All Outputs (6)

An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment (2024)
Journal Article
Burns, E. J., de Vocht, F., Siqueira, N. T., Siqueira, N., Ure, C., Audrey, S., …Cook, P. A. (2024). An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment. Public Health Research, 1-135. https://doi.org/10.3310/htmn2101

Background Globally alcohol consumption is a leading risk factor for premature death and disability and is associated with crime, social and economic consequences. Local communities may be able to play a role in addressing alcohol-related issues in t... Read More about An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment.

Establishing a national linked database for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in the UK: multi-method public and professional involvement to determine acceptability and feasibility (2024)
Journal Article
Harding, S., Samways, B., Dillon, A., Mukherjee, R., Butcher, S., Cook, P., & McQuire, C. (2024). Establishing a national linked database for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in the UK: multi-method public and professional involvement to determine acceptability and feasibility. #Journal not on list, 9(1), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i1.2381

Introduction: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one of the leading non-genetic causes of developmental disability worldwide and is thought to be particularly common in the UK. Despite this, there is a lack of data on FASD in the UK.

Object... Read More about Establishing a national linked database for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in the UK: multi-method public and professional involvement to determine acceptability and feasibility.

Modern Day Virtual Eyam Experience: an Interactive Learning Resource using ThingLink (2024)
Digital Artefact
Clarke-Cornwell, A., Clark, A., Chambers, D., Greene, L., Cook, P., McCarthy, R., …Cooper-Ryan, A. (2024). Modern Day Virtual Eyam Experience: an Interactive Learning Resource using ThingLink. [Website]

This piece of work is an interactive learning resource using the ThingLink software. It is aimed at Public Health students and is a walkthrough of the village of Eyam in Derbyshire, which had an outbreak of the plague in 1665/1666. The village took t... Read More about Modern Day Virtual Eyam Experience: an Interactive Learning Resource using ThingLink.

“Taking part in the project has really changed our experience as a family” Investigating parents’ experience of participation in a study to screen for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. (2024)
Journal Article
McCarthy, R., Blackburn, C., Mukherjee, R., Allely, C., & Cook, P. (2024). “Taking part in the project has really changed our experience as a family” Investigating parents’ experience of participation in a study to screen for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Heliyon, 10(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30076

Background
Screening children for developmental disorders presents unique ethical and methodological challenges, particularly with disorders associated with high levels of shame and stigma. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a neurodevelopmen... Read More about “Taking part in the project has really changed our experience as a family” Investigating parents’ experience of participation in a study to screen for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder..

Emergency department crowding and its impact on the clinical care and mortality outcomes of stroke patients at the Tema General Hospital in Ghana (2024)
Thesis
Lartey, L. (2024). Emergency department crowding and its impact on the clinical care and mortality outcomes of stroke patients at the Tema General Hospital in Ghana. (Thesis). University of Salford

Stroke is a cardiovascular related disease that commonly presents at the emergency department
(ED) with high mortality rates and lifelong disability. At the ED, overcrowding is a reported
challenge that has impact on the outcome of patient care. Th... Read More about Emergency department crowding and its impact on the clinical care and mortality outcomes of stroke patients at the Tema General Hospital in Ghana.

Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography (2024)
Journal Article
Louise, M., Hardman, M., Michelle, H., & Penny, C. (in press). Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography. Cities and Health, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2290904

Geography and health disciplines have become inseparable, with our environments effecting our physical health and mental wellbeing, spawning the subdiscipline of Health Geographies. In this paper we argue that radical innovations are needed to fully... Read More about Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography.