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| Jean M AdamsSummaryAffiliation: University of Newcastle Country: UK Publications
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A systematic review of the use of financial incentives and penalties to encourage uptake of healthy behaviors: protocolJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Baddiley Clark building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK
Syst Rev 1:51. 2012....- The Change4Life convenience store programme to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegetables: a mixed methods process evaluationJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e39431. 2012..This aimed to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegetables in deprived, urban areas by providing existing convenience stores with a range of support and branded point-of-sale materials and equipment... 
Consideration of immediate and future consequences, smoking status, and body mass indexJean Adams
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Health Psychol 31:260-3. 2012..Confirmatory factor analysis was performed on CFCS data. The associations between 2 health-related variables [smoking and body mass index (BMI)] and each subscale were then explored, controlling for sociodemographic variables...- Effect of restrictions on television food advertising to children on exposure to advertisements for 'less healthy' foods: repeat cross-sectional studyJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e31578. 2012..We explored the impact of the restrictions on relative exposure to HFSS food advertising among all viewers and among child television viewers, as well as adherence to the restrictions... - Price discounts on alcohol in a city in Northern EnglandJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Baddiley Clark building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 47:187-90. 2012..To describe the extent and nature of price discounts on alcohol in Newcastle upon Tyne, England... - Time perspective in socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and body mass indexJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Health Psychol 28:83-90. 2009..To determine if time perspective plays a mediating role in the relationship between socio-economic position (SEP) and both smoking and body mass index (BMI)... - Socio-economic and gender differences in nutritional content of foods advertised in popular UK weekly magazinesJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Eur J Public Health 19:144-9. 2009..We describe the type and nutritional content of foods advertised in popular UK weekly magazines and explore variations in these according to the socio-economic and gender profile of readers... - Time perspective, personality and smoking, body mass, and physical activity: an empirical studyJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Br J Health Psychol 14:83-105. 2009.... 
Health behaviours in people who respond to a web-based survey advertised on regional news mediaJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Eur J Public Health 18:335-8. 2008..Whilst the demographics of those with and without access to the Internet in the UK are regularly reported, the health behaviours of those who choose to take part in web-based surveys, compared to the wider population, are not known...- Are the stages of change socioeconomically distributed? A scoping reviewJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Am J Health Promot 21:237-47. 2007..To conduct a rapid scoping review to explore the hypothesis that socioeconomic affluence is associated with a more advanced stage of change for health behaviors... - Removing the health domain from the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004-effect on measured inequalities in census measure of healthJ Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 28:379-83. 2006..These findings may not hold for other measures of health, and in the context of socioeconomic inequalities in health, removing the health domain from IMD 2004 probably represents best practice... - Changes in food advertisements during 'prime-time' television from 1991 to 2006 in the UK and CanadaJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Br J Nutr 102:584-93. 2009..By 2006, the UK 'TV diet' was high in sodium, sugar and alcohol and low in fibre. Foods advertised on 'prime-time' television do not reflect a healthful diet... - Food advertising during children's television in Canada and the UKJ Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Arch Dis Child 94:658-62. 2009..In Canada, self-regulated codes of practice on television food advertising to children were recently strengthened... - The mediating role of time perspective in socio-economic inequalities in smoking and physical activity in older English adultsJean Adams
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Health Psychol 14:794-9. 2009..The data were self-report and cross-sectional, and the sample restricted to individuals aged 50+... - The role of time perspective in smoking cessation amongst older English adultsJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, NE2 4HH
Health Psychol 28:529-34. 2009..To study the longitudinal relationship between time perspective and smoking cessation over 4 years of follow-up among a cohort of older English adults and to determine whether the predictive utility of time perspective in smoking cessation... - Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of "active transport" in the UK: analysis of the UK time use survey 2005Jean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, William Leech Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Prev Med 50:199-203. 2010..To describe prevalence, and socio-demographic correlates, of active transport participation amongst UK adults... - Do television food advertisements portray advertised foods in a 'healthy' food context?Jean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Br J Nutr 105:810-5. 2011..It is not yet clear what effect this may have on consumers' perceptions and behaviour, and whether or not this practice should be encouraged or discouraged from a public health perspective... - Socio-economic differences in outdoor food advertising in a city in Northern EnglandJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Baddiley Clark building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, UK
Public Health Nutr 14:945-50. 2011..To explore differences in the prevalence of outdoor food advertising, and the type and nutritional content of advertised foods, according to an area-based marker of socio-economic position (SEP) in a city in Northern England... - Variations in food and drink advertising in UK monthly women's magazines according to season, magazine type and socio-economic profile of readers: a descriptive study of publications over 12 monthsJean Adams
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
BMC Public Health 11:368. 2011..We explored differences in the prevalence of food and drink advertising and the type of food and drinks advertised according to season, magazine type and socio-economic profile of readers... - A systematic review of the health, social and financial impacts of welfare rights advice delivered in healthcare settingsJean Adams
