Newcastle HEALTHEARTH Network

(Last Updated 10 January 2008)
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
· PhD, Clinical and Community Psychology, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Honolulu, 1979. Grade point average 4.0/4.0, PhD scholarship, East-West Center, Culture Learning Institute, 1974-1979.

· Master of Arts, Environmental-Social Psychology, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Honolulu, 1973. Grade point average 4.0/4.0, Masters scholarship, East-West Center, Culture Learning Institute, 1971-1973.

RESEARCH GRANTS (Since 1995; selected)

2008 Climate change, place and community. An ethnographic study of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Connor, L., Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N. $422,000, 4 years.

2005 A rural community database. University of Newcastle Research Infrastructure Grant, B. Kelly, G. Albrecht, T Lewin, Higginbotham, N. $25,000, 1 year.

2005 Open cuts to land and culture: Rural community engagement with large-scale industrial development. Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant. L. Connor, G. Albrecht, N. Higginbotham, $122,000, 3 years.

2005 The effect of drought on rural and remote Australian communities. The University of Newcastle, Research Grants Committee Project Grant, B. Kelly, H. Stain, N. Higginbotham, G. Albrecht, et al., 1 year, $9,400.

2004 Changing diets, levels of activity and environments and their relationship to the emergence of adolescence overweight and obesity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hong, TK, Dibley, M, Sibbritt, D. & Higginbotham, N. Nestles Foundation, 2004-2006, US$100,000; A$132,000)

2004 Psychological and social monitoring of Hunter environmental change. The University of Newcastle, Research Grants Committee Project Grant, N. Higginbotham, L. Connor, G. Albrecht, W. Smith, C. Dalton, 1 year, $15,000.

2003 Relating ecological and human distress syndromes: A pilot investigation in Upper Hunter communities exposed to large scale industrial and mining activity. The University of Newcastle, Research Management Committee, Collaborative Grant, 1 year. N. Higginbotham, L. Connor, W. Smith, $14,000.

2002 Anthropometric status of adult men and women in Vietnam and the relationship between levels of body mass and risk of morbidity. N. Higginbotham, M. Dibley, Wellcome Trust, $89,000.

2002 Study of health outcomes in aircraft maintenance personnel. Commonwealth of Australia Department of Veteran’s Affairs & Department of Defence. Kate D’Este, Team Leader, Stage 1--$302,000.

2001 Impact of electronic information on patient health seeking behaviour, decision-making and wellbeing. University of Newcastle, Research Management Committee, Small Grant, 1 year, A. Dugdale & N. Higginbotham, $10,000.

2001 Social inoculation program to prevent uptake of cigarette smoking among high school students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. University of Newcastle, Research Management Committee, Small Grant, 1 year, $10,000.

2000 Conceptions of nourishment during pregnancy among primiparous Australian women of English-speaking backgrounds: Influence of social class and sources of health knowledge. Australian Research Council, Small Grant, 1 year, $12,000.

1999 Barriers to the provision of quality continuing medical education activities for GPs: What prevents providers from delivering more effective forms of CME? T. Winzenberg, N. Higginbotham. Royal Australian College of General Practice, $5500, 1 year.

1997 Public participation in resource allocation in health. Commonwealth Department of Health & Family Services, Pharmaceuticals, 1 year, $43,600, D. Newby, D. Henry, N. Higginbotham (co-investigator)

1996 Preventive care trial for elderly veterans and war widows. Australian Commonwealth Department of Veterans Affairs, 4 years, $1,656,000. R. Heller (Team leader), J. Byles, N. Higginbotham (Co-Invest.), K. Nair, L. Lim, J. Butler & C. Jackson (Competitive).

1996 Disseminating an academic detailing intervention program to reduce the exposure of health care workers to risk of HIV infection in Southeast Asia. World AIDS Foundation, 2 years, $38,000, R. Heller, N. Higginbotham (Co-Invest), Carla Treloar (Competitive).

