Perspectives in Public Health最新文献

{"title":"Addressing health inequalities through the NHS: learnings from a trust health inequalities programme board.","authors":"J Pearson-Stuttard, L Nevens, A Blair, B Owolabi, J Harland","doi":"10.1177/17579139251336651","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139251336651","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>NHS England commit to tackling health inequalities in three ways; influencing multi-agency action to address social determinants of health, leveraging the NHS's role as a significant economic actor and tackling inequalities in healthcare provision. This article outlines the learning from the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Health Inequalities Programme Board for other hospitals, in the UK and beyond, who look to develop their own approach to inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Childhood obesity prevention inequality: the dichotomy between health authorities' provision and minority ethnicities' perspectives.","authors":"A Alkhatib, G Obita","doi":"10.1177/17579139251339088","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139251339088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This topical paper covers important issue of health equity and obesity prevention and interventions in children from minority ethnicities. The authors highlight ongoing issues in this area to help health professionals and policy makers to improve population health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12876404/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial.","authors":"Duncan Radley","doi":"10.1177/17579139251410802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251410802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":"146 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146150944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Doing school food!': a practical toolkit for adopting a whole school food approach.","authors":"K Rose, C O'Malley, A A Lake, G S Lalli","doi":"10.1177/17579139231185302","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139231185302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>The dietary intake and reported eating behaviours of adolescents in the UK are a public health concern. Schools are identified as an ideal 'place' setting to promote health and improve young peoples' nutrition outcomes. A gap in the understanding of <i>how</i> healthy secondary school food policy can be implemented, sustainable and effective, may hamper progress to improving school food provision and nutrition education in the UK. Research was conducted to understand the factors which influence healthy school food provision and the adolescent's food choice to inform and develop a practical framework for schools.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This research involves the development of a practical toolkit which synthesises evidence generated from a mixed methods study and a systematic review. This was informed by an exploration of the secondary school food environment as a potentially 'obesogenic' setting, the effectiveness of school food interventions and policy in Europe and UK, included young people's (11-18 years of age) eating behaviours and priorities in food choice. A pragmatic approach was taken in the integration of evidence, using ecological and behaviour change theory, and joint display principles.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>A six-phase practical toolkit is presented, guided by 'What Good Looks Like' and 'Whole Systems Approach to Obesity' principles which can be used to translate the evidence from this research into good school food practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Improving secondary school food provision across the school day and having a coherent whole school food approach to healthy eating have the potential to significantly improve a young person's food choice, therefore impacting the nutrient intake of adolescents in the UK. This toolkit helps working towards operationalising this idea.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"29-37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41239818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of public hygiene behaviour in tackling antibiotic resistance.","authors":"L M Ackerley, S F Bloomfield","doi":"10.1177/17579139251329664","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139251329664","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continuing on from their previously published article \"Developing better understanding of hygiene is key to developing hygiene behaviour change in home and everyday life settings,\" Bloomfield and Ackerley delve into the highly important public health issue of antimicrobial resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"11-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145356325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social prescribing link workers: a test for public health ethics?","authors":"C Melam","doi":"10.1177/17579139251355898","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139251355898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article builds on the conversation initiated in The Unusual Suspects by the Royal Society for Public Health regarding the wider public health workforce. It focuses on the ethical implications of evolving \"bridge\" roles, such as Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs), who operate at the intersection of clinical care and community-based support. The commentary explores how these roles are expanding globally, with the UK offering a key case study due to its scale of implementation and integration into formal health systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"20-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12876416/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping healthy planning frameworks.","authors":"A De La Haye, A Jones, S van Herk, M Rofin-Serra, A A Lake, H J Moore","doi":"10.1177/17579139231205494","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139231205494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>The aim of this research was to map available healthy planning frameworks to discover the range, composition, design, and implementation of healthy planning frameworks.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic scoping review with date, location, and usability limitations was augmented by a grey literature search. Data were extracted on key details, design, outcomes considered, and implementation features of the final 61 frameworks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data extracted indicated that most frameworks tend to focus on one element of the built environment, with active mobility, active environments, and transport being the most prevalent ones (34%). Most frameworks (40) stated their intended outcomes on health in general terms, rather than targeting specific health outcomes. Very few frameworks (12%) were aimed at the public, and only 11% of frameworks included an evaluation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While there are a wide variety and number of frameworks available in the field of healthy urban planning, they are generally siloed, focusing on highly specific individual urban determinants, and rarely consider health outcomes in detail. There is significantly less provision available for citizen and community use. Frameworks tend to offer limited updating mechanisms and very rarely include ongoing evaluation processes, making their success difficult to assess.