing PhD scholarship (Institute of Wellbeing & Health), Ridge et al., Ridge et al., 2009-2011.
- 8,500 for Consultancy for Schizophrenia and patient experience, DIPEx, University of Oxford, Ridge, 2009-2010
- 50,000 for Musculoskeletal service delivery at the Victoria Medical Centre, Peters, 50,000
- 40,000 for Evaluating of an osteopathy/acupuncture service for musculoskeletal pain at the Victoria Medical Centre, Ridge & Polley, 2009-2010
- 87,000 for Evidence for self-care interventions, Peters & Pilkington, 2009-2010.
- Department of Health, NCC-RCD Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2008; The Treatment of Menopause by Chinese Medicine: Delivering NHS Based Solutions; Amount: 452,413.13
