Kevin McCracken - Recent Publications
Book Chapters
McCracken, K. and Phillips, D.R. (2009 forthcoming) "Epidemiological Transition", in N. Thrift and R. Kitchin (eds), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier. (ISBN 978-0-080-44910-4)
McCracken, K. and Phillips, D.R. (2005) 'International demographic transitions', pp.36-60 in G.J. Andrews and D.R. Phillips (eds.), Ageing and Place: Perspectives, Policy, Practice, Routledge, London and New York. (ISBN 0-415-32044-5)
McCracken, K. and Curson, P. (2003) 'Flu downunder: a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 pandemic in Sydney, Australia" pp.110-131 and 272-275 in H. Phillips and D. Killingray (eds.), The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918: New Perspectives, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, Routledge, London. (ISBN 041523445X)
McCracken, K. and Curson, P. (2000) "In sickness and in health: Sydney past and present", pp. 96-118 and 352-356 in J. Connell (ed), Sydney: The Emergence of a World City, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. (ISBN 0 19 550748 7)
Journal Articles
Vaneckova, P., Beggs, P.J., de Dear R.J. and McCracken, K.W. (2008) "Effect of temperature on mortality during the six warmer months in Sydney, Australia, between 1993 and 2004", Environmental Research, 108(3), pp.361-369
Caley, P., Philp, D. and McCracken, K. (2008) 'Quantifying social distancing arising from pandemic influenza', Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 5(23), pp.631-639.
Andrews, G.J., Cutchin, M., McCracken, K., Phillips, D.R., and Wiles, J. (2007) "Geographical gerontology: the constitution of a discipline", Social Science and Medicine, 65(1), pp.151-168.
Curson, P. and McCracken, K. (2006) "An Australian perspective of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic", NSW Public Health Bulletin, 17(7-8), pp.103-107
Howitt, R., McCracken, K. and Curson, P. (2005) "Australian Indigenous Health: What issues contribute to a national crisis and scandal?, GeoDate, (March). (ISSN 1320-9698)
McCracken, K. (2004) "Just how many people live in central Sydney?", People and Place, 12(4), pp.42-45.
Bradbeer,J. Healey, M. and Kneale, P., with members of the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education Learning Styles and Concepts Team# (2004) "Undergraduate geographers' understandings of geography, learning and teaching: a phenomenographic study", Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28(1), pp.17-34.(# R. Bednarz, A. Bradley, J. Campbell, S. Hardwick, R. Jones, R le Heron, K. McCracken, M. Milicich, E. Pawson, A. Pilgrim, D. Porteous, M. Solem, and C. Stringer)
McCracken, K. (2002) "What if New South Wales was more equal?", NSW Public Health Bulletin, 13(6), 2002, pp.123-127.
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/phb/HTML2002/june02html/phbjune02.pdf
McCracken, K.(2002) "Population pressures on Sydney", pp.11-17 in WSROC, Growing Western Sydney Regional Forum Proceedings, WSROC Ltd, Blacktown. (ISBN 1 86271 321 9)
McCracken, K. (2001) "Into a SEIFA SES cul-de-sac?", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(4), pp. 305-306.
McCracken, K. (2000) "Some comments on the SEIFA96 indexes", 11pp in Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Australian Population Association 2000, Australian Population Association, Melbourne. (ISBN 0-9578572-0-9)
McCracken, K. (1999) "Global challenges: population geography", Geography Bulletin, 31(3), pp. 80-84.
McCracken, K. (1999) "Recent trends in Sydney's population", Geography Bulletin, 31(1), pp. 5-11 and 38.
http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=990706653;res=APAFT
McCracken, K. (1998) "Approaches to needs assessment in community services planning", pp. 46-53 in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society 1995, New Zealand Geographical Society, Hamilton, New Zealand. (ISSN 1174-7250)
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
McCracken, K. "Childbirth risk never too far away", The Weekend Australian, November 8, 2008, p.12.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24613232-23289,00.html
McCracken, K. "It's our way of life that's killing us", The Sydney Morning Herald, January 5, 2007, p.9.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/its-our-way-of-living-thats-killingus/2007/01/04/1167777216319.html
McCracken, K. and Curson, P. (2005) "Flu of the past has lessons for the future", The Weekend Australian, November 19-20, p. 21.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17286899%255E23289,00.html
McCracken, K. (2004) "Health restructure must always keep a finger
on the local pulse", The Sydney Morning Herald, December
30, p.13.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/12/29/1103996611673.html
McCracken, K. (2003) "Law and order is the least of the Solomon
Islands' problems", The Age, August 1, p.13.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/31/1059480478625.html
McCracken, K. (2002) "More, or less, equal?", Macquarie
University News, No. 341, August, p.12.
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/macnews/showitem.asp?ItemID=122
McCracken, K. (2002) "The population debate: size isn't everything",
Macquarie University News, No. 337, April p.13.
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/macnews/showitem.asp?
ItemID=83
McCracken, K. (2002) "Pick a number, any number. It's not a population
policy", The Age, February 27, p.15.
http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/02/26/1014704950667.html
McCracken, K. (2001) "Lock, stock and barrel", The Sydney Morning Herald, August 3, p.11.
McCracken, K. (2001) "Apocalypse is merely postponed", The Australian, April 18, p.11.
Curson, P. and McCracken, K. (2000) "The Black Death: human nature and the politics of pestilence", The Sydney Morning Herald, January 19, p.15