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Evaluation of Smoke Free Start Initiative

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction Smoking in pregnancy is a leading public health challenge. National and international studies highlight the urgent need to improve stop smoking care in pregnancy.
Edward Murphy, Aishling Sheridan, Paul Kavanagh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I can feel myself coming out of the rut’: a brief intervention for supporting behaviour change is acceptable to patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2023
Aim To a) understand the perceptions and experiences of patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in relation to their physiotherapy care and their acceptability of ‘Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills’ (MECC HCS) as a brief ...
Amelia Parchment, Wendy Lawrence, Em Rahman, Nick Townsend, Elaine Wainwright, David Wainwright   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obesity: unrecognised or avoided? We are missing opportunities to ‘make every contact count’ [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2019
Obesity, ‘one of the biggest public health threats facing the UK’, is highlighted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health as one of seven key priorities for children’s health and well-being.1 The statistics are shocking: One-third of children aged 10–11 years and one-fifth of children aged 4–5 years in England are overweight or obese.1 In ...
Elspeth Clare Ferguson, Emily K Stewart, Claire Hannah, Charlotte Jane Elder   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Identifying barriers to the educational role of midwives in Cyprus and defining determinants in behaviour terms using the Behaviour Change Wheel: a mixed-method formative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Τhe Baby Buddy Cyprus webapp was co-created with parents and health professionals within a Participatory Action Research framework. While using Baby Buddy in routine consultations can support the educational