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Boundary breaches: the body, sex and sexuality after stoma surgeryLenore Manderson
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, 1 305 Cardigan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Soc Sci Med 61:405-15. 2005..For many, the stoma undermines self-esteem and body image, while its management confuses the status of the individual as "normal" and the partner as carer or lover...- "Like roulette": Australian women's explanations of gynecological cancersLenore Manderson
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, 1 305 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Soc Sci Med 61:323-32. 2005..Since women associate cancer with loss of control, the idea of cancerous cells out-of-control within their bodies operates as a metonym of women's views of themselves interpersonally and socially... - My left arm: experiencing brachial plexopathyLenore Manderson
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Intern Med J 32:353-6. 2002 - Teaching gender, teaching women's health: introductionLenore Manderson
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Women Health 37:1-9. 2003 - Storytelling, marginality, and community in Australia: how immigrants position their difference in health care settingsLenore Manderson
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Med Anthropol 22:1-21. 2003..The data are drawn from a study of reproductive health and reproductive rights that was conducted among refugee and immigrant women from Sahel African and Middle Eastern communities in Melbourne, Australia... 
"Living from day to day": food insecurity, complexity, and coping in muTare, ZimbabwePauline Gwatirisa
School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Caufield East, Victoria, Australia
Ecol Food Nutr 51:97-113. 2012....- Maternal identity change as a consequence of antenatal hospitalizationMilica Markovic
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychiatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Health Care Women Int 27:762-76. 2006..Further, hospitalization offered women the opportunity to interact with others in similar difficult situations and, hence, feel less isolated... - Complementary medicine use by Australian women with gynaecological cancerMilica Markovic
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Psychooncology 15:209-20. 2006..Social and cultural factors are identified that impact on complementary therapy use among Australia-born and immigrant women diagnosed with gynaecological cancer... 
Exploring doctor-patient communication in immigrant Australians with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative studyRenata Kokanovic
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
J Gen Intern Med 22:459-63. 2007..The study explored the perceptions of Australian immigrants about their interactions with doctors regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus...- Social support and self-management of type 2 diabetes among immigrant Australian womenRenata Kokanovic
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Chronic Illn 2:291-301. 2006..To elucidate the social meanings and interpretations that immigrant women attach to the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and the social support and professional advice that they receive following this diagnosis... - From Jollibee to BeeBee: "lifestyle" and chronic illness in Southeast AsiaLenore Manderson
School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Asia Pac J Public Health 22:117S-124S. 2010..Efforts to reduce chronic illnesses predominantly focus on individual interventions, overlooking the lack of individual capacity to address the structural and institutional factors that compromise people's health... - 'Normal, but...': living with type 2 diabetes in Bangkok, ThailandBhensri Naemiratch
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
Chronic Illn 4:188-98. 2008..To explore how people in Bangkok, Thailand make sense of the challenges associated with living with type 2 diabetes... - Discourses of normality and difference: responses to diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological cancer of Australian womenNatalie Wray
Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia
Soc Sci Med 64:2260-71. 2007..This had implications for women when accessing social support... - The social dynamics of the interview: age, class, and genderLenore Manderson
School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Qual Health Res 16:1317-34. 2006.... - Endurance and contest: women's narratives of endometriosisMilica Markovic
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Health (London) 12:349-67. 2008..In contrast, narratives of contest are dominated by how women's subjective experience is challenged by doctors, their requirements for a patient-centered approach, and their desire to have access to complementary treatments... - Treatment decisions: a qualitative study with women with gynaecological cancerMilica Markovic
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Ausralia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 46:46-8. 2006..For women with gynaecological cancer, the most influential factors in treatment decisions are still the surgeon's recommendation and fear of dying from cancer... - Health worker effectiveness and retention in rural CambodiaChhordaphea Chhea
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Rural Remote Health 10:1391. 2010..However, the feasibility of these strategies remains in question, particularly in terms of cost-effectiveness and sustainability... - Circuit breaking: pathways of treatment seeking for women with endometriosis in AustraliaLenore Manderson
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychosocial Sciences, Monash University, Caufield East, Victoria, Australia
Qual Health Res 18:522-34. 2008..We explore the ways in which ideas of gender, informed by women's embodiment but also the quality of their reporting of symptoms, influence their interactions with health professionals... - Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and the utilisation of primary care in urban and regional settingsCarla C Unger
School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Rural Remote Health 11:1795. 2011..In this article geographic similarities and differences in primary care service usage are examined among people with cardiovascular disease and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus residing in regional and urban Victoria, Australia... - Integration of complementary and alternative medicine information and advice in chronic disease management guidelinesVictoria Team
School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia
Aust J Prim Health 17:142-9. 2011.... - Acts of Remembrance: the power of memorial and the healing of indigenous AustraliaLenore Manderson
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Adler Mus Bull 34:5-19. 2008..Hillel Friedland Lecture, Adler Museum of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 16 October 2008... - Measuring the impact of health problems among adults with limited mobility in Thailand: further validation of the Perceived Impact of Problem ProfileRoseAnne Misajon
