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Emma Bird's Outputs (32)

Planning for healthy places: Co-development of guidance to systematically embed health in Local Plans in England (2025)
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Aim: Drawing upon in-depth research and over a decade of practice supporting local authorities across the UK, TRUUD researchers and the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) have collaborated on the co-development of evidence based and user-fr... Read More about Planning for healthy places: Co-development of guidance to systematically embed health in Local Plans in England.

Healthy policies for healthy places: A framework to systematically embed health in local development plans in England (2024)
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The places in which people live have a profound influence over the opportunities they have and the choices they can make to live healthy and happy lives. Some of the most pressing health challenges faced by the UK: such as obesity, mental health issu... Read More about Healthy policies for healthy places: A framework to systematically embed health in local development plans in England.

Implementation of ‘CLICK into Activity’ in South Somerset: Social prescribing through general practice referral of ‘at risk’ populations to community leisure services (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aim: This study used the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework to evaluate the impact of CLICK into Activity, a 12-week community-based physical activity programme for inactive adults with (or at risk of) l... Read More about Implementation of ‘CLICK into Activity’ in South Somerset: Social prescribing through general practice referral of ‘at risk’ populations to community leisure services.

Predicting walking and cycling behaviour change using an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (2017)
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Introduction: The psychological predictors of behaviour change may differ from the predictors of engaging in behaviour, and there is limited evidence on the associations between psychological constructs and changes in physical activity behaviours suc... Read More about Predicting walking and cycling behaviour change using an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour.

Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places (2017)
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Introduction: There is considerable debate about the strength and quality of the evidence base which underpins principles of good design of the lived environment and the causal pathways to good mental and physical health. In England, there has been n... Read More about Spatial planning for health: An evidence resource for planning and designing healthy places.

Parents’ experiences of receiving feedback from national child weight screening programmes in the UK: A mixed methods systematic review (2017)
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Aim: To examine parents’ experiences of receiving feedback from a child weight screening programme in the UK
Background: Launched in England in 2005, the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a mandatory school-based height and weight surve... Read More about Parents’ experiences of receiving feedback from national child weight screening programmes in the UK: A mixed methods systematic review.

Is team sport the key to getting everybody active, every day? A systematic review of physical activity interventions aimed at increasing girls' participation in team sport (2017)
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Background
It is estimated that 21% of boys and 16% of girls in England meet recommended physical activity guidelines. Team sport has the potential to increase physical activity level; however, studies show that gender-based factors can influence gi... Read More about Is team sport the key to getting everybody active, every day? A systematic review of physical activity interventions aimed at increasing girls' participation in team sport.

A pilot controlled evaluation of a primary school-based health education intervention: Facts4Life (2016)
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Aim: This pilot controlled evaluation aimed to explore the effects of a primary school-based health education intervention, Facts4Life, on changes in children’s health and illness-related attitudes.
Background: Evidence suggests that attitudes and... Read More about A pilot controlled evaluation of a primary school-based health education intervention: Facts4Life.

Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study (2014)
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This study (www.iconnect.ac.uk) used the Health Economic Assessment Tools (HEAT) for walking and cycling to estimate the economic value of health benefits attributable to Connect2, a programme of constructing or improving 84 local walking and... Read More about Health economic assessment of walking and cycling interventions in the physical environment: Interim findings from the iConnect study.