The current PHRC research programme (2011-2016)
The current programme (April 2011-March 2016) addresses a number of key policy-relevant themes, including alcohol abuse and how it may be tackled at individual and population levels; and mental health and wellbeing, and how it may be promoted through living and working conditions. They will also address the clustering of risk factors (such as smoking, poor diet, alcohol misuse, and lack of physical activity), and links to social disadvantage. Health inequalities remains a cross-cutting theme, and a further project will investigate methods for examining health inequalities within the context of a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Following consultation with the PRP and policy teams, the initial programme of work will involve 5 projects, addressing a number of key policy-relevant themes, including risk behaviours, and mental health and wellbeing and how it may be promoted and protected through living and working conditions.
- Multiple risk behaviours among parents with dependent children
- Principal Investigator: Hilary Graham, York
- Duration: 01/09/2011 - 28/02/2014 (30 months)
- Multiple risk behaviours and interventions to reduce multiple risk behaviours - what do we know?
- Principal Investigator: Amanda Sowden, York
- Duration: 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2014 (36 months)
- In what circumstances can parental employment improve child health?
- Principal Investigator: Catherine Law, UCL
- Duration: 01/06/2011 - 31/08/2013 (27 months)
- Is control in the living environment important for health and wellbeing?
- Principal Investigator: Margaret Whitehead, Liverpool
- Duration: 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2013 (24 months)
- Identifying appropriate methods to incorporate concerns about health inequalities into economic evaluations of health care programme
- Principal Investigator: Mark Sculpher, York
- Duration: 01/04/2011 - 31/03/2013 (24 months)
The projects also address the fact that risk factors (such as smoking, poor diet, alcohol misuse, and lack of physical activity) do not exist in isolation, but often cluster, and this clustering is linked to social disadvantage. Two projects address this issue directly.
- Plain tobacco packaging: A systematic review
- Principal Investigator: Gerard Hastings, Stirling
- Duration: 02/05/2011 - 31/10/2011 (6 months)
- Research to support the evaluation and implementation of adult cooking skills interventions in the UK: Phase 1
- Principal Investigator: Martin White, Newcastle
- Duration: 01/05/2011 - 31/08/2011 (4 months)
The PHRC also undertakes a number of responsive projects, and work is underway on a number of projects relating to smoking prevention/cessation, and children’s diet.
Several projects originally funded as part of the previous research programme are also ongoing.
- Using qualitative research to inform interventions to reduce smoking in pregnancy in England: a systematic review of qualitative studies
- What scope is there for averting the adverse health effects of obesity? Investigating the role of physical activity
- Principal Investigator: Chris Power, Insitute of Child Health, UCL
- The process and impact of change in school food policy on food and nutrient intake both in and outside of school
