Gillian Abel
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New Zealand public health researcher
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Gillian Abel's Degrees
- Bachelors Biomedical Science University of Auckland
- Masters Public Health University of New Zealand
- PhD Public Health University of New Zealand
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gillian Abel is a New Zealand public health researcher and as of 2021 head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago in Christchurch. Education After a receiving a diploma from Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, Abel moved to New Zealand in 1997 to work at the University of Otago. She graduated from Otago in 2010 with a PhD titled "Decriminalisation: A harm minimisation and human rights approach to regulating sex work".
Gillian Abel's Published Works
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Published Works
- A ‘segmented’ sex industry in New Zealand: sexual and personal safety of female sex workers (2001) (95)
- ‘When you come to it you feel like a dork asking a guy to put a condom on’: is sex education addressing young people's understandings of risk? (2006) (92)
- A decade of decriminalization: Sex work ‘down under’ but not underground (2014) (91)
- The Impact of Decriminalisation on the Number of Sex Workers in New Zealand (2009) (73)
- Different stage, different performance: the protective strategy of role play on emotional health in sex work. (2011) (62)
- Taking the crime out of sex work: New Zealand sex workers’ fight for decriminalisation (2010) (62)
- Peers, Networks or Relationships: strategies for understanding social dynamics as determinants of smoking behaviour (2002) (57)
- Young people's use of condoms and their perceived vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (2005) (54)
- The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the health and safety practices of sex workers: Report 1: Key informant focus groups (2006) (36)
- Decriminalisation : a harm minimisation and human rights approach to regulating sex work (2010) (32)
- Decriminalisation and stigma (2010) (32)
- ‘I can’t get my husband to go and have a colonoscopy’: Gender and screening for colorectal cancer (2012) (30)
- ‘The street's got its advantages’: Movement between sectors of the sex industry in a decriminalised environment (2012) (27)
- ‘I dodged the stigma bullet’: Canadian sex workers’ situated responses to occupational stigma (2020) (27)
- On a fast-track into adulthood: an exploration of transitions into adulthood for street-based sex workers in New Zealand (2008) (25)
- Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence and sexual behaviour in Christchurch high school students. (2002) (23)
- Access to general practice for Pacific peoples: a place for cultural competency. (2012) (21)
- Sex workers' utilisation of health services in a decriminalised environment. (2014) (20)
- Services and information utilised by female sex workers for sexual and physical safety. (2000) (19)
- The Prostitution Reform Act (2010) (16)
- Is it time to talk? Interpreter services use in general practice within Canterbury. (2013) (16)
- Proposed new industry code on unhealthy food marketing to children and young people: will it make a difference? (2017) (12)
- “I’m taking control”: how people living with HIV/AIDS manage stigma in health interactions (2017) (12)
- Kids in a Candy Store: An Objective Analysis of Children’s Interactions with Food in Convenience Stores (2019) (11)
- Food store environment examination – FoodSee: a new method to study the food store environment using wearable cameras (2020) (11)
- In search of a fair and free society : The regulation of sex work in New Zealand (2017) (10)
- Risk and risk management in sex work post-prostitution reform act: A public health perspective (2010) (10)
- The media and the Prostitution Reform Act (2010) (10)
- Curricular initiatives that enhance student knowledge and perceptions of sexual and gender minority groups: a critical interpretive synthesis (2016) (9)
- “Build a friendship with them”: The discourse of “at‐risk” as a barrier to relationship building between young people who trade sex and social workers (2017) (8)
- General Practitioners, specialists and surveillance guidelines: Interpreting the socio-clinical context of decision-making (2011) (8)
- The Problem with Sex Work Policies (2019) (7)
- The Prostitution Reform Act (2003) and Social Work in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2016) (7)
- The work of negotiating HIV as a chronic condition: a qualitative analysis (2016) (6)
- "I don't want to look like an AIDS victim": A New Zealand case study of facial lipoatrophy. (2018) (6)
- Brothels as Sites of Third-Party Exploitation? Decriminalisation and Sex Workers’ Employment Rights (2020) (6)
- What do specialists and GPs think about the introduction of colorectal cancer screening? A qualitative study. (2011) (5)
- Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice? Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19 (2020) (5)
- Safety in the New Zealand sex industry (2015) (4)
- Commentary: Sex work is here to stay and decriminalisation improves safety and social justice (2018) (4)
- Christchurch School of Medicine study: methodology and methods (2010) (4)
- ‘Men don't have patience’: Sexuality, pleasure and danger in displacement settings in Northcentral Nigeria (2019) (4)
- Ensuring the right to food for indigenous children: a case study of stakeholder perspectives on policy options to ensure the rights of tamariki Māori to healthy food (2021) (3)
- Finding out what we need to know: Developing a participatory research methodology with young people who have exited statuatory care and protection (2006) (3)
- Decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand (2009) (2)
- Children’s Community Nutrition Environment, Food and Drink Purchases and Consumption on Journeys between Home and School: A Wearable Camera Study (2022) (2)
- “You’re selling a brand”: Marketing commercial sex online (2021) (2)
- Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice? (2020) (1)
- Decriminalisation of sex work protects human rights (2018) (1)
- Introduction (2020) (1)
- A collaborative conversation (2005) (1)
- Sex Worker-Led Provision of Services in New Zealand: Optimising Health and Safety in a Decriminalised Context (2021) (1)
- A case for connecting school-based health education in Aotearoa New Zealand to critical health literacy (2022) (1)
- Putting assemblage to work to explore pedagogical practices in health education in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021) (1)
- Decriminalization of sex work: the New Zealand experience (2009) (0)
- Contested Space: Street-based Sex Workers and Community Engagement (2020) (0)
- Evaluation of the Implementation of the Training for the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand Resource 'When Is It Not A Game? A Health Resource for Secondary Schools' (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation (2021) (0)
- A case study of young people in Christchurch: A three- year longitudinal study of young people in a co-educational secondary school (2005) (0)
- “They wouldn't get away with it at McDonalds”: Decriminalization, work, and disciplinary power in New Zealand brothels (2022) (0)
- Home consumption and belonging among British migrants in Western Australia (2018) (0)
- Long distance relationships: Working towards a combined approach to transnationalism and the sociology of relationships (2006) (0)
- A critical media analysis of the print media reporting on the implementation of the Prostitution Reform Act, 2003-2006 (2007) (0)
- Contested Space: (2020) (0)
- Aranui Primary Care Nursing Project (2003-2006) Evaluation Report (2006) (0)
- The Problem with Sex Work Policies (2018) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES TO IMPROVING FOOD AVAILABILITY FOR TAMARIKI MĀORI: A narrative literature review and theory-based synthesis (2020) (0)
- Decriminalsation of the new Zealand Sex Industry: Reflections on stigma, pleasure and practice post-Prostitution Reform Act (2006) (0)
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