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Targeting, Accountability and Youth Work Practice (2004)
Journal Article
Spence, J. (2004). Targeting, Accountability and Youth Work Practice. Practice: Social Work in Action, 16(4), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503150500045543

Using the findings of an investigation into detached and outreach youth work, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this article considers tensions between generic youth work and contemporary policy initiatives. It is argued that there are fun... Read More about Targeting, Accountability and Youth Work Practice.

Evaluating Processes : A case study of a randomized controlled trial of sex education (2004)
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Oakley, A., Strange, V., Stephenson, J., Forrest, S., Monteiro, H., & Team, &. T. R. S. (2004). Evaluating Processes : A case study of a randomized controlled trial of sex education. Evaluation, 10(4), 440-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389004050220

This article explores the rationales offered in the evaluation literature for studying the processes involved in programme implementation, and their relationship with current arguments about the use of experimental designs to evaluate social interven... Read More about Evaluating Processes : A case study of a randomized controlled trial of sex education.

Working for Jewish girls: Lily Montagu, Girls' Clubs and Industrial Reform 1890-1914 (2004)
Journal Article
Spence, J. (2004). Working for Jewish girls: Lily Montagu, Girls' Clubs and Industrial Reform 1890-1914. Women's History Review, 13(3), 491-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020400200396

Lily Montagu was involved in social work and religious ministry with the London Jewish community for over sixty years. This article considers the significance of her involvement in the girls' club movement and her efforts towards workplace reform. It... Read More about Working for Jewish girls: Lily Montagu, Girls' Clubs and Industrial Reform 1890-1914.

Health Service Organization in the UK: a Political Economy Approach (2004)
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Greener, I. (2004). Health Service Organization in the UK: a Political Economy Approach. Public Administration, 82(3), 657-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00411.x

This paper revisits Harrison and Wood's (1999) account of health service organizational design in the UK to bring that account up to date. It also attempts to broaden it through an increased use of the political economy perspective it incorporated. A... Read More about Health Service Organization in the UK: a Political Economy Approach.

Institutional Holes and Entrepreneurship in China (2004)
Journal Article
Yang, K. (2004). Institutional Holes and Entrepreneurship in China. Sociological Review, 52(3), 371-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2004.00485.x

Theories of entrepreneurship and institutions have grown up in partial isolation, but they are actually complementary. By analogy with Ronald Burt's structural holes, the idea of institutional holes calls attention to the ways entrepreneurs create co... Read More about Institutional Holes and Entrepreneurship in China.

Wonderment and Dread: Representations of DNA in Ethical Disputes about Forensic DNA Databases (2004)
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Williams, R., & Johnson, P. (2004). Wonderment and Dread: Representations of DNA in Ethical Disputes about Forensic DNA Databases. New Genetics and Society, 23(2), 205-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/1463677042000237035

The national DNA Database of England & Wales is the largest forensic DNA database in the world. Since 1995 it has quickly developed to hold the genetic profiles of over two million people. This collection of tissue samples, taken without consent from... Read More about Wonderment and Dread: Representations of DNA in Ethical Disputes about Forensic DNA Databases.

Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study) : cluster-randomised intervention trial (2004)
Journal Article
Stephenson, J., Strange, V., Forrest, S., Oakley, A., Copas, A., Allen, E., …team, &. T. R. S. (2004). Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study) : cluster-randomised intervention trial. The Lancet, 364(9431), 338-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2804%2916722-6

Background Improvement of sex education in schools is a key part of the UK government's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy in England. We examined the effectiveness of one form of peer-led sex education in a school-based randomised trial of over 80... Read More about Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study) : cluster-randomised intervention trial.

What young people want from sex education? The results of a needs assessment from a peer-led sex education programme (2004)
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Forrest, S., Strange, V., Oakley, A., & team, &. T. R. S. (2004). What young people want from sex education? The results of a needs assessment from a peer-led sex education programme. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 6(4), 337-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691050310001645050

This paper presents data on the need for sexual health information and advice of 4353 students aged 13/14 years in 13 English secondary schools. Data were collected by peer educators as part of a sex education programme, and through a questionnaire s... Read More about What young people want from sex education? The results of a needs assessment from a peer-led sex education programme.

The Three Moments of New Labour's Health Policy Discourse (2004)
Journal Article
Greener, I. (2004). The Three Moments of New Labour's Health Policy Discourse. Policy and Politics, 32(3), 303-316. https://doi.org/10.1332/0305573041223753

This article examines the three 'moments' of health policy discourse under New Labour. It contends that, since 1997, there have been two significant changes: the first from an initially very Fabian rhetoric to one based instead around performance mea... Read More about The Three Moments of New Labour's Health Policy Discourse.

Self, Agency and the Surgical Collective: detachment (2004)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2004). Self, Agency and the Surgical Collective: detachment. Sociology of Health & Illness, 26(1), 32-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00377.x

In this article, I describe the socio-technical organisation of surgical rehabilitation. After having gone through surgical intervention, patients are implicated within various types of medical work aimed at adjusting their bodies to post-operative s... Read More about Self, Agency and the Surgical Collective: detachment.

Omega-3 fatty acids for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (2004)
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Hooper, L., Harrison, R., Summerbell, C., Moore, H., Worthington, H., Ness, A., …Ebrahim, S. (2004). Omega-3 fatty acids for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd003177.pub2

Background It has been suggested that omega 3 (W3, n-3 or omega-3) fats from oily fish and plants are beneficial to health. Objectives To assess whether dietary or supplemental omega 3 fatty acids alter total mortality, cardiovascular events or cance... Read More about Omega-3 fatty acids for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Low glycaemic index diets for coronary heart disease (2004)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Frost, G., Whittaker, V., & Summerbell, C. (2004). Low glycaemic index diets for coronary heart disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd004467.pub2

Background The glycaemic index (GI) is a physiological measure of the ability of a carbohydrate to affect blood glucose. Interest is growing in the low GI carbohydrate concept for the clinical management of people at risk of, or with established coro... Read More about Low glycaemic index diets for coronary heart disease.

Hormonally impregnated IUSs versus other forms of reversible contraceptives as effective methods of preventing pregnancy (2004)
Journal Article
French, R., Van Vliet, H., Cowan, F., Mansour, D., Morris, S., Hughes, D., …Guillebaud, J. (2004). Hormonally impregnated IUSs versus other forms of reversible contraceptives as effective methods of preventing pregnancy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd001776.pub2

Background: In the 1970s a new approach to the delivery of hormonal contraception was researched and developed. It was suggested that the addition of a progestogen to a non-medicated contraceptive device improved its contraceptive action. An advantag... Read More about Hormonally impregnated IUSs versus other forms of reversible contraceptives as effective methods of preventing pregnancy.