UK Public Health Science

A national conference dedicated to new research and cross-sector collaboration in Public Health in the UK and Ireland with the support of the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health

Poster presentations 2017

Accessibility and uptake of health services

  1. Taylor: Education, Health Literacy and Inequity in Access to Transplantation: Results from the ATTOM cohort study
  2. Kerrison: Use of two annual self-referral reminders and a theory-based leaflet to increase the uptake of bowel scope screening among former non-participants: results from a randomised controlled trial in London
  3. Vrinten: Cancer worries and uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening: a population-based survey in England
  4. Chrysou: Co-creation of local smoking cessation services: an innovative public health intervention in times of austerity

Development and evaluations of interventions

  1. Alexander: An integrated learning scheme for community practitioners involved in the care of children and young people
  2. Smith: Participatory Budgeting and health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review of evaluations and outcomes
  3. Fildes: Developing a communication toolbox for primary care practitioners to raise the issue of weight with parents of preschool children: A qualitative study
  4. Martin: Exploring previous adaptations to the women’s group Participatory Learning & Action Cycle in resource-limited settings: an observational study.
  5. Osborne: Evaluating the impact of cancer awareness training for community-based health workers: a cross-sectional repeated measures survey

Diet, diabetes and obesity

  1. Captieux: Supported self-management for people with type 2 diabetes: A meta-review of quantitative systematic reviews
  2. Jones: What are the views of overweight and obese adolescents (12-17yrs) attending lifestyle treatment interventions: a qualitative systematic review
  3. Sarkar: Residential density and adiposity: findings from the UK Biobank
  4. Alwan: Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes following Gestational Diabetes in a Population-based Cohort
  5. Little: An ecological cross-sectional study investigating if domains of deprivation from the Index of Multiple Deprivation predict overweight and obesity amongst primary school children in England

Health and education

  1. Busse: Developing a typology of mentoring programmes for young people in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study
  2. Long: Testing the ‘zero-sum game’ hypothesis: An examination of school health policy and practice and inequalities in educational outcomes
  3. Pandey: Systematic review of effectiveness of universal self-regulation based interventions to improve self-regulation, and effects on distal health and social outcomes in children and adolescents
  4. Phillips: Who’s got a defibrillator? A national survey of AED provision and training at secondary schools in Wales
  5. Pringle: The impact of early learning and childcare on the parents of pre-school children: results of a rapid systematic review
  6. Smith: How easy is it for a lay audience to read medical journals? A survey of the readability scores of a sample of diabetes research papers

Health equity

  1. Al Sallakh: Socioeconomic deprivation and inequalities in asthma care in Wales
  2. Parkinson: Investigating age-period-cohort effects using Lexis diagrams and intrinsic estimator regression modelling to understanding Scotland’s ‘excess mortality’
  3. Remes: Sense of coherence as a coping mechanism for women with anxiety living in deprivation: British population, cohort study
  4. Tseliou: Differential effect of caregiving across age-groups: a census-based record linkage study.
  5. Twaits: The association between area-based deprivation and change in body mass index over time in primary school children: a population-based cohort study.
  6. O’Donnell: A systematic review of qualitative research on the factors shaping amphetamine type stimulant use over the life course

Health of older people

  1. Beynon: Dementia Health Needs Assessment (HNA): A Review of Epidemiology, Services, Health Needs and Models of Good Practice
  2. Blodgett: Neurodevelopmental contributors to standing balance in mid to later life: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
  3. Harkness: Mastery and fear of falling in a UK sample of older people
  4. Herrod: Non-pharmacological strategies of reducing blood pressure in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  5. Koopmans: Risks of skin cancer in older adults: analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
  6. Oliver: Cohort study suggests a possible aetiological role of low oxygen tolerating bacteria in prostate cancer development and offers a potential new approach to prostate cancer prevention

Health services for marginalised populations

  1. Aisyah: Hepatitis C among Vulnerable Populations: A Seroprevalence Study of Homeless, PWID and Prisoners in London
  2. Collins: Distributive equity in the real world: would targeting NHS Healthchecks to deprived groups be more cost effective? A modelling study using real world data from a deprived northern city
  3. Dawes: ‘A Mile in Her Shoes’: The impact of volunteer-led running groups for women affected by homelessness, a qualitative study
  4. Kaddour: Initial phase exploring barriers to oral health among young carers in Surrey, England.
  5. Liljas: Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups in health promotion: the views of older people and professionals from a qualitative study in England
  6. Jackson: Triangulation of two mixed methods studies to understand Gypsy, Traveller and Roma use of health services in the UK

