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| Steven AllenderSummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Life-change events and participation in physical activity: a systematic reviewSteven Allender
Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Rosemary RueBuilding, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Health Promot Int 23:160-72. 2008..A list of possible life events which might effect participation in PA is presented. This paper represents a first step towards a detailed programme of work on life-change events and PA...- 'Tell us something we don't already know or do!' - The response of planning and transport professionals to public health guidance on the built environment and physical activitySteven Allender
Public Health, University of Oxford, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX37LF, UK
J Public Health Policy 30:102-16. 2009..Evidence-based health guidance could be a powerful driver affecting planning practice, but other legislated planning guidance may take priority for planning and transport professionals... - Relative deprivation between neighbouring wards is predictive of coronary heart disease mortality after adjustment for absolute deprivation of wardsSteven Allender
Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:803-8. 2012.... - Policy change to create supportive environments for physical activity and healthy eating: which options are the most realistic for local government?Steven Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Room 303, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Health Promot Int 27:261-74. 2012..g. mandate the promotion of healthy eating environments). For local government to have a role in the promotion of healthy food environments, regulatory change and suitable funding are required... 
Competing discourses of workplace healthSteven Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Health (London) 10:75-93. 2006..Competition between discourses both constricts and opens spaces for alternative understandings of health in the workplace. The implications of this competition for workplace health policy and practice are discussed...
Quantification of urbanization in relation to chronic diseases in developing countries: a systematic reviewSteven Allender
Department of Public Health, Rosemary Rue Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Urban Health 85:938-51. 2008....- The burden of smoking-related ill health in the UKS Allender
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, UK
Tob Control 18:262-7. 2009..This paper quantifies the current health and economic burden of smoking in the UK. It provides comparisons with previous studies of the burden of smoking in the UK and with the costs for other chronic disease risk factors... - The burden of overweight and obesity-related ill health in the UKS Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Obes Rev 8:467-73. 2007..Public health initiatives are required to address the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity and reduce associated healthcare costs... - The burden of physical activity-related ill health in the UKSteven Allender
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:344-8. 2007..This paper provides an estimate of the economic and health burden of disease related to physical inactivity in the UK. These estimates are examined in relation to current UK government policy on physical activity... - Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?Steven Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 6:20. 2009.... - Level of urbanization and noncommunicable disease risk factors in Tamil Nadu, IndiaSteven Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford, OX3 7LF, England
Bull World Health Organ 88:297-304. 2010..To investigate the poorly understood relationship between the process of urbanization and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through the application of a quantitative measure of urbanicity... - Understanding participation in sport and physical activity among children and adults: a review of qualitative studiesSteven Allender
Public Health, University of Oxford, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford, UK
Health Educ Res 21:826-35. 2006..Challenges to identity such as having to show others an unfit body, lacking confidence and competence in core skills or appearing overly masculine were barriers to participation... - Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality over the 20th century in England and Wales: Possible plateaus in the rate of declineSteven Allender
Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
BMC Public Health 8:148. 2008..Recent work suggests that the rate of change in some groups has begun to decrease and may be starting to plateau or even reverse... - The North-South gap in overweight and obesity in EnglandPeter Scarborough
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Nutr 100:677-84. 2008..07 (1.00, 1.14) to 1.21 (1.13, 1.30). Widening geographical inequalities in overweight and obesity rates in women could lead to widening inequalities in cardiovascular and other diseases... - Increased energy intake entirely accounts for increase in body weight in women but not in men in the UK between 1986 and 2000Peter Scarborough
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, UK
Br J Nutr 105:1399-404. 2011.... - Contribution of climate and air pollution to variation in coronary heart disease mortality rates in EnglandPeter Scarborough
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e32787. 2012..The results suggest that the climate has a small but significant independent association with CHD mortality rates in England... - The burden of alcohol-related ill health in the United KingdomRavikumar Balakrishnan
