Lancet
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Unhealthy behaviours are associated with disproportionate mortality among socioeconomically deprived populations. Previous studies exploring that disproportionate harm do not examine weighted scores, or examine few behaviours. We aimed to create an extended weighted health behaviour score and examine the effect of socioeconomic status on the association between score and all-cause mortality. ⋯ HMEF is supported by a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship (grant number MR/T001585/1), which covered the costs of accessing the data herein.
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Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to behaviour change introduced by Public Health England in 2008. Derbyshire have implemented MECC using the Quality Conversation (QC) programme which is based around health coaching and psychology skills and delivered remotely by qualified coaches. This study is an initial evaluation of the QC programme. ⋯ Joined Up Care Derbyshire Integrated Care System.
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Depression is ranked as the leading cause of global disability. Physical activity has been identified as a relevant strategy to reduce the incidence of depression. However, specific aspects of physical activity (eg, type of activity or combination) in decreasing the risk of depression have been underexplored. We aimed to investigate the associations of the type of activity, the number of activities participated in, and the combination of different activity types with the risk of depression onset. ⋯ UK Biobank.
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A social prescribing link worker is responsible for enabling and supporting individuals, by assessing their needs and co-producing solutions to make use of appropriate, local, non-clinical resources or interventions. Because the role is new, link workers might not have professional backgrounds in dealing with individuals with complex needs, which can affect their decision making for the referral of individuals to appropriate community assets to support their needs. The aim of this work was to explore link workers' level of education, and past and current training needs, and to ascertain how much link workers were willing to pay to access and complete training to improve their skill set. ⋯ AM is supported by a KESS 2 studentship.
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Under-education and living in poverty are known risk factors for dementia. However, single-variable makers of socioeconomic position (SEP) are often correlated and cannot reflect the overall SEP. We examined association between composite SEP and incident dementia using UK-wide data. ⋯ None.