Public Health Science

We are very grateful to The Lancet and the NIHR School for Public Health Research for sponsoring prizes at the conference. Details of how abstracts are selected and judged can be found here.

The Lancet prize winners for oral presentations:

Helen Pineo was awarded the first prize for a presentation on the impact of urban health indicators in urban planning policy and decision making: a qualitative system dynamics study.

Marissa Smith was awarded the second place prize for a presentation on exploring e-cigarette policy recommendations and the role of evidence in international public health guidelines: a citation network analysis.

Wendy Thompson was awarded third place prize for a presentation on antimicrobial stewardship in dentistry: an arts-based approach to intervention development.

NIHR School for Public Health Research prize winners for poster presentations:

Fatemeh Eskandari was awarded the first prize for a poster presentation on twitter conversations about food poverty: an analysis supplemented with Google Trends analysis.

Rachel Pearson was awarded the joint second place prize for a poster presentation on maternal adversity and variation in the rate of children entering local authority care during infancy in England: a longitudinal ecological study.

Francesco Aletta was awarded the joint second place prize for a poster presentation on associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: a field study

The conference will be held at Mary Ward House in London, UK, on Nov 29, 2019. You can book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here.

Programme

*We are very grateful to the NIHR School for Public Health Research and The Lancet for sponsoring prizes at the conference.

09.00 Welcome and introduction to the day
Rob Aldridge

09.15 Creativity and innovation in public health science

1. Secrets of the hospital underbelly: antimicrobial resistance metagenomics of sewage from a tertiary hospital – Meghan Perry.
2. The exclusion of pregnant women from NHS healthcare: A cross-sectional humanitarian health service evaluation – Eleanor Turnbull.
3. Assessing the public health implications of Brexit in Wales: A Health Impact Assessment (HIA) approach – Liz Green.
4. Acceptability of an interactive film-based intervention targeting adolescent boys to prevent sexual risk-taking: findings from the JACK cluster randomised controlled trial process evaluation – Áine Aventin.
5. Pathways to inequalities in child mental health – Evidence from two national birth cohorts. David Taylor-Robinson.

10.30 Tea and coffee

11.00 New methodological approaches to public health science

1. Antibiotic prescribing in care homes in the UK 2016-2017, a cross-sectional study of linked data – Catherine Smith.
2. Temperature and Morbidity – An Observational Study on the Impact of Extreme Temperature on Emergency Admissions across Vulnerable Populations in England – Dheeya Rizmie.
3. Equity as a consideration in economic evaluations of health taxes: a systematic review – Vageesh Jain.
4. Challenges and opportunities of a novel methodological approach to engaging the food industry in public health initiatives: incentivising food industry collaboration through an innovation call – Timothy Chambers.
5. Antimicrobial Stewardship in Dentistry: An Arts-based Approach to Intervention Development – Wendy Thompson.

12.30 Lunch and chaired poster viewing

14.00 Keynote Speech  

How can we create a world-leading health of the public research capacity in the UK? Professor Dame Anne Johnson

15.00 Tea, coffee and poster viewing

15.30 Implementing public health science in policy and practice

1. Local Authority Champions of Research: a mixed methods proof of concept study – Mandy Cheetham.
2. Impact of urban health indicators in urban planning policy and decision-making: a qualitative system dynamics study – Helen Pineo.
3. Prospective study of the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum excise tax on in the UK – Rosemary Hiscock.
4. Exploring e-cigarette policy recommendations and the role of evidence: A citation network analysis of international public health guidelines – Marissa Smith.
5. Evaluating smoke-free prison policy development, implementation and impact across the entire national prison service in Scotland: 3-Phase, multi-methods Tobacco in Prisons (TIPs) study – Kate Hunt.

16.45 Closing remarks and prize* announcements    
Audrey Ceschia, The Lancet Public Health

Children and young people

1 Self-harm in young people aged 12-26 years in inner south London: an observational study of adverse childhood experiences and triggers for self-harm. Shah.
2 Adverse childhood experiences, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in later life: A prospective cohort study. Iob.
3 Children presenting to chronic pain clinics in the English National Health Service: a whole-population administrative data cohort study. Jay. 
4 Tiny Teeth: a mixed method study of the associations between social factors and sub-optimal utilization of paediatric dental services. Lee-Barber.
5 Investigating system-level drivers of obesity with adolescents: a group model building exercise. Savona.
6 Does childhood obesity hinder human capital development? An interdisciplinary secondary analysis investigating the impact of childhood obesity on educational outcomes using two UK cohorts. Segal.
7 Are area characteristics at birth associated with overweight and obesity among school-aged children? Analysis of a population-based cohort in the south of England. Alwan.

