Lancet
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A supportive urban environment can prevent or delay the progress of cognitive decline. There is evidence for the existence of mechanistic pathways between the urban environment and cognitive decline, but the interrelations between these pathways are unclear. In this study, we aimed to map the mechanistic pathways by which urban environment factors affect cognitive decline in adults older than 50 years. ⋯ UK Research and Innovation.
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Portion size guidance resources for parents feeding preschool children (aged 1-5 years) have been disseminated online in the UK to increase awareness of age-appropriate food consumption. However, little is known about the reach of these resources to parents. The aim of this study was to explore parental awareness of and opinions on portion size guidance resources and current parental portioning practices. ⋯ National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (grant reference PD-SPH-2015).
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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.