Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Charlotte Brewer

Rural Health Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Sydney, Australia

Biography

Professor Brewer researches the history of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), from its beginnings in the late 1850s up to and including the major online revision currently under way at Oxford University Press. She is particularly interested in OED’s coverage of individual authors and periods in the language (Shakespeare, Austen, the 18th century), its influence on literary and linguistic history, and its treatment of areas of language relating to culture and society (e.g. politics, sex and gender, usage and correctness).

Publications

Factors Promoting Use of Mental Health Services in a Rural Area of Australia

This paper reports research which identified a number of mental health help-seeking responses in a rural region of Australia. It describes the characteristics of services and of individual health professionals, as well as some Australian government initiatives that may promote help seeking behaviours. Focus group and individual interviews were unde... Read More»

David Pierce and Charlotte Brewer

Research Article: J Community Med Health Edu 2012. 2: 190

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000190

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