School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, 49 Graham Street, Shepparton, 3630, Victoria, Australia
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:6. 2008..The aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP) for use among adults with a disability in Thailand using Rasch analysis... - Family caregivers: Russian-speaking Australian women's access to welfare supportVictoria Team
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Health Soc Care Community 15:397-406. 2007..Changes in the implementation of social policy are proposed to increase caregivers' access to welfare support and efficient utilisation of existing resources... - The constraints of a normal life: the management of urinary incontinence by middle aged womenSusan Peake
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Women Health 37:37-51. 2003..Managing UI involves anticipating and masking a problem that invokes persistent cultural ideas about the female body... - Typologies of rural lay-health advocacy among rural women in AustraliaNarelle Warren
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia
Women Health 43:27-47. 2006..Lay-health advocates offer a cost-effective and appropriate option for reducing adverse health outcomes within resource-poor settings. Informed by women's narratives, we suggest strategies to enhance rural women's health-care... - Health seeking and access to care for children with suspected dengue in Cambodia: an ethnographic studySokrin Khun
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, 3145, Australia
BMC Public Health 7:262. 2007..It is important to identify the reasons that influence these delays, in order to develop appropriate interventions to redress the impact of dengue... - Stillbirth, neonatal death and reproductive rights in IndonesiaSari Andajani-Sutjahjo
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, Department of Public Health, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
Reprod Health Matters 12:181-8. 2004..It is essential that countries with high infant and maternal mortality provide post-partum care that includes support for those who experience stillbirth and neonatal death, including information, counselling and home visits... - Gynaecological day surgery and quality of careMilica Markovic
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, University of Melbourne
Aust Health Rev 25:52-9. 2002..This study contributes to discussion on setting objective standards to evaluate the health system in the field of day surgery... - Welfare reforms in Australia: how will they affect women's health?Margaret Kelaher
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
J Am Med Womens Assoc 57:49-53. 2002..Existing health research suggests that the impact of welfare reform on both health and society will depend on how the balance between women's roles as caregivers and workers is struck... - The social and cultural context of the mental health of Filipinas in QueenslandSamantha Thompson
Women s Health Australia, Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:681-7. 2002..To describe the social and cultural context of risk surrounding the mental health of Filipino women living in Queensland, Australia and elicit the meaning and experience of mental health and illness for these women... - Control and adherence: living with diabetes in Bangkok, ThailandBhensri Naemiratch
Monash University, Caulfield East, Vic, Australia
Soc Sci Med 63:1147-57. 2006..Notions of moderation and cultural values of being and behaving, and ideals of interaction, provide a philosophical basis and practical guidelines for control... - Women's perspectives of pain following day surgery in AustraliaMridula Bandyopadhyay
Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory, Australia
Aust J Adv Nurs 24:19-23. 2007..To investigate the incidence of pain following discharge from reproductive day surgery... - Embodied changes and the search for gynecological cancer diagnosisMilica Markovic
Department of Public Health The University of Melbourne
Med Anthropol Q 18:376-96. 2004..As a result, diagnosis was often protracted, during which time women presented with symptoms that were dismissed or resulted in the misdiagnosis, with a resultant loss of confidence in clinical services... - Complex emotions, complex problems: understanding the experiences of perinatal depression among new mothers in urban IndonesiaSari Andajani-Sutjahjo
Jalan Soputan No 1, Malang, 55146, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Cult Med Psychiatry 31:101-22. 2007..We argue for the importance of understanding the context of childbearing in order to interpret the meaning of depression within complex social, cultural, and economic contexts... - Physical health and preventive health behaviors among Thai women in Brisbane, AustraliaSansnee Jirojwong
School of Nursing and Health Studies, Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
Health Care Women Int 23:197-206. 2002.... - Impact, distress and HRQoL among Malaysian men and women with a mobility impairmentRoseAnne Misajon
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, Australia
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:95. 2006..Specifically, it examines health-related quality of life and the impact and distress related to impaired mobility, and investigates any gender differences in relation to the experience of disability... - Measuring the impact and distress of health problems from the individual's perspective: development of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP)Julie F Pallant
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, P, O, Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:36. 2006..While the ICF focuses on the classification of objective health and health related status, the PIPP broadens this focus to address the individuals' subjective experience of their health condition... - The social and cultural context of sexual function among middle-aged womenLenore Manderson
Menopause 12:361-2. 2005 - "Researcher saturation": the impact of data triangulation and intensive-research practices on the researcher and qualitative research processNatalie Wray
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Qual Health Res 17:1392-402. 2007..The authors discuss how researchers can deal effectively with these matters during fieldwork and propose a more formal approach to debriefing... - The Ashley Treatment: furthering the anthropology of/on disabilityHeather T Battles
Med Anthropol 27:219-26. 2008.... - Cervical cancer services for Indigenous women: advocacy, community-based research and policy change in AustraliaLenore Manderson
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, Australia
Women Health 43:69-88. 2006..We describe how the research process and subsequent activities provided Indigenous women with a vehicle for their own advocacy, resulting in important policy and program changes... - The mental health status of Filipinas in QueenslandSamantha Thompson
Women s Health Australia, Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:674-80. 2002..To determine the prevalence and investigate potential predictors of psychological distress in Filipino women living in Queensland, Australia...