Communicable disease control

8 The Mould that Changed the World: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Knowledge and Behavioural Change following Participation in a Musical about Antimicrobial Resistance. Perry.
9 A systematic review of the impact and implementation of active case finding for tuberculosis in homeless populations. Hamilton.
10 Social Norms and Free-Riding in Influenza Vaccine Decisions: An Online Experiment. Lau.
11 Towards the Elimination of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A review of screening of Infants exposed to Hepatitis C-Infection during pregnancy in Grampian, Northeast Scotland 2012 – 2017. Okpo.
12 Addressing political, economic, administrative, regulatory, logistic, ethical and social (PEARLES) challenges to clinical research responses to (re-) emerging epidemics and pandemics: a systematic review. Sigfrid.
13 Willingness to consent to the HPV vaccination in parents of boys and girls: a population-based survey in England and Wales. Waller.
14 Estimating burden of respiratory syncytial virus infection in young children in England: a novel approach to community-based serological surveys through data linkage. Hardelid.

Education and health

15 School-level predictors of conduct problems trajectories. Bevilacqua.
16 Creating school environments which support mental wellbeing – what matters to children and young people? Beynon.
17 Education and health outcomes of children treated for chronic conditions. Fleming.
18 A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers (the WISE study). Kidger.
19 Effective school food environment interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Pineda.
20 A natural experimental evaluation of the impact of Universal Infant Free School Meals on Key Stage 1 pupil’s dietary intake: a pilot study in North East England. Spence.

Health improvement

21 Health checks for adults with learning disability improve survival rates – a linked electronic records cohort study. Brophy.
22 An exploration of facilitators and barriers to making healthy lifestyle choices in a UK-based Ghanaian population. Majumdar.
23 Boyz2men: an exploratory cross-sectional study of minority men’s engagement with health promotion. Maynard.
24 Ethnic differences in bowel cancer awareness: findings from a pharmacy-based community survey. von Wagner.

Health inequalities

25 Why and how the UK is a high producer of health inequalities research? Preliminary findings from a realist explanatory case study. Cash-Gibson.
26 Does food insecurity associate with low fruit and vegetable intake? A cross-sectional study of the UK in 2016. Ebadi.
27 Twitter conversations about food poverty: an analysis. Eskandari.
28 What predicts food insecurity and poor nutritional quality in our diets? An online survey. Furey.
29 A review of policies affecting access to adequate housing for lower income households in England since 2010 – Is health considered? Gravenhorst.
30 Life Course neighbourhood deprivation effects on body mass index: Quantifying the importance of selective migration, using two prospective British birth cohorts. Taylor Murray.

Healthcare public health

31 Trends and geographical variation in antidepressant prescribing in primary care in England: a descriptive analysis. Balinskaite.
32 Patient and healthcare factors associated with potentially missed acute deterioration in primary care: A retrospective observational study of linked primary and secondary care data. Cecil.
33 A mixed methods study exploring the impact of the hospital gown on recovery and wellbeing: implications for policy and practice. Cogan.
34 Health Service Use by Community-dwelling Heart Failure Patients in North West London: Analysis of a Retrospective Cohort between 2015 and 2018. Kim.
35 Patterns of polypharmacy in patients with dementia: A data-driven population-based study with primary care electronic health records. Zhou.
36 A Cohort Study of the Service-users of Online Contraception. Rezel-Potts.

Inclusion health

37 Cardiovascular Disease in the Homeless: A Systematic Review of Observational and Interventional Studies. Banerjee.
38 A cross-sectional study: exploring childhood adversity in those with lived experiences of homelessness in Wales. Grey.
39 Alcohol Brief Interventions for male remand prisoners: mixed-methods feasibility and acceptability study (PRISM-A). Newbury-Birch.
40 Co-production of a research and advocacy agenda for Inclusion Health. Luchenski.
41 A population-based cohort study to develop, describe and assess the validity of using UK primary care electronic health records to study migration and health. Pathak.
42 A narrative review of barriers to optimal health and accessing health services for homeless children under 5. Rosenthal.
43 How does ‘inclusion health’ feature in UK policy reviews of health inequalities? A thematic multi-level governance document analysis. Tweed.

Maternal and child health

44 Maternal interpregnancy weight change and childhood overweight and obesity: findings from a UK population-based cohort. Alwan.
45 Long-term mortality risk in mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome: an international cohort study using linked mother-baby records for England and Ontario, Canada. Harron.
46 Maternal adversity and variation in the rate of children entering local authority care during infancy in England: a longitudinal ecological study. Pearson.
47 Change in maternal smoking behaviour between the first two singleton live pregnancies and childhood obesity: Analysis of a UK population-based cohort. Taylor.
48 A retrospective case note review of the neonatal deaths of infants born to women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland 1998-2017. Yan.
49 Perceptions of breastfeeding advice and support delivered online by professionals and peers: a cross-sectional survey of UK mothers. Visram.

