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The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers (2015)
Journal Article
Pant, P. R., Budhathoki, B., Ellis, M., Manandhar, D., Deave, T., & Mytton, J. (2015). The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers. BMC Public Health, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1783-5

© 2015 Pant et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Abstract Background Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance syste... Read More about The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers.

Contemporary hazards in the home: Keeping children safe from thermal injuries (2013)
Journal Article
Deave, T., Goodenough, T., Stewart, J., Towner, E., Majsak-Newman, G., Hawkins, A., …Kendrick, D. (2013). Contemporary hazards in the home: Keeping children safe from thermal injuries. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 98(7), 485-489. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302901

Objective: To explore the knowledge and reported thermal injury prevention practices among parents of children aged 0-4 years in disadvantaged areas. Methods: Parents of pre-school children in Children's Centres in four study areas in England (Nottin... Read More about Contemporary hazards in the home: Keeping children safe from thermal injuries.

Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature (2012)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Ingram, J. C., Deave, T., Towner, E., Errington, G., & Kay, B. (2012). Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature. Health Education Research, 27(2), 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyr066

Injuries are the leading cause of childhood death internationally; steep social gradients exist in mortality and morbidity. The majority of pre-school injuries occur in the home, but implementing research into practice for injury prevention has recei... Read More about Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature.

Obesity in Hong Kong Chinese preschool children: Where are all the nurses? (2010)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, T., Chan, C. M., & Deave, T. (2010). Obesity in Hong Kong Chinese preschool children: Where are all the nurses?. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 25(4), 264-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2009.02.019

We report an ethnographic study of 10 preschool children aged 2-6 years recruited from kindergartens in Hong Kong, 6 of whom were overweight or obese. Each was followed for 12-18 months. We confirmed previously described risk factors and showed how t... Read More about Obesity in Hong Kong Chinese preschool children: Where are all the nurses?.

Childhood obesity in transition zones: An analysis using structuration theory (2010)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, T., Chan, C., & Deave, T. (2010). Childhood obesity in transition zones: An analysis using structuration theory. Sociology of Health and Illness, 32(5), 711-729. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01243.x

Childhood obesity is particularly prevalent in areas that have seen rapid economic growth, urbanisation, cultural transition, and commodification of food systems. Structuration theory may illuminate the interaction between population and individual-l... Read More about Childhood obesity in transition zones: An analysis using structuration theory.

Transition to parenthood: The needs of parents in pregnancy and early parenthood (2008)
Journal Article
Ingram, J., Deave, T., & Johnson, D. (2008). Transition to parenthood: The needs of parents in pregnancy and early parenthood. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 8, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-8-30

Background: Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood are major adjustment periods within a family. Existing studies have asked parents, retrospectively, about their experience of antenatal education, mainly focusing on women. We sought to address t... Read More about Transition to parenthood: The needs of parents in pregnancy and early parenthood.

Obesity in Hong Kong toddlers: A multi-level case study (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Chan, C., Greenhalgh, T., & Deave, T. (2007, July). Obesity in Hong Kong toddlers: A multi-level case study. Paper presented at Society of Academic Primary Care Annual Conference, London, UK

Patient group directions for antibiotic supply in Walk-in Centres: how legal are they? (2003)
Journal Article
Deave, T., Weiss, M., & Salisbury, C. (2003). Patient group directions for antibiotic supply in Walk-in Centres: how legal are they?. British Journal of Community Nursing, 8(5), 209-213. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2003.8.5.11199

Until recently antibiotics were only available on prescription. Nurses in NHS Walk-in Centres (WiCs) now supply and administer antibiotics in accordance with patient group directions (PGDs). The aim of this study was to investigate the process of ant... Read More about Patient group directions for antibiotic supply in Walk-in Centres: how legal are they?.