Consultation responses, briefings, reports and protocols

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Consultation responses (by year):

2022

Title Date
Restricting promotions of food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt September 2022
Data strategy for health and social care August 2022
Mental health and wellbeing plan July 2022
Tightening rules on advertising and promoting vaping products April 2022
Inquiry into health inequalities March 2022
UK Commission on Bereavement January 2022

 

2021

Title Date

Making flexible working the default

 December 2021

ESRC data infrastructure strategy

September 2021

Sexual health standards

 June 2021

Women's health strategy call for evidence

 June 2021

Goldacre review of health data for research and analysis

 March 2021

Children and young people's mental health services

 February 2021

Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

 February 2021

 

2020

Title Date

Future arrangements for early medical abortion at home

 December 2020

Calculating smoking attributable risk

 November 2020

Employment and COVID-19

 September 2020

Impact of Covid-19 on education and children's services

 July 2020

DWP - preparations for changes in the world of work

 June 2020

 

2019

Title Date
Standards for sexual health December 2019
WHO global alcohol strategy consultation November 2019
Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s October 2019
CPG Trans Health Inquiry September 2019
Social prescribing of physical activity and sport September 2019
Consultation on a new National Public Health body: 'Public Health Scotland' July 2019
Further advertising restrictions for products high in fat, salt and sugar June 2019
Scottish Affairs Committee: Use and Misuse of Drugs in Scotland inquiry April 2019
House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee: Universal Credit inquiry April 2019
Restricting promotions of products high in fat, sugar and salt March 2019
Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Scotland) Bill January 2019
Reducing Health Harms of Foods High in Fat, Sugar or Salt January 2019

 

2018

Title Date

Consultation Response: Healthcare and forensic medical services for people who have experienced rape, sexual assault or child sexual abuse

 November 2018

Committee of Advertising Practice Consultation: Introducing new restrictions on the advertising of food and soft drink products to children

 July 2018
Welfare Foods Consultation: meeting the needs of children & families in Scotland June 2018
Consultation Response: House of Commons Work and Pension Benefits Sanctions Inquiry 2018 May 2018
Consultation Response: UK Gov Consultation on Low Alcohol Descriptors May 2018
Consultation Response: Public Health Research – co-ordinating academic public health and achieving greater integration with the new public health body February 2018
Consultation Response: UK DoE call for evidence to inform their updating of existing Sex and Relationship (SRE) guidance February 2018
Consultation Response: UK CMO Physical Activity Guidelines January 2018
Consultation Response: Scottish Government Consultation A Healthier Future – Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight January 2018

Briefings

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Title Date
Briefing: Premature mortality in most disadvantaged July 2022
Briefing: The effect of income changes on mental health and wellbeing in adults June 2022
Briefing: Tobacco in Prisons September 2021
Briefing: COVID-19 and social relationships August 2021
Briefing: Multiple exclusions and health August 2021
Briefing: Normalising abortion - health professionals March 2021
Briefing: Normalising abortion - women's perspectives March 2021
Briefing: Navigating STI risk with new partners in midlife November 2020
Briefing: Post-pandemic mortality dynamics - historical city-level evidence September 2020
Briefing: ‘It’s not nine-to-five recovery’: how recovery communities help overcome social isolation and sustain long-term recovery July 2019
Briefing: Why men report more lifetime sexual partners than women October 2018
Event Briefing: The Abortion Act at 50: Still Disputed Ground? March 2018
Policy Brief - Welfare to Work Interventions and the Health of Lone Parents and Their Children August 2017
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Research Briefing 2 - Children and Emotional Problems October 2016
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Research Briefing 1 - Parenting Stress October 2016
Women’s Experiences of More Than One Abortion (WEMA): A brief summary of study findings June 2016

 

Reports

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Fatherhood, Bereavement and Masculinity: An exploratory study of partner loss
Rebecca Phipps

 November 2021

Evaluability Assessment - Sustrans Cargo Bike Library
Paul McCrorie, Nai Rui Chng and Peter Craig

 September 2021

Funding the smokefree generation report - a report with Cancer Research UK on stakeholder views on implementing a tobacco control fund in the UK.

