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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. Evaluation of a system wide approach to implementing routine enquiry about adversity in childhood (REACh) across Nottinghamshire (Interim report)

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    [Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include a range of stressful and potentially traumatic experiences that children can be exposed to. These can include experience of child maltreatment, or living in a dysfunctional household and/or community. Research consistently shows that ACEs are associated with increased risk of poor health and well-being across the lifecourse. In recent years, Nottinghamshire County Council and partners have increased efforts to prevent and respond to the impacts of ACEs, and in 2019 commenced a test and learn project to develop and implement the Routine Enquiry about Adversity in Childhood (REACh™) programme across services in the county. This report provides information from the first year of a two-year evaluation of the programme.

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    30/07/2020

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    Young people and ACEs

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    Zara Quigg, Rebecca Harrison, Nadia Butler, Charlotte Bigland, Hannah Timpson

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  2. Evaluation of a system wide approach to implementing Routine Enquiry about Adversity in Childhood (REACh™) across Nottinghamshire - Summary of interim findings

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    Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include a range of stressful and potentially traumatic experiences that children can be exposed to. These can include experience of child maltreatment, or living in a dysfunctional household and/or community. Research consistently shows that ACEs are associated with increased risk of poor health and well-being across the lifecourse. In recent years, Nottinghamshire County Council and partners have increased efforts to prevent and respond to the impacts of ACEs, and in 2019 commenced a test and learn project to develop and implement the Routine Enquiry about Adversity in Childhood (REACh™) programme across services in the county. This report provides information from the first year of a two-year evaluation of the programme. 

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    30/07/2020

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    Young people and ACEs

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    Zara Quigg, Rebecca Harrison, Nadia Butler, Charlotte Bigland, Hannah Timpson

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  3. Direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing

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    This rapid evidence review identifies what the evidence tells up about the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its onward impacts on health and wellbeing. It aims to assist with the development of priorities and mitigating actions to support an equitable recovery. The review was carried out at pace and summarises evidence collated up to the middle of June 2020.  The evidence reviewed supports expectations that the impacts of COVID-19 have not been felt equally. In particular, the measures taken to control the spread of coronavirus have had their own important consequences for people’s ability to lead healthy lives and the report examines the impacts of these measures through their influence on the wider determinants of health.

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    14/07/2020

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    Population health

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    Lisa Jones, Cath Lewis, Janet Ubido

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  4. Class A drug tests in Merseyside Police custody 2019-20

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    The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) has an overarching aim to identify and engage with adult offenders in the criminal justice system who use drugs and/or alcohol, and encourage them towards appropriate treatment services in order to reduce acquisitive crime. This report presents data on drug tests carried out across Merseyside’s custody suites between April 2019 and March 2020. It contextualises Merseyside Police drug testing records by providing numbers and trends of offenders who use cocaine and/or opiates, identified through this route into DIP, and a demographic overview of this cohort.

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    13/07/2020

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    Alcohol

    Drugs

    Intelligence and surveillance

    AUTHORS

    Karen Critchley, Mark Whitfield

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  5. Evaluation of the Birmingham Good Night Out Campaign

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    The Good Night Out Campaign (GNOC) was developed for licenced premises and aims to support those who work in nightlife settings to better understand, respond to and prevent sexual violence (www.goodnightoutcampaign.org). In 2019, GNOC facilitators (Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid) worked with eight nightlife venues to engage them in the GNOC, providing guidance on preventing and responding to sexual violence, training over 70 nightlife workers, and distributing materials to display in venues to raise awareness of the GNOC and encourage nightlife patrons to report sexual violence.  This report provides a summary of an evaluation of the training programme. This study adds to the developing evidence on the impact of sexual violence awareness raising and bystander programmes implemented in nightlife settings. The GNOC training programme is associated with: improvements in knowledge; and, greater readiness and confidence to intervene in sexual violence, amongst nightlife workers in Birmingham. Further evaluation is needed to identify impacts on the prevalence of sexual violence in nightlife settings.