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"44-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71414688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the effect of child home safety training upon three family support practitioner groups: a mixed-methods study.","authors":"M J Taylor, T Patel, E Orton, M C Watson, M Hayes, R Clarke, S Stewart, C Timblin, D Kendrick","doi":"10.1177/17579139231185999","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139231185999","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Unintentional injuries in the home contribute substantially to preschool child morbidity and mortality. Practitioners such as health visitors, family mentors and children's centre staff are well-positioned to facilitate child injury prevention by providing home safety advice to families, and training may enhance their ability to do so. We aimed to assess the impact of child home safety training for these practitioners.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An explanatory mixed-methods design was used. Practitioners completed questionnaires before, and up to 7 months after, receiving child home safety training and took part in interviews. Seventy-eight health visitors, 72 family mentors and 11 children's centre staff members completed questionnaires. Items were used to calculate scores on home safety knowledge, confidence to provide home safety advice and belief that child home safety promotion is important. Thematic analysis of interviews with seven health visitors and nine family mentors, open-ended responses to the questionnaires and an additional evaluation form was conducted to explore attendees' perceptions of the training and its impact. In addition, seven health visitors and six children's centre staff who had received no training were interviewed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Knowledge was greater post-training than pre-training across all participants (<i>p</i> < .001). When practitioner groups were analysed separately, there were significant increases in family mentors' knowledge (<i>p</i> < .001) and belief (<i>p</i> = .016), and health visitors' confidence (<i>p</i> = .0036). Qualitative findings indicated that most training session attendees valued the training, believed their practice relating to child home safety had improved as a result, and felt further similar training sessions would be beneficial. Those who had not attended the sessions described a need for more child home safety training.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Delivering training to practitioners providing child home safety promotion to families with preschool children can enhance injury prevention knowledge, beliefs and confidence and positively impact on home safety promotion by practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"22-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12876430/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10035810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enabling mothers of young children in a low SES area to co-design the support they are seeking for the adoption of healthy behaviours.","authors":"P Wittels, T Kay, L Mansfield","doi":"10.1177/17579139231205488","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579139231205488","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>There is a need for interventions that meet the needs of low socioeconomic status (SES) groups, to encourage the adoption of healthy diets and physical activity, in line with current public health guidance. This qualitative research used co-production, a method which actively involves the relevant community, to identify and describe public health interventions to support a group of mothers of young children living in a low SES area.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A group of 20 mothers took part in three in-depth qualitative interviews to discuss in detail the type of support that would be of value to them for the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviours. The mothers were subsequently invited to take part in a public engagement project, a community-based self-help group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four themes explained the principles of interventions that would be of value in supporting the mothers with the adoption of healthy behaviours, namely, a community-based self-help group, support for the whole family and support in the home and influencing the environment. These were then further developed into two types of intervention (1) learning for self-help and family care, which encompassed the first three learning-based themes and (2) community of support, which covered influencing the environment and the experience of the community-based self-help group.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Co-production enabled a group of mothers of young children, from a low SES area, to describe the type of support that would help them with the establishment and maintenance of healthy lifestyle behaviours. A community-based self-help group warrants further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"38-43"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41239819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading for wellbeing: a realist review of evidence.","authors":"M Sirisena, S Redgate, E Kaner, A Wearn, S Hackett, A Wojciechowska, M Lhussier","doi":"10.1177/17579139251371961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139251371961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>While the current evidence base indicates that reading for pleasure facilitates many wellbeing related outcomes such as relaxation and escapism, little research has focused on the interplay between reading and wellbeing in detail. This review explores the evidence on reading for pleasure initiatives with a view of developing a theoretical understanding of the context and potential underlying causal mechanisms which support or inhibit wellbeing in adults.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted a realist review whereby data collation, extraction, synthesis and analysis were conducted iteratively. The literature searches were conducted in January to February 2022 and May 2023.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 43 papers were included. The literature highlighted seven interlinked mechanisms underlying reading for pleasure interventions at the level of the individual and as groups. These included reconnecting with reading, space away from daily stressors, perspective taking to enhance empathic abilities, creating and reawakening memories, intellectual stimulation, collective meaning-making and a conducive environment.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings suggest that reading for pleasure enhances processes such as feelings of positivity, self-understanding, empathic relations, which impact upon a reader's salutogenic assets such as self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and connectedness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"17579139251371961"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145649589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}