Mental health

50 Employment status and impact on mental well-being in the UK working age population: A cross-sectional analysis. Gray.
51 Supporting farmers’ mental health and wellbeing though periods of uncertainty: a mixed methods study. Grey.
52 Changing health behaviours in people with severe mental illness: A qualitative study of a primary care led intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk. Hassan.
53 Depressive symptoms are associated with perceived, not objective, exertion during exercise in an observational population-based cohort study of European, Indian Asian and African-Caribbean older adults. Jones.
54 Understanding geographical patterning of self-harm rates within a diverse urban population, a mixed methods study. Polling.
55 Mental health of carers in Wales: a national population survey. Tseliou.

New methods 1
56 A field study on associations between soundscape experience and self-reported well-being in open public urban spaces. Aletta.
57 Reporting and synthesis practices in barriers and facilitators reviews: a methodological systematic review. Bach-Mortensen.
58 Understanding public health systems using participatory systematic review methods and a systems infographic. Black.
59 The role of citizenship in public health research: developing a model and measure of citizenship using a community based participatory approach. Cogan.
60 The use of synthetic controls to evaluate natural experiments in public health: case studies of individual alcohol licensing decisions. de Vocht.
61 Developing a method to use qualitative data to produce an animated clinical engagement tool – the secondary healthcare experiences of people in prison. Edge.
62 Understanding changes in soft drinks marketing following the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: developing a theory of change using stakeholder interviews. Forde.

New methods 2

63 Effects of Health and Health-Risk Behaviours on Socioeconomic Outcomes: Mendelian Randomization in UK Biobank. Harrison.
64 Using discourse network analysis to compare stakeholder coalitions across pricing policies designed to improve public health, as represented in UK newspapers. Hilton.
65 Social Prescribing for Frequent Attenders; findings from an innovative pilot intervention. Lynch.
66 Changepoints In Dementia Recognition, Diagnosis and Treatment in the UK between 1997 and 2017. Mackintosh.
67 A qualitative content analysis of UK online news media readers’ comments about the zika virus. Nimegeer.
68 How to conduct transdisciplinary research studies to improve the health of the public. Turnbull.
69 The nature of clusters of multimorbid patients in the UK: a retrospective cohort study. Zhu.

Physical activity

70 Effectiveness of the GoActive intervention to increase physical activity among adolescents aged 13-14 years: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Corder.
71 The influence of disability on physical activity and mental wellbeing outcomes as part of a community-based motivational interviewing physical activity programme. Wade.
72 Randomised controlled trials of community-based physical activity interventions in adults with long-term follow-up and objective physical activity measurements: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Wahlich.
73 Physical activity and colorectal cancer risk – A two sample Mendelian randomisation study. Zhang.

Public health approaches to violence and abuse

74 Evaluation of Active Bystander Communities: a bystander programme to prevent domestic violence and abuse in UK general communities. Gainsbury.
75 Premature mortality in adult survivors of child abuse and neglect: a nationwide birth cohort study. Rogers.
76 A Pubic Health Approach to Serious Youth Violence – An Evidence Review for Policy-Making in the London Borough of Lambeth. Shrotri.
77 Taking a public health approach to violence in Tower Hamlets: A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Williams.

Public health policy and economics

78 The association between the referendum for withdrawal from the European Union and the healthcare workforce in England: an interrupted time series. Balinskaite.
79 Health for Wealth: Decomposing the role of health on productivity in England. Brown.
80 Will the arrested decline in cardiovascular disease lead to greater NHS and social care costs? Modelling study of CVD, dementia and disability in England and Wales from 2019-2029. Collins.
81 Health and social care costs at the end of life: a cross-sectional matched analysis of linked patient records in East London. Jayatunga.
82 The national economic burden of eating disorders – a health economic clinical population data study in Wales. Tan.

Substance use, including alcohol and tobacco

83 Evidence synthesis to inform public health policy: reducing hazardous alcohol consumption. Beyer.
84 Mapping alcohol and tobacco tax interventions for health: a UK-based qualitative framework analysis. Hatchard.
85 Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing revised UK low risk drinking guidelines: Findings from a monthly cross-sectional survey. Stevely.
86 Tobacco use in local authority children’s homes: a socioecological exploration of influences. Huddlestone.
87 Evaluation of the London Smoking Cessation Transformation Programme: a time series analysis. Jackson.
88 Increased risk of HIV and other drug-related harms associated with injecting in public places: national bio-behavioural survey of people who inject drugs. Trayner.

We are delighted to announce the call for abstracts for Public Health Science 2019: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health, to be held at Mary Ward House in London, UK, on Nov 29, 2019.

The conference encompasses all areas of public health, with a focus on methodological innovation and transdisciplinary insights. It is a forum for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss new research, methods, and perspectives on improving the health of the public.

