International Festival of Public Health

Parallel Session 1

Parallel Session 1 (11:40 - 12:40)

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LT 2 - Health Protection

CHAIR - Dr Michael Donmall

Enhancement and Novel Psychoacve Substances. Breaking Bad or Making Good?
Colin Tyrie (Manchester Mental Health & Social Care NHS Trust)

A system for quanfying the burden of alcohol-aDributable harm at a local level and its use in the licensing process in Tameside
Mahew Birchall (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council)

Local iniaves addressing health inequalies as part of the CQUINs Scheme
Eleanor Ennis (Public Health England)

Are the reasons for non-uptake of the MMR vaccine being documented in an inner city GP pracce?
Julia Miah (University of Manchester)

LT 3 - Health Promotion and Improvement

CHAIR - Angela Spencer

GULP 'Give Up Loving Pop'
Robin Ireland (Health Equalies Group)

Increasing organ donaon in the North West South Asian community through targeted education
Agimol Pradeep (Central Manchester University Hospital)

Using linked data to esmate the relaonship between physical acvity and health
Brenda Gannon (University of Manchester)

'Doctor, I want to start the pill...'

Aalaa Jawad (North Central Deanery)

LT 4 - Occupational and Environmental Health

CHAIR - Professor Raymond Agius

Characterisaon of pedestrian exposure to nanoparcle emission at traffic intersections
Anju Goel (University of Surrey)

Air Polluon, Occupaon and Health: An Ecological Analysis
Subhashis Basu (Centre for Workplace Health, Health and Safety Laboratory)

Occupaonal exposure to coarse, fine and ultrafine parcle emissions from building refurbishment activities
Farhad Azarmi (University of Surrey)

Planning a health promotion intervenon for the World Food Programme workers in developing countries
Francesco Di Nardo (Institute of Public Health, Università Caolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy)

Effecveness and cost-effecveness of yoga for reducing back pain in the workplace
Ned Hartfiel (Bangor University)

LT 5 - Prevention and Screening

CHAIR - Emily Parry-Harries

Cervical cancer screening service utilization: The relative contribution of health insurance coverage and socioeconomic status of Namibian women
Olatunde Aremu (Birmingham City University)

Evaluation of a secondary school violence prevention workshop
Madeleine Cochrane (Liverpool John Moores University)

Annual asthma reviews in adults: Are patients attending them on time?
Sargam Vohra (University of Manchester (University Hospital of South Manchester))

Creativity and the co-production of health services: using Ketso as a hands-on tool to gather the views of several hundred services users, providers and carers
Joanne Tippett (University of Manchester and Ketso)

LT 6 - Health Services Research

CHAIR - Dr Roger Harrison

Using Text Mining to Support the Development of Public Health Systematic Reviews
Georgios Kontonatsios (University of Manchester)

‘Always paracetamol. They give them paracetamol for everything’: the health of Eastern European migrants and their experiences of the UK health service
Hannah Madden (Liverpool John Moores University)

Using Patient Parcipation Groups to Improve General Practice Services: A Service Evaluation
Neil Cockburn (University of Manchester)

The Truth is Out There
Paul Lee, Fellow Royal Society Public Health FRSPH, FCIOB, FASI, MRICS, MIOE (Cornishway PPG Chair,
South Manchester Health & Community Representative, MAHSE MSc Clinical Science Programme &
National School Healthcare Science CCVRS Lay Representave) and Jackie Nighngale

S1 - Health Promotion and Improvement

CHAIR - Dr Cordelle Mbeledogu

The impact of distance from green space on obesity
Omer Ali (University of Manchester)

Comparing determinants of falls and fear of falling among European countries
Carmen Franse (Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Roerdam, The Netherlands)

Promoting health: journeys into and beyond volunteering
Anne Mills (University of Bournemouth)

European Urban Health Centre project (UHCE): Creating Elderly Support Groups in public social services of the Municipality of Pallini
Elena Konstantinou (Municipality of Pallini, Greece)

Heart disease: is it a question of power?
Fama Saeed (University of Manchester)

S2 - Health Services Research

CHAIR - Dr Gunjit Bandesha

Muslim women's transition to motherhood
Shaima Hassan (Liverpool John Moores University)

Ethnic differences in women's use of mental health services: do social networks play a role? Findings from a national community survey
Dharmi Kapadia (University of Manchester)

A study of quality standards for enoxaparin prophylaxis in AICU patients
Jiaqian Cui (University of Manchester)

An audit of oxygen prescription and monitoring in the acute medical assessment unit at University Hospital of South Manchester

Sarah Chua (University of Manchester)

Physical Acvity promoon for Cancer Survivors (PACS)
Sadia Nafees (Bangor University)

S3 - Teaching and Training

CHAIR - Dr Isla Gemmell

'First do no harm': some quandaries as a volunteer in a Low Income Country
Adrian Sutton (University of Manchester)

Evaluation of Talk Cancer - a cancer awareness training programme for community-based health workers and volunteers
Helen George (Cancer Research UK)

A very preliminary set of outputs from the Introducon to Population Health
Ilan Chamovitz (Manchester Business School)

Developing the skills of frontline integrated care practitioners in enabling self-care in Manchester – working towards a whole system approach
Janet Mantle (Manchester City Council)

S4 - Global Health

CHAIR - Andrew Jones

Media Matters: A deconstruction of the disparity of media coverage in humanitarian crisis
Samuel Moody (University of Manchester)

Women as peace-builders: Addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Colombia
Amy Smith (University of Manchester)

Are Health Education Interventions Effective for the Control and Prevention of Urogenital Schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Systematic Review
Amy Price (University of Manchester)

Minimising the harm that celebrity humanitarianism causes: How can we move forward from Band Aid and Make Poverty History?
Iain Murphy (University of Manchester)

S5 - Health Promotion and Improvement

CHAIR - Dr Martin Yuille

A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans needs assessment for Salford
Magda Sachs (Salford City Council)

Social media and self image: a comparison between a developed and developing country
Sadhia Khan (University of Manchester)

A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial to improve the mental health support and training provided to secondary school teachers (the WISE project)
Judi Kidger (University of Bristol)

History of exposure to symptoms of common mental disorder in relation to extended working: British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society
Gareth Hagger-Johnson (University College London)