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Moving prison health promotion along: Towards an integrative framework for action to develop health promotion and tackle the social determinants of health (2014)
Journal Article
Woodall, J., de Viggiani, N., Dixey, R., & South, J. (2014). Moving prison health promotion along: Towards an integrative framework for action to develop health promotion and tackle the social determinants of health. Criminal Justice Studies, 27(1), 114-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2013.873208

The majority of prisoners are drawn from deprived circumstances with a range of health and social needs. The current focus within 'prison health' does not, and cannot, given its predominant medical model, adequately address the current health and wel... Read More about Moving prison health promotion along: Towards an integrative framework for action to develop health promotion and tackle the social determinants of health.

Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills (2014)
Journal Article
Joseph, E., Hinga, A., Roberts, K., Pearce, M., Buckley, T., de Viggiani, N., & Jones, M. (2014). Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills. British Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 4(9), 1274-1289. https://doi.org/10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10583

Aims: The present study reports on the evaluation of a postgraduate assignment in which students produced a health promotion website. The aim of the study was to examine the application of WordPress as a platform for developing contemporary skills in... Read More about Health promotion in the age of social media: Evaluation of Word Press as a platform for developing postgraduate student skills.

Musical pathways: An exploratory study of young people in the criminal justice system, engaged with a creative music programme (2013)
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De Viggiani, N., Daykin, N., Moriarty, Y., & Pilkington, P. (2013). Musical pathways: An exploratory study of young people in the criminal justice system, engaged with a creative music programme

There is growing evidence from across the arts and health field that suggests that participatory arts programmes can contribute to health improvement, emotional resilience and social reintegration, among vulnerable and excluded groups including crimi... Read More about Musical pathways: An exploratory study of young people in the criminal justice system, engaged with a creative music programme.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article
Daykin, N., De Viggiani, N., Pilkington, P., & Moriarty, Y. (2013). Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review. Health Promotion International, 28(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/das005

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service (2013)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N. (2013). A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 20(6), 610-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.03.014

Police custody healthcare services for detainees in the UK are most commonly outsourced to independent healthcare providers who employ custody nurses and forensic physicians to deliver forensic healthcare services. A pilot was introduced in 2008 by t... Read More about A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service.

Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system (2012)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N., & De Viggiani, N. (2012). Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system. Public Health, 126(9), 763-769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2012.05.030

Criminal justice health services should be underpinned with good public health evidence about the population's health needs. Health needs assessment methodologies can provide valuable intelligence for commissioners to evaluate the quality of services... Read More about Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system.

Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
Journal Article
de Viggiani, N. (2012). Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting. Men and Masculinities, 15(3), 271-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12448464

Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police (2010)
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De Viggiani, N., Kushner, S., Last, K., Powell, J., & Davies, J. D. (2010). Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police

This evaluation was sponsored by Dorset Primary Care Trust and the South West Strategic Health Authority to examine the local commissioning relationship established to provide police custody healthcare across Dorset's three 24/7 custody suites, loca... Read More about Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police.

Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners (2010)
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De Viggiani, N., Macintosh, S., & Lang, P. (2010). Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners

This evaluation was developed as a research collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and a Community Interest Company, Superact, which is affiliated with the south west regional branch of an arts charity, Live Music... Read More about Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners.

Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health (2007)
Journal Article
Orme, J., de Viggiani, N., Naidoo, J., & Knight, T. (2007). Missed opportunities? Locating health promotion within multidisciplinary public health. Public Health, 121(6), 414-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2007.02.005

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.