Public Health Research Group, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
BMC Public Health 6:81. 2006..We conducted a systematic review of the health, social and financial impacts of welfare rights advice delivered in healthcare settings... - Trends in physical activity and inactivity amongst US 14-18 year olds by gender, school grade and race, 1993-2003: evidence from the youth risk behavior surveyJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
BMC Public Health 6:57. 2006..In addition, there is little published data on trends in physical activity in adolescents according to factors such as gender, age and race... - Are there socioeconomic gradients in the quality of data held by UK cancer registries?Jean Adams
School of Population and Health Science, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1052-4. 2004 - Life course measures of socioeconomic position and self reported health at age 50: prospective cohort studyJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1028-9. 2004 - Biological ageing: a fundamental, biological link between socio-economic status and health?Jean M Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Eur J Public Health 14:331-4. 2004..We discuss these issues and hypothesize that socio-economic differences in health are partly a result of poor people ageing faster than rich people due to the unhealthy environments to which they are exposed... - When the population approach to prevention puts the health of individuals at riskJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:40-3. 2005.... - Why don't stage-based activity promotion interventions work?J Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Health Educ Res 20:237-43. 2005..Paradoxically, stage-based activity promotion interventions that have been developed to date may have failed to appreciate the true complexity of the task... - Are there socioeconomic gradients in stage and grade of breast cancer at diagnosis? Cross sectional analysis of UK cancer registry dataJean Adams
School of Population and Health Science, Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
BMJ 329:142. 2004 - Research as a learning opportunity: teaching as a research opportunityJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Med Educ 38:554. 2004 - Straining to describe and tackle stress in medical studentsJean Adams
Faculty of Public Health, School of Population and Health Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Med Educ 38:463-4. 2004 - Are there socio-economic inequalities in age of resection of colorectal cancer in people with HNPCC?Jean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Fam Cancer 2:169-73. 2003..This trend probably represents socio-economic variations in access to treatment. In addition, age based diagnostic criteria for hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer may, inadvertently, accentuate socio-economic inequalities in outcome... - How accurate are Townsend Deprivation Scores as predictors of self-reported health? A comparison with individual level dataJ Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:101-6. 2005..To determine the accuracy of area based Townsend Deprivation Scores (TDSs) as proxies for individual level deprivation and to compare the ability of TDSs and individual level measures of deprivation to predict selfreported health... - Age-related variations in progression of cancer at diagnosis and completeness of cancer registry dataJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Surg Oncol 13:175-9. 2004..Grade decreased but stage increased with increasing age in women with breast cancer. The chances of data on stage and grade at diagnosis being unavailable increased with age in all cases... - Socioeconomic position and sleep quantity in UK adultsJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:267-9. 2006..To investigate the association between markers of socioeconomic position (years of full time education, access to a car or van, and occupational social class) and mid-range sleep quantity (6.5 to 8.5 hours)... - Changes in socioeconomic inequalities in census measures of health in England and Wales, 1991-2001Jean Adams
Public Health Research Group, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:218-20. 2006..To investigate changes in socioeconomic inequalities in census measures of health in England and Wales between 1991 and 2001... - Is the disease risk associated with good self-reported health constant across the socio-economic spectrum?J Adams
Public Health Research Group, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Level 3, DMB, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Public Health 120:70-5. 2006..It is, therefore, possible that the disease risk associated with different levels of self-reported health varies according to SEP. We investigated this using data from the 1998 Health Survey for England... - Year-round daylight saving and serious or fatal road traffic injuries in children in the north-east of EnglandJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:316-7. 2005..It has been suggested that year-round daylight saving would reduce road traffic injuries... - No consistent association between birthweight and parental risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseaseJ Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Diabet Med 22:950-3. 2005..It has been proposed that an inverse relationship between birthweight and parental risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease is evidence in support of this hypothesis... - Is the rate of biological aging, as measured by age at diagnosis of cancer, socioeconomically patterned?Jean Adams
School of Population and Health Science, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:146-51. 2005..To investigate the hypothesis that biological aging, as measured by age at diagnosis of some common cancers, is socioeconomically patterned... - Socio-economic deprivation is associated with increased proximity to general practices in England: an ecological analysisJean Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:80-1. 2005..However, the relationship between deprivation and geographical proximity to health services has received little attention... - Are activity promotion interventions based on the transtheoretical model effective? A critical reviewJ Adams
School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Br J Sports Med 37:106-14. 2003..Although there is evidence that TTM based activity promotion interventions are effective in promoting activity adoption, initial results on longer term adherence are disappointing... - Changes in consumption of sugars by English adolescents over 20 yearsA J Rugg Gunn
Human Nutrition Research Centre, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK
Public Health Nutr 10:354-63. 2007..This study reports dietary sugars consumption in 2000 and compares it with data collected in 1980 and 1990, using identical methods... - Portrayal of health-related behaviours in popular UK television soap operasT Verma
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:575-7. 2007..However, little is currently known about the portrayal of common health-related behaviours on UK television soap operas...