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The Public Health Institute has over 800 published reports generated from external research grants and collaborative projects.

The publications cover a wide range of subjects including our specialist areas of expertise such as substance use, sexual and reproductive health, intelligence and surveillance, international public health, environment and sustainability as well as cross cutting themes such as deprivation and vulnerabilities.

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  1. Service evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator Programme Final Summary Report (2022-2024)

    In Merseyside, an A&E Navigator programme operates in 3 hospital sites (Alder Hey, Royal Liverpool, Aintree) across Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (AHFT) and Liverpool University Foundation Hospital Trust (LUFHT) to prevent youth violence. Navigators are embedded within each acute hospital trust to offer support to young people (10-24 years) who have been affected by violence or identified as at risk of violence. Attendance at acute healthcare settings is viewed as a ‘teachable moment’ when young people may be more likely to consider their life circumstances and engage with support. The programme has three core components (crisis and safety support; stabilisation support; maintenance support) and uses a personalised approach to provide support to young people and refer them into wider support in the community). In July 2021, the MVRP commissioned LJMU to conduct a service evaluation of the Merseyside Navigator programme (Quigg et al., 2022) with further yearly evaluations published in year two (Harris et al., 2023) and year three (Smith et al., 2024) of implementation. This final summary report draws on data from the three annual reports (with additional data collected between July and October 2024) to summarise learning from the implementation of the Merseyside Navigator programme and assess perceptions and potential impacts.

    Published

    01/04/2025

    Tagged

    Violence and unintentional injury

    Young people and ACEs

    Authors

    Jane Harris, Chloe Smith, Jennifer Germain, Zara Quigg

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  2. Gambling Related Harm Across Liverpool: Extent, nature, and associations with health risk behaviours, health and wellbeing, ACEs, violence, and criminal behaviour

    Globally, there have been increasing calls to recognise and approach gambling as a public health issue. In recognition of the harms associated with gambling, the Liverpool Gambling Related Harm Steering Group was established in 2023. The aim of the group is to develop a co-ordinated approach to reduce gambling related harms and implement evidenced-based strategies to prevent and respond to gambling related harm across Liverpool. A key action for this group is to develop and support processes to gather data and intelligence of gambling related harms. However, following a scoping exercise, it was identified there was a lack of data specific to Liverpool on the nature and extent of gambling related harms. As part of wider activities with the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership, Liverpool John Moores University were commissioned to conduct a representative household survey of adults residing in Merseyside to understand the nature and prevalence of violence and identify its impacts and associations with health and wellbeing, and other health risk behaviours (i.e. the MerVCom survey). One of the health risk behaviours included in the survey was gambling, providing a unique data source to examine the nature and extent of gambling behaviour and gambling related harms across areas of Merseyside, including Liverpool. The study presented in this report used secondary data from the MerVCom survey to estimate the prevalence of gambling and gambling related harm across Liverpool, identify associations with sociodemographics, health risk behaviours, violence victimisation and criminal behaviour, ACEs, and health and wellbeing. In addition it explored the extent and nature of intergenerational transmission of gambling related harm.

    Published

    13/03/2025

    Tagged

    Population health

    Violence and unintentional injury

    Young people and ACEs

    Authors

    Nadia Butler, Charley Wilson, Zara Quigg, Mark A Bellis

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