Women’s views on smoking in pregnancy: A systematic review of qualitative research
Author(s)
Prof Hilary Graham, Dr Kate Flemming, Dr Amanda Sowden, Morag Heirs and Dave Fo
Presenter(s)
Dr Kate Flemming Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
Professor Hilary Graham Head, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
Biography
Hilary Graham is Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Her research has focused particularly on women’s cigarette smoking in the context of social disadvantage. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative studies, she has explored how social disadvantage across the life course – from childhood to adulthood – is linked to being a smoker. Her books include /When Life’s a Drag: Women, Smoking and Disadvantage/ (HMSO, 1993), /Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities /(Open University Press, 2007) and /Understanding Health Inequalities/ (Open University Press, 2010).
Kate Flemming is a lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Her research focuses on how the synthesis of research can help inform the evidence base for Public Health and for End of Life Care. Most recently Kate has worked on a synthesis of qualitative research examining women’s views on smoking in pregnancy. Her methodological work feeds into her post-graduate teaching of research methods. Other areas of Kate’s teaching draw on her clinical background and she leads modules in palliative and end of life care.
