Richard F Heller

Summary

Affiliation: University of Manchester
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Mid-term Body Mass Index increase among obese and non-obese individuals in middle life and deprivation status: a cohort study
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority, Fulbourn, UK
    BMC Public Health 5:32. 2005
  2. ncbi Knowledge and perception about stroke among an Australian urban population
    S Sug Yoon
    Centre For Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia
    BMC Public Health 1:14. 2001
  3. ncbi Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, body mass index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor screening programme
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    Directorate of Public Health and Clinical Services, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority, Cambridge, UK
    BMC Public Health 5:125. 2005
  4. ncbi Putting the public back into public health. Part II. How can public health be accountable to the public?
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:66-71. 2003
  5. ncbi Public health in Primary Care Trusts: a resource needs assessment
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:157-64. 2003
  6. ncbi Improving stroke outcome: the benefits of increasing availability of technology
    R F Heller
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2300
    Bull World Health Organ 78:1337-43. 2000
  7. ncbi GPs' and physicians' interpretation of risks, benefits and diagnostic test results
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The Medical School, The University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Fam Pract 21:155-9. 2004
  8. ncbi Modernisation or reform? The NHS approach
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Med J Aust 180:441-2. 2004
  9. ncbi Suspected child abuse: false positives or false negatives?
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Med J Aust 181:240-1. 2004
  10. ncbi Putting the public back into public health. Part I. A re-definition of public health
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:62-5. 2003