Submissions are now open for oral and poster presentations, from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches. Abstracts can be submitted under any of the three core themes: creativity in public health science; new methodological approaches to public health science; or impact and implementation of public health science in policy and practice. Research described in the abstracts can have been undertaken anywhere in the world, but must be relevant to public health science, policy, and practice in the UK and Ireland. We encourage submissions from researchers in the earlier stages of their career.

To recognise the efforts of those who work in public health science, prizes will be awarded at the conference to early career researchers for the best oral and poster presentations. These awards are sponsored by the National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research and The Lancet. If you wish to be entered into this competition, please tell us at the point of abstract submission if you are a pre-PhD researcher (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD student, or postdoctoral trainee (clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, or equivalent posts).

Accepted abstracts will be published by The Lancet online and in print after peer review. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, retrospective cohort study); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet’s website; abstracts not meeting the guidelines may be returned for revision. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts guidance. Abstracts should not have previously been published elsewhere and must include some results, although results of ongoing analyses are acceptable.

Submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document through The Lancet’s online submission system and state in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 17, 2019. After The Lancet’s peer-review process, successful participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation. This information and further details are available on the Public Health Science conference website.

For Lancet conference abstract guidelines see https://www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/pdfs/Abstract_Guidelines_2013.pdf

For CONSORT extension for abstracts see http://www.consort-statement.org/extensions?ContentWidgetId=562

To submit your abstract go to http://ees.elsevier.com/thelancet

The conference will be a virtual conference held on Friday 26 November, 2021. You can book your place at the conference through the HG3 booking website here.

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We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2018. The conference will be held at Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Belfast, on Nov 23, 2018. This year for the first time there will also be a free pre-conference event on Nov for early career public health researchers and practitioners. You can book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here.

Programme

09.00	Welcome and introduction to the day Rob Aldridge
09.15	Creativity and innovation in public health science Chairs: Harry Rutter and Aideen Maguire
	1.  Knowledge, trust and experience make the difference: what members of the public think about taking part in medical research during an Influenza pandemic – an international cross-sectional survey across eight OECD countries. Nina Gobat. 2. Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions: Updating the MRC Guidance to take account of new methodological and theoretical approaches. Kathryn Skivington. 3.  Positive health-related effects of perceiving urban soundscapes: A systematic review. Jian Kang. 4. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a loyalty scheme for physical activity behaviour change maintenance: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Ruth Hunter. 5. Supporting Our Lifelong Engagement: Mothers and Teens Exercising (SOLE MATES): A Feasibility Study. Méabh Corr.
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	New methodological approaches to public health science Chairs: Helen Walters and Llion Davies.
	1.  Child Sexual Abuse and Subsequent Maternal Parenting: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis. Brittany Lange. 2.  Development of Guidance for Feasibility Studies to Decide Whether and How to Proceed to Full-scale Evaluation of Complex Public Health Interventions. Peter Craig. 3. Stakeholder involvement in the systematic optimisation of the Project Respect and Positive Choices school-based relationships and sex education interventions. Ruth Ponsford. 4. Mining Electronic Health Records to Identify Influential Predictors Associated with Hospitalisation of Dementia Patients: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. Shang-Ming Zhou. 5. Using Whole genome sequencing (WGS) data to target for public health intervention: a case study investigating outbreak investigation of a WGS-linked cluster of Salmonella sppenteritidis cases in England in 2016. Oluwakemi Olufon.
12.30	Lunch and chaired poster viewing
14.00	Keynote Speech: Precision Public Health – an oxymoron for our times. Frank Kee.
15.00	Tea, coffee and poster viewing
15.30	Implementing public health science in policy and practice Chairs: Simon Capewell and Christine McKee 1. Mental wellbeing in prisoners in Scotland: an analysis of repeat cross-sectional surveys. Emily Tweed. 2.  Public health and alcohol licensing policy in local government: an observational study of licensed premises and alcohol related violence in London. Talia Boshari. 3. Variation in route to diagnosis of heart failure in primary care in England. Dani Kim. 4. Developing the role of public health in responding to mental health and wellbeing needs after mass casualty incidents: experience at London Bridge and Borough Market, June, 2017.  Carolyn Sharpe. 5.  Social deprivation as a marker for alcohol harms: Implications for local harm reduction policies in England: An ecological study. Chris Allan.
17.00	Closing remarks and prize* announcements   Audrey Ceschia, The Lancet Public Health

*We are very grateful to the NIHR School for Public Health Research and Public Health England for sponsoring prizes at the conference.

