Journal of public health
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Journal of public health · Mar 2015
Factors influencing coroners' verdicts: an analysis of verdicts given in 12 coroners' districts to researcher-defined suicides in England in 2005.
To investigate the variation between coroners in the verdicts given to deaths thought by researchers to be probable suicides and analyse factors associated with the coroners' verdict. ⋯ Coroners vary considerably in the verdicts they give to individuals who probably died by suicide. This may compromise the usefulness of suicide statistics for assessing area differences in rates for public health surveillance.
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Journal of public health · Mar 2015
What kinds of policies to reduce health inequalities in the UK do researchers support?
Despite a wealth of research and policy initiatives, progress in tackling the UK's health inequalities has been limited. This article explores whether there appears to be consensus among researchers about the kinds of policies likely to reduce health inequalities. ⋯ When consulting researchers about health inequalities, policymakers need to consider whether they are seeking research-informed expertise or assessments of the available evidence; these questions are likely to yield different responses.
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Journal of public health · Dec 2014
Combating human trafficking in the sex trade: can sex workers do it better?
The dominant anti-trafficking paradigm conflates trafficking and sex work, denying evidence that most sex workers choose their profession and justifying police actions that disrupt communities, drive sex workers underground and increase vulnerability. ⋯ With its universal surveillance of sex workers entering the profession, attention to rapid and confidential intervention and case management, and primary prevention of trafficking-including microcredit and educational programmes for children of sex workers-the SRB approach stands as a new model of success in anti-trafficking work.
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Journal of public health · Sep 2014
Influence of surgical rate on patients' reported clinical need and outcomes in English NHS.
To determine if higher rates of surgery are associated with lower levels of need (patients' pre-operative reports of their symptoms, functional status and quality of life) and with less benefit (patients' post-operative reports). ⋯ Policies by commissioners to reduce surgical rates in the English NHS cannot be justified on the grounds of avoiding inappropriate operations or increasing cost-utility.