Nick De Viggiani's Outputs (75)

Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills (2014)
Journal Article

Aims: The present study reports on the evaluation of a postgraduate assignment in which students produced a health promotion website. The aim of the study was to examine the application of WordPress as a platform for developing contemporary skills in... Read More about Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills.

Moving prison health promotion along: Towards an integrative framework for action to develop health promotion and tackle the social determinants of health (2014)
Journal Article

The majority of prisoners are drawn from deprived circumstances with a range of health and social needs. The current focus within 'prison health' does not, and cannot, given its predominant medical model, adequately address the current health and wel... Read More about Moving prison health promotion along: Towards an integrative framework for action to develop health promotion and tackle the social determinants of health.

Musical pathways: An exploratory study of young people in the criminal justice system, engaged with a creative music programme (2013)
Report

There is growing evidence from across the arts and health field that suggests that participatory arts programmes can contribute to health improvement, emotional resilience and social reintegration, among vulnerable and excluded groups including crimi... Read More about Musical pathways: An exploratory study of young people in the criminal justice system, engaged with a creative music programme.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

Symposium: Empowerment, ethics and cultural difference; How do these impact upon participatory research among socially excluded groups? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service (2013)
Journal Article

Police custody healthcare services for detainees in the UK are most commonly outsourced to independent healthcare providers who employ custody nurses and forensic physicians to deliver forensic healthcare services. A pilot was introduced in 2008 by t... Read More about A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service.

Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system (2012)
Journal Article

Criminal justice health services should be underpinned with good public health evidence about the population's health needs. Health needs assessment methodologies can provide valuable intelligence for commissioners to evaluate the quality of services... Read More about Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system.

Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
Journal Article

Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

Creating a healthy prison: Developing a system wide approach to public health within an English prison (2012)
Journal Article

Evidence review: Music making with young offenders and young people at risk of offending (2011)
Report

Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police (2010)
Report

This evaluation was sponsored by Dorset Primary Care Trust and the South West Strategic Health Authority to examine the local commissioning relationship established to provide
police custody healthcare across Dorset's three 24/7 custody suites, loca... Read More about Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police.

Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners (2010)
Report

This evaluation was developed as a research collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and a Community Interest Company, Superact, which is affiliated with the south west regional branch of an arts charity, Live Music... Read More about Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners.

Health and social care needs assessment of offenders: Challenges, opportunities and the development of a new approach (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A healthy prison strategy: Preliminary analysis of a scoping exercise (2009)
Report

Evaluation of an NHS commissioned custody healthcare service for Dorset Constabulary (2009)
Other

A healthy prison strategy for HMP Bristol (2009)
Report

This report summarises progress in establishing a Healthy Prison strategy for HMP Bristol. It follows a period of consultancy with the prison commissioned by NHS Bristol, and carried out as follow-up to a 2007-8 Health Needs Assessment (HNA) conducte... Read More about A healthy prison strategy for HMP Bristol.

An evaluation of the Department of Health’s ‘Procedure for the Transfer of Prisoners to and from Hospital under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983' initiative (2008)
Report

Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health (2007)
Journal Article

Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health (2007)
Journal Article

This paper examines the complex interconnections between the development of health promotion and multidisciplinary public health, respectively. Health promotion takes a distinctive interdisciplinary and multiprofessional perspective on health. Histor... Read More about Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health.

Prison public health - developing a sustainable approach to offender health (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution