11 Sep 2023
Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Scientific Meeting – ARC North East and North Cumbria projects
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Over 300 experts in public health and social medicine gathered in Newcastle from 6-8 September for a three-day international research conference covering some of the most pressing issues facing global population health.
The Society for Social Medicine and Population Health (SSM) Annual Scientific Meeting at Newcastle University was co-hosted by the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria, alongside Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health.
The event included more than 200 presentations and over 100 posters on new projects covering a range of health and social care issues including; infectious diseases, housing and health, the environmental impact on health, weight management and nutrition, food policy, women’s health, children and young people’s health, mental health, health inequalities, maternal health, healthy ageing, and more.
These included contributions from projects funded by, or led by researchers linked to, the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria.
You can find out more by exploring the abstract links, below.
Professor Eileen Kaner, Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria (NENC), said:
“Good research provides strong evidence to shape better services and helps us to improve health and care for everyone, no matter where they live, their background, or their age. It is critical that health and care decisions made at a local, national, and global level are based on evidence. It’s also important that the research we carry out as academics can make its way into health services and used to improve care – and there is already a lot of work going on in our region and beyond to make sure that this happens.
“We were really pleased to bring this major conference to our region.”
Professor Ashley Adamson, Director of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health and Prevention lead for the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria, said:
“I don’t think there has ever been a time when we should be more focussed on public health, than now. We have emerged from a pandemic that has highlighted health inequalities across the UK – inequalities that we have known about for a long time but that have so far been left unaddressed. We know that issues such as cardio-vascular diseases, obesity, mental health conditions, and deaths from preventable illnesses caused by alcohol or smoking, are significantly higher in areas of deprivation or in communities where there is poor access to health care, or where low levels of literacy or language barriers mean people can’t get the help they need.
“We also have the urgent issue of climate change to bring into focus – which we expect will make many of these public health issues more severe and prevalent; with extreme weather such as heat waves, rising prices of food, homes that are too hot or too cold for good health, reduced air quality and more, all having a significant impact on our health.”
“We have much to do to improve the health of our population, and we hope that the work that was shared and discussed at this event will go on to make a real difference in improving public health in the UK and beyond.”
Abstract links to presentations and posters of projects supported by the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria
OP07 ‘The lights are on, and the doors are always open’: a qualitative study to understand challenges underlying the need for emergency care in people experiencing homelessness in rural and coastal North-East England
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A4.1
OP16 A mixed methods programme of study to explore weight management in UK adult secure mental health settings
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A8.2
OP18 ‘How do I get a grip on this weight gain?’ An analysis of weight-related behaviours reported on Mumsnet by perinatal women with overweight or obesity
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A9.2
OP26 The mental health effects of universal credit: qualitative findings from a mixed methods study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A13.2
OP25 Qualitative evaluation of a complex mental health intervention in general practices serving socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in northern England
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A13.1
OP56 Qualitative study on the support needs of young people who experience parental substance use
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A28.2
OP58 More than just ‘free heroin’: caring whilst navigating constraint in the delivery of diamorphine assisted treatment
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A29.2
OP57 Practitioner perspectives on the nature, causes and impact of mental health and emotional wellbeing of care experienced children and young people: A qualitative study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A29.1
OP74 Is planning a key component for a complex system approach to reducing inequalities in people living with overweight and obesity?
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A36.2
OP83 A qualitative exploration of the acceptability and feasibility of implementing virtual wards in England from the perspective of commissioners
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A41.1
OP84 Evaluating the impact of the national vaccination programme in England on inequalities in COVID-19 mortality: an ecological study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A41.2
OP88 Becoming pregnant after baby loss: improving inter-pregnancy care for women with diabetes: a qualitative exploration of women’s experiences and healthcare professional perspectives
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A43.2
OP91 Adherence to aspirin in pregnancy: a co-produced systematic review and meta-ethnography
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A45.1
OP95 Co-producing qualitative research and intervention development with peer researchers with lived experience of co-occurring alcohol and mental health problems in old age
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A47.1
OP97 What’s it like being involved in a community-based physical and social activity programme? A rapid qualitative study of participant and staff perceptions and experiences of an intervention for older adults living with mild frailty
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A48.1
OP93 Co-producing a resource to share public views of health inequalities and potential solutions: an example of innovative, immersive and inclusive public and patient involvement and engagement
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A46.1
OP126 Are there socioeconomic inequalities in vaccine uptake? An umbrella review
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A123.1
OP129 Understanding the needs of people experiencing homelessness presenting at emergency departments in rural and coastal North-East England: a quantitative study using hospital data
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A124.2
OP127 Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England’s North-South divide: a qualitative pilot study | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (bmj.com)
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A123.2
OP136 Eyes on the Baby: implementation and evaluation of multiagency SUDI prevention
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A127.2
OP144 A qualitative study exploring the views of year 8 pupils’ on their secondary school food and drink environment
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A131.2
OP188 Improving access to services for oral health, substance use and smoking for people with severe and multiple disadvantage: a qualitative study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A152.1
OP187 A case for ‘blurred lines’: Prospective implementation mapping for a holistic health support service for people living with severe mental illness
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A151.2
OP185 A qualitative study to assess the experiences and perceptions of GP trainees of working in areas or socio-economic deprivation or the ‘Deep End’
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A150.2
Posters
P07 Predictors of hospital length of stay following complete repair of tetralogy of fallot in a paediatric cohort in the North of England
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A58.1
P17 Do interventions reduce, maintain or increase socioeconomic inequalities in hospitalisations and readmissions in high-income countries?: A systematic review
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A62.1
P10 ‘I don’t want to put myself in harm’s way trying to help somebody’ : Knowledge and attitudes towards bystander cardio-plumonary resuscitation in North East England – findings from a qualitative interview study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A59.1
P13 ‘I never realised that I don’t breathe correctly’: Understanding experiences of postural tachycardia syndrome and the challenges of altered breathing for intervention development
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A60.2
P11 Exploring the acceptability of making every contact count (MECC) within the third and social economy (TSE): a reflexive thematic analysis
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A59.2
P23 Working with routinely collected data in social care: What are the possibilities, complexities and considerations for researchers and commissioners/service providers?
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A64.2
P37 In what ways could diamorphine assisted treatment change the model of healthcare access for people who use drugs in the UK?: An exploratory study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A70.3
P34 Systems approaches to reducing health inequalities at place: an in-depth case study in the UK
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A69.2
P52 Parent views of national child measurement programme feedback letters and engagement with the healthy weight maintenance MapMe tool
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A76.3
P65 Co-design of a walking football intervention for people with chronic breathlessness
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A82.2
P64 Understanding the implementation context for NHS-funded tobacco dependence services in England using the Template for Intervention description and replication (TIDieR) framework
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A82.1
P72 The Implementation STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) for improving health and social care services
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A85.2
P71 Exploring the feasibility of a national dataset of homecare users: findings from a survey of UK homecare providers
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A85.1
P70 Staff uniforms in care homes – demonstrating professionalism but diminishing home? A qualitative analysis of online content and discussion forums
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A84.2
P69 A qualitative study of staff perspectives on alcohol services in secondary care in the North East and North Cumbria, England
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A84.1
P80 Responding to community needs: Exploring the eco-shop model as a means of addressing food insecurity
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A89.1
P78 ‘It’s nice to read that someone else has drama’: The salutogenic potential of reading for improving wellbeing
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A88.1
P98 An evaluation of a public health campaign in a high school setting targeting pain related knowledge and beliefs – a mixed methods study
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A96.1
P14 Local authority delivery of a large-scale public health intervention: experiences, challenges, and solutions
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A96.2
P110 Exploring the impact of long COVID on the health, wellbeing and education/employment prospects of adults living in the North East of England
https://jech.bmj.com/content/77/Suppl_1/A103.2
P136 Supporting informal carers at end-of-life; a qualitative study across socio-economically deprived areas in North East England
You can explore all of the conference abstracts, here.