 August 2021
One year on...building on bold policy ambitions - a report with Cancer Research UK on stakeholder views on HFSS marketing restrictions and the next steps to help tackle obesity July 2021
Schools on the move - A report for the SPHSU on the physical and social barriers to children's engagement with physical activity
Children's Parliament		 April 2020
Adolescents' screen time, sleep and mental health: literature review    
Anne Martin and Juliana Pugmire		 February 2020
Evaluability Assessment - Sustrans I Bike Communities Programme    
Paul McCrorie, Nai Rui Chng and Peter Craig		 December 2019
Objectively Measured Physical Activity Levels of Scottish Children: Analysis from a Sub-sample of 10-11 Year Olds in the Growing Up in Scotland Study
Paul McCrorie and Anne Ellaway		 August 2017
A Process Evaluation of the Implementation of ASSIST in Scotland - Report
Fiona Dobbie, Richard Purves, Jennifer McKell, Nadine Dougall, James White, Rona Campbell, Amanda Amos, Laurence Moore and Linda Bauld		 March 2017
A Process Evaluation of the Implementation of ASSIST in Scotland - Research Findings
Fiona Dobbie, Richard Purves, Jennifer McKell, Nadine Dougall, James White, Rona Campbell, Amanda Amos, Laurence Moore and Linda Bauld		 March 2017
Growing Up in Scotland: Father-child relationships and child socio-emotional wellbeing
Alison Parkes, Julie Riddell, Daniel Wight and Katie Buston		 March 2017

Protocols

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Review of reviews: incorporation of natural experiment data in public health systematic reviews [PDF]
Mhairi Campbell, Michele Hilton Boon, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Hilary Thomson
December 2020
A scoping review of the international evidence of differential attainment loss during school holidays - Protocol [PDF]
Mhairi Campbell, Stephanie Chambers, Valerie Wells, Michele Hilton Boon, Anna Pearce, Theocharis Kromydas, Peter Craig
July 2020
Use of the ROBINS‐I tool for assessing risk of bias in systematic reviews [PDF]
Erik Igelström, S Vittal Katikireddi,
June 2020
Does social media influence adolescent engagement in health risk behaviours?  A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Amrit K Purba, Paul M Henery, Rachel M Thomson, Anna Pearce, Marion Henderson, S Vittal Katikireddi,
April 2020
How do changes in individual or household income impact on mental health for working-age adults? A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Rachel M Thomson, Michal Shimonovich, Erik Igelström, Anna Pearce, Alastair Leyland, Hilary Thomson, S Vittal Katikireddi.
February 2020
Scoping Review Protocol: The impact of Universal Basic Income: A scoping review of evaluations and outcomes [PDF]
Marcia Gibson, Wendy Hearty, Peter Craig and Nicholas Watson
August 2017
Review Protocol: Differential Patterning of Alcohol-Related Harms by Socio-Economic Position  – Explaining the Lack of a Consumption Gradient [PDF]
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Jim Lewsey, Linsay Gray, Alastair Leyland
January 2017
Scoping Review Protocol: The impact of Participatory Budgeting: a scoping review of evaluations and outcomes [PDF]
Mhairi Campbell, Oliver Escobar, Peter Craig
November 2016
Review Protocol: Systematic literature review of interventions to improve Health, Happiness and Wellbeing in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood [PDF]
Kathryn Skivington, Gabrielle Vojt, Hilary Thomson, Candida Fenton, Mhairi Campbell, Helen Sweeting
May 2016
Review Protocol: Assessing reporting of narrative synthesis of quantitative data in public health systematic reviews [PDF]
Mhairi Campbell, Hilary Thomson, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Amanda Sowden
December 2015
Systematic Review Protocol: Lone parents and welfare to work interventions. Synthesis of qualitative studies. [PDF]
Mhairi Campbell, Marcia Gibson, Hilary Thomson, Matt Egan
December 2013
Protocol for Systematic Review: Association of All-Cause Mortality with Overweight and Obesity Using Waist Circumference, Waist-to-Hip Ratio, and Waist-to-Height Ratio [PDF]
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Linsay Gray, Claire Niedzwiedz, Alastair Leyland, Candida Fenton, Katherine Flegal 
June 2013
Is socioeconomic status associated with biological aging, as measured by telomere length?  [PDF]
Tony Robertson, G David Batty, Geoff Der, Candida Fenton, Paul G. Shiels and Michaela Benzeval.
January 2013
Welfare to work interventions and their effects on health and well-being of lone parents and their children [Protocol]. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012: Issue 5. [web]
Gibson M, Thomson H, Banas K, Bambra C, Fenton C, Bond L.
Systematic Review Protocol: How robust is the evidence of an emerging or increasing female excess in morbidity rates between childhood and adolescence? [PDF]
Alice MacLean, Matt Egan, Helen Sweeting, Joy Adamson and Kate Hunt.
October 2011