Maternal and child health

  1. Ahrendt Bjerregaard: Association between maternal diet quality and offspring diet quality assessed at age 14 years – longitudinal study in a large contemporary cohort
  2. Lakshman: A theory-based behavioural intervention to reduce formula-milk intake and prevent excessive weight gain during infancy (The Baby Milk Trial): an explanatory randomised controlled trial
  3. Umney: Societal behavioural norms and the media: discourse analysis of a research project aiming to change breastfeeding behaviours using financial incentives
  4. Straatmann: How well can poor child health and development be predicted using data collected in early childhood in the UK? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
  5. Wood: Trends in surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip before and after introduction of improved DDH detection pathways: a population based cohort study, Scotland 1997-2014
  6. Ziauddeen: Predicting childhood overweight and obesity using maternal and early life risk factors: a systematic review

mHealth and eHealth

  1. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in breast screening: A randomised controlled trial
  2. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in cervical screening: A randomised controlled trial
  3. Johns: A systematic review of the use of social media for the delivery of health promotion on smoking, nutrition and physical activity
  4. Alwan: Development of an interactive dietary assessment tools website (Nutritools) for use in health research
  5. Wu: SemEHR: Surfacing Semantic Data from Clinical Notes in Electronic Health Records for Tailored Care, Trial Recruitment and Clinical Research

Modelling and simulation

  1. De Poli: The impact of interventions to prevent diabetes in England – a simulation model
  2. Ahmadi-Abhari: Impact of tobacco smoking prevalence on cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular deaths in England and Wales 2017-2040: a modelling study
  3. Gray: Cardiorespiratory fitness; a missing component in UK lifetime cardiovascular risk prediction models? A cross-sectional analysis.
  4. Savona: Proportional responsibility vs individual responsibility for healthy eating: a complex systems analysis
  5. Owen: Modelling the cost effectiveness of environmental interventions to encourage and support physical activity

Physical activity

  1. Collins: Engaging with the science of physical activity: the experience of female international students at a London University.
  2. Pereira: Stability and change in leisure time physical inactivity and its predictors in mid-adulthood: findings from a prospective British birth cohort study
  3. Raza: Identification of Predictors of Objectively Measured Physical Activity in 12-Month-Old British Infants: A Machine Learning Driven Study
  4. Smith: Prevalence of travel and dietary behaviours with health and environmental co-benefits: A cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank
  5. Warr: Discovery of 7 novel policy-modifiable characteristics associated with future objectively measured physical activity status (PA) in using the UK Biobank data.
  6. Cadar: Physical activity as a distinctive feature of lifestyle behaviour clustering: Associations with dementia risk in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Primary care

  1. Beynon: Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes in the First Trimester of Pregnancy: A Summary of the Evidence.
  2. Blomquist: Improving public health intelligence to inform sexual health policy and practice: The acceptability and feasibility of implementing an enhanced bio-behavioural surveillance tool in sexual health clinics
  3. Dezateux: General practice consultations with obese children – a missed opportunity? Cross-sectional study using linked national child measurement and primary care data
  4. Lovell: A realist review and collaborative development of ‘what works’ in the social prescribing process
  5. Palladino: Evaluating the impact of a national diabetes risk assessment and screening programme in England: a quasi-experimental study
  6. Kim: Patterns in chlamydia detection rate in young adults, 15-24 years in England, 2012-2015: longitudinal analysis of routine data

Public health and the policy process

  1. Buckton: Opening the policy window for “sugar tax”? Media representations of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in UK newspapers: implications for public health policy
  2. Gentry: How can researchers generate meaningful public health policy impact? A meta-ethnography of case studies
  3. Hilton: Who says what about sugar-sweetened beverage tax? Stakeholders’ framing of evidence: a newspaper analysis.
  4. McGrath: Exploring influences on public health contributions to alcohol licensing processes in local government in England: a mixed methods study
  5. Pineo: Census, characteristics and taxonomy of urban health indicator tools: a systematic review
  6. Spence: Local resident’s opposition to a multinational fast food company in England: a qualitative analysis

Communicable disease

  1. Zhou: Mining Electronic Health Records for Identification of Predictive Factors Associated with Hospitalisation of Campylobacter Infections
  2. Smith: Development of a novel application for visualising infectious disease data in hospital settings
  3. Trayner: Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccine uptake, and barriers and motivations towards vaccination in undergraduate students: a mixed-methods study.
  4. Wilson: Effect of an e-STI testing and results service on STI diagnoses and STI testing uptake: a single-blind randomised controlled trial

Secondary and tertiary care

  1. Haroon: Information standards for recording alcohol use in electronic health records: Findings from a national consultation
  2. Kwong: Can Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) be used in emergency admissions? A cohort study exploring agreement of retrospective and contemporaneous PROMs with from hip and knee replacement patients in NHS hospitals
  3. Walsh: Approaches to alcohol screening in secondary care: a review and meta-analysis
  4. Song: A systematic root cause analysis into the increase in Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Wales over the last 10 years

Structural and population interventions

  1. Bouttell: Synthetic Control Methodology as a tool for evaluating public health interventions – a guide to the method and case study
  2. Hunter: Social network interventions for health behaviour change: A systematic review
  3. Levin: Cost-benefit analysis of a Power of Attorney media campaign in Scotland
  4. Ireland: Exploring the relationship between Big Food corporations and professional sports clubs: a scoping review
  5. Young: Effectiveness of mass media campaigns to reduce alcohol consumption and harm: A systematic review