PHRC Phase 2 (2011-2019) Projects
Current projects
Prescribing patterns of dependence forming medicines - analysis using the Clinical Practice Research Database
- Principal Investigator: Sally McManus, NatCen
- Duration: Jan 2016 - March 2017
Health behaviours and health behaviour change among adults in England
- Principal Investigator: Hilary Graham, University of York
- Duration: Jan 2016 - September 2017
Childhood maltreatment and adult life-chances: informing strategies to prevent poor health and well-being into mid-adulthood
- Principal Investigator: Christine Power, UCL
- Duration: Jan 2016 - September 2017
Promoting health and protecting the environment: a systematic review of qualitative research of behaviours with health and environmental benefits
- Principal Investigator: Hilary Graham, Univsersity of York
- Duration: April 2016 - March 2018
Obesity and Alcohol use: Is there a role for dually focused intervention in young adults (18-25) to tackle unhealthy eating and heavy drinking and effectively reduce future health inequalities?
- Principal Investigator: Ashley Adamson, Newcastle University
- Duration: April 2016 - March 2018
Systematic reviews of interventions tackling multiple risk behaviours: filling evidence gaps
- Principal Investigator: Amanda Sowden, University of York
- Duration: April 2016 - March 2018
Evaluating the impacts of universal policies on child health inequalities: how best can we exploit the predictive value of the integrated pre-school checks?
- Principal Investigator: Margaret Whitehead, University of Liverpool
- Duration: April 2016 - March 2018
The economic evaluation of public health programmes with costs and effects falling outside the NHS and local authority public health budgets
- Principal Investigator: Mark Sculpher, University of York
- Duration: April 2016 - March 2018
Exploring the impact of removing less healthy food from checkouts
- Principal Investigator: Martin White, University of Cambridge
- Duration: Jan 2017 - Sept 2018
Patterning across public health attitudes, experience and knowledge in Britain
- Principal Investigator: Sally McManus, NatCen
- Duration: July 2016 - Sept 2017
How does educational achievement impact on health and health inequalities? An analysis of trajectories to inform policy options and development
- Principal Investigator: Catherine Law, UCL
- Duration: Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Improving flu vaccination uptake by healthcare workers: a study of implementation and attitudes
- Principal Investigator: Martine Stead, University of Stirling
- Principal Investigator: Fay Sullivan, National Centre for Social Research
- Duration: Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Mapping the literature on interventions to tackle the disability-employment gaps
- Principal Investigator: Margaret Whitehead, University of Liverpool
- Principal Investigator: Amanda Sowden, University of York
- Duration: Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Completed projects
The following projects, under the 2011-2019 PHRC research programme, have been completed. For full details and reports of each project, please click on the project title.
For completed projects under the 2005-2011 PHRC reserach programme, including reports and publications, please click here.
Identifying appropriate methods to incorporate concerns about health inequalities into economic evaluations of health care programme
- Principal Investigator: Mark Sculpher, York
- Duration: April 2011 - March 2013 (24 months)
Informing prevention strategies on obesity and sedentary lifestyles
- Principal Investigator: Christine Power, UCL
- Duration: July 2012 - June 2016
In what circumstances can parental employment improve child health?
- Principal Investigator: Catherine Law, UCL
- Duration: June 2011 - August 2013 (27 months)
Is control in the living environment important for health and wellbeing?
- Principal Investigator: Margaret Whitehead, Liverpool
- Duration: September 2011 - August 2013 (24 months)
Multiple risk behaviours among parents with dependent children
- Principal Investigator: Hilary Graham, York
- Duration:September 2011 - March 2015 (43 months)
Multiple risk behaviours and interventions to reduce multiple risk behaviours - what do we know?
- Principal Investigator: Amanda Sowden, York
- Duration: September 2011 - August 2014 (36 months)
Plain tobacco packaging: A systematic review
- Principal Investigator: Gerard Hastings, Stirling
- Duration: May 2011 - February 2012 (project extended to allow additional data to be extracted)
Research to support the evaluation and implementation of adult cooking skills interventions in the UK: Phase 1
- Principal Investigator: Martin White, Cambridge
- Duration: May 2011 - August 2011
Research to support the evaluation and implementation of adult cooking skills interventions in the UK: pilot RCT with process and economic evaluation components: Phase 2
- Principal Investigator: Martin White, Cambridge
- Duration: September 2013 - May 2015
Scoping and feasibility study to develop and apply a methodology for retrospective adjustment of alcohol consumption trend data
- Principal Investigator: Martine Stead, Stirling
- Duration: June 2012 - June 2013
The Development of Tools to Measure Norms Towards Smoking, Nicotine Use, and the Tobacco Industry
- Principal Investigator: Ann McNeill, King's College London
- Duration: April 2015 - March 2016
