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Staff details Prof Sheena Asthana
Qualifications & background BA (Hons) in Geography. First Class (Congratulatory); St John’s College, Oxford, 1986 PhD in Community Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1991 Roles on external bodies Board member, Commission for Rural Communities, 2006 - Membership of Journal Editorial Boards: Advisory Editor, Social Science and Medicine (2003-2006). Book Reviews Editor, Health and Place (1997-2000) Member, Editorial Board, Health and Place (1995-present) Offices held in Learned Societies: Chair, Geography of Health Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers (1999-2002) Secretary/Treasurer, Geography of Health Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, (1996-1999) Newsletter Editor, Medical Geography Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers (1993-1994) Committee Member, Medical Geography Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers (1992-1995) Contribution to Public Sector: Technical Advisor on Resource Allocation to Rural Health Allocation Project Team, 2001-2003. Member, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Action Zone Steering Group, 2000-2002 Member, Evaluation and Research Board, Plymouth Health Action Zone, 1998-2002 Research interests Health services research; rural health & health care; health resource allocation; health inequalities policies; community-based strategies in health development (including HIV/AIDS); and equity and education. Grants & contracts S. Asthana and J.
Halliday. Evaluation of the Peninsula
Cancer Network Project for raising Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention.
Peninsula Cancer Network, £29,643,
2009-10 S. Asthana, A. Gibson, J. Halliday, P. Hewson. Resource
Allocation in Statutory Service Provision: an Assessment of the Police and Fire
Formulae. Rural Services Partnership, £20,222, 2008. S. Asthana,
A. Gibson, T. Bailey, C. Dibbens. Developing a resource allocation formula
at General Practice level based on individual patient characteristics
(Person-Based Resource Allocation): Mental Health. NIHR, Policy Research Programme, £191,216,
2008 A. Gibson and S.
Asthana. Resource Allocation through the Local Government Finance
Settlement: How Do Rural Areas Fare? Rural Services Partnership, £18,850,
2008. C. Hyde, C. Meads, S. Bryan, P. Barton, D. Moore,
C. Davenport, J, Parry, J. Deeks, J. Hawker, A. Fry-Smith, S. Bayliss, K.
Stein, R. Andersen, N. Britten, R. Garside, S. Asthana, M. Somerville. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Centre for
Public Health Excellence (CPHE) Public Health Collaborating Centre, National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence, £2,212,000; 2008-2011. S. Asthana,
A. Gibson, T. Bailey, C. Dibbens. The feasibility of developing an approach to Person Based
Resource Allocation (PBRA) based on epidemiological data.
NIHR, Policy Research Programme, £121,269, 2007. A. Gibson and S. Asthana. NHS resource allocation: does A. Gibson, S. Asthana. Meeting Health Needs in Rural Areas,
Research Councils S. Asthana. Our
City’s Health: developing Practical Tool-kits for policies to address Health
Inequalities. Plymouth PCT Public Health Department, £20,000, 2003-2004. S. Asthana, P. Brigham, J. Halliday, A. Gibson, I.
Mackenzie, J. Dicker, G. Floyd, G. Moon. Review
of the Effectiveness of measuring Rural Deprivation. South West Public
Health Observatory, £24,934. 2001. S. Asthana, A. Gibson, G. Moon, P. Brigham and J.
Halliday. Health Resource Allocation:
What Case can be made for Rurality?
Rural Health Allocations Forum, £59,214. 2001-2002. S. Asthana, A. Gibson, J. Halliday, J. Dixon, G.
Moon. Evaluation of the S. Asthana, J. Chandler, J. Dixon and J. Halliday,
Partnership Working in S. Asthana, G. Moon, J. Dicker and A. Gibson. Inequalities
in Health Service Utilization at the General Practice Level. Economic and
Social Research Council, £81,481. 1999-2001. S. Asthana. The additional costs of delivering health and
social services in remote and rural areas. S. Asthana.
