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Rayne A, Arahanga-Doyle H, Cox B, Cox MP, Febria CM, Galla SJ, Hendy SC, Locke K, Matheson A, Pawlik A, Roa T, Sharp EL, Walker LA, Watene K, Wehi PM, Steeves TE. Collective action is needed to build a more just science system. Nat Hum Behav 2023:10.1038/s41562-023-01635-4. [PMID: 37291438 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01635-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Aisling Rayne
- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Environment, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- School of Statistics, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Toha Science, Nelson, New Zealand
- Centre for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Critical Studies in Education, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Health, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao - Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Environment, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Philosophy, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Kersey K, Hutton F, Lyons AC. Women, alcohol consumption and health promotion: the value of a critical realist approach. Health Promot Int 2023; 38:6974794. [PMID: 36617295 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daac177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Research on women's drinking occurs in largely disparate disciplines-including public health, health promotion, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies-and draws on differing philosophical understandings and theoretical frameworks. Tensions between the aims and paradigmatic underpinnings of this research (across and within disciplines) have meant that knowledge and insight can be frequently disciplinary-specific and somewhat siloed. However, in line with the social and economic determinants of the health model, alcohol research needs approaches that can explore how multiple gender-related factors-biological, psycho-social, material, and socio-cultural-combine to produce certain drinking behaviours, pleasures and potential harms. We argue that critical realism as a philosophical underpinning to research can accommodate this broader conceptualization, enabling researchers to draw on multiple perspectives to better understand women's drinking. We illustrate the benefit of this approach by presenting a critical realist theoretical framework for understanding women's drinking that outlines interrelationships between the psychoactive properties of alcohol, the role of embodied individual characteristics and the material, institutional and socio-cultural contexts in which women live. This approach can underpin and foster inter-disciplinary research collaboration to inform more nuanced health promotion practices and policies to reduce alcohol-related harm in a wide range of women across societies.
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- Kate Kersey
- School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Social and Community Health; Centre for Addiction Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Fleming T, Ball J, Bavin L, Rivera-Rodriguez C, Peiris-John R, Crengle S, Sutcliffe K, Lewycka S, Archer D, Clark TC. Mixed progress in adolescent health and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand 2001–2019: a population overview from the Youth2000 survey series. J R Soc N Z 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2022.2072349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Theresa Fleming
- School of HealthTe Herenga Waka
- Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Population Health University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- School of HealthTe Herenga Waka
- Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global HealthUniversity of Oxford, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- School of HealthTe Herenga Waka
- Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Kersey K, Lyons AC, Hutton F. Alcohol and drinking within the lives of midlife women: A meta-study systematic review. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY 2022; 99:103453. [PMID: 34653766 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND A range of societal changes have created positive and encouraging environments for women's alcohol use. Within this context, in Western countries there is evidence of rising rates of alcohol consumption and related harms among midlife and older women. It is timely and important to explore the role of alcohol in the lives of midlife women to better understand observed data trends and to develop cohort specific policy responses. Focussing on Western countries and those with similar mixed market systems for alcohol regulation, this review aimed to identify 1) how women at midlife make sense of and account for their consumption of alcohol; 2) factors that play a role; and 3) the trends in theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research that explores women's drinking at midlife. METHODS A meta-study approach was undertaken. The review process involved extracting and analysing the data findings of eligible research, as well as reviewing the contextual factors and theoretical framing that actively shape research and findings. RESULTS Social meanings of alcohol were interwoven with alcohol's psycho-active qualities to create strong localised embodied experiences of pleasure, sociability, and respite from complicated lives and stressful circumstances in midlife women. Drinking was shaped by multiple and diverse aspects of social identity, such as sexuality, family status, membership of social and cultural groups, and associated responsibilities, underpinned by the social and material realities of their lives, societal and policy discourses around drinking, and how they physically experienced alcohol in the short and longer term. CONCLUSION For harm reduction strategies to be successful, further research effort should be undertaken to understand alcohol's diverse meanings and functions in women's lives and the individual, material, and socio-cultural factors that feed into these understandings. As well as broad policies that reduce overall consumption and "de-normalise" drinking in society, policy-makers could usefully work with cohorts of women to develop interventions that address the functional role of alcohol in their lives, as well as policies that address permissive regulatory environments and the overall social and economic position of women.
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- Kate Kersey
- School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
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- School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand
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Came H, Matheson A, Kidd J. Smashing the patriarchy to address gender health inequities: Past, present and future perspectives from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Glob Public Health 2021; 17:1540-1550. [PMID: 34097588 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1937272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
The second wave feminist dream of smashing the patriarchy remains a task yet to be completed on a complex to do list. Women, particularly able-bodied cis-gendered white women however do enjoy the privilege of living longer than men. But our longer lives take place within patriarchal-capitalist systems where many women's social and cultural rights continue to be compromised. How do we ensure that all women can exercise our right to health and wellbeing? In this paper, the authors examine, critique, review and re-vision the dynamics of power and patriarchy over three distinct time periods - 1999, 2019 and 2039. We look to the past to track progress; we look to the present to see what we have achieved and look to the future for what might be. This conceptual paper is informed by the authors' expert knowledge, a review of the literature and the novel use of speculative ethnography. The authors conclude that patriarchy remains not only a negative determinant of women's health that needs to be smashed, but is also a threat to all people and to planetary health.
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- Heather Came
- Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Health, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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