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The return of public health to local government has been widely welcomed. It affords an opportunity to provide leadership for health that was largely missing from the NHS between 1974 and April 2013.
The new arrangements could enable a more joined up…
SPHR@L Seminar Series
NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM
‘Minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland: Lessons for evidence-informed policy’
Speaker: Dr. S Vittal Katikereddi (MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow)
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Date: Thursday, 20th March…
SPHR@L is excited to announce the launch of an ‘Evaluation Workshop’ aimed at local government practitioners e.g. particularly those working in housing, transport, and planning etc to be better equipped to design evaluations.
Date & time: Wednesday 2nd April 2014, 9:00 am -5.00 pm
Location: Tavistock…
‘If you destroy a neighbourhood, you need a strategy to support those who rely on it most’
Matt Egan argues that wholesale demolition can have surprisingly low impact on health, but may damage some communities if planners lack sensitivity to their particular needs.
In Glasgow’s poorest estates, life expectancy…
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Welcome to the PHR bulletin – Winter 2013/14 edition
In this edition:
Funding opportunities
Useful resources
Large scale evaluation studies
Vacancies with the PHR Programme
Tackling alcohol misuse
Projects recently started
Projects recently published
Latest news
Upcoming events
Complete the palliative…
Based in the Section of Public Health, under the direction of Professor Petra Meier, we take a lead in ScHARR’s developing research programme on alcohol and other addictions. Our work is influential in informing current debate on alcohol policy and our Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model has provided a key…
SPHR opens Round 2 of its innovative evaluation scheme
Round 2 of SPHR’s Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES) is now open. PHPES aims to produce high quality evidence needed by public health practice to improve population health and help reduce health inequalities. PHPES enables public health practitioners to…
Under the influence: In an investigation for the British Medical Journal, Jonathan Gornall discovers that the government consultation into introducing a minimum unit price for alcohol in England and Wales was a sham and that politicians ignored the strong health evidence in favour of protecting the interests of industry
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SPHR@L Seminar Series
NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM
‘Can neighbourhood demolition really be a low impact public health intervention? Complex findings from a UK natural experiment evaluation (GoWell)’
‘Can neighbourhood demolition really be a low impact public health intervention? Complex findings from a UK natural experiment evaluation…
