Research projects

Our research projects are carefully selected from ideas and projects submitted from our health and care community. They fall under our themes of healthier childhoods, mental health, public health and prevention, and integrated and optimal care.

Showing 49 projects in "Public health and prevention"

Could requesting emergency contraception be a sign of domestic violence and abuse?

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Exposure to domestic violence and abuse and consultations for emergency contraception: nested case-control study in a UK primary care dataset

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Monitoring the impact of 5G technology in the workplace

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Clearways: Helping councils make decisions on air quality and transport

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Integrated working in local authority decision-making about air quality: a qualitative study in Southwest England

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Evaluating the Southwark Digital Health Check pilot

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Alcohol and pregnancy: is drinking up two units twice a week ‘safe’ or should pregnant women completely abstain?

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Low alcohol consumption and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: time to change guidelines indicating apparently ‘safe’ levels of alcohol during pregnancy? A systematic review and meta-analyses

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Alcohol in pregnancy: do we know how little is too much?

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Alcohol dependency and malnutrition among homeless people

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Nutritional deficiencies in homeless persons with problematic drinking: a systematic review

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Alcohol dependency and malnutrition among homeless people

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Low versus high dead space syringes: user preferences and attitudes

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Acceptability of low dead space syringes and implications for their introduction: A qualitative study in the West of England

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Low versus high dead space syringes

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Evaluating Unity Sexual Health rapid results service

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BMJOpen paper modelling patient flows
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Modelling patient flows and resource use within a sexual health clinic through discrete event simulation to inform service redesign

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Examining how to improve HIV prevention and testing in GP practices

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Evaluating the impact of new stop-smoking services in hospitals

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Creating a coronavirus support app

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Evaluating ‘we can move’: a whole systems approach to addressing low levels of physical activity in Gloucestershire

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Navigating the river(s) of systems change: a multi-methods, qualitative evaluation exploring the implementation of a systems approach to physical activity in Gloucestershire, England

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Can a community building initiative help increase people’s opportunities for physical activity in Gloucestershire?

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Ripple effects mapping: capturing the wider impacts of systems change efforts in public health

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Lessons from the ‘Everyone In’ programme to help people who were homeless during COVID-19

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Using hyper-local population health management to increase the number of people getting vaccinated against COVID-19

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Understanding which strategies to prevent childhood obesity work best

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Understanding what affected COVID-19 outcomes in care homes in Bath and North East Somerset

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Evaluating ‘Breathing Space’: a safe space for people experiencing mental health crisis

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Understanding the experiences of people who inject drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Living Under Coronavirus and Injecting Drugs in Bristol (LUCID-B): A qualitative study of experiences of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs

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Impact and acceptability of new self-consent procedures for schools-based HPV vaccinations: A mixed-methods study

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How acceptable is adolescent self-consent for the HPV vaccination: Findings from a qualitative study in south-west England

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