Exploring associations between active school environments and children’s physical activity, mental health, and educational performance in Greater London primary schools: The Health and Activity of Pupils in the Primary Years (HAPPY) study protocol
(2025)
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Ram, B., Gullett, N., Benkhelfa, A., Sharabiani, M. T. A., van Sluijs, E., Cunningham, M., Siddiqui, N., Hillsdon, M., Summerbell, C., Pallan, M., & Saxena, S. (in press). Exploring associations between active school environments and children’s physical activity, mental health, and educational performance in Greater London primary schools: The Health and Activity of Pupils in the Primary Years (HAPPY) study protocol. BMJ Open,
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Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews (2025)
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Palmer, J. C., Davies, A. L., Spiga, F., Heitmann, B. L., Jago, R., Summerbell, C. D., Higgins, J. P., Astrup, A., Barbosa Filho, V. C., Benden, M. E., Boddy, L., Bogart, L. M., Brown, B., Carlin, A., Pozuelo Carrascosa, D. P., Chai, L. K., Drummy, C., Duncan, S., Ebbeling, C., Martos, E., …Wolfenden, L. (2025). Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews. EClinicalMedicine, 81, Article 103130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103130Background: Public health attempts to prevent obesity in children and young people should aim to minimize health inequalities. Two Cochrane reviews examining interventions aiming to prevent childhood obesity found that interventions promoting (only)... Read More about Do the effects of interventions aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity reduce inequities? A re-analysis of randomized trial data from two Cochrane reviews.
Factors associated with effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity in children: a synthesis of evidence from 204 randomized trials (2025)
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Davies, A. L., Spiga, F., Caldwell, D. M., Savović, J., Palmer, J. C., Tomlinson, E., Moore, T. H. M., Summerbell, C. D., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2025). Factors associated with effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity in children: a synthesis of evidence from 204 randomized trials. BMJ Public Health, 3(1), Article e001707. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2024-001707
Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study (2024)
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Er, V., Crowder, M., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Griffin, N., Summerbell, C., Egan, M., & Fairbrother, H. (2024). Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study. Health Promotion International, 39(4), Article daae107. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae107Inequalities in diets contribute to overall inequalities in health. Economic inequality and inequalities in access to healthy food are key drivers of poor diet and ill health among young people (YP). Despite mounting evidence of structural barriers t... Read More about Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study.
‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK (2024)
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Fairbrother, H., Woodrow, N., Holding, E., Crowder, M., Griffin, N., Er, V., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Egan, M., Scott, S., Summerbell, C., Rigby, E., Kyle, P., Knights, N., Quirk, H., & Goyder, E. (2024). ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19537-zBackground: Improving the public’s understanding of how regional and socioeconomic inequalities create and perpetuate inequalities in health, is argued to be necessary for building support for policies geared towards creating a more equal society. Ho... Read More about ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK.
Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old (2024)
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Spiga, F., Tomlinson, E., Davies, A. L., Moore, T. H. M., Dawson, S., Breheny, K., …Summerbell, C. D. (2024). Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024(5), Article CD015330. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015330.pub2Prevention of obesity in adolescents is an international public health priority. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is over 25% in North and South America, Australia, most of Europe, and the Gulf region. Interventions that aim to prevent obesit... Read More about Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old.
Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old (2024)
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Spiga, F., Davies, A. L., Tomlinson, E., Moore, T. H. M., Dawson, S., Breheny, K., …Summerbell, C. D. (2024). Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024(5), Article CD015328. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015328.pub2Prevention of obesity in children is an international public health priority given the prevalence of the condition (and its significant impact on health, development and well-being). Interventions that aim to prevent obesity involve behavioural chang... Read More about Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old.
Childhood obesity prevention trials: A systematic review and meta‐analysis on trial design and the impact of type 1 error (2024)
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Padgett, L., Stevens, J., Summerbell, C., Burton, W., Stamp, E., McLarty, L., Schofield, H., & Bryant, M. (2024). Childhood obesity prevention trials: A systematic review and meta‐analysis on trial design and the impact of type 1 error. Obesity Reviews, 25(6), Article e13736. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13736Summary: Effect sizes from previously reported trials are often used to determine the meaningful change in weight in childhood obesity prevention interventions because information on clinically meaningful differences is lacking. Estimates from previo... Read More about Childhood obesity prevention trials: A systematic review and meta‐analysis on trial design and the impact of type 1 error.
Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK (2024)
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Dodd-Reynolds, C., Griffin, N., Kyle, P., Scott, S., Fairbrother, H., Holding, E., Crowder, M., Woodrow, N., & Summerbell, C. (2024). Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 813. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18078-9Background: Intersecting socioeconomic and demographic reasons for physical activity (PA) inequalities are not well understood for young people at risk of experiencing marginalisation and living with disadvantage. This study explored young people’s e... Read More about Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK.
This needs to be a journey that we’re actually on together’—the introduction of integrated care systems for children and young people in England: a qualitative study of the views of local system stakeholders during winter 2021/22 (2023)
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Hope, S., Stepanova, E., Lloyd-Houldey, O., Hillier-Brown, F., Hargreaves, D., Nicholls, D., Summerbell, C., Viner, R. M., Dedat, Z., Owen, E. C., & Scott, S. (2023). This needs to be a journey that we’re actually on together’—the introduction of integrated care systems for children and young people in England: a qualitative study of the views of local system stakeholders during winter 2021/22. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), Article 1448. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10442-6Background: Integrated care has become a central feature of health system reform worldwide. In England, Integrated Care Systems (ICS) are intended to improve integration across public health, the National Health Service (NHS), education and social ca... Read More about This needs to be a journey that we’re actually on together’—the introduction of integrated care systems for children and young people in England: a qualitative study of the views of local system stakeholders during winter 2021/22.