Detail Information

Publications56

  1. ncbi Mid-term Body Mass Index increase among obese and non-obese individuals in middle life and deprivation status: a cohort study
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority, Fulbourn, UK
    BMC Public Health 5:32. 2005
    ....
  2. ncbi Knowledge and perception about stroke among an Australian urban population
    S Sug Yoon
    Centre For Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia
    BMC Public Health 1:14. 2001
    ..CONCLUSION: The study suggests that educational strategies may be required to improve knowledge about a wide range of issues concerning stroke in the community, as a prelude to developing preventive programmes...
  3. ncbi Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, body mass index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor screening programme
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    Directorate of Public Health and Clinical Services, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority, Cambridge, UK
    BMC Public Health 5:125. 2005
    ..We therefore studied comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure (BP), total cholesterol, body mass index (BMI) and current smoking among UK Caucasian and South-Asian individuals...
  4. ncbi Putting the public back into public health. Part II. How can public health be accountable to the public?
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:66-71. 2003
    ..A greater appreciation of the non-professional, public perspective would represent a substantial commitment to transforming our understanding and needs for different kinds of evidence required to improve the health of the population...
  5. ncbi Public health in Primary Care Trusts: a resource needs assessment
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:157-64. 2003
    ....
  6. ncbi Improving stroke outcome: the benefits of increasing availability of technology
    R F Heller
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2300
    Bull World Health Organ 78:1337-43. 2000
    ..A decision analysis was performed to explore the potential benefits of interventions to improve the outcome of patients admitted to hospital with a stroke, in the context of the technology available in different parts of the world...
  7. ncbi GPs' and physicians' interpretation of risks, benefits and diagnostic test results
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The Medical School, The University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Fam Pract 21:155-9. 2004
    ..Understanding pre-test probability and baseline risks helps to interpret the results of diagnostic tests and the benefits of treatment, but how good is the understanding of these concepts?..
  8. ncbi Modernisation or reform? The NHS approach
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Med J Aust 180:441-2. 2004
  9. ncbi Suspected child abuse: false positives or false negatives?
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Med J Aust 181:240-1. 2004
  10. ncbi Putting the public back into public health. Part I. A re-definition of public health
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 117:62-5. 2003
    ....
  11. ncbi Implementing guidelines in primary care: can population impact measures help?
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The Medical School, The University of Manchester, UK
    BMC Public Health 3:7. 2003
    ....
  12. ncbi Randomised controlled trial to change the hospital management of unstable angina
    R F Heller
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW
    Med J Aust 174:217-21. 2001
    ..To examine the benefits of a guideline-based educational program to improve management of unstable angina pectoris (UAP) in hospital patients...
  13. ncbi Trends in the hospital management of unstable angina
    R F Heller
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    J Epidemiol Community Health 55:483-6. 2001
    ..To examine the hospital management of unstable angina (UAP) in 1996 and 1998, according to patient demographic variables and disease severity...
  14. ncbi A population perspective to evidence based medicine: "evidence for population health"
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Manchester, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 56:45-7. 2002
    ..While EBM focuses on individual patients, its public health counterpart would aim to improve the health of communities effectively and efficiently...
  15. ncbi UK health inequalities: the class system is alive and well
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    Med J Aust 181:128. 2004
  16. ncbi Impact numbers: measures of risk factor impact on the whole population from case-control and cohort studies
    R F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, The Medical School, The University of Manchester, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 56:606-10. 2002
    ..To describe new measures of risk from case-control and cohort studies, which are simple to understand and relate to numbers of the population at risk...
  17. ncbi Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT
    BMJ 325:134. 2002
    ..To examine the contribution of changes in the distribution of social class to the mortality of the whole population between 1970-2 and 1991-3...
  18. ncbi Communicating risks at the population level: application of population impact numbers
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT
    BMJ 327:1162-5. 2003
  19. ncbi Assessing the impact of heart failure specialist services on patient populations
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom
    BMC Health Serv Res 4:10. 2004
    ..We examined the potential impact on readmissions and mortality of specialist heart failure services capable of delivering treatments such as b-blockers and Nurse-Led Educational Intervention (N-LEI)...
  20. ncbi Restrictions impeding web-based courses: a survey of publishers' variation in authorising access to high quality on-line literature
    Michele Langlois
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, The Medical School, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom
    BMC Med Educ 4:7. 2004
    ..Publishers' responses to requests to access health literature in the context of developing an electronic Master's degree course are described...
  21. ncbi Generating pre-test probabilities: a neglected area in clinical decision making
    John R Attia
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Level 3, David Maddison Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
    Med J Aust 180:449-54. 2004
    ..The development and dissemination of clinical decision rules is needed to support decision making by practising clinicians...
  22. ncbi Prioritising between direct observation of therapy and case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: use of population impact measures
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    BMC Med 4:35. 2006
    ..Using tuberculosis (TB) in India as an example, we examined the population impact of two interventions: direct observation of therapy and increasing case-finding...
  23. ncbi Population Impact Analysis: a framework for assessing the population impact of a risk or intervention
    Arpana Verma
    Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health, School of Translational Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M14 7PH, UK
    J Public Health (Oxf) 34:83-9. 2012
    ....
  24. ncbi Potential population impact of changes in heroin treatment and smoking prevalence rates: using Population Impact Measures
    Perihan Torun
    Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, Stopford Building University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Eur J Public Health 19:28-31. 2009
    ....
  25. ncbi Using economic analyses for local priority setting : the population cost-impact approach
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Appl Health Econ Health Policy 5:45-54. 2006
    ..Standard methods of economic analysis may not be suitable for local decision making that is specific to a particular population...
  26. ncbi Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies
    Andrew G Renehan
    Department of Surgery, School of Cancer Studies, University of Manchester, UK
    Lancet 371:569-78. 2008
    ..We did a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the strength of associations between BMI and different sites of cancer and to investigate differences in these associations between sex and ethnic groups...
  27. ncbi Critical appraisal for public health: a new checklist
    Richard F Heller
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Public Health 122:92-8. 2008
    ..There have been a number of attempts to develop critical appraisal tools, but few have had a public health focus. This paper describes a new checklist with public health aspects...
