Outputs (143)

Project jump: Young people's perspectives on a sexual health drama project for hard to reach young people (2007)
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This article explores the qualitative process findings from an evaluation of Project Jump - a sexual health drama project for hard to reach young people. Project Jump aimed to enable young people to consider their sexual behaviour and its impact and... Read More about Project jump: Young people's perspectives on a sexual health drama project for hard to reach young people.

Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health (2007)
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Trainees' experiences of multidisciplinary public health training schemes in England (2007)
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From 1999 onwards most English NHS regions launched multidisciplinary public health training schemes. These schemes were open to those from backgrounds other than medicine and followed on from the announcement of a new multidisciplinary Public Health... Read More about Trainees' experiences of multidisciplinary public health training schemes in England.

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

Natural medicine for planners (2007)
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Caroline Brown and Marcus Grant review the evidence of links between urban nature and human health and well-being - and recommend ways in which planners can play doctor and use nature itself as an urban medicine.

2006 - A year of health and planning (2007)
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EVENTS IN the real worlds of human health and of global sustainability seem to have stepped up a pace. In tandem,
the ‘constructed’ worlds of ‘public health’ and ‘planning’ are struggling – not struggling to keep up; but struggling to meet up. This... Read More about 2006 - A year of health and planning.

Planning for healthy communities (2007)
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Primary care professionals and social marketing of health in neighbourhoods: A case study approach to identify, target and communicate with ‘at risk’ populations (2007)
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Aim: In this article the authors illustrate using a case study approach how primary care professionals can use the combination of geodemographic data with hospital episode statistics (HES) to predict the location of people yat risk’ of diabetes melli... Read More about Primary care professionals and social marketing of health in neighbourhoods: A case study approach to identify, target and communicate with ‘at risk’ populations.

Evaluation of booster seat campaign. (2007)
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Private home, public cultural asset: The maintenance behaviour of listed building owner-occupiers (2006)
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This article examines the maintenance behaviour of listed building owner-occupiers. In particular it evaluates the degree to which owners are aware of and undertake maintenance of their building from a conservation perspective, which emphasises maxim... Read More about Private home, public cultural asset: The maintenance behaviour of listed building owner-occupiers.

Public health leadership in the real world: The role of the director of public health (2006)
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Private home, public cultural asset: The maintenance behaviour of listed building owner occupiers (2006)
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Attitudes towards second hand smoke amongst a highly exposed workforce: Survey of London casino workers (2006)
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Study objective: To examine knowledge, attitudes and experiences of London casino workers regarding exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) in the workplace. Design: Postal survey of 1568 London casino workers in 25 casinos who were members of the TGWU o... Read More about Attitudes towards second hand smoke amongst a highly exposed workforce: Survey of London casino workers.

Characterisation and quantification of the sources of PM10 during air pollution episodes in the UK (2006)
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Data for concentrations of PM10 and gaseous pollutants from sites in the UK Automatic Urban and Rural Network have been examined during periods of elevated concentrations of PM10. The ratios of concentrations of PM10 to those of the other pollutants... Read More about Characterisation and quantification of the sources of PM10 during air pollution episodes in the UK.

Public health in the UK: Success or failure? (2006)
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Assessing how organisations approach the maintenance management of listed buildings (2006)
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Assessing how organizations approach the maintenance management of listed buildings (2006)
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Preventative maintenance has been identified as a key intervention in protecting built cultural heritage. How organizations approach the maintenance management of listed buildings in their care is explored using a framework which integrates best prac... Read More about Assessing how organizations approach the maintenance management of listed buildings.

Sustainable neighbourhoods: Assessment tools for renovation and development (2006)
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The main results of the of the European FP5 Project “Sustainable Renovation of Buildings for Sustainable Neighbourhoods” (HQE²R – Haute Qualité Environnementale et Economique Réhabilitation; http://hqe2r.cstb.fr) are a general approach and the necess... Read More about Sustainable neighbourhoods: Assessment tools for renovation and development.

Local air quality management as a risk management process: Assessing, managing and remediating the risk of exceeding an air quality objective in Great Britain (2006)
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Air quality is managed in Great Britain via an effects-based, risk management process designed to provide a dynamic solution to public health issues associated with elevated concentrations of seven specified air pollutants. This paper is concerned wi... Read More about Local air quality management as a risk management process: Assessing, managing and remediating the risk of exceeding an air quality objective in Great Britain.

Falling through the cracks: Limits to an instrumental rational role for environmental information in planning (2005)
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This paper explores the potential for environmental information to play an instrumental rational role in planning through an empirical investigation of regional planning processes in the German federal state of Brandenburg. The findings show that env... Read More about Falling through the cracks: Limits to an instrumental rational role for environmental information in planning.