1995 INCLEN Social Science Twinning Program. INCLEN, Inc., 2 years, $310,000. N. Higginbotham.

1995 Asia Pacific Network Secretariat. Ford Foundation, 18 months, $90,000. N. Higginbotham.

1995 Social support for older persons. Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, RADGAC, 1 year, $18,000. J. Byles, N. Higginbotham (co-investigator), M. Coory, B. Goodger (Competitive).

BOOKS

Higginbotham, N., Albrecht, G. & Connor, L. Health social science: A transdisciplinary and complexity perspective. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Higginbotham, N., Briceno-Leon, R., & Johnson, N. (Eds.). Applying Health Social Science: Best Practice from the Developing World. London: Zed Books, 2001.

Arhinful, D, Das, A., Hadiyono, J., Heggenhougen, K., Higginbotham, N., Iyun, F., Quick, J. & Ross-Degnan, How to use applied qualitative methods to design drug use interventions. World Health Organization, Drug Action Program (Dec. 1996). www.inrud.org/documents/how_to_use_applied_qualitative_

Higginbotham H.N., West, S. & Forsyth, D. Psychology and behavior change: Social, cultural and methodological perspectives. New York: Pergamon Press, 1988.

Higginbotham, H.N. Third World challenge to psychiatry: Culture accommodation and mental health care. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

BOOK CHAPTERS (Refereed; Selected)

Albrecht G., Higginbotham, N., Connor, L., Freeman, S. Human Health and Ecosystem Health: A social Perspective. In K. Heggenhougen (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Health. San Diego: Elsevier, 2008 (in press).

Tanaka-Matsumi, J., Higginbotham, N. & Chang, R. Behavioral approaches to counseling across cultures. In P. Pedersen, J. Draguns, W. Lonner and J. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures, (Revised 5th Edition). London: Sage Publications, 2001.

Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S. Heading, G., and Saul, A. Cultural constructions of risk: The case of heart disease in the New South Wales Coalfields. In & N. Higginbotham, R. Briceno-Leon & N. Johnson (Eds), Applying health social sciences: Best practice from the developing world. London: Zed Books, 2001.

Tanaka-Matsumi, J., & Higginbotham, N. Behavioural approaches to counselling across cultures. In P. Pedersen, J. Draguns, W. Lonner and J. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures, (Revised 4th Edition). London: Sage Publications, 1996.

Goldstein, A., & Higginbotham, N. Relationship-enhancement methods. In F.H. Kanfer & A.P. Goldstein (Eds.), Helping people change, 4th Edition. New York: Pergamon Press, 1991.

Higginbotham, N. & Connor, L. Culture accommodation of primary health care: A framework for assessing the contribution of patient-provider fit to health transitions. In J. Caldwell (Ed.), Cultural, Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health: What is the Evidence? Canberra: NCEPH, 1989.

Stain, H.J., Kelly, B., Lewin, T.J., Higginbotham, N., Beard, J. & Hourihan, F. Social networks and mental health among a farming population. (Jan 2008 submitted to Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology).

Sartore, G. M., Kelly, B., Stain, H. J., Albrecht, G., & Higginbotham, N. Control, uncertainty, and expectations for the future: A qualitative study of the mental health impact of drought on a rural Australian community. Social Science & Medicine, (draft 7, submitted Oct 2007).

Connor, L., Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N. and Freeman, S. Watercourses and discourses: Coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW. In: Water Ways: Competition and Communality in the Use and Management of Water. Oceania Special Edition, Ed. Veronica Strang (in press, submitted 15 Nov 2007)

Albrecht, G., Sartore, G., Connor, L. Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S., Kelly, B., Stain, H., Tonna, A., & Pollard, G. Solastalgia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change. Australasian Psychiatry, 2007, 15(Supplement): S95-98.

Higginbotham, N., Connor, L., Albrecht, G., Freeman, S & Agho, K. Validation of an Environmental Distress Scale (EDS). EcoHealth, 2006, 3: 245-54.

