Education for sustainable development - the role of healthy universities. Feature article
(2010)
Journal Article
Outputs (20)
Understanding the effect of decentralisation on health services: The Nepalese experience (2010)
Journal Article
Purpose: Despite enormous progress in health globally, primary healthcare services in many developing countries are facing different challenges. Many studies have documented that decentralisation could be useful in supporting and developing health se... Read More about Understanding the effect of decentralisation on health services: The Nepalese experience.
Evaluating social and behavioural impacts of english smoke-free legislation in different ethnic and age groups: Implications for reducing smoking-related health inequalities (2010)
Journal Article
Objective To explore social and behavioural impacts of English smoke-free legislation (SFL) in different ethnic groups. Design A longitudinal, qualitative panel study of smokers using in-depth interviews conducted before and after introduction of SFL... Read More about Evaluating social and behavioural impacts of english smoke-free legislation in different ethnic and age groups: Implications for reducing smoking-related health inequalities.
Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
There is a renewed emphasis on the importance of place as a major health determinant, including the need to promote healthier and more sustainable environments and communities. This is in the main a response to two of the most pressing public health... Read More about Promoting healthy and sustainable environments: opportunities for injury prevention.
Rhetoric or reality? A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes (2010)
Journal Article
Background: There has been a philosophical commitment to participation in public health since the 1970s. UK policy rhetoric on participation in public health has been particularly marked since 1997. It is less clear that participatory approaches have... Read More about Rhetoric or reality? A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes.
Decentralization and district health services in Nepal: Understanding the views of service users and service providers (2010)
Journal Article
Background: Within the decentralization framework of Government, the Ministry of Health (MoH) Nepal initiated the decentralization of primary care services closer to citizens. This paper aims to examine and understand the effect of decentralization a... Read More about Decentralization and district health services in Nepal: Understanding the views of service users and service providers.
A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes (2010)
Journal Article
Background: There has been a philosophical commitment to participation in public health since the 1970s. UK policy rhetoric on participation in public health has been particularly marked since 1997. It is less clear that participatory approaches have... Read More about A systematic review of the impact of participatory approaches by UK public health units on health and social outcomes.
Overcoming isolation in distance learning: Building a learning community through time and space (2010)
Journal Article
The rise in popularity of distance education programmes, taught through web-based media, belies the difficulty in preparing, delivering and studying on such programmes. Preparing and providing quality material and a rich learning experience are key... Read More about Overcoming isolation in distance learning: Building a learning community through time and space.
Health Education Research: Editorial (2010)
Journal Article
Integrating health and sustainability: The higher education sector as a timely catalyst (2010)
Journal Article
Higher education is an influential sector with enormous potential to impact positively on health and sustainability. The purpose of this paper was to explore its emergent role as a key setting for promoting health and sustainability and for addressin... Read More about Integrating health and sustainability: The higher education sector as a timely catalyst.
Educating the built environment professions to secure the healthy communities of the future (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The Government’s Foresight obesity report and other key documents have identified the built environment as having a significant impact on public health. The RTPI too is identifying this as an important area for planners and launched Good Practice not... Read More about Educating the built environment professions to secure the healthy communities of the future.
A longitudinal study of the links between local air quality management and local transport planning policy processes in England (2010)
Journal Article
The second round of the Local Transport Plan (LTP2) process in England presents unique challenges and opportunities for integrating Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) within current transport planning policy. Using content analysis of LTP2 documents... Read More about A longitudinal study of the links between local air quality management and local transport planning policy processes in England.
Shaping neighbourhoods for local health and global sustainability (2nd ed.) (2010)
Book
Joint principal author with Barton and editor. Two year comprehensive update to previous edition. Sponsored by WHO. Foreword by Mike Kelly from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. Launched at a major southwest regional conferenc... Read More about Shaping neighbourhoods for local health and global sustainability (2nd ed.).
Building on building for health: think tank photo report (2010)
Report
Air pollution XVIII (2010)
Book
Final report of the evaluation of Flying Start (2010)
Report
Evidence review on the spatial determinants of health in urban settings. (2010)
Book Chapter
Knowle West in South Bristol has a population of about 15,000 and was mostly built in the 1920s and 1950s. Although for many Knowle West is a great place to live and there is a strong sense of community, it has high levels
of deprivation, with some... Read More about Building health into our plans from the start: Report and review of the health impact assessment workshop on the Knowle West Regeneration Strategy; Wednesday 21 July 2010.
Understanding the Processes of Translation and Transliteration in Qualitative Research (2010)
Journal Article
There has been growing interest in the use of qualitative methods in health research amongst health and social care professionals. Good qualitative cross-cultural research analysis is not an easy task as it involves knowledge of different approaches,... Read More about Understanding the Processes of Translation and Transliteration in Qualitative Research.
Managing air quality at the local level: A case study (2010)
Journal Article