International Festival of Public Health


Parallel Session 2

Please click on the room number to the side for abstracts.

LT 1 - Health Promotion and Improvement

The efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of antenatal depression: A systematic review

Elizabeth Shortis (The University of Manchester)

Developing community partnerships: An asset based community development approach to reducing health inequalities.

Emma Nicholas and Vanessa Powell-Hoyland (Doncaster Council)

Protecting Physical Health in People with Mental Illness: Findings from The Lancet Psychiatry Commission

Joseph Firth (Western Sydney University / The University of Manchester)

Developing the TLiFE Programme (the Adapted Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise Programme in Thai Context): A Novel Approach to Fall Prevention among Older Adults in Thailand

Sasiporn Ounjaichon (The University of Manchester)

LT 2 - Health Services Research and Health Economics

HIAT toolkit for incorporating a health inequalities dimension into the design and implementation of clinical and applied health research

Ana Porroche-Escudero (NIHR CLAHRC NWC / Lancaster University)

A systematic review of economic evidence of not accessing oral healthcare services in the over 65-year-old population.

Mohammed Azhar Khan (Bangor University)

‘We Treat Them All the Same’: what Care Home Staff Know and Reported Practices Concerning Old/er Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Residents

Paul Simpson (Edge Hill University)

How does the UK primary healthcare system meet the needs of asylum seekers in the North West? A Qualitative Study

Samihah Moazam (Health Education North West / University of Liverpool)

LT 3 - Global Health

Betsi-Quthing Health Partnership: A Global Project with a Local Heart

Aaron Pritchard (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)

The potential contribution of Community Health Workers in prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Uganda: a case study of Wakiso district

David Musoke (Makerere University School of Public Health)

Primary Health Care implementation in Ghana: The influence of International NGOs

Nana Nimo Appiah-Agyekum (University of Ghana)

Religion as partner in improving global health

Omololu Fagunwa (University of Huddersfield)

LT 4 - Health Promotion and Improvement

All Learners Public Health - Capturing the Mood for Health Promotion

Jan Sinclair (Stockport NHSFT)

Exploring implementation of the Manchester Healthy Schools Programme: A qualitative study

Joanna Goldthorpe (The University of Manchester)

Experiences of Early Years Workers and Health Visitors When Having Conversations with Mothers of Pre-school Children about Their Child’s Weight and Providing Advice about Feeding Practices in the Multicultural City of Bradford.

Marena Ceballos Rasgado (University of York)

Introducing brief interventions for physical activity to an inner city general practice: a service evaluation

Neil Cockburn (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust)

LT 5 - Prevention and Screening and Occupational and Environmental Health

“Danger: Men at Work”? A Proposal for an Exploration of Emotional Labour of Male Healthcare Workers

Imo Emah (Edge Hill University)

Spectacles wearing compliance among school children in selected slums in Dhaka

Mohammad Awlad Hossain (Orbis International, Bangladesh Country Office)

A Systematic Review of the Evidence on Episiotomy to Improve the Obstetric Outcomes in Women who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

Pushpa Hossain (University of Chester)

Assessing the Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in Greater Manchester

Robyn McCarthy (University of Salford)

Free Access to Formula Milk for Mothers living with HIV in Manchester


Adela Senkubuge (George House Trust)