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Inter-sectoral Transfer of the Food for Life Settings Framework in England (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Organisational settings such as schools, workplaces and hospitals are well recognised as key environments for health promotion. Whilst there is extensive literature on spec... Read More about Inter-sectoral Transfer of the Food for Life Settings Framework in England.

Recent developments in public health education accreditation (2016)
Journal Article

Summary: In 2011, ASPHER established the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA). This represented the culmination of nearly a quarter of a century of activities dating back to 1988 in developing and assuring quality in public health... Read More about Recent developments in public health education accreditation.

Participant and Public Involvement in Refining a Peer-Volunteering Active Aging Intervention: Project ACE (Active, Connected, Engaged) (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. Background Evidence for the health benefits of a physically active lifestyle among older adults is strong, yet only a small proportion of older people meet physical activity recommendations. A synthesis of evidence identified "b... Read More about Participant and Public Involvement in Refining a Peer-Volunteering Active Aging Intervention: Project ACE (Active, Connected, Engaged).

Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives:

This qualitative study sought to elicit the views, experiences, career journeys and aspirations of women in senior post-graduate medical education roles to identify steps needed to help support career progression.

Design:

In-dept... Read More about Women in senior post-graduate medicine career roles in the UK: a qualitative study.

Crossing disciplines: do architecture and planning course leaders see value in a Public Health Practitioner in Residence programme? (2016)
Journal Article

Highlights

• We study a public health residency in a university architecture and planning department.
• We assess the benefits of the residency from the perspective of the teaching staff.
• The residency was successful at introducing public heal... Read More about Crossing disciplines: do architecture and planning course leaders see value in a Public Health Practitioner in Residence programme?.

Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the Soil Association Food for Life programme (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To evaluate the progress of FFL within the hospital setting
A case study approach with three pathfinder organisations working with the SA (Barts Health, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. S... Read More about Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the Soil Association Food for Life programme.

Environment, beliefs and behaviour (2016)
Journal Article

Editorial

Evaluation of Food for Life 2013-15: Summary and synthesis report (2016)
Report

This is the final report of the phase two evaluation of Food for Life undertaken by the University of the West of England, Bristol 2013-15.

The research encompassed five workstreams:
1. Long term impacts and durability - understanding how and w... Read More about Evaluation of Food for Life 2013-15: Summary and synthesis report.

Food for life: A social return on investment analysis of the locally commissioned programme. Full Report (2016)
Report

A Social Return on Investment Analysis of two locally commissioned Food for Life programmes

Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of ultrasonographic measurements of acromiongreater tuberosity distance in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) is reported in up to 81% of patients with stroke. Ultrasonographic measurements of GHS by measuring the acromion-greater tuberosity (AGT) have been found t... Read More about Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of ultrasonographic measurements of acromiongreater tuberosity distance in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia.

Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the UK Food for Life Partnership (2015)
Journal Article

The Food for Life Partnership (FFLP) is an initiative led by the Soil Association (SA), a non governmental organisation in the UK which aims to encourage a healthy, sustainable food culture in communities. The SA also runs a Catering Mark scheme that... Read More about Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the UK Food for Life Partnership.

A pilot study of a peer volunteering intervention for promoting active ageing in the community: Project ACE (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Project ACE (Active, Connected and Engaged) is a theory-informed, pragmatic intervention using peer volunteering support to promote active ageing.
The ACE intervention was one of the outcomes of a 12–month collaborative network, AVONet, that used a... Read More about A pilot study of a peer volunteering intervention for promoting active ageing in the community: Project ACE.

Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the Soil Association Food for Life programme (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Food for Life (FFL) is an initiative which aims to encourage a healthy, sustainable food culture in communities, and is led by the Soil Association (SA), a UK charity. Thanks to a Big Lottery Fund grant, FFL have been able to develop the programme wi... Read More about Improving hospital food: Evaluating the impact of the Soil Association Food for Life programme.

Evaluation of recruitment and selection for specialty training in public health: Interim results of a prospective cohort study to measure the predictive validity of the selection process (2015)
Journal Article

Background The recruitment process for public health specialty training includes an assessment centre (AC) with three components, Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal (RANRA),Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCT) and a Situation Jud... Read More about Evaluation of recruitment and selection for specialty training in public health: Interim results of a prospective cohort study to measure the predictive validity of the selection process.

Objectively assessed physical activity and lower limb function and prospective associations with mortality and newly diagnosed disease in UK older adults: An OPAL four-year follow-up study (2015)
Journal Article

Background: objective measures of physical activity and function with a diverse cohort of UK adults in their 70s and 80s were used to investigate relative risk of all-cause mortality and diagnoses of new diseases over a 4-year period.

Participants... Read More about Objectively assessed physical activity and lower limb function and prospective associations with mortality and newly diagnosed disease in UK older adults: An OPAL four-year follow-up study.

Understanding change and continuity in walking and cycling over the life course: A first look at gender and cohort differences (2015)
Book Chapter

Research of walking and cycling is dominated by approaches oriented to explanations of behavioural outcomes as a function of contemporaneous circumstances. The lack of a long term temporal perspective precludes understanding of behaviour as an outcom... Read More about Understanding change and continuity in walking and cycling over the life course: A first look at gender and cohort differences.

Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: In 2009 an assessment centre, looking at critical thinking (Watson Glaser Critical thinking Appraisal ) and numerical reasoning numeracy (Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal t) was introduced to identify candidates to invite to a... Read More about Predictive validity of recruitment into public health specialist training in the UK.

Assessment of glenohumeral subluxation in poststroke hemiplegia: Comparison between ultrasound and fingerbreadth palpation methods (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 American Physical Therapy Association. Background. Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) is a common poststroke complication. Treatment of GHS is hampered by the lack of objective, real-time clinical measurements.Objective. The aims of this study wer... Read More about Assessment of glenohumeral subluxation in poststroke hemiplegia: Comparison between ultrasound and fingerbreadth palpation methods.

A biographical approach to studying individual change and continuity in walking and cycling over the life course (2014)
Journal Article

Most research studies seeking to understand walking and cycling behaviours have used cross-sectional data to explain inter-individual differences at a particular point in time. Investigations of individual walking and cycling over time are limited, d... Read More about A biographical approach to studying individual change and continuity in walking and cycling over the life course.

Objectively assessed physical activity and subsequent health service use of UK adults aged 70 and over: A four to five year follow up study (2014)
Journal Article

Objectives: To examine the associations between volume and intensity of older peoples' physical activity, with their subsequent health service usage over the following four to five years. Study Design: A prospective cohort design using baseline parti... Read More about Objectively assessed physical activity and subsequent health service use of UK adults aged 70 and over: A four to five year follow up study.