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Young people’s views and experience of diet-related inequalities in England (UK): a qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
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/daae107

Inequalities 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. (in press). ‘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-z

Background: 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 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.pub2

Prevention 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.

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.pub2

Prevention 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.

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.13736

Summary: 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)
Journal Article
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/s12889-024-18078-9

Background: 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)
Journal Article
Hope, S., Stepanova, E., Lloyd-Houldey, O., Hillier-Brown, F., Hargreaves, D., Nicholls, D., …Scott, S. (in press). 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/s12913-023-10442-6

Background: 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.

Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel (2023)
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Tupper, E., Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Jago, R., & Pollard, T. (2024). Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel. Health & Place, 85, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103147

The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to 'put health into place' by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this... Read More about Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel.

A qualitative exploration of food portion size practices and awareness of food portion size guidance in first-time parents of one- to two-year-olds living in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, A., Langford, R., Summerbell, C., Tinner, L., & Kipping, R. (2023). A qualitative exploration of food portion size practices and awareness of food portion size guidance in first-time parents of one- to two-year-olds living in the UK. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 1779 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16647-y

Background
Food portion size guidance resources aimed at parents of young children in the UK are freely available from a number of credible sources. However, little is known about whether parents are aware of, and use, any of these resources to guid... Read More about A qualitative exploration of food portion size practices and awareness of food portion size guidance in first-time parents of one- to two-year-olds living in the UK.

Characterising restrictions on commercial advertising and sponsorship of harmful commodities in local government policies: a nationwide study in England. (2023)
Journal Article
McKevitt, S., White, M., Petticrew, M., Summerbell, C., Vasiljevic, M., Boyland, E., …Vamos, E. P. (2023). Characterising restrictions on commercial advertising and sponsorship of harmful commodities in local government policies: a nationwide study in England. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad155

Background
Commercial advertising and sponsorship drive the consumption of harmful commodities. Local authorities (LAs) have considerable powers to reduce such exposures. This study aimed to characterize local commercial policies across all English... Read More about Characterising restrictions on commercial advertising and sponsorship of harmful commodities in local government policies: a nationwide study in England..