  28. ncbi Innovations: evidence-based practices: establishing the evidence base for psychiatric services: estimating the impact on the population
    Richard F Heller
    Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom
    Psychiatr Serv 57:1558-60. 2006
    ..Results for different interventions for the same condition and target population can then be compared...
  29. ncbi Assessing the population impact of low rates of breast feeding on asthma, coeliac disease and obesity: the use of a new statistical method
    Anthony K Akobeng
    Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Central Manchester and Manchester Children s University Hospitals, Blackley, Manchester, UK
    Arch Dis Child 92:483-5. 2007
    ..Lack of breast feeding has been reported to be associated with a number of chronic childhood disorders...
  30. ncbi A prediction model of 1-year mortality for acute ischemic stroke patients
    Yang Wang
    Department of Neurology, John Hunter Hospital, NSW, Australia
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil 84:1006-11. 2003
    ..CONCLUSION: We developed a predictive model for 1-year mortality in acute ischemic stroke patients. The model is easy to use and is comparable in its accuracy with other predictive models...
  31. ncbi Randomised controlled trial of health assessments for older Australian veterans and war widows
    Julie E Byles
    Centre for Research and Education in Ageing, Faculty of Health, Room 266 DMB, Royal Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
    Med J Aust 181:186-90. 2004
    ..To assess the effect of home-based health assessments for older Australians on health-related quality of life, hospital and nursing home admissions, and death...
  32. ncbi The population effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity: an analysis of 15,461 adults
    Roger A Harrison
    Evidence for Population Health Unit, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:34-9. 2007
    ..Strategies to increase physical activity in the population need to consider the wider determinants of health-related behaviour, including fear of crime and safety...
  33. ncbi Attitudes of developing world physicians to where medical research is performed and reported
    John Page
    Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
    BMC Public Health 3:6. 2003
    ....
  34. ncbi Asymptomatic spontaneous cerebral emboli predict cognitive and functional decline in dementia
    Nitin Purandare
    Division of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Biol Psychiatry 62:339-44. 2007
    ..Spontaneous cerebral emboli (SCE) are frequent in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD). We investigated the effect of SCE on the rates of cognitive and functional decline in AD and VaD...
  35. ncbi Predicting the early therapeutic alliance in the treatment of drug misuse
    Petra S Meier
    National Drug Evidence Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Addiction 100:500-11. 2005
    ..To predict the early therapeutic alliance from a range of potentially relevant factors, including clients' social relationships, motivation and psychological resources, and counsellors' professional experience and ex-user status...
  36. ncbi A failure of public trust
    Richard F Heller
    Practitioner 246:511. 2002
  37. ncbi Smoking, smoking cessation, and use of smoking cessation aids and support services in South Derbyshire, England
    Richard Edwards
    Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
    Public Health 121:321-32. 2007
    ....
  38. ncbi Lying awake worrying about asteroids
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Health Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London W6 8RP, UK
    Med J Aust 181:417-8. 2004
  39. ncbi The Peoples-uni: public health education for all
    Richard F Heller
    Med J Aust 189:189-90. 2008
  40. ncbi Association between stroke and acute myocardial infarction and its related risk factors: hypertension and diabetes
    Abdulbari Bener
    Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, State of Qatar
    Anadolu Kardiyol Derg 6:24-7. 2006
    ..The aim of this study was to find the association between stroke, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and assess related risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and atrial fibrillation...
  41. ncbi The role of the early therapeutic alliance in predicting drug treatment dropout
    Petra S Meier
    Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
    Drug Alcohol Depend 83:57-64. 2006
    ..To investigate the role of the therapeutic alliance in predicting length of retention in residential drug treatment...
  42. ncbi Quality, morale and the new contract with GPs
    David P Weller
    Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    Med J Aust 180:57-8. 2004
  43. ncbi Rural health turned upside-down
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
    Med J Aust 182:152-3. 2005
  44. ncbi Double-heater-wire circuits and heat-and-moisture exchangers and the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia
    Robert J Boots
    Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, and Department of Public Health, Manchester University, United Kingdom
    Crit Care Med 34:687-93. 2006
    ..13. CONCLUSIONS: Humidification technique does not influence either VAP incidence or secretion characteristics, but HMEs may have air-flow resistance higher than manufacturer specifications after 24 hrs of use...
  45. ncbi The number needed to vaccinate (NNV) and population extensions of the NNV: comparison of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine programmes for people aged 65 years and over
    Heath Kelly
    Epidemiology Division, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Locked Bag 815, Carlton South 3053, Melbourne, Australia
    Vaccine 22:2192-8. 2004
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  46. ncbi The UK smoking time-warp: roll on 1989! Targets for the prevalence of smoking in 2010 are embarrassingly modest
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan's Road, London, W6 8RP, UK
    Med J Aust 180:266-7. 2004
  47. ncbi The energy of slaves
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
    Med J Aust 181:534-5. 2004
  48. ncbi Capacity-building for public health: http://peoples-uni.org
    Richard F Heller
    People s Open Access Education Initiative
    Bull World Health Organ 85:930-4. 2007
    ..Several partners have already agreed to be involved and exemplar course modules are being prepared. We call for volunteers to help take this initiative further...
  49. ncbi Deprivation status and mid-term change in blood pressure, total cholesterol and smoking status in middle life: a cohort study
    Georgios Lyratzopoulos
    Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge, UK
    Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:844-50. 2007
    ..We examined whether deprivation status influences within-individual change over time in blood pressure (BP), cholesterol and smoking status during middle life...
  50. ncbi What are the benefits of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer's Disease: use of Population Impact Measures
    Udaya P Gammanpila
    Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry, Forest House, Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH, UK
    BMC Geriatr 7:25. 2007
    ..The study aims to quantify the population impact of prescribing cholinesterase inhibitors to slow the cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and to compare with the benefit of treating hypertension to prevent the onset of AD...
  51. ncbi Jeopardising a Hippocratic tradition
    David P Weller
    Department of General Practice, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    Med J Aust 181:660-1. 2004
  52. ncbi Biobank: who'd bank on it?
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
    Med J Aust 182:56-7. 2005
  53. ncbi The woefully wired world of health service computing
    Konrad Jamrozik
    School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD
    Med J Aust 182:556. 2005
    ..Health services need state-of-the-art health information systems...
  54. ncbi Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: early feeding is crucial target for preventing obesity in children
    Iain E Buchan
    BMJ 331:453-4; author reply 454. 2005
  55. ncbi What drives the NHS?
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College of Charing Cross, London, UK
    Med J Aust 179:575-6. 2003
  56. ncbi Research assessment: there must be an easier way
    Konrad Jamrozik
    Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College at Charing Cross, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP, UK
    Med J Aust 180:553-4. 2004