All Outputs (32)

Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aim: This umbrella review aimed to assess relationships between the built and natural environment and health, concentrating on five predefined topic areas: neighbourhood design, housing, food environment, natural and sustainable environment, and tran... Read More about Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review.

Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aim: This umbrella review aimed to assess relationships between the built and natural environment and health, concentrating on five predefined topic areas: neighbourhood design, housing, food environment, natural and sustainable environment, and tran... Read More about Built and natural environment planning principles for promoting health: An umbrella review.

The role of home adaptations in improving later life (2017)
Report

This report summarises the findings of a systematic review of the best, available scientific evidence on how home adaptations can contribute to improving later life. Living in a suitable home is crucially important to a good later life. The right h... Read More about The role of home adaptations in improving later life.

The impact of the built environment on health: An evidence review (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As part of the Wellcome Trust-funded UPSTREAM project, a systematic review compiled evidence investigating the impact on health and wellbeing of five thematic areas of urban development design: transport, buildings, food, natural environment, and nei... Read More about The impact of the built environment on health: An evidence review.

Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: There is considerable debate about the strength and quality of the evidence base which underpins principles of good design of the lived environment and the causal pathways to good mental and physical health. In England, there has been n... Read More about Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places.

Recruitment, employability and career development for international students undertaking the UWE MSc Public Health: Final report (2017)
Report

Executive Summary Background Over the last decade, the MSc Public Health at UWE has successfully recruited many international students. An issue for the university in promoting the benefits of the programme internationally is that there is a good c... Read More about Recruitment, employability and career development for international students undertaking the UWE MSc Public Health: Final report.

Estimating the prevalence, hospitalisation and mortality from type 2 diabetes mellitus in Nigeria: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
Journal Article

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. Background: There is not yet a comprehensive evidence-based epidemiological report on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Nigeria.... Read More about Estimating the prevalence, hospitalisation and mortality from type 2 diabetes mellitus in Nigeria: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Upstream: Moving health upstream in urban development planning (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presented the interim findings from the Upstream project, funded by Wellcome. Upstream seeks to engage those working at strategic levels within urban planning, to determine barriers and facilitators to the more effective integration of hea... Read More about Upstream: Moving health upstream in urban development planning.

Recording and reporting of mobile phone involvement in road traffic collisions: Survey of police officers (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This poster was presented at the 2017 South West Public Health Scientific Conference. It presents the findings from our survey of collision investigation officers, which investigated how police forces investigate and record mobile phone involvement i... Read More about Recording and reporting of mobile phone involvement in road traffic collisions: Survey of police officers.

Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This document presents an overview of a three-year pilot funded by the Wellcome Trust an initiated in 2016. The project has three main strands of work- systematic reviews of evidence linking the quality of urban form to human health impacts, an econo... Read More about Moving health upstream in urban development decision-making.

Mobile phone use while driving: Underestimation of a global threat (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The use of mobile phones (cell phones) has increased dramatically in the 21st century. The popularity of mobile phones and smart phones in the computer age can in part be associated with the growing problem of driver distraction.... Read More about Mobile phone use while driving: Underestimation of a global threat.

Healthy people healthy places evidence tool: Evidence and practical linkage for design, planning and health
Report

This project was commissioned by Public Health England to address the need for a UK centric evidence review which analyses and demonstrates the links between health and the built and natural environment. This umbrella review attempts to provide an ov... Read More about Healthy people healthy places evidence tool: Evidence and practical linkage for design, planning and health.