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This report compares data from the 2009 and 2011 Trading Standards surveys of 15-16 year olds in the North West of England to explore changes in risky drinking behaviour since the publication of the Chief Medical Officer's guidance on the consumption of alcohol by young people.
Authors: Michaela Morleo, Matthew Hennessey, Linda Smallthwaite, Clare Perkins, Mark A Bellis
Published:
22/12/2011
Department of Health update, Regional Sexual Health Network updates, Who should be offered an HIV test? Get on Top Sexual Health website, Public Servant of the year, News and Events
Authors: Ann Lincoln, Jane Harris
Published:
19/12/2011
NHS Wirral’s Bariatric Care Pathway (BCP) is a weight management programme which includes lifestyle and weight management education, drug therapy and potentially bariatric surgery. NHS Wirral commissioned an independent study of the BCP from Liverpool John Moores University to evaluate the effectiveness of the project. A qualitative approach to data collection and analysis was taken, the aim of which was to describe the views of health professionals (including the service providers and those who refer into the service) from two perspectives. The first aspect concerns the effectiveness of the BCP in terms of outcomes for NHS Wirral, and the second is concerned with the impact of delivery and the associated outcomes for patients
Authors: Jane Stuart, Jenny Brizell, Fiona Irvine, Jim McVeigh
Published:
16/12/2011
NHS Wirral’s Bariatric Care Pathway (BCP) is a weight management programme which includes lifestyle and weight management education, drug therapy and potentially bariatric surgery. NHS Wirral commissioned an independent study of the BCP from Liverpool John Moores University to evaluate the effectiveness of the project. A qualitative approach to data collection and analysis was taken, the aim of which was to describe the views of patients and significant others who had been on the BCP in the last three and a half years.
Authors: Jane Stuart, Jenny Brizell, Jim McVeigh, Fiona Irvine
Published:
16/12/2011
Annual report to the European monitoring centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
Authors: Charlotte Davies, Layla English, Claire Stewart, Alan Lodwick, Jim McVeigh, Mark Bellis
Published:
12/12/2011
This manual presents quality standards for drug prevention work in the European Union (EU). Topics include needs and resource assessment, programme planning, intervention design, resource management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, dissemination, sustainability, stakeholder involvement, staff development, and ethics. Considerations regarding the standards’ real-life implementation are provided, acknowledging differences in professional culture, policy, and the structure of prevention delivery within Europe.
Authors: Angelina Brotherhood, Harry Sumnall
Published:
09/12/2011
Short Report
Authors: Caryl Beynon, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Mark Bellis, William Sinkele
Published:
09/12/2011
High quality urban green spaces have an essential role to play in improving community health and wellbeing, and in reducing the health and social inequalities often seen
between areas of high and low deprivation. This study explores how local parks are being used by residents in Merseyside and Manchester, resident perceptions of safety in their local park, and perceived barriers to their use. It explores variations in park use and perceptions across different levels of
deprivation and residential proximities to the park.
Authors: Sara Wood, Mark A. Bellis, Danielle Kelly, Karen Hughes, Lindsay Eckley, and Neil Chadborn,
Published:
08/12/2011
Young people’s lifestyle choices and related health indicators is a series of profiles for North West local authority areas that summarise available information at a local level on young people’s lifestyle choices, health risk behaviours and related indicators in order to inform policy and practice at a sub-national level.
Authors: Lynn Deacon, Michela Morleo, Clare Perkins, Mark Bellis
Published:
28/11/2011
In 2007, FSN on behalf of the group secured funding from the Big Lottery Reaching
Communities Fund to facilitate the development and implementation of the Cage
Football project in deprived areas of central Liverpool
Authors: Brizell J., Rooney J., Quigg Z.
Published:
04/10/2011
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