Occasional papers

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Occasional Paper No. 26: Health, Happiness and Wellbeing for Adolescents Transitioning to Adulthood: A Systematic Review of Individual-Level Interventions for Adolescents from Vulnerable Groups. [PDF]
Oct 17, 2016
Occasional Paper No. 25: Evidence on smoking and smoking restrictions in prisons. A scoping review for the Scottish Prison Service’s Tobacco Strategy Group. [PDF]
Jul 5, 2016
Occasional Paper No. 24: Review of the National Sexual Health IT System (NaSH) in Scotland: The potential for sexual health research. [PDF]
Nov 13, 2013
Occasional Paper No. 23: Report on a workshop on methods for the economic evaluation of population health interventions: conceptual and practical challenges. [PDF]
Sep 26, 2013
Occasional Paper No. 22: Men, deprivation and sexual health: scoping review. [PDF]
Oct 2, 2012
Occasional Paper No. 21: Vulnerable young people in alternative education settings: their sexual health needs, experience and use of sex education and sexual health services. [PDF]
Jun 29, 2011
Occasional Paper No. 20: Developing methods to study parent child relationships in rural sub-Saharan Africa: an exploratory project in Mwanza, northern Tanzania. [PDF]
Apr 1, 2009
Occasional Paper No. 19: Randomised controlled trials of social interventions: Report of a pilot study of barriers and facilitators in an international context. [PDF]
Sep 12, 2008
Occasional Paper No. 18: Behind and beyond the prison bars; young offenders talk about sex and relationships. [PDF]
Aug 29, 2008
Occasional Paper No. 17: Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them? [PDF]
Oct 23, 2007
Occasional Paper No. 16: Inequalities in mortality in Scotland 1981-2001. [PDF]
Feb 6, 2007
Occasional Paper No. 15: A Review of Research Among Black African Communities Affected by HIV in the UK and Europe. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 14: Impediments to Developing Social Science Research Capacity in East Africa. [PDF]
Feb 1, 2005
Occasional Paper No. 13: An open and shut case: an investigation of the health impacts of local public swimming pool provision in two Glasgow neighbourhoods. [PDF]
May 3, 2004
Occasional Paper No.12. Migration and Health: a Review of the International Literature. [PDF]
Jan 1, 2003
Occasional Paper No. 11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Physical Activity Patterns of Adults within their early 60's. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 10: A Review of Young People's Health and Health Behaviours in Scotland. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 09: Health and social care services for minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom: a review of the literature on access and use. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 08: An Overview of Male Sex Work in Edinburgh and Glasgow: The Male Sex Worker Perspective. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 07: Commercial Income Data: Associations with Health and Census Measures. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 06: UK-Born Black Caribbean's: Generational Changes in Health and Well-being. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 05: Housing Improvement and Health Gain: A summary and systematic review. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 04: The Voice-DISC: A method for ascertaining psychiatric diagnoses in young people in the community. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 03: The Effectiveness of Interventions to change Health-Related Behaviours: a review of reviews. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 02: Methods of Health Impact Assessment: a literature review. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
Occasional Paper No. 1: Mortality in England and Wales, 1979-1992 An Introduction to Multilevel Modelling using MlwiN. [PDF]
Nov 16, 2006
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