Pain Matters 90 – References and Resources

References and Resources for Pain Matters 90

IMAGINING A FAIRER SOCIETY (Macgregor & Hill O’Connor)

Further Resources

• McCartney et al. (2023) Culture as an objective for, and a means of achieving, a Wellbeing Economy. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 718. (doi: 10.1057/s41599-023-02240-6)
  
  
• McCartney et al. (2025) https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/308087/1/1913503828.pdf
  
  
• Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland: https://www.weallscotland.org/
  
  
• Some of this piece is from a blog on Pain Concern website: https://painconcern.org.uk/social-security-and-chronic-pain/
  
• Atay et al. (2024) Stemming the tide: Healthier jobs to tackle economic inactivity. The Work Foundation at Lancaster University; 2024 [cited 20/3/25]. Available from: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/work-foundation/WF_Stemmingthetide-Healthierjobstotackleeconomicinactivity.pdf

HOW PAIN IS DISMISSED (Magel & Buchman)

References

• Buchman, D. Z., Ho, A., & Illes, J. (2016). You Present like a Drug Addict: Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Trust and Trustworthiness in Chronic Pain Management. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 17(8), 1394–1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnv083
  
  
• Center for American Progress. (2022, December 9). How dehumanizing administrative burdens harm disabled people. American Progress. Retrieved August 29, 2025, from https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-dehumanizing-administrative-burdens-harm-disabled-people/
  
  
• Goldberg, D. (2020). Epistemic Injustice, Disability Stigma, and Public Health Law. In I. G. Cohen, C. Shachar, A. Silvers, & M. A. Stein (Eds.), Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics (pp. 33–46). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• Health Canada. (2020, October). Working together to better understand, prevent, and manage chronic pain: What we heard (Canadian Pain Task Force Report). Government of Canada. Retrieved August 29, 2025, from https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/corporate/about-health-canada/public-engagement/external-advisory-bodies/canadian-pain-task-force/report-2020.html
  
  
• Hemeida, S., Conyers-Tucker, H., Brou, L., & Goldberg, D. (2022, December 8). Structural stigma in law: Implications and opportunities for health and health equity. Health Affairs.  https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20221104.659710/full/
  
  
• Murthy, V. H. (2022). Confronting health worker burnout and well-being. New England Journal of Medicine, 387(7), 577–579. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2207252
  
  
• Poulin, P., Shergill, Y., Romanow, H., Busse, J. W., Chambers, C. T., Cooper, L., Forgeron, P. A., Harper, A. O., Hudspith, M., Iorio, A., & Lalloo, C. (2018). Researching what matters to improve chronic pain care in Canada: A priority-setting partnership process to support patient-oriented research. Canadian Journal of Pain, 2(1), 191–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740527.2018.1433959
  
  
• Scott, W., Buchman, D. Z., & Vasiliou, V. S. (2025). The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62, 101980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101980
  
  
• Sukhera, J., Knaak, S., Ungar, T., & Rehman, M. (2022). Dismantling structural stigma related to mental health and substance use: An educational framework. Academic Medicine, 97(2), 175–181. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000004451

HOSTILE BORDERS INFLICT HURT (Roman et al.)

Bibliography:

• Roman-Juan, J., Hood, A. M., Marbil, M. G., Birnie, K. A., & Noel, M. (2025). Borders that hurt: the link between anti-immigration attitudes in Europe and the epidemic of chronic pain in immigrant adolescents. Pain, 10-1097.
  
  
• Roman-Juan, J., Noel, M., Sharma, S., Jensen, M. P., Marbil, M. G., Birnie, K. A., & Miró, J. (2025). Making underrepresented pain visible: Chronic pain disparities among immigrant adolescents in 30 European countries. The Journal of Pain, 105533.

CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY (Hales)

More about CAPE:

• CAPE: https://dundee-cape.ac.uk/
  
  
• Hales, T.G., Singleton, S. The impact of childhood experiences on chronic pain. Pain Matters (2022). 30: 8.
  
