Dr Susan Heydon
| Position | Senior Lecturer |
|---|---|
| Qualifications | BA(Hons) MA PhD DHMSA |
| Research summary | Social pharmacy; medicines and society in developed and developing countries |
Research
My research expertise is in international health, implementation of aid, provision and use of health services in developed and developing countries and interaction between different medical systems. My focus is on the broader historical, social, political and economic context in which sickness is experienced and healthcare services are provided.
The main areas I am currently working on are:
- Changing patterns of medicines use, the place of medicines in primary healthcare services both in international/global and New Zealand contexts, medicines and migration, and medicines in the context of people's lives. I have a particular interest in Nepal and the Himalayan region.
- Global vaccination programmes, focusing on smallpox in Nepal
- Medicines and pharmacy history in New Zealand
Publications
Abdul Aziz, Y. H., Heydon, S. J., Duffull, S. B., & Marra, C. A. (2022). Investigating the provision, nature and associated costs of unfunded pharmacy services: A nationwide study. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.08.019
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). What do Pakistani women know about New Zealand’s healthcare system? Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(3), 214-220. doi: 10.1071/HC22036
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). Access to the healthcare system: Experiences and perspectives of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand. Journal of Migration & Health, 5, 100077. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2021.100077
Gregan, A., Heydon, S., & Braund, R. (2022). Understanding the factors influencing prescriber uptake of pharmacist recommendations in secondary care. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 18(8), 3438-3443. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.10.003
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). Bringing medicine from Pakistan and self-medication among Pakistani mothers in New Zealand. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 24, 682-688. doi: 10.1007/s10903-021-01228-1
Heydon, S., & Duffull, S. (2013). Pharmacy at Otago: The first 50 years: The school, the profession and the people. Dunedin, New Zealand: National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, 80p.
Authored Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2009). Modern medicine and international aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966-1998. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 380p.
Authored Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2021). House, social life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963. In M. Gharipour & C. DeClercq (Eds.), Epidemic urbanism: Contagious diseases in global cities. (pp. 143-150). Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Chapter in Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2015). Nepal: Primary health care, universal health coverage and foreign aid. In A. Medcalf, S. Bhattacharya, H. Momen, M. Saavedra & M. Jones (Eds.), Health for all: The journey of universal health coverage. (pp. 35-44). Hyderabad, India: Orient Blackswan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2010). "The greatest news": Khunde Hospital and childbirth in a Sherpa community in Nepal. In S. Craig, M. Cuomu, F. Garrett & M. Schrempf (Eds.), Studies of medical pluralism in Tibetan history and society. (pp. 279-305). Andiast, Switzerland: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.
Chapter in Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2007). Sherpa beliefs and Western medicine: Providing health care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal. In M. Schrempf (Ed.), Soundings in Tibetan Medicine: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives: PIATS 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. (pp. 65-90). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Chapter in Book - Research
Heydon, S. (2005). Kiwis in Khumbu: Negotiating landscape and community at Khunde hospital. In T. Ballantyne & J. A. Bennett (Eds.), Landscape/community: Perspectives from New Zealand. (pp. 133-145). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Abdul Aziz, Y. H., Heydon, S. J., Duffull, S. B., & Marra, C. A. (2022). Investigating the provision, nature and associated costs of unfunded pharmacy services: A nationwide study. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.08.019
Journal - Research Article
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). Access to the healthcare system: Experiences and perspectives of Pakistani immigrant mothers in New Zealand. Journal of Migration & Health, 5, 100077. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2021.100077
Journal - Research Article
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). Bringing medicine from Pakistan and self-medication among Pakistani mothers in New Zealand. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 24, 682-688. doi: 10.1007/s10903-021-01228-1
Journal - Research Article
Akhtar, S. S., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2022). What do Pakistani women know about New Zealand’s healthcare system? Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(3), 214-220. doi: 10.1071/HC22036
Journal - Research Article
Gregan, A., Heydon, S., & Braund, R. (2022). Understanding the factors influencing prescriber uptake of pharmacist recommendations in secondary care. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 18(8), 3438-3443. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.10.003
Journal - Research Article
Abdul Aziz, Y. H., Heydon, S. J., Duffull, S. B., & Marra, C. A. (2021). Are professional pharmacy services being offered for free in pharmacies? A feasibility study exploring the use of a time motion study in New Zealand. Pharmacy Practice, 19(3), 2422. doi: 10.18549/PharmPract.2021.3.2422
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Abdul Aziz, Y. H., Heydon, S. J., Duffull, S. B., & Marra, C. A. (2021). What free services do pharmacists offer? Investigating the provision of unfunded pharmacy services provided in community pharmacies. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 17, 588-594. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.05.007
