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| Martha MorrowSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Smoking and young women in Vietnam: the influence of normative gender rolesMartha Morrow
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Soc Sci Med 55:681-90. 2002..Overall, workers (representing a low-income, less-educated population) had higher rates of tobacco use and less health knowledge than students. The paper concludes with a discussion about ramifications for public health interventions...
Tobacco control and gender in Southeast Asia. Part I: Malaysia and the PhilippinesMartha Morrow
Australian International Health Institute, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Health Promot Int 18:255-64. 2003..Yet, with a few exceptions, gender was largely unrecognized in control policy. Suggestions for overcoming this weakness in order to enhance tobacco control are made in Part II...
Tobacco control and gender in south-east Asia. Part II: Singapore and VietnamMartha Morrow
Australian International Health Institute, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Health Promot Int 18:373-80. 2003..Yet, with a few exceptions, gender was largely unrecognized in control policy. Suggestions for overcoming this weakness in order to enhance tobacco control are made...
Fostering disability-inclusive HIV/AIDS programs in northeast India: a participatory studyMartha Morrow
Nossal Institute of Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
BMC Public Health 7:125. 2007..People with disability (PWD) in India are more likely than the general population to be illiterate, unemployed and impoverished, but little is known of their HIV risk...
Gender equity and tobacco control: bringing masculinity into focusMartha Morrow
School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
Glob Health Promot 17:21-8. 2010..Successful control of tobacco can only be strengthened by bringing males, and the concept of gender as social construction, back into our research and discussion on health and gender equity...
Pathways to malaria persistence in remote central Vietnam: a mixed-method study of health care and the communityMartha Morrow
Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:85. 2009..This study in the central province of Quang Tri aimed to contribute to more effective malaria control in Vietnam by documenting the non-biological pathways to malaria persistence in two districts...
The political economy of tobacco and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia: contradictions in the role of the stateSimon Barraclough
School of Health, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
Glob Health Promot 17:40-50. 2010....
Rural-to-urban male migrant workers' vulnerability to HIV infection in Chengdu, China: qualitative findings from a mixed-method studyLin Li
School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Work 37:375-86. 2010..This paper aimed to assess rural-to-urban male migrant workers' HIV vulnerability and prevention needs in a Chinese context, specifically in the city of Chengdu, capital of the south-western province of Sichuan...
A grim contradiction: the practice and consequences of corporate social responsibility by British American Tobacco in MalaysiaSimon Barraclough
School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria 3083, Australia
Soc Sci Med 66:1784-96. 2008..It is imperative that health advocates highlight the potential conflicts inherent in such arrangements and develop strategies to address the concerns raised...
KAP surveys and malaria control in Vietnam: findings and cautions about community researchNguyen Quy Anh
National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology Tu Liem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 36:572-7. 2005..The adoption of rigorous, multi-disciplinary research methods offers the best chance of contributing to the development of successful malaria control programs and effective policies...
Smoking among future doctors in a "no-smoking" university campus in Karachi, Pakistan: issues of tobacco controlSyed Muhammed Mubeen
Hamndard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi
J Pak Med Assoc 58:248-53. 2008..It further highlighted some challenges for tobacco control at the university...
