Outputs (10)

Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment (2024)
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Background

Good health is a human right and the built environment is recognised as a wider determinant of health but many studies focus only on physical health not mental or social health. The street is a microscale of the built environment yet r... Read More about Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment.

Promoting physical activity in community settings: A critical exploration of intervention development, evaluation and implementation (2020)
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Evidence demonstrating the important and wide-ranging benefits of regular physical activity is well documented, however, one in four of the world’s population is insufficiently active. Efforts to develop and implement effective interventions that fac... Read More about Promoting physical activity in community settings: A critical exploration of intervention development, evaluation and implementation.

How can approaches aimed at preventing Female Genital Mutilation be improved and developed using participatory methods with second-generation young people in the UK? (2020)
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Background: There is considerable interest in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at global level, and within the United Nations Development Programme Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), goal 5.3 aims to eliminate all harmful practices, including reduc... Read More about How can approaches aimed at preventing Female Genital Mutilation be improved and developed using participatory methods with second-generation young people in the UK?.

The Buddhist coping experiences of breast cancer survivors: A phenomenological approach (2019)
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Background
Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst women in Hong Kong, with an incidence rate of one in sixteen. A cancer diagnosis is a life changing event, and the impact of breast cancer disrupts daily lives in multiple ways. Religion and... Read More about The Buddhist coping experiences of breast cancer survivors: A phenomenological approach.

Identification of longitudinal patterns of positive psychological change in people following treatment for head and neck cancer (2017)
Thesis

Introduction
The experience of a traumatic or extremely stressful event may be sufficient to challenge a strongly held set of assumptions about the world and the self. In some people this may lead to the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorde... Read More about Identification of longitudinal patterns of positive psychological change in people following treatment for head and neck cancer.

Understanding preventive community health services for pre-school children: Origins, policy and current practice (2009)
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Community health services for pre-school children have been the major universal health provision for well-children for over a hundred years. Traditionally these services have been largely delivered by health visitors, who are now community nurses wit... Read More about Understanding preventive community health services for pre-school children: Origins, policy and current practice.

'We're all individuals': Postmodernity and alternative healing practices in the North of England (2003)
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Modelling the prevalence of Down syndrome with applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (1998)
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Food for life: An exploration of context, methodology and research impact of a complex programme evaluation
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This thesis involves the submission of published academic work with a critical commentary, in accordance with the regulations of UWE for DPhil degrees. Fourteen papers are submitted, published between 2008 and 2017. These include nine peer reviewed j... Read More about Food for life: An exploration of context, methodology and research impact of a complex programme evaluation.

Decisions on risk and mental health hospital admission by approved mental health professionals
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The Mental Health Act 1983 was amended in 2007 and introduced the new role of the multi-disciplinary Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), who may be a nurse, psychologist, occupational therapist or social worker. The AMHP replaced the Approved... Read More about Decisions on risk and mental health hospital admission by approved mental health professionals.