 

Adverse childhood experiences

1. Are long-term trends in child maltreatment decreasing in England and Wales? A time series analysis of official record data from 1858 to 2016. Michelle Degli Esposti
2. Stop Taking the Hit! Adopting a systematic approach for identifying the evidence to support the prohibition of the physical punishment of children in Scotland. Kate Woodman
3. Understanding associations of early-life adversities with mid-life inflammatory profiles: evidence from two cohorts in the UK and USA. Snehal Pinto Pereira
4. How do adverse childhood experiences explain social inequalities in adolescent health outcomes? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Viviane Straatmann
5. Cluster randomised controlled trial of Keeping Safe’ – a ‘whole school’ child maltreatment prevention programme in primary schools in Northern Ireland: Evidence after 1 year of implementation. Aisling McElearney

Ageing

6. Socioeconomic determinants of healthy ageing: evidence from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Wentian Lu
7. Slowing of Life Expectancy in the UK. Laura Parry
8. The North of England Deprivation Study of Cataract presentation and outcomes. Alexander Silvester
9. Eating for Eye Health: A Pilot Community Kitchens Intervention to Help Implement Dietary Change for Macular Health of Older People. Rose Gilbert
10. Projecting the incidence of post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia in the Irish population aged 40+ years from 2015-2025. Eithne Sexton

Diet and physical activity

11. Is eating home-prepared food a necessary condition for high dietary quality? Cross-sectional analysis of the UK National Diet & Nutrition Survey (2008-2016). Chloe Clifford Astbury
12. A qualitative study evaluating the impact of bicycle provision on health of London based refugees. Adam Witty-Merrin
13. Adherence to the Healthy Eating Index-2015 across generations and associations with birth outcomes and weight status at year 5: Results from the Lifeways Cross Generation Cohort Study in the Republic of Ireland. Pilar Navarro
14. Birthweight, lifetime body mass index and physical functioning in midlife. Nina Rogers

Food systems

15. Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) An Individual-based Measurement: Study of food security status in Ireland from 2014 to 2017. Davod Ahmadi
16. Developing an infant feeding core outcome set for childhood obesity prevention. Karen Matvienko-Sikar
17. Is food security associated with diet and health? A cross-sectional online panel of UK adults. Amy Yau
18. Audit and qualitative analysis of Newham’s Early Years Nutrition programme. Meghan Cupp
19. Impact on purchasing behaviour of implementing ‘junk free checkouts’: a pre-post study. Helen Croker

Health in the early years

20. Parents’ and healthcare workers’ understanding of wheeze in children: a systematic review. Katherine Maskell
21. Socioeconomic inequalities in the risk of small for gestational age birth in primiparous and multiparous women: analysis of a population-based cohort in the South of England. Sam Wilding
22. ‘Birthing a better future’: A mixed-methods evaluation of a multimedia exposition conveying the significance of the first 1001 days of life. Meghan Cupp
23. Hospital admissions for renal causes during childhood associated with renal pelvicalyceal dilatation identified during pregnancy: A prospective electronic birth cohort study (The Welsh Study of Mothers and Babies). Lisa Hurt
24. The causal pathway between income deprivation and early respiratory infection: What is the contribution of gestational age?. Kate Lewis

Health inequalities

25. Area reputation as an under-acknowledged determinant of health inequalities: Evidence from the evaluation of a major community empowerment initiative in England. Ruth Ponsford
26. The impact of income-based policies on population health and health inequalities in Scotland: a modelling study. Elizabeth Richardson
27. Addressing socio-economic determinants of health through design and validation of a questionnaire: a mixed methods study. Sayyed Shokouh
28. Mapping Climate Disadvantage for London’s Care Provision: a socio-spatial heat vulnerability assessment. Eleni Oikonomou
29. Comparison of individual-level and contextual-level socio-economic status indicators in Irish school-aged children: a repeated cross-sectional survey. Silvia Bel-Serrat
30. The impact of Universal Basic Income: a scoping review of evaluations and impacts. Marcia Gibson

The health of children and young people

31. Developing an evidence and theory-based intervention that seeks to promote positive adolescent health and education outcomes. Jan Pringle
32. Integrating Research and System-Wide Practice in Public Health to Enhance the Evidence Base of Interventions: Lessons Learnt from Better Start Bradford. Josie Dickerson
33. The knife crime epidemic in London: A youth perspective. Isabel Straw
34. Yoga and meditation in youth education – a systematic review. Sheng-Chia Chung
35. Social Return on Investment Evaluation of Sistema Cymru – Codi’r To (Music in Schools Programme). Eira Winrow
36. Developing an Outcomes Framework for Children and Young People in Hampshire. Chloe Montague

Maternal and child health

37. Making Every Contact Count to Reduce Excessive Maternal Weight Gain: Use of Public and Patient Involvement to inform the development of a ‘Healthy eating during pregnancy’ infographic. Charis Bridger Staatz
38. Is maternal weight gain between pregnancies associated with risk of large-for-gestational age birth? Analysis of a UK population-based cohort. Nida Ziauddeen
39. Healthcare professional and parental views and experiences of implementing infant feeding interventions: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Elaine Toomey
40. A review of the evidence behind interventions to mitigate premature births. Roeann Osman
41. Associations between use of macrolide antibiotics during pregnancy and adverse child outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Heng Fan
42. Prospective associations of maternal glycaemic, insulin index and load with birth outcomes and weight status at year 5: Results from the Lifeways Cross Generation Cohort Study. Ling-Wei Chen

