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| K LockSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Evaluation of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of health: a cluster randomised controlled trialMartin Wall
Institute for Health and Human Development, University of East London, London E15 4LZ, UK
BMC Public Health 9:207. 2009..The interventions focus on healthy eating, healthy physical activity and mental health and wellbeing and are designed and executed with community participation complementing existing facilities and services...- Health impact assessment: assessing opportunities and barriers to intersectoral health improvement in an expanded European UnionKaren Lock
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:356-60. 2005.... 
Evaluating social and behavioural impacts of English smoke-free legislation in different ethnic and age groups: implications for reducing smoking-related health inequalitiesK Lock
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E7HT, UK
Tob Control 19:391-7. 2010..To explore social and behavioural impacts of English smoke-free legislation (SFL) in different ethnic groups...- Health impact assessment of agriculture and food policies: lessons learnt from the Republic of SloveniaKaren Lock
ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 81:391-8. 2003..Lessons can be learnt from these case studies for future development and application of HIA that is more relevant to policy-makers, and assists them in making more healthy policy choices... - The global burden of disease attributable to low consumption of fruit and vegetables: implications for the global strategy on dietKaren Lock
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England
Bull World Health Organ 83:100-8. 2005.... - Public health and economic costs of investigating a suspected outbreak of Legionnaires' diseaseK Lock
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Epidemiol Infect 136:1306-14. 2008..Whether the threshold for investigation of cases should be based on observed incidence rates or the cost-effectiveness of investigations, or both, should be debated further... - Will Europe's agricultural policy damage progress on cardiovascular disease?Karen Lock
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 331:188-9. 2005 - Will European agricultural policy for school fruit and vegetables improve public health? A review of school fruit and vegetable programmesJoia de Sa
European Centre for Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Eur J Public Health 18:558-68. 2008..In 2008, the European Commission conducted an impact assessment to assess the potential impact of this new proposal on health, agricultural markets, social equality and regional cohesion... 
What targets for international development policies are appropriate for improving health in Russia?Karen Lock
ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Health Policy Plan 17:257-63. 2002..The targets for health are based on improvements in infant, child and maternal mortality. Progress towards these goals will be used to assess the effectiveness of development policies...- Maximizing the contribution of the public health workforce: the English experienceF Sim
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 85:935-40. 2007..Presenting England's attempts to address the challenges of recruiting and training the range of people needed to deliver effective intersectoral public health may offer insights for those facing similar challenges in other countries... - Improving the transition between paediatric and adult healthcare: a systematic reviewR Crowley
Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 96:548-53. 2011..Although many agree that adolescent services need to be improved, there is little empirical data on which policies can be based... - Nutritional quality of organic foods: a systematic reviewAlan D Dangour
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 90:680-5. 2009..Despite growing consumer demand for organically produced foods, information based on a systematic review of their nutritional quality is lacking... - Nutrition-related health effects of organic foods: a systematic reviewAlan D Dangour
Department of Epidemiology Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Am J Clin Nutr 92:203-10. 2010..There is uncertainty over the nutrition-related benefits to health of consuming organic foods... - Assessing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of adaptive e-Learning to improve dietary behaviour: protocol for a systematic reviewPhil Edwards
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
BMC Public Health 10:200. 2010..The aims of this systematic review are to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of adaptive e-Learning for improving dietary behaviours... - The challenge of measuring global fruit and vegetable intakeJoceline Pomerleau
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
J Nutr 134:1175-80. 2004..If the burden of disease attributable to dietary factors is to be assessed more accurately, more countries will have to assess the dietary intake of their populations using comparable methods... - Interventions designed to increase adult fruit and vegetable intake can be effective: a systematic review of the literatureJoceline Pomerleau
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
J Nutr 135:2486-95. 2005..There is also a need for a better assessment of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of large community-based interventions... - Commentary: the importance of addressing the rise of overweight and obesity--progress or lack of action during the last fifty years?Ricardo Uauy
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:18-20. 2006 - Getting children to eat more fruit and vegetables: a systematic reviewCécile Knai
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Prev Med 42:85-95. 2006..There is, however, a need for a synthesis of the evidence on interventions that might achieve this policy goal... - Health, agricultural, and economic effects of adoption of healthy diet recommendationsKaren Lock
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health, London, UK
Lancet 376:1699-709. 2010.... - Bridging health and foreign policy: the role of health impact assessmentsKelley Lee
Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 85:207-11. 2007..In such cases, HIA is an important tool to be used alongside the mobilization of key constituencies and public support... - The burden of cardiovascular disease and cancer attributable to low fruit and vegetable intake in the European Union: differences between old and new Member StatesJoceline Pomerleau
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WCIE 7HT, UK
Public Health Nutr 9:575-83. 2006..To estimate the burden of disease attributable to low fruit and vegetable intake in the 15 countries that were members of the European Union (EU) before May 2004 (EU-15) and the 10 countries that then joined it (EU-10)... - Discrepancies between ecological and individual data on fruit and vegetable consumption in fifteen countriesJoceline Pomerleau
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Br J Nutr 89:827-34. 2003..Obtaining detailed and valid estimates of dietary intakes in more countries around the world will be essential for such comparisons... - Feeding the world healthily: the challenge of measuring the effects of agriculture on healthSophie Hawkesworth
Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:3083-97. 2010..A clearer understanding of the links between the agriculture and food system and population health will ensure that health becomes a critical driver of agricultural change... - Learning from international policies on trans fatty acids to reduce cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries, using Mexico as a case studyCarolina Pérez-Ferrer
Lewisham Primary Care Trust, Stanley Street, London, SE8 4BG, UK
Health Policy Plan 25:39-49. 2010..The food industry and government resist the need for regulation, and there is no organized health or consumer lobby to counter this. This is likely to be the case in other middle- and low-income countries... - Improving the use of evidence in health impact assessmentJennifer Mindell
Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, England
Bull World Health Organ 88:543-50. 2010..The term evidence includes all scientific assessments, whether research studies in peer-reviewed journals or previous HIAs... - Legionnaires disease in southeast LondonCarol Joseph
Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK
Euro Surveill 10:E050908.2. 2005 - Fruit and vegetable consumption and strokeMartin McKee
Lancet 367:1056. 2006 - Detention and the evolving threat of tuberculosis: evidence, ethics, and lawRichard Coker
Department of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
J Law Med Ethics 35:609-15, 512. 2007..We discuss the need for strengthening evidence-based assessments of public health risk and suggest that we should reflect more profoundly on the philosophical foundations upon which our policies and practices are grounded...