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 31:366-73. 2009..This study presents a method for estimating the health and economic burden of alcohol consumption to the UK National Health Service (NHS)... - Validation of model-based estimates (synthetic estimates) of the prevalence of risk factors for coronary heart disease for wards in EnglandPeter Scarborough
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Health Place 15:596-605. 2009..Model-based estimates of the prevalence of smoking, low fruit and vegetable consumption, obesity, hypertension and raised cholesterol are found to be valid... - Occupational health provision in UK universitiesKatherine M Venables
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Occup Med (Lond) 57:162-8. 2007..Very few studies have been done of occupational health provision across an entire employment sector and universities are particularly understudied. The British government published updated guidance on university occupational health in 2006... - Quality of occupational health provision: two rating scales and their determinantsKatherine M Venables
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Occup Med (Lond) 58:439-42. 2008..To develop quality scales for occupational health services (OHSs) and describe and explain variation in quality across the UK university sector... - Occupational and nonoccupational physical activity and the social determinants of physical activity: results from the Health Survey for EnglandSteven Allender
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Dept of Public Health, University of Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
J Phys Act Health 5:104-16. 2008..This article aims to examine the relative contribution of occupational activity to English adults' meeting of government recommendations for physical activity (PA)... - Values underlying the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease in England: a discourse analysisMike Rayner
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group
J Health Serv Res Policy 11:67-73. 2006..Its prescriptions are partly based on what is known about coronary heart disease and partly on its underlying 'values'. This paper seeks to identify those values... - Occupational health needs of universities: a review with an emphasis on the United KingdomK M Venables
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Occup Environ Med 63:159-67. 2006.... - An index of unhealthy lifestyle is associated with coronary heart disease mortality rates for small areas in England after adjustment for deprivationP Scarborough
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
Health Place 17:691-5. 2011.... - Quantifying urbanization as a risk factor for noncommunicable diseaseSteven Allender
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, UK
J Urban Health 88:906-18. 2011..92; 95% CI, 2.41-3.55), and diabetes mellitus (OR = 2.10; 95% CI, 1.58 - 2.80). There is a clear relationship between urbanicity and common modifiable risk factors for chronic disease in a representative sample of Sri Lankan adults... - Symptoms, ill-health and quality of life in a support group of Porton Down veteransSteven Allender
University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Occup Med (Lond) 56:329-37. 2006..Despite there being no clear pattern of specific morbidities, we cannot rule out ill-health being potentially associated with past experience at Porton Down... - What determines the size of occupational health services in UK universities?Katherine M Venables
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Occup Med (Lond) 57:210-3. 2007..There is wide, largely unexplained, variation in occupational health (OH) provision between UK employers... - The incidence of all stroke and stroke subtype in the United Kingdom, 1985 to 2008: a systematic reviewPrachi Bhatnagar
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
BMC Public Health 10:539. 2010..We aimed to study geographic and temporal trends in relation to equivalent mortality trends... - Associations between activity-related behaviours and standardized BMI among Australian adolescentsSteven Allender
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
J Sci Med Sport 14:512-21. 2011..To examine the relationships between physical activity, sedentary behaviour and body mass index (BMI) among a sample of Australian adolescents... - Urban living and obesity: is it independent of its population and lifestyle characteristics?Carukshi Arambepola
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Trop Med Int Health 13:448-57. 2008..We aimed to identify and quantify the magnitude of this relationship in a Sri Lankan population... - ForewordSimona Giampaoli
European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) Section Prevention and Health Policy
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:S1. 2007 - Cardiovascular surveys: manual of operationsPaola Primatesta
University College London Medical School, London, UK
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:S43-61. 2007..This manual of operations is intended for health professionals and policy makers and provides a standardized and simple model for the implementation of a CVD survey... - Improving the uptake of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD: qualitative study of experiences and attitudesDavid Harris
Killamarsh Medical Practice, Killamarsh, Sheffield
Br J Gen Pract 58:703-10. 2008..Some patients who are eligible for pulmonary rehabilitation may not accept an offer of it, thereby missing an opportunity to improve their health status...