Mental health

43. An Assimilation of Existing Literature and Data to Determine If Gambling is an Emerging Public Health Issue in Wales, UK. Claire Beynon
44. Experiences of first-time mothers in coping with Post Natal Depression among Black sub-Sahara African (BSSA) communities in the English West Midlands region. Mathew Nyashanu
45. Mental health need: using administrative data and record linkage to inform mental health policy and practice. Foteini Tseliou
46. Simulating the impact of poverty reduction on social inequalities in adolescent mental health in the UK – A causal mediation analysis using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Eric Lai
47. A registry-based study of self-harm and ideation presenters to hospital in Northern Ireland: Two populations or one? Brendan Bonner

Methods

48. Developing openly accessible health indicators for small areas in Great Britain. Mark Green
49. Utilising machine learning approaches for comparing the contribution of different types of data for predicting an individual’s risk of ill health. Mark Green
50. Engaging with Stakeholders to Inform the Development of a Computer Model for the NHS Health Check Programme: a qualitative study. Lirije Hyseni
51. Evaluations of public health interventions using a complex systems lens: a critical review. Matt Egan
52. A pilot study examining the potential of a large historical occupational cohort to inform on health impacts from lifecourse events in the Republic of Ireland. Frances Cronin
53. A machine learning approach to identify cerebral palsy cases using the UK primary care database. Heng Fan

Physical activity epidemiology

54. Physical activity and social/cultural engagement as risk-reducing factors in the prevention of chronic pain in older age: findings from a longitudinal cohort study. Daisy Fancourt
55. Do cardiovascular benefits of active travel vary by pre-existing risks? A longitudinal observational study. Anthony Laverty
56. Family car ownership: driving activity in young people? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses using the International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD). Esther van Sluijs
57. A systematic review of the economic and modelling techniques used to value the health benefits of engaging in physical activity in green and blue spaces. Mary Lynch

Physical activity interventions

58. Individual vs. Group-based Strategies for Weight Loss and Management in Adults: Pen-Profile Perspectives. Cain Clark
59. The effectiveness of a community based physical activity intervention grounded in motivational interviewing. Matthew Wade
60. Effect of two pedometer-based walking interventions on long-term health outcomes using routine primary care data. Tess Harris
61. “Sit Less @Work” – a qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to sitting less at work in different organisations. Kelly Mackenzie
62. Are school-based physical activity interventions effective and equitable? A systematic review and meta-analysis of cluster randomized controlled trials with accelerometer-assessed daily physical activity. Rebecca Love
63. The Effectiveness of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Interventions in Altering Sedentary Behaviour Among Older Adults: A Systematic Review. Michael McCorry

Public Health system and structural interventions

64. SUPPORT (South Gloucestershire Pain Review Pilot) Study: a mixed methods evaluation. Lauren Scott
65. NHS Health Check impact on cardiovascular disease risk factors over 6 years’ follow-up: Interrupted time series analysis. Samah Alageel
66. Application of the ‘5 stages of life model’ to support Health Impact Assessments: a case study of the Llanelli Wellness Village. Richard Reynolds
67. Preparedness for clinical research during pandemics: a perspective from the Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-) emerging Epidemics (PREPARE) in Europe. Nina Gobat
68. A New Approach to Public Health Research Funding. Helen Walters
69. Legionnaires’ disease clusters in period hotels with complex water systems: lessons learnt in the West Midlands, UK. Karen Buckley

Sexual and reproductive health

70. Treatment outcomes in individuals diagnosed with chlamydia in SH:24, an online sexual health service – a retrospective audit. Sarah Shanks
71. An approach for tackling perceived barriers, and increasing participation, in sexual and mental health education amongst female asylum-seeking teenagers. Isabel Straw
72. Distribution of sexual health knowledge and attitudes in adolescent social networks. Mark McCann
73. Cognitive interviews testing survey items on social norms relating to sexual behaviour and dating and relationship violence with young adolescents in England. Ruth Ponsford

Substance use and smoking cessation
74. Stakeholder Perceptions of Supervised Injection Facilities: A Qualitative Synthesis. Brittany Lange
75. Smoking cessation in the emergency department: a qualitative exploration of staff attitudes. Ben Rush
76. What personal and behavioural, environmental and social factors are important in smoking cessation and relapse in male manual workers? A qualitative study in Southeast England. Anjum Memon
77. Sugar reduction during alcohol recovery; a qualitative study with service users and staff members of a service provider. Alison Thomson
78. Developing a new drug recovery community in the UK: A qualitative study of the transferability of an intervention from Italy (San Patrignano) to Scotland (IFDAS). Alison Devlin
79. Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Greater Glasgow and Clyde: what is the impact of smoking on gender and socioeconomic inequalities?. Kate Levin

We are delighted to invite abstract submissions for Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health, to be held in Belfast, UK, on Nov 23, 2018. This is our seventh annual conference to showcase the creativity of the public health research community in the UK and Ireland. The conference provides a forum for academics, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss important public health issues, and learn about the latest public health science and its role in advancing and supporting public health practice, policy, and health services.

