All Outputs (3)

Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism (2019)
Journal Article
Telford, L., & Wistow, J. (2020). Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism. Capital & Class, 44(4), 553-572. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816819873310

Too often members of the working class who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum have been framed as uneducated and unaware of their own economic interests. This paper, based on 26 in-depth face-to-face interviews and a further tel... Read More about Brexit and the working class on Teesside: Moving beyond reductionism.

Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ (2019)
Journal Article
Matheson, A., Walton, M., Gray, R., Wehipeihana, N., & Wistow, J. (2020). Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ. Health Promotion International, 35(5), 947-957. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz092

This article presents the findings from the first 3 years of the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ, a systems-change intervention to prevent chronic diseases in 10 communities. The initiative, which builds on existing prevention activities, aims to s... Read More about Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ.

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..