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Widayanti, A. W., Heydon, S., Green, J. A., & Norris, P. (2021). Effectiveness of an intensive community-based intervention for people with type 2 diabetes in Indonesia: A pilot study. Diabetes Research & Clinical Practice, 181, 109087. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109087
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Widayanti, A. W., Heydon, S., Norris, P., & Green, J. A. (2020). Lay perceptions and illness experiences of people with type 2 diabetes in Indonesia: A qualitative study. Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine, 8(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2019.1699101
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Widayanti, A. W., Norris, P., Green, J. A., & Heydon, S. (2020). Is expanding service through an outreach programme enough to improve immunisation uptake? A qualitative study in Indonesia. Global Public Health, 15(8), 1168-1181. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1751229
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Widayanti, A. W., Norris, P., Heydon, S., & Green, J. A. (2020). Medicine taking behaviours of people with type 2 diabetes in Indonesia: A qualitative study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 42, 31-39. doi: 10.1007/s11096-019-00933-0
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Heydon, S. (2019). Death of the king: The introduction of vaccination into Nepal in 1816. Medical History, 63(1), 24-43. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.61
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Heydon, S. (2019). Missions, visitors and international aid: Foreign medical encounters with Nepal. Studies in Nepali History & Society, 24(1), 73-104.
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KC, B., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2019). Access to and use of medicines in the Annapurna region of Western Nepal and possible impacting factors. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy & Practice, 12, 11. doi: 10.1186/s40545-019-0172-3
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KC, B., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2019). Implications of changing trekker demographics on travel health in the Annapurna region. Public Health, 168, 157-163. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.09.018
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K C, B., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2016). Health programmes logistics and international aid in Nepal: An overview of processes improvements. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Sevices Research, 7, 141-144. doi: 10.1111/jphs.12130
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Doughty, L., & Heydon, S. (2015). Medicine supply during the First World War: Overcoming shortages in New Zealand. Health & History, 17(2), 37-51. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.17.2.0037
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Heydon, S. (2015). Which medicine? Medicine-taking and changing Sherpa lives. Himalaya, 35(1), 9. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol35/iss1/9
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K C, B., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2015). Access to and quality use of non-communicable diseases medicines in Nepal [Commentary]. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy & Practice, 8(1), 21. doi: 10.1186/s40545-015-0041-7
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Symon, V., Heydon, S., Medlicott, N. J., Kieser, J., & Fleming, J. S. (2015). Before CSI: Making the case for a novel portrayal of forensic science. International Journal of Science in Society, 6, 7-15.
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Bagge, M., Norris, P., Heydon, S., & Tordoff, J. (2014). Older people’s experiences of medicine changes on leaving hospital. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 10, 791-800. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.10.005
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Heydon, S. (2014). Edmund Hillary: His Everest legacy. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 16(2), 5-29.
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Bagge, M., Tordoff, J., Norris, P., & Heydon, S. (2013). Older people's attitudes towards their regular medicines. Journal of Primary Health Care, 5(3), 234-242.
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Heydon, S. (2011). Medicines, travellers and the introduction and spread of 'modern' medicine in the Mt Everest region of Nepal. Medical History, 55(4), 503-521.
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Heydon, S. (2011). Mountains and medicines: History and medicines use in rural Nepal. Southern Med Review, 4(1), 4-8. doi: 10.5655/smr.v4i1.77
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Heydon, S. (2010). Celebrating and reflecting on the centenary of tropical medicine in Australia, 1910-2010. Annals of the ACTM, 11(1), 5-7.
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Heydon, S. (2007). 'High places': Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa and health services in the Mt Everest area of Nepal. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 9(1), 133-155.
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Widayanti, A. W., Green, J. A., Heydon, S., & Norris, P. (2020). Health-seeking behavior of people in Indonesia: A narrative review. Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health, 10(1), 6-15. doi: 10.2991/jegh.k.200102.001
Journal - Research Other
Heydon, S. (2016). [Review of the book The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era]. Reviews in History, 2024. doi: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2024
Journal - Research Other
Heydon, S. (2012). [Review of the book House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox]. Social History of Medicine, 25(3), 734-735. doi: 10.1093/shm/hks024
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Heydon, S. (2003). [Review of the book Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and confinement[. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 5(2), 176-179.
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