As with previous conferences, the event will consist of oral paper presentations, keynote speeches, and chaired poster presentations. The conference seeks to cover diverse public health fields and, on the basis of the feedback from previous years, there will be a focus on the wider determinants of health and implementation of public health science and on measuring its impact. We encourage submissions from a wide array of disciplines and new methodological approaches.

Abstracts from all areas of public health science are welcome and can be submitted under any of the following themes:

• creativity in public health science
• new methodological approaches to public health science
• impact and implementation of public health science in policy and practice.

Abstracts must be relevant to UK and Ireland public health science, policy, and practice. However, the work can have been completed, and submitted from, anywhere in the world.

In recognition of the talents of public health scientists, we will again be awarding oral and poster presentation prizes to early career researchers sponsored by NIHR School for Public Health Research and Public Health England. Presentation of innovative and memorable work by early career researchers enhances the scientific content of the conference and the participants’ experience. If you wish to be entered into the competition for early career researchers, please tell us if you are a pre-PhD researcher (eg, MSc student, foundation year trainee, research assistant, public health trainee, or academic clinical fellow), PhD student, or postdoctoral trainee (clinical lecturers, clinician scientist fellows, or equivalent posts) when you submit your abstract. A prize for the best piece of implementation research—sponsored by Public Health England—will also be selected from all submissions.

Peer-reviewed abstracts will be published by The Lancet online and in print. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, be written in English, and contain no references, tables, or figures. Submissions should include the following sections: background (including context and aim); methods; findings; and interpretation. Please also include a non-declamatory title (including a study descriptor—eg, randomised); names, titles, highest degrees, and affiliations of authors; postal and email addresses for the corresponding author; any funding received (if none, please state this); and a brief summary of the contributions of each author and any competing interests. Abstract guidelines are available on The Lancet‘s website. Reports of randomised trials should follow the CONSORT extension for abstracts guidance.

Submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word document through The Lancet’s online submission system, stating in your covering letter that the submission is for the Public Health Science conference. The abstract submission deadline is June 18, 2018. After The Lancet‘s peer-review process, successful participants will be informed of acceptance of abstracts for oral or poster presentation by Aug 25, 2018. This information and further details are available on the Public Health Science conference website.

Online booking for the conference is now also open here – https://www.eventsforce.net/hg3/129/home

We are delighted to announce the programme for Public Health Science 2017. The conference will be held in London at Mary Ward House, UK, on Nov 24, 2017. You can also book your place at the conference at the HG3 booking website here – https://registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/phs17

Programme

09.00	Welcome and introduction to the day Richard Horton, The Lancet Rob Aldridge, UCL
09.15	Creativity and innovation in public health science
	1.     Adaption of the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to FRANK drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. James White. 2.     The health impacts of UK Lone Parent Obligations: a natural experiment study using Understanding Society panel data. Ruth Dundas. 3.     Exposing ‘complexity’ as a smokescreen: a qualitative analysis. Natalie Savona. 4.     Economic and ethical implications of improving access to health care for older people with intellectual disabilities in England: A cost-effectiveness modeling study of health checks. Annette Bauer. 5.     Why was a judicial review required to allow the English NHS to fund pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV? Tehseen Khan.
10.30	Tea and coffee
11.00	New methodological approaches to public health science
	1.    Changing environments to change behaviour: Typology of Interventions in Proximal Physical Micro-Environments (TIPPME). Gareth Hollands. 2.     Modelling the cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce traffic related air-pollution. Ann Ballinger. 3.     A discourse network analysis of minimum unit pricing for alcohol: mapping the “discursive communities” in UK newspaper coverage of the debate. Gillian Fergie.  4.     Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study. Paraskevi Seferidi. 5.     Reassessing patterns of childhood body mass index, overweight and obesity in South Asian and Black participants in the English National Child Measurement Programme: use of ethnicity-specific BMI adjustments. Mohammed Hudda.
12.30	Lunch and chaired poster viewing
14.00	Keynote Speech: How do we do the research that the public actually need? Helen Walters, National Institute for Health Research.
14.40	FPH membership for academics working in Public Health: a new Associate Membership?
15.00	Tea, coffee and poster viewing
15.30	Implementing public health science in policy and practice 1.     PACE-UP primary care pedometer-based walking randomised controlled trial: mixed-methods results from 3-year follow-up. Charlotte Wahlich. 2.    Distributive equity in the real world: would targeting the National Health Service Health Check programme to deprived groups be more cost effective? Brendan Collins. 3.     A systematic, meta-analytic review of prospective risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence victimisation among women. Alexa Rachel Yakubovich. 4.     E-cohort study of the relationship between alcohol outlet density and alcohol-related mortality in Wales. Andrea Gartner. 5.   The effects of public health policies on health inequalities: a review of reviews. Frances Hillier-Brown.
17.00	Closing remarks and prize announcements  Richard Horton, The Lancet

