Outputs (4)

Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Visram, S., Walton, N., Akhter, N., Lewis, S., & Lister, G. (2020). Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK. Social Science & Medicine, 245, Article 112661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112661

Lay health workers have been utilized to deliver health promotion programmes in a variety of settings. However, few studies have sought to determine whether these programmes represent value for money, particularly in a UK context. The present study i... Read More about Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK.

Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers (2019)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Lewis, S., Campbell, M., Bryant, V., Storey, S., & Deary, V. (2019). Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers. Health & Place, 57, 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.04.004

This paper reinforces the value of visceral geographic approaches to health research as a method ‘beyond talking’. The paper establishes and sets out an integrative embodied multi-sensory research methodology - food play. Researchers across the socia... Read More about Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers.

Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. (2019)
Journal Article
McGowan, V., Wistow, J., Lewis, S., Popay, J., & Bambra, C. (2019). Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. Journal of Public Health, 41(4), 850-857. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy192

Background: Area-based initiatives that include a focus on community empowerment are increasingly being seen as potentially an important way of improving health and reducing inequalities. However, there is little empirical evidence on the pathways be... Read More about Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England..

Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity (2019)
Journal Article
Reynolds, J., & Lewis, S. (2019). Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity. Anthropology and Medicine, 26(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2018.1507106

In public health there is increased focus on evaluating ‘complex’ interventions for health improvement, examining how their multiple components interact dynamically with the contextual system in which they are delivered. Amid this complexity framing... Read More about Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity.