Steven Cummins

Summary

Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi "Food deserts"--evidence and assumption in health policy making
    Steven Cummins
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
    BMJ 325:436-8. 2002
  2. ncbi Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?
    Sally Macintyre
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Soc Sci Med 55:125-39. 2002
  3. ncbi Measuring neighbourhood social and material context: generation and interpretation of ecological data from routine and non-routine sources
    Steven Cummins
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
    Health Place 11:249-60. 2005
  4. ncbi Neighbourhood fast food environment and area deprivation-substitution or concentration?
    Laura Macdonald
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
    Appetite 49:251-4. 2007
  5. ncbi Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 65:1825-38. 2007
  6. ncbi Large scale food retail interventions and diet
    Steven Cummins
    BMJ 330:683-4. 2005
  7. ncbi Neighbourhood food environment and diet: time for improved conceptual models?
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
    Prev Med 44:196-7. 2007
  8. ncbi Commentary: investigating neighbourhood effects on health--avoiding the 'local trap'
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
    Int J Epidemiol 36:355-7. 2007
  9. ncbi Pathways to obesity: identifying local, modifiable determinants of physical activity and diet
    Mai Stafford
    UCL Medical School, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 65:1882-97. 2007

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi "Food deserts"--evidence and assumption in health policy making
    Steven Cummins
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
    BMJ 325:436-8. 2002
  2. ncbi Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?
    Sally Macintyre
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Soc Sci Med 55:125-39. 2002
    ....
  3. ncbi Measuring neighbourhood social and material context: generation and interpretation of ecological data from routine and non-routine sources
    Steven Cummins
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
    Health Place 11:249-60. 2005
    ..However we argue that the attempt to measure specific chains of causation is important enough for public health for this approach to followed and improved upon...
  4. ncbi Neighbourhood fast food environment and area deprivation-substitution or concentration?
    Laura Macdonald
    MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
    Appetite 49:251-4. 2007
    ..These results provide support for a 'concentration' effect whereby plausible health-damaging environmental risk factors for obesity appear to be 'concentrated' in more deprived areas of England and Scotland...
  5. ncbi Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 65:1825-38. 2007
    ..We argue that these approaches to understanding how place relates to health are important in order to deliver effective, 'contextually sensitive' policy interventions...
  6. ncbi Large scale food retail interventions and diet
    Steven Cummins
    BMJ 330:683-4. 2005
  7. ncbi Neighbourhood food environment and diet: time for improved conceptual models?
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
    Prev Med 44:196-7. 2007
  8. ncbi Commentary: investigating neighbourhood effects on health--avoiding the 'local trap'
    Steven Cummins
    Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
    Int J Epidemiol 36:355-7. 2007
  9. ncbi Pathways to obesity: identifying local, modifiable determinants of physical activity and diet
    Mai Stafford
    UCL Medical School, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 65:1882-97. 2007
    ..Public health professionals should seek to work alongside or within these organisations to capitalise on opportunities to improve health...