Winzenberg, T. & Higginbotham, N. Why don't providers more often deliver more effective continuing medical education activities to general practitioners? Focus on Health Professional Education, 2005, 7(1), 49-61.

Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N., Cashman, P. & Flint, K. Evolution of transdisciplinarity and ecosystem health at the University of Newcastle, New SouthWales, Australia. EcoHealth, 2004, 1(Suppl. 1), 23-29.

Connor, L.C., Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S., & Smith, W. Environmental change and human health in Upper Hunter communities of New South Wales. EcoHealth, 2004, 1(Suppl. 2), 47-58.

Byles, J.E., Tavener, M., O’Connell, R., Nair, B.R., Higginbotham, N., Jackson, C., McKernon, M., Francis, L., Heller, R.F., Newbury, J., Marley, J., Goodger, B. A randomised controlled trial of health assessments for older Australian veterans and war widows. Medical Journal of Australia, 2004, 18(4), 186-190.

Harris, G., Connor, L., Bisits, A. & Higginbotham, N. Seeing the Baby: Pleasures

and dilemmas of ultrasound technologies for primiparous Australian women. Medical

Howteerakul, N. & Higginbotham, N. Antimicrobial use in children under five years with diarrhoea in a central region province, Thailand. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 2004, 35(1), 181-187.

Osmotherly, P., Higginbotham, N. Assessing low back and shoulder pain patients’ intention to perform a home based exercise program. Physiotherapy: Theory and Practice 2004, 20, 57-71.

Winzenberg, T.N., & Higginbotham, N. Factors affecting the intention of providers to deliver more effective continuing medical education to general practitioners: a pilot study. BMC Medical Education 2003, 3 (11), (14 Dec., 2003, 22 pages).

Howteerakul, N., Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S. & Dibley, M. ORS is never enough: Physician rationales

for altering standard treatment guidelines when managing childhood diarrhoea in Thailand. Social Science & Medicine, 2003, 57(6), 1031-1044.

Mackenzie, L., Byles, J., & Higginbotham, N. Professional perceptions about home safety: Cross-national validation of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOMEFAST). Journal of Allied Health, 2002, 31 (1), 22-28.

Mackenzie, L., Byles, J., & Higginbotham, N. Reliability of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) for measuring falls risk for older people. Disability and Rehabilitation, 2002, 24(5), 266-274.

Fletcher, R.J., Higginbotham, N., & Dobson, A. Men’s perceived health needs. Journal of Health Psychology, 2002, 7 (3), 233-241.

McClean, W.J., & Higginbotham, N. Prevalence of pain among communicating nursing home residents in rural New South Wales. Medical Journal of Australia, 2002, 177(1 July), 17-20.

Byles, J., Tavener, Fitzgerald, P.E.B., Nair, B.R., Higginbotham, N., Jackson, C., Heller, R.F., & Newbury, J.W. A checklist for comprehensive health assessment for over 70’s. Australasian Journal on Ageing 2002, 21(1), 14-20.

Plotnikoff, R. & Higginbotham, N. Protection motivation theory and exercise behaviour change for the prevention of coronary heart disease in a high-risk, Australian representative community sample of adults. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 2002, 7 (1), 89-100.

Mackenzie, L., Byles, J., & Higginbotham, N. A prospective community-based study of falls among older people in Australia: Frequency, circumstances and consequences. The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research 2002, 22(4), 143-152.

Serquina-Ramiro, L., Kasniyah, N., Inthusoma, T., Higginbotham, N., Streiner, D., Nichter, M., & Freeman, S. Measles immunisation acceptance in Southeast Asia: Past patterns and future challenges. Southeast Asian J. of Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 2001, 32(4), 791-804.

Fletcher, R.J., Higginbotham, N., & Dobson, A. Men’s perceived health needs. NSW Public Health Bulletin, 2001, 12(12), 327-329.