Health Needs and Service
Deficiencies within Plymouth Health Action Zone. Plymouth Health Action
Zone and A.. Gibson, S. Asthana and E. Wragg. Parental
Choice, Selection by Ability and a ‘Free Market’ in Education: Raising
Educational Standards or the Social Polarization of Schools? The Nuffield
Foundation. £39,700. 1997-1999. S. Asthana and A. Gibson. GP Fundholding and the Provision of Primary Health Care: A
Socio-Spatial Analysis. S. Asthana.. Community Participation in HIV Prevention
and Care in Publications PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000 INCLUDE:
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. Resource allocation for
English local government: a critique of the four block model. Forthcoming in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,
Series A. Asthana,
S., Gibson, A. (2010). Funding Implications for Rural PCTs of the new NHS
Resource Allocation Methodology, in All Party Parliamentary Group on Rural
Services, The implications of national funding formulae for rural health and
education provision, Report, Written and Oral evidence. Asthana, S., Halliday, J. and Gibson, A. (2009).
Social exclusion and social justice: a rural perspective on resource
allocation. Policy and Politics 37(2): 201-214. Asthana S. (2009). Health and Development. In
Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume
1, pp. 28-34.Oxford: Elsevier Asthana, S. and Gibson, A. (2008). Deprivation,
demography and the distribution of general practice: challenging the
conventional wisdom of inverse care. British Journal of General Practice,
October 2008, 719-27. Asthana, S. and Gibson, A. (2008). Health care
equity , health equity and resource allocation: towards a normative approach to
achieving the core principles of the NHS. Radical Statistics 98: 6-26. Asthana, S. and Gibson, A. (2007). Social justice
for the less usual suspects: should rural communities get a 'fairer' share? Crucible,
October-December, 2007. Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2007). From evidence
to practice: addressing health inequalities through Sure Start. Evidence and
Policy 3(1): 31-45
Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2006). Towards a new
framework for evidence based public health: the analysis of ‘public health
regimes’. Milbank Quarterly. 84: 577-603 Richardson, S. and Asthana, S. (2006). Inter-agency
information sharing in health and social care services: the role of
professional culture. British Journal of Social Work 36 (4):657-669. Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2006). What works
in tackling health inequalities? Pathways, policies and practice through the
lifecourse. Asthana, S. and Gibson, A. (2005). Rationing
in response to NHS deficits: rural patients are likely to be affected most. British
Medical Journal 331: 1472. Richardson, S. and Asthana, S. (2005). Policy and
legal influences on inter-organisational information sharing in health and
social care services. Journal of Integrated Care, 13(3): 3-10. Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2005). Policy at the
margins: developing community capacity in a rural Health Action Zone. Area
37(2):180-88. Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2004) What can rural
agencies do to address the additional costs of rural services? A typology of
rural service innovation. Health and Social Care in the Community 12(6):
457-65. Halliday, J., Asthana, S. & Richardson, S.
(2004). Evaluating partnership: the role of formal assessment tools. Evaluation
10(3): 285-303. Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and
Brigham, P. (2004). The demographic and social class basis of inequalities in
morbidity: a comparison. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
58(4): 303-7. Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and
Brigham, P. (2004). The pursuit of equity in NHS resource allocation: should
morbidity replace utilisation as the basis for setting health care capitations?
Social Science and Medicine, 58(3):539-551. Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2004) Navigating
complexity. The emergent role of the link worker: a study in collaboration. Journal
of Inter-professional Care, 18(1):17-28. Asthana, S. (2004), Health policy and legislation
relating to HIV/AIDS in Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2003). Intermediate
care: its place in a whole systems approach. Journal of Integrated Care
11(6):15-24. Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G. and Brigham, P.
(2003) Allocating resources for health and social care: the significance of
rurality. Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(6):486-93. Gibson, A., Asthana, S., Brigham, P., Moon, G. and
Dicker, J. (2002). Geographies of Need and the New NHS: Methodological Issues
in the Definition and Measurement of the Health Needs of Local Populations. Health
and Place, 8(1):47-60. Asthana, S., Curtis, S., Asthana, S., Halliday, J. and Richardson, S.
