Staff Profiles

 


Straughan, Paulin Tay
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Medical Sociology (with emphasis on preventive health behaviour and mental illness); Gerontology; Work and Family; Organizational Behaviour.

Teaching Areas
Research methodology; Social Statistics; Medical Sociology; Sociology of the Family; Social Stratification.

 

Selected Publications
-(with Teo, P CC and A Chan) Providing health care for older persons in Singapore. Health Policy (2003). Forthcoming.
-(with Seow A, S R Quah, D Nyam, T Chua and TC Aw) Food groups and the risk of colorectal carcinoma in an Asian population. CANCER 95, 11 (2002): 2390-2396.
-(with L H Seow) Attitudes as barriers in breast screening: a prospective study among Singapore women. Social Science and Medicine 51, 11 (2000): 1695-1703.
-(with Seow, A L H and J Huang) Effects of social support, regular physician and health-related attitudes on cervical cancer screening in an Asian population. Cancer Causes and Control 11 (2000): 223-230.
-The Social Contradictions of the Normal Family: Challenges to the Ideology. Department of Sociology Working Papers Series, 135. Singapore: National University of Singapore, 1999, 18 pp.
-(with A L H Seow) "Fatalism reconceptualized: a concept to predict health screening behavior." Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health, 3, 2 (1998): 85-100.
-(with Seow, A L H, E H Ng and H P Lee) A randomized trial of print material and face-to-face contact to improve mammography uptake among initial non-attenders in an Asian population. Annals (Academy of Medicine Singapore), 27, 6 (1998): 838-842.

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