Mukti, A.G., Treloar, C., Suprawimbarti, Asdie, A.H., D’Este, K., Higginbotham, N., Heller, R. A universal precautions education intervention for health workers in Sadjito and PKU Hospital, Indonesia. Southeast Asian J. Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 2000, 31(2), 1-7.

Mackenzie, L., Byles, J., & Higginbotham, N. Designing the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST): Selecting the items. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2000, 63(6), 260-269.

Byles, J., Higginbotham, N., Goodger, B., Tavener, M. Conrad, A., Schofield, P., Anthony, D. Development of a depression scale for veterans and war widows. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2000, 7(3), 256-270.

Treloar, C., Champness, S., Simpson, P.L., Higginbotham, N. A critical appraisal checklist for qualitative research within clinical epidemiology. Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2000, 67 (4), 22-27.

Saradamma, R.D., Higginbotham, N., & Nichter, M. Social factors influencing the acquisition of antibiotics without a prescription in Kerala State, South India. Social Science and Medicine, 2000, 50, 891-903.

Goodger, B., Byles, J., & Higginbotham, N. Assessment of a short scale to measure social support among older people. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 1999, 23(3), 260-265.

Higginbotham, N., Heading, G., McElduff, P., Dobson, A. & Heller, R. Reducing coronary heart disease in the Australian Coalfields: evaluation of a 10-year community intervention. Social Science & Medicine, 1999, 48 (5), 683-692.

Higginbotham, N., Saul, A. & Heller, R. Lifestyle diseases in Southeast Asia: Potential lessons from health social science research on community understandings of risk and vulnerability. Indonesian Journal of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, 1998, 5(2), 1-5.

Sarwono, S.W., Broto, S.P., Soemitro, D.S. & Higginbotham, N. A social psychological study of diarrhoeal disease in Indonesia. South Pacific Journal of Psychology, 1998, 10(2), 68-70.

Plotnikoff, R. & Higginbotham, N. Protection motivation theory and the prediction of exercise and low-fat diet behaviours among Australian cardiac patients. Psychology & Health, 1998, 13, 411-429.

Albrecht, G., Freeman, S. & Higginbotham, N. Complexity and human health: The case for a transdisciplinary paradigm. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1998, 22, 55-92.

Raymond, D., Henry, R., Higginbotham, N., & Coory, M. Predicting readmission to hospital with asthma. Journal of Paediatric Child Health, 1998, 34, 534-538.

Gregory, C., Higginbotham, N. & Shea, J. Evaluation of a multi-component solar protection intervention with Australian Tech College Surveying students. South Pacific Journal of Psychology, 1997, 9, 48-68.

Harris, M.A., Byles, J.E., Higginbotham, N. & Nair, B. Preventive programs for the elderly: how effective are they? Australian Journal on Ageing, 1996, 15(4), 148-153.

Treloar, C., Higginbotham, N., Malcolm, J., Sutherland, D. & Berenger, S. An “Academic Detailing” intervention to decrease exposure to HIV infection among health care workers. J of Health Psychology, 1996, 1(4), 455-468.

Plotnikoff, R., Williams, P. & Higginbotham, N. Evaluation of the Kurri Kurri school Healthy Heartbeat Project. Australian Council of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1996, 43(2), 21-25.

Dupen, F., Higginbotham, N., Francis, L., Cruickshank, D. & Gibson, P. Validation of a new multidimensional health locus of control scale (Form C) in asthma research. Psychology & Health: The International Review of Health Psychology, 1996, 11, 493-504.

Treloar, C., Higginbotham, N., Malcolm, J. Sutherland, D. & Berenger, S. The personal experience of Australian health care workers accidentally exposed to risk of HIV infection. AIDS, 1995, 9, 1385-86.

Plotnikoff, R. & Higginbotham, N. Predicting low-fat diet intentions and behaviors for the prevention of coronary heart disease: An application of protection motivation theory among an Australian population. Psychology & Health, 1995, 10, 397-408.