(2002). Partnership working in public policy provision: a framework for
evaluation. Social Policy and Administration, 36: 780-95. Halliday, J., Richardson, S. and Asthana, S.
(2002). A role for Health Action Zones within Local Strategic Partnerships:
lessons from the South-West. In Bauld, L. and Judge, K. Learning from Health
Action Zones. Aeneas Ltd. pp 95-105. Asthana, S., Brigham, P. and Gibson, A. (2002). Health
Resource Allocation in England: What Case can be made for Rurality. x + Asthana, S., Halliday, J., Brigham, P. and Gibson,
A. (2002). Rural Deprivation and Service Need: an Assessment of Indicators
for Rural Service Planning. vi + 41 pp. Report published by South West
Public Health Observatory. ISBN 0-95413595-4 Asthana, S. and Oostvogels, R. (2001) The Social
Construction of Male-Male Sexual Activity in Gibson, A. and Asthana, S., (2000). What’s in a
number? Commentary on Gorard and Fitz's 'Investigating the determinants of
segregation between schools', Research Papers in Education,
15(2):133-153. Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000) Estimating the
socio-economic characteristics of school populations using pupil postcodes and
census data: an appraisal. Environment and Planning A, 32:1267-1285. Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000). Local markets
and the polarization of schools in Reports & invited lectures INVITED PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2000:
Asthana, S. (2007). Rural services: a matter of social justice? Paper presented to the Society of County Treasures, University of Warwick, 10th May, 2007. Asthana, S. (2006). Social justice for the less usual suspects: does Labour care? Paper presented to the Socialist Health Association’s Labour Fringe event; Manchester, 25th September, 2006. Asthana, S. (2006). Health care equity, health equity and resource allocation: clarifying the concepts. Paper presented to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Citizens Council, NICE, London, 8th June, 2006. Asthana, S. (2006). Equity in health provision: a fair deal for rural areas? Paper presented to the Rural Citizen: Governance, Culture and Wellbeing in the 21st Century conference, University of Plymouth, 9th April, 2006. Asthana, S. (2005). Rural health and health care: what are the key issues?. Paper presented to the Devon Rural Network Autumn Event, ‘Focus on Health in Rural Areas’. Stoneleigh Court, Tiverton, 30th November, 2005. Asthana, S. (2005). Rural finances, rural challenges and some rural solutions. Paper presented to the ‘Designing Remote and Rural Secondary Healthcare around the Needs of Children’ Conference. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. London, 3rd October, 2005. Asthana, S. (2003). Health resource allocation: making the case for a rural premium. Paper presented to ‘Beyond the Rural Idyll: Implementing Mainstream Health Policies in a Rural Context’. A National Primary and Care Trust Development Programme (Natpact) event, Redworth Hall, Nr Darlington, 20th November, 2003. Asthana, S. and Render, T. (2003). Analysis of rural deprivation, health status and links to the economy. Paper presented to ‘Health, Economy and the Rural Environment’. A South West Rural Affairs Forum Event. St Mellion, Cornwall, July 2nd, 2003. Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2003). Learning about Partnership: Lessons from the South West HAZs. ‘Learning from Health Action Zones: Lessons from the HAZ evaluation to inform policy development locally and nationally’ meeting. London: Department of Health, 5th March, 2003. Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2001). Resource Allocation Methodologies for the prevention and treatment of specific diseases: a critical review of the attribution and resource-weighting of condition-specific indicative prevalences. Paper presented to the Technical Advisory Group of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation, Department of Health, London, 22nd May, 2001. Gibson, A., Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2001). Effectiveness of different measures of health deprivation, Paper presented to the Meeting of the South West Local Government Research Officers, Taunton, 27th April, 2001. Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000). Estimating the social composition of school populations: a postcode census method of profiling ‘non-contiguous populations’. Paper presented to the DfEE ‘Value Added and Funding Policies’ Seminar, London, 5th April, 2000. SELECTED REPORTS SINCE 2000
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2008). Needs based funding
in the Local Government Finance Settlement: A Critique. Report to the Rural
Services Partnership. RAE Consulting. Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Bailey, T., Dibben, C., Hewson,
P., Economou,
T., Batchelor, D., Eastham, J., Craig, R., Scholes, S., Flowers, J., Jenner, D.