 

 

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

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

Diet, diabetes and obesity

10. Captieux: Supported self-management for people with type 2 diabetes: A meta-review of quantitative systematic reviews
11. Jones: What are the views of overweight and obese adolescents (12-17yrs) attending lifestyle treatment interventions: a qualitative systematic review
12. Sarkar: Residential density and adiposity: findings from the UK Biobank
13. Alwan: Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes following Gestational Diabetes in a Population-based Cohort
14. 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

15. Busse: Developing a typology of mentoring programmes for young people in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study
16. Long: Testing the ‘zero-sum game’ hypothesis: An examination of school health policy and practice and inequalities in educational outcomes
17. 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
18. Phillips: Who’s got a defibrillator? A national survey of AED provision and training at secondary schools in Wales
19. Pringle: The impact of early learning and childcare on the parents of pre-school children: results of a rapid systematic review
20. 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

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

Health of older people

27. Beynon: Dementia Health Needs Assessment (HNA): A Review of Epidemiology, Services, Health Needs and Models of Good Practice
28. Blodgett: Neurodevelopmental contributors to standing balance in mid to later life: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
29. Harkness: Mastery and fear of falling in a UK sample of older people
30. Herrod: Non-pharmacological strategies of reducing blood pressure in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
31. Koopmans: Risks of skin cancer in older adults: analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
32. 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

33. Aisyah: Hepatitis C among Vulnerable Populations: A Seroprevalence Study of Homeless, PWID and Prisoners in London
34. 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
35. Dawes: ‘A Mile in Her Shoes’: The impact of volunteer-led running groups for women affected by homelessness, a qualitative study
36. Kaddour: Initial phase exploring barriers to oral health among young carers in Surrey, England.
37. Liljas: Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups in health promotion: the views of older people and professionals from a qualitative study in England
38. Jackson: Triangulation of two mixed methods studies to understand Gypsy, Traveller and Roma use of health services in the UK

Maternal and child health

39. Ahrendt Bjerregaard: Association between maternal diet quality and offspring diet quality assessed at age 14 years – longitudinal study in a large contemporary cohort
40. 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
41. Umney: Societal behavioural norms and the media: discourse analysis of a research project aiming to change breastfeeding behaviours using financial incentives
42. 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
43. 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
44. Ziauddeen: Predicting childhood overweight and obesity using maternal and early life risk factors: a systematic review

mHealth and eHealth

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

Modelling and simulation

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

Physical activity

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

Primary care

61. Beynon: Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes in the First Trimester of Pregnancy: A Summary of the Evidence.
62. 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
63. Dezateux: General practice consultations with obese children – a missed opportunity? Cross-sectional study using linked national child measurement and primary care data
64. Lovell: A realist review and collaborative development of ‘what works’ in the social prescribing process
65. Palladino: Evaluating the impact of a national diabetes risk assessment and screening programme in England: a quasi-experimental study
66. 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

67. 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
68. Gentry: How can researchers generate meaningful public health policy impact? A meta-ethnography of case studies
69. Hilton: Who says what about sugar-sweetened beverage tax? Stakeholders’ framing of evidence: a newspaper analysis.
70. McGrath: Exploring influences on public health contributions to alcohol licensing processes in local government in England: a mixed methods study
71. Pineo: Census, characteristics and taxonomy of urban health indicator tools: a systematic review
72. Spence: Local resident’s opposition to a multinational fast food company in England: a qualitative analysis

Communicable disease

73. Zhou: Mining Electronic Health Records for Identification of Predictive Factors Associated with Hospitalisation of Campylobacter Infections
74. Smith: Development of a novel application for visualising infectious disease data in hospital settings
75. Trayner: Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccine uptake, and barriers and motivations towards vaccination in undergraduate students: a mixed-methods study.
76. 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

77. Haroon: Information standards for recording alcohol use in electronic health records: Findings from a national consultation
78. 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
79. Walsh: Approaches to alcohol screening in secondary care: a review and meta-analysis
80. Song: A systematic root cause analysis into the increase in Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Wales over the last 10 years

Structural and population interventions

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