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Allison Williams

Allison Williams

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
12710
World Ranking
1288
National Ranking
71

Overview

Allison Williams is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the social sciences and health professions. Their work spans a range of topics with a particular focus on intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, employment and welfare studies, geriatric care and nursing homes, and challenges related to work-family balance. Additional areas of interest include healthcare innovation and challenges, workplace health and well-being, and migration and labor dynamics.

Williams has published numerous papers in prominent venues, regularly contributing to the following publication outlets:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • GeoJournal
  • Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Wellbeing Space and Society

Their research collaborations frequently involve several coauthors, notably:

  • Li Wang
  • Bharati Sethi
  • Regina Ding
  • Peter Kitchen
  • Anastassios Dardas

Recent publications by Allison Williams include:

  • The integration of sex and gender considerations in health policymaking: a scoping review (2021), International Journal for Equity in Health
  • In Vivo Competitions between Fibrobacter succinogenes, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Ruminoccus albus in a Gnotobiotic Sheep Model Revealed by Multi-Omic Analyses (2021), Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Intersectionality, health equity, and EDI: What's the difference for health researchers? (2022), International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Iceland as a therapeutic landscape: white wilderness spaces for well-being (2020), GeoJournal
  • Web-Based Delivery of the Caregiving Essentials Course for Informal Caregivers of Older Adults in Ontario: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study (2021), JMIR Aging

Williams' scholarly focus covers a variety of subfields including sociology and political science, general health professions, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, and demography. Their publications in these domains reflect a balanced engagement with both social science and applied health topics.

Best Publications

  • Changing geographies of care: employing the concept of therapeutic landscapes as a framework in examining home space

    Allison Williams

  • From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review.

    Sarah L. Bell;Ronan Foley;Frank Houghton;Avril Maddrell

  • Therapeutic landscapes in holistic medicine

    Allison Williams

  • Interventions to improve medication adherence in people with multiple chronic conditions: a systematic review

    Allison Fiona Williams;Elizabeth Manias;Rowan G Walker

  • Patients’ and family members’ views on how clinicians enact and how they should enact incident disclosure: the “100 patient stories” qualitative study

    Rick A M Iedema;Suellen Allen;Katherine Britton;Donella Piper

  • Therapeutic landscapes : the dynamic between place and wellness

    Allison Williams

  • Living with hope : Initial evaluation of a psychosocial hope intervention for older palliative home care patients

    Wendy D. Duggleby;Lesley Degner;Allison Williams;Karen Wright

  • Metasynthesis of the Hope Experience of Family Caregivers of Persons With Chronic Illness

    Wendy Duggleby;Lorraine Holtslander;Jari Kylma;Vicky Duncan

  • Sense of Community Belonging and Health in Canada: A Regional Analysis

    Peter Kitchen;Allison Williams;James Chowhan

  • Hope, older adults, and chronic illness: a metasynthesis of qualitative research.

    Wendy Duggleby;Deborah Hicks;Cheryl Nekolaichuk;Lorraine Holtslander

  • Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life

    John Eyles;Allison Williams

  • Interventions to improve medication adherence in adult kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review

    Jac Kee Low;Allison Fiona Williams;Elizabeth Manias;Kimberley Ellen Crawford

  • A Mixed Method Approach to Quality of Life Research: A Case Study Approach

    Heather Dunning;Allison Williams;Sylvia Abonyi;Valorie Crooks

  • The experience of people with dementia and nurses in hospital: an integrative review

    Robin Digby;Susan Lee;Allison Williams

  • Loneliness and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis:

    Sarah C Griffin;Allison B Williams;Scott G Ravyts;Samantha N Mladen

  • Spiritual therapeutic landscapes and healing: a case study of St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada.

    Allison Williams

  • Interventions to reduce medication errors in adult intensive care: a systematic review.

    Elizabeth Manias;Allison Fiona Williams;Danny Liew;Danny Liew

  • Exploring environmental factors in nursing workplaces that promote psychological resilience: Constructing a unified theoretical model

    Lynette Cusack;Morgan Smith;Desley Hegney;Clare S. Rees

  • Peer-facilitated cognitive dissonance versus healthy weight eating disorders prevention: A randomized comparison.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Chantale Wilson;Allison Williams;Mackenzie Kelly

  • Beyond the divides: Towards critical population health research

    Ronald Labonte;Michael Polanyi;Nazeem Muhajarine;Tom McIntosh

  • Eczema workshops reduce severity of childhood atopic eczema.

    Elizabeth J Moore;Elizabeth J Moore;Allison Fiona Williams;Elizabeth Manias;George A Varigos;George A Varigos

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Manias
Elizabeth Manias Deakin University
Valorie A. Crooks
Valorie A. Crooks Simon Fraser University
Jenny Ploeg
Jenny Ploeg McMaster University
Bruce Rybarczyk
Bruce Rybarczyk Virginia Commonwealth University
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Rick Iedema
Rick Iedema King's College London
Nadine Schuurman
Nadine Schuurman Simon Fraser University
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Brian Clark Jolly
Brian Clark Jolly University of Newcastle Australia

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