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Sickle Cell: A Guide to School Policy (Second Edition)
(2016-06-19)
A second edition of the Guide to School Policy on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia: A Guide to School Policy (English Version)
(2011-01-05)
This booklet has been produced based on research examining the experiences of young people with sickle cell disorder in schools in England. An important part of school inclusiveness is recognizing the importance of offering ...
Narrative as re-fusion: making sense and value from sickle cell and thalassaemia trait
(Sage, 2016-08-03)
The moral turn within sociology suggests we need to be attentive to values and have a rapprochement with philosophy. The study of illness narratives is one area of sociology that has consistently addressed itself to moral ...
Critical realism, agency and sickle cell: case studies of young people with sickle cell disorder at school
(2013-07-26)
Critical realism suggests that historical structures may operate as underlying generative mechanisms but not always be activated. This explains the near-absence of references to racism by black students with sickle cell ...
“I can die today, I can die tomorrow”: Lay perceptions of sickle cell disease in Kumasi, Ghana at a point of transition.
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-08)
Objective. To describe the lay meanings of sickle cell disease (SCD) in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
Design. Depth interviews with 31 fathers of people with SCD; a focus group with health professionals associated with ...
Reported school experiences of young people living with sickle cell disorder in England.
(Routledge, 2010-02)
A survey of 569 young people with sickle cell disorder (SCD) in England has found such pupils miss considerable periods of time from school, typically in short periods of two or three days. One-in-eight have school absences ...
“I can die today, I can die tomorrow”: Lay perceptions of sickle cell disease in Kumasi, Ghana at a point of transition.
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2012-01)
Objective
To describe the lay meanings of sickle cell disease in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
Design
Depth interviews with 31 fathers of people with sickle cell disease; a focus group with health professionals ...
Disclosure and sickle cell disorder: a mixed methods study of the young person with sickle cell at school.
(Elsevier, 2010-05-08)
Sickle cell is a leading genetic condition, both globally and in England. Little research has been conducted into the experiences of young people with sickle cell at school. A mixed methods study (May 2007–September 2008) ...
School ethos and variation in health experience of young people with sickle cell disorder at school
(Radcliffe, 2012)
Young people with the serious chronic illness, such as sickle cell disorder, report high levels of negative experiences at school that have adverse effects on their health. Disclosure of sickle cell status appears unrelated ...
"Talk to me. There's two of us": Fathers and sickle cell screening.
(SAGE (British Sociological Association), 2015-02-03)
Studying kinship has involved doing family, displaying family, and ‘displaying family’ as a sensitizing concept to understand modalities troublesome to display. Fathers at ante-natal screening clinics for sickle cell are ...
