Kristen Foley

Nov 20, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Belinda K. Lunnay |Kristen Foley |Paul Ward

Even before the COVID pandemic, which added significant pressure to the health-care workforce, Australian doctors experienced poor mental health at higher rates than the overall population. The risk is particularly high for medical students, junior doctors and female doctors. A recent review of data from 20 countries found suicide was 76% more likely among female physicians compared to the general female population.

Nov 19, 2024 | theconversation.com | Belinda K. Lunnay |Kristen Foley |Paul Ward

Even before the COVID pandemic, which added significant pressure to the health-care workforce, Australian doctors experienced poor mental health at higher rates than the overall population. The risk is particularly high for medical students, junior doctors and female doctors. A recent review of data from 20 countries found suicide was 76% more likely among female physicians compared to the general female population. All this is a problem for the doctors themselves, and often for their loved ones.

Sep 25, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Kristen Foley |Toby Freeman |Lisa Wood |Joanne Flavel

The context for considering logic modelling as hermeneutic praxisIn 2019, the authors were approached by a local Non-Government Organisation (NGO) planning to establish a Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) service for people experiencing homelessness, and were seeking expertise to ensure it was a robust CPHC design and to consider how the service could be evaluated.

Apr 14, 2023 | emerald.com | Paul Ward |Kristen Foley

Ward, P.R. and Foley, K. (2023), "Introduction: Pandemic-Emotions, Ontologies of Uncertainty and Imagining Emotional Futures", Ward, P.R. and Foley, K. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions for a Post-Pandemic World, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-323-220231001