  
• Singleton S., Sneddon C., Bakina A., Lambert J.J., Hales T.G. Early-life adversity increases morphine tolerance and persistent inflammatory hypersensitivity through upregulation of δ opioid receptors in mice. Pain. 2023; 164: 2253-2264. https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/2023/10000/early_life_adversity_increases_morphine_tolerance.11.aspx
  
  
• Senaratne D.N.S., Thakkar B., Smith B.H., Hales T.G., Marryat L., Colvin L.A. The impact of adverse childhood experiences on multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Med. 2024; 22: 315. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-024-03505-w
  
  
• Timmins K.A., Hales T.G., Macfarlane G.J; Consortium Against Pain InEquality (CAPE) investigators and Chronic Pain Advisory Group. Childhood maltreatment and chronic “all over” body pain in adulthood: a counterfactual analysis using UK Biobank. Pain. 2025; 166: 1204-1211. https://journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/2025/05000/childhood_maltreatment_and_chronic__all_over__body.25.aspx
  
  
• Senaratne, D., Koponen, M., Barnett, K., Smith, B.H., Hales, T.G., Marryat, L., Colvin, L.A. The impact of adverse childhood experiences on analgesia-related outcomes: a systematic review. Brit J Anaesthesia. 2025; 134: 461-491. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007091224005683?via%3Dihub
  
  
• Timmins K.A., MacDonald R., Beasley M., Macfarlane G.J. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health at Age 50 Years in the National Child Development Study. JAMA Netw Open. 2025; 8: e2525708. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2838109
  
  
• Mosler F., Christogianni A., Singleton S., Hales T.G., Rennie J., Colvin L.A., Caes L. Assessing exposure to childhood adversity in adults: A systematic review of validated self-report childhood adversity questionnaires. Psychother Psychosom. 2025. doi: 10.1159/000547529.
  
  
• https://karger.com/pps/article/doi/10.1159/000547529/930840/Assessing-Exposure-to-Childhood-Adversity-in

MORE COMPASSIONATE & EQUITABLE CARE (Mittinty)

References:

• Mittinty MM, Hedges J and Jamieson L. “Building evidence to reduce inequities in management of pain for Indigenous Australian people” Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2021-0173
  
  
• Mittinty MM, Vanlint S, Stocks N, Mittinty MN, Moseley GL. Exploring effect of pain education on chronic pain patients’ expectation of recovery and pain intensity. Scand J Pain. 2018 doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2018-0023.
  
  
• https://www.alba.network/GSDinclusiveforms
  
  
• https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender#tab=tab
  
  
• Fausto-Sterling A. The five sexes, revisited. The Sciences, 2000.
  
  
• Peters JR, et al. Improving rigor through gender inclusivity in reproductive psychiatric science. Compr. Psychoneuroendocrinol. 2023.
  
  
• Butler J. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge. 1990
  
  
• Subramaniapillai S, Am Galea L, Einstein G, de Lange AM. Sex and gender in health research: intersectionality matters. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2023.
  
  
• World Health Organization. Sexual health, human rights and the law. World Health Organization. 2015.
  
  
• Heidari S, Babor TF, De Castro P, et al. Sex and Gender Equity in Research: rationale for the SAGER guidelines and recommended use. Res Integr Peer Rev, 2016.
  
  
• Pieretti S, Di Giannuario A, Di Giovannandrea R, Marzoli F, Piccaro G, Minosi P, Aloisi AM. Gender differences in pain and its relief. Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2016
  
  
• Federico O, Templeton K. A Systematic Review of Sex-Related Differences in Response to Post-Operative Orthopaedic Pain Management Protocols. Kans J Med. 2024 
  
  
• Choshen‑Hillel S, Guzikevits M, Gileles‑Hillel A, Gordon‑Hecker T, et al. Sex Bias in Pain Management Decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, 2024.
  
  
• Dahoud S, Simpson P, Naidoo N. The Influence of Patient Sex on Paramedic Administration of Analgesia for Acute Abdominal Pain in an Australian Ambulance Service. Paramedicine, 2024.

THE LIMITS OF ‘LIFESTYLE’ APPROACHES (Blane)

Further reading:

• Nunan D, Blane D and McCartney M (2021) Exemplary medical care or Trojan horse? An analysis of the ‘Lifestyle Medicine’ movement. British Journal of General Practice, 71(706), pp. 229-232. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X715721)
  
  
• Macgregor C, Walumbe J, Tulle E, Seenan C and Blane DN. (2023) Intersectionality as a theoretical framework for researching health inequities in chronic pain. British Journal of Pain, 17(5), pp. 479-490. (doi: 10.1177/20494637231188583)
  
  
• O’Donnell C, Hanlon P, Blane D, Macdonald S, Williamson A, Mair F. (2020)
  
  
• We should consider prevention burden in our approach to tackling NCDs – The BMJ

DIGITAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES (Walumbe)

Further reading:

• Greene, D. (2021). The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope: MIT Press.
  
  
• Hao, K. (2025). Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination: Penguin Books Limited.
  
  
• Vallor, S. (2024). The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking: Oxford University Press.