All Outputs (4)

Barriers and facilitators of physical activity among adults and older adults from Black and Minority Ethnic groups in the UK: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2019)
Journal Article
Ige-Elegbede, J., Pilkington, P., Gray, S., & Powell, J. (2019). Barriers and facilitators of physical activity among adults and older adults from Black and Minority Ethnic groups in the UK: A systematic review of qualitative studies. Preventive Medicine Reports, 15, 100952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100952

Older adults from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups experience a relatively higher burden of physical inactivity compared with their counterparts from non-BME groups. Despite the increasing number of qualitative studies investigating the barrier... Read More about Barriers and facilitators of physical activity among adults and older adults from Black and Minority Ethnic groups in the UK: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury (2012)
Journal Article
Towner, E. M. L., Mytton, J., Powell, J., Pilkington, P., & Gray, S. (2012). Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury. Injury Prevention, 18(5), 334-342. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040343

Objective The relative significance of child injury as a cause of preventable death has increased as mortality from infectious diseases has declined. Unintentional child injuries are now a major cause of death and disability across the world with the... Read More about Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury.

Commissioning drug services for vulnerable young people (2003)
Journal Article
Tones, M., Powell, J., Jones, M., & Kimberlee, R. (2003). Commissioning drug services for vulnerable young people. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 10(3), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/0968763021000061100

This paper examines commissioning processes for drug services in the case of vulnerable young people. In the context of government's modernization agenda it characterizes drug service commissioning as an activity that should occur across professional... Read More about Commissioning drug services for vulnerable young people.

Quality of life in alcohol-dependent subjects - A review (1999)
Journal Article
Peters, T. J., Marshall, E. J., Powell, J. E., Marshall, E. J., Foster, J. H., Peters, T., & Powell, J. (1999). Quality of life in alcohol-dependent subjects - A review. Quality of Life Research, 8(3), 255-261. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1008802711478

Although alcohol misuse is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and an important health care burden, the Quality of Life (QoL) of alcohol misusing subjects has been little studied to date. For example, only 5 out of 442 accepted abstracts at a re... Read More about Quality of life in alcohol-dependent subjects - A review.