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    06/07/2020

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    Violence and unintentional injury

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    Zara Quigg, Charlotte Biglnad, Kin Ross-Houle

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  6. WHO FACTSHEET Interpersonal violence across the life-course

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    Despite a decline in deaths from interpersonal violence across the WHO European Region (57% from 2000 to 2015), more than 30 000 people are killed by interpersonal violence each year, making it the fourth leading cause of death among people aged 15–29 years, and inequalities in exposure to violence remain.

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    01/06/2020

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    Violence and unintentional injury

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    Zara Quigg and Nadia Butler (Liverpool John Moores University), Jonathon Passmore and Yongjie Yon (Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO Regional Office for Europe) and Åsa Nihlén (Gender and Human Rights, WHO Regional Office for Europe)

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  7. The Good Night Out Campaign: evaluation of a nightlife worker training programme to prevent sexual violence in Liverpool

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    In 2019, Good Night Out Campaign (GNOC) facilitators (from Liverpool Local Authority and RASA Merseyside) worked with 11 nightlife venues to engage them in the GNOC, providing guidance on preventing and responding to sexual violence, training for over 150 nightlife workers, and materials to display in venues to raise awareness of the GNOC and encourage nightlife patrons to report incidents. This report provides a summary of findings from an evaluation of the GNOC training. Findings suggest that the GNOC training programme is associated with: improvements in knowledge; improved attitudes towards sexual violence; and, greater readiness and confidence to intervene in sexual violence, amongst nightlife workers.

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    01/06/2020

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    Violence and unintentional injury

    AUTHORS

    Zara Quigg and Charlotte Bigland

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  8. An evaluation of the NO MORE Suicide Community Training

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    This study is an evaluation of the NO MORE Suicide Community Training, which comprises a Train the Trainer (TtT) course which was developed and delivered by Wirral Mind. The TtT course prepares participants to go on and deliver half-day sessions on basic suicide prevention.  The report includes an overview of the number of NO MORE Suicide Community Training sessions that were delivered across Cheshire and Merseyside, along with findings from evaluation forms that participants attending the course between January 2017 and July 2019 completed immediately after the course. It includes key findings from interviews that were carried out with key stakeholders, including local authority suicide prevention leads,   trainers from Wirral Mind who carried out the initial training, and  the Champs Suicide Prevention lead.  Findings are also presented from online surveys and interviews  with participants who attended the TtT course , and from an online survey for people who attended the half-day course in basic suicide prevention.

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    09/04/2020

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    Population health

    AUTHORS

    Cath Lewis, Janet Ubido and Lisa Jones

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  9. An evaluation of the NO MORE Suicide Community Training Infographic

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    This study is an evaluation of the NO MORE Suicide Community Training, which comprises a Train the Trainer (TtT) course which was developed and delivered by Wirral Mind. The TtT course prepares participants to go on and deliver half-day sessions on basic suicide prevention.  The report includes an overview of the number of NO MORE Suicide Community Training sessions that were delivered across Cheshire and Merseyside, along with findings from evaluation forms that participants attending the course between January 2017 and July 2019 completed immediately after the course. It includes key findings from interviews that were carried out with key stakeholders, including local authority suicide prevention leads,   trainers from Wirral Mind who carried out the initial training, and  the Champs Suicide Prevention lead.  Findings are also presented from online surveys and interviews  with participants who attended the TtT course , and from an online survey for people who attended the half-day course in basic suicide prevention.

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    09/04/2020

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    Population health

    AUTHORS

    Cath Lewis, Janet Ubido and Lisa Jones

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  10. Drink Less Enjoy More (DLEM) evaluation: Liverpool City Centre - Infographic 

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    Over recent years, partners across Liverpool have started working towards addressing the service of alcohol to drunk patrons. Drink Less Enjoy More is a multicomponent intervention which aims to change nightlife cultures of excessive intoxication through addressing the sale of alcohol to intoxicated patrons. The intervention has been implemented and evaluated (at several time points) in Liverpool’s nightlife since 2014. To date, the intervention has been associated with significant increases in nightlife user knowledge of the law around the sale of alcohol to and the purchase of alcohol for drunks. Crucially, compared to the pre-intervention phase (2013), the intervention has been associated with a sustained significant reduction in the service of alcohol to drunks. This report presents findings from the most recent wave of evaluation in February 2019.

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    16/03/2020

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    Alcohol

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