Higginbotham, N. Capacity building for health social science: The International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) social science program and the International Forum for Social Science in Health (IFSSH). Acta Tropica, 1994, 57, 123-137.

Tanaka-Matsumi, J. & Higginbotham, N. Clinical application of behavior therapy across ethnic and cultural boundaries. The Behavior Therapist, 1994, 17(6), 123-126.

Treloar C.J., Malcolm, J.A., Sutherland, D., Berenger, S. & Higginbotham, N. Hospital administrators' tolerance of staff needlestick injuries. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 1994, 15, 307-310.

Dobson, A., Blijlevens, R., Alexander, H., Croce, N., Heller, R., & Higginbotham, et al. Short fat questionnaire: A self-administered measure of fat-intake behaviour. Aust. Journal of Public Health, 1993, 17, 144-149.

Lim, L., Valenti, L.A., Knapp, J.C., Dobson, A.J., Plotnikoff, R., Higginbotham, N., & Heller, R. A self-administered Quality-of-Life Questionnaire after acute myocardial infarction. J of Clinical Epidemiology, 1993, 46, 1249-56.

Higginbotham, N., Heading, G., Pont, J., Plotnikoff, R., Dobson, A., et al. Community worry about heart disease: a needs survey in the Coalfields and Newcastle. Aus Journal of Public Health, 1993, 17, 314-320.

Gibson, P., Henry, D., Francis, L., Cruickshank, D., Dupen, F., Higginbotham, N., Henry, R., & Sutherland, D. Association between the availability of non-prescription B2 agonist inhalers and under-treatment of asthma. British Medical Journal, 1993, 306, 1514-1518.

Higginbotham, N. Developing partnerships for health and social science research: The International Clinical Epidemiology Network Social Science Component. Social Science and Medicine, 1992, 35, 1325-1327.

Henry, D., Gibson, P., Cruickshank, D., Francis, L., Dupen, F., Higginbotham, N., & Henry, R. Non-prescription use of bronchodilator aerosols. Medical Journal of Australia, 1992, 156, 68.

Higginbotham N. & Streiner, D. The social science contribution to pharmaco-epidemiology. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1991, 44, Supp. 2, 73S-82S.

Higginbotham, N. & Tanaka-Matsumi, J. Cross-cultural application of behaviour therapy. Behaviour Change, 1991, 8, 35-42.

Higginbotham, N. A review of Donovan & Henley (Eds) Social marketing principles & practice. Drug and Alcohol Review, 2005, 24, 201-202.

Albrecht, G., Connor, L., & Higginbotham, N. Open cuts to land and culture: Strip mining and its impact on the sense of well being of people in rural communities, Proceedings of the IDRC International Forum on Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health, 2004.

Connor, L., Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N., & Freeman, S., & Smith, W. Environmental change and human health: A pilot study in Upper Hunter Valley Communities. In Albrecht, G (Ed.) Proceedings of the Airs, Waters, Places Transdisciplinary Conference on Ecosystem Health in Australia, School of Environmental Health and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, 2003, pp. 118-130.

Devi, R.S., Higginbotham N. & Kandamuthan, M. Social factors influencing the acquisition of antibiotics without prescription in rural Kerala State, India. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1997, 50, Supp. 1, 43S.

Mamoon, H., Gibson, P., Shah, S., Henry, R., Higginbotham, N., & Bauman, A. Peer-led asthma education for adolescents. III. Validation of an Asthma Video Questionnaire for High School Students (AVQHS). Proceedings of the Thoracic Society of A&NZ Annual Scientific Meeting, 6-10 April, 1997, Wellington New Zealand.

Kuchaisit, C. & Higginbotham, N. An education intervention to increase the use of condoms for the prevention of HIV infection among male Factory Workers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 1996, 49, Supp. 1, 13S.