Publications

PROJECTS RELATED TO OBESITY AND ITS RISK FACTORS

The changing pattern of obesity: An analysis to inform practice and policy development.
(Lead: Martin White, Newcastle)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Publication
Li L, Law C, Power C. (2008) Intergenerational influences on childhood BMI: the effect of parental BMI trajectories. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

How do young people engage with food branding?
(Lead: Martine Stead, Stirling)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Approaches to evaluating Healthy Start – a scoping review.
(Lead: Mary Renfrew, York in collaboration with Catherine Law, ICH, UCL)
The Final Report for this project is now available.

Obesity in ethnic minority children and adolescents: developing acceptable parent and child-based interventions in schools and places of worship.
(Lead: Seeromanie Harding, Glasgow)
The Executive Summary and Short Report for this project are now available. for a copy of the project Final Report please email the Principal Investigator, Seeromanie Harding.

Publication
Maynard M, Baker G, Rawlins E, Anderson A and Harding S. (2009) Developing obesity prevention interventions among minority ethnic children in schools and places of worship: The DEAL (DiEt and Active Living) study. BMC Public Health, 9:480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-480

Published Conference Abstracts
Baker G, Maynard M, Rawlins E, Anderson A, Harding S. Developing obesity prevention interventions among minority ethnic children in schools and places of worship: The DEAL study. Obesity Reviews 2010;11:456.

Mutrie N, Foster C, Estabrooks P, Burton N W, Baker G. Recruiting hard-to-reach populations to physical activity studies: evidence and experiences. Journal of Physical Activity and Health 2010:7:S329-S331

PROJECTS RELATED TO THE WORKPLACE

The health and wellbeing effects of changing the organisation of shift work: a systematic review.
(Leads: Mark Petticrew, LSHTM; Clare Bambra, Durham)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Publications
Bambra C, Whitehead M, Sowden A, Akers J, and Petticrew M. (2008) Shifting Schedules; the health effects of reorganizing shift work. American Journal of Preventive Medicine; 34:427-34.

Bambra C, Petticrew M, Whitehead M, Sowden, A, and Aker, J. (2008) A hard day’s night? The effects of Compressed Work Week interventions on the health and wellbeing of shift workers: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62: 764-777.

Helping chronically ill or disabled people into work: what can we learn from international comparative analyses?
(Lead: Margaret Whitehead, Liverpool)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Publications
Whitehead M. (2010) Disability and employment: lessons from natural policy experiments.  European Journal of Public Health, 20: 371-73

Burstrom B, Nylen L, Clayton S and Whitehead M (2010) How equitable is vocational rehabilitation in Sweden? A review of evidence on the implementation of a national policy framework. Disability and Rehabilitation
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.493596

CROSS-CUTTING PROJECTS

Assessing the challenges of applying standard methods of economic evaluation to public health programmes
(Lead: Mike Drummond, York)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Publications
Cookson R, Drummond M, Weatherly H. (2009) Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions. Health Economics Policy and Law, 4;231-245.

Cookson R, Drummond M, Weatherly H.(2009) Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions. Reply to Richardson and Shiell. Health Economics Policy and Law, February 16.

Drummond M, Weatherly H, Ferguson B. (2008) Economic evaluation of health interventions: a broader perspective is needed that include potential cost and benefits for all stakeholdersBritish Medical Journal, 337:a1204.

Weatherly H, Drummond M and the York Public Health Economics Research Group. (2009) Assessing the challenges of applying standard methods of economic evaluation to public health interventions. Health Policy, 93: 85-92.

Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: Evidence from systematic reviews
(Leads: Mark Petticrew, LSHTM; Clare Bambra, Durham)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available.

Publications
Bambra C, Gibson M, Sowden AJ, Wright K, Whitehead M, Petticrew M. Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment. Prev Med. 2009; 48(5): 454-61.

Bambra C, Gibson M, Sowden A, Wright K, Whitehead M, Petticrew M. (2010) Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64: 284-91.

Will policies for the early years reduce inequalities in health? A synthesis of evidence to inform policy development, using the examples of unintentional injury and childcare.
(Lead: Catherine Law, UCL Institute of Child Health)
The Executive Summary, Short Report and Final Report for this project are now available. If you would like to receive pdfs of the appendices to this report please email apearce@ich.ucl.ac.uk

Publications
A Pearce, L Li, J Abbas, B Ferguson, H Graham, C Law, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group* (2010). Does childcare influence socioeconomic inequalities in unintentional injury? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. J Epidemiol Community Health; 64:161-166.
doi:10.1136/jech.2009.092643

A Pearce, L Li, J Abbas, B Ferguson, H Graham and C Law, and the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group* (2010). Is childcare associated with the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal of Obesity, doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.15

Pearce, A., Li, L., Abbas, J., Ferguson, B., Graham, H., Law, C. and the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group* (2009) Does childcare influence the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years? Findings from the UK millennium cohort study. Conference Proceeding. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; 63 (Suppl II): A11.
doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719b

*Carol Dezateux, Catherine Peckham, Lucy Griffiths, Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Jugnoo Rahi, Tim Cole, Helen Bedford, Carly Rich, Phillippa Cumberland, Richard Pulsford, Flo Kinnafick, Jane Ahn and Sanja Stanojevic of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London

YOUNG PEOPLE'S GROUP

The pilot project is now complete and the Final Report, including news on the future of the group, and the Executive Summary are now available. For more information on the group, please click on the Young People's Group button on the left.

How healthy are children and young people in England?

This four-page leaflet was compiled for the Association of Public Health Observatories by the Young People's Group (previously called the Young People’s Public Health Reference Group) with the aim of distributing it to every secondary school in the country.

OTHER PHRC RELATED OUTPUTS

Obesity and health inequalities - a paper commissioned by the Foresight programme of the Office of Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry as part of the Foresight Tackling Obesities: Future Challenges Project. The full set of papers can be found at www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/obr/8/s1