(2008). Person Based Resource Allocation (PBRA): The
Feasibility of Developing a Need-Based Approach to PBRA. Report
to the Department of Health. University of Plymouth. Brigham, P and Asthana, S. (2003). A Case Study of Assertive Outreach in Urban and Rural Areas of Cornwall and Devon. Report for the Rural Health Allocations Forum, January 2003. University of Plymouth. Asthana, S. (2002). Intermediate Care in Cornwall: HAZ Evaluation Report. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group. November 2002. University of Plymouth. Lunnen, M., Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2002). The Beacon Care Centre Project: Evaluation Report. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, November, 2002, University of Plymouth. Asthana, S and Brigham, P. (2002). NHS Resource Allocation: the Case for a Rural Premium. Report for Rural Health Allocations Forum, September, 2002, University of Plymouth. Halliday, J., Richardson, S. & Asthana, S. (2002) Healthy Partnerships? Assessing progress in Two Health Action Zones. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, July 2002, University of Plymouth. Lunnen, M., Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2002). Healthy Towns Project: Evaluation Report. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, July, 2002, University of Plymouth. Lunnen, M., Halliday, J. and Asthana, S. (2002). The Pendeen Project: Evaluation Report. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, July, 2002, University of Plymouth. Asthana, S., Halliday, J. and Bennett, G. (2002). Programme Level Evaluation Reports: Children and Young People and Eldercare. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, April 2002, University of Plymouth. Asthana, S. and Halliday, J. (2002). Participation and Advocacy Project: Evaluation Report. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group, April, 2002, University of Plymouth. Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and Brigham, P. (2001). Practice level needs assessment: a comparison of different approaches using routine data. Series of unpublished reports for seven health authorities, University of Plymouth, May, 2001. 105pp. Asthana, S., Halliday, J. Bennett, G., Butler, A. and May, N. (2001). Partnership working in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Action Zone: Emergent Themes. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HAZ Steering Group. University of Plymouth, February, 2001. Richardson, S. and Asthana, S. (2001) Plymouth Health Action Zone Partnership Effectiveness Evaluation. Interim Report. July 2001. Plymouth: University of Plymouth. Asthana, S. (2000). British Research in the Geography of Health: an Overview of Recent Developments. In the Millennium Report of the International Geographical Union (ed N Thrift and D Walling). Conferences organised
Convenor, ‘Tackling Health Inequalities, an examination of current policy and practice’, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, University of Plymouth, January, 2001.
Convenor, 'International Perspectives on the Geography of Health’. 9th International Medical Geography Symposium, Montreal, 3rd-7th July 2000.
Convenor, 'Reflections on Health Geography on the Millennium'. Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, University of Sussex, January, 2000.
Convenor, ‘Gender, Health and Development’, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, University of Leicester, January, 1999.
Convenor, ‘Geographical Implications of the NHS Reforms’, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, University of Exeter, January 1997.
Convenor, ‘New Perspectives on the Geography of Health in a Changing World’, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, University of Exeter, January 1997.
Convenor, Medical Geography, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers, 3-6th January, 1996, University of Strathclyde.
Convenor, Workshop on 'Current Debates in Health and Development', held at the Midsessional Conference of the IBG Medical Geography Study Group and the IGU Commission on Health, Environment and Development. 13-15th July, 1993, Crossmead Conference Centre, Exeter, UK. Convenor, Midsessional Conference of the IBG Medical Geography Study Group and the IGU Commission on Health, Environment and Development. 13-15th July, 1993, Crossmead Conference Centre, Exeter, UK.
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