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Quah, Stella R

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Professor Quah (PhD, NUS; M.Sc, Florida State University; B.A., Colombia National University) is an adjunct Professor in the Signature Programme in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS. Her areas of research are medical sociology, family sociology and public policy. Among her published studies as Principal Investigator are the impact of individuals’ physical and mental illnesses on their families, on family caregiving and on the health care system; cross-national analysis of the burden of illicit psychoactive drugs on individuals and governments’ responses to the problems of addiction and trafficking; the governance of epidemics; utilisation of biomedical health services and indigenous healing practices; self-medication; population health attitudes and health-related behaviour; analyses of socio-cultural factors in infectious diseases, heart disease and cancer and public health education.

 

Professor Quah’s areas of research are health sociology, family sociology and public policy. Among her published studies as Principal Investigator are the impact of individuals’ physical and mental illnesses on their families, on family caregiving, and on the health care system; cross-national analysis of the burden of illicit psychoactive drugs on individuals and governments’ responses to the problems of addiction and trafficking; the governance of epidemics; utilization of biomedical health services and indigenous healing practices; self-medication; population health attitudes and health-related behavior; analyses of socio-cultural factors in infectious diseases, heart disease and cancer; and public health education (full list of publications available at (https://stellarquah.wixsite.com/sociologicalresearch).

Selected Publications

  1. Quah, S.R. (2022) “Sociology and Psychology in Public Health”. In Roger Detels, Q.A. Karim, Fran Baum, Liming Li, and A.H. Leyland, eds., Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health. 7th Edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6.1, Volume 2, pp. 291-306. Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health - Oxford Medicine    
  2. Quah, S.R. (2021) “Health and Culture in the Global Context”. In W.C. Cockerham (ed), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 62-79.  
  3. Quah, S.R. (2020) “Wrestling with role strain in a pandemic: Family, ‘Stay-at-home” directive, and the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 51, 3-4: 236-253.
  4. Quah, S.R. (2020) “From harm reduction to harm prevention: A cross-national comparison of eleven countries”, Home Team Journal, Special Issue, January, 4-16.  
  5. Malhotra R., Chei CL, Menon, EB, Chow WL, Quah S.R., Chan A, Ajay S, Matchar DB (2018) “Trajectories of positive aspects of caregiving among family caregivers of stroke-survivors: the differential impact of stroke-survivor disability”, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 25, 4:261-268.     
  6. Quah, S.R. (2017) “Partnership: The missing link in the process of de-institutionalization of mental health care”, International Journal of Health Services, 47, 3:532-549.  
  7. Quah, S.R. and Cockerham, W.C. eds. (2017) International Encyclopedia of Public Health. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Academic Press. Seven volumes. Editor-in-Chief and contributor.   
  8. Quah, S.R. (2015) “Illness and caregiving in the family”. In Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 359-374. 
  9. Quah, S.R. (2014) “Caring for persons with schizophrenia at home: Examining the link between family caregivers’ role distress and quality of life,” Sociology of Health and Illness, 36, 4:596-612.  
  10. Quah, S.R. ed. (2007) Crisis Preparedness: Asia and the Global Governance of Epidemics. Stanford, CA: Stanford Shorenstein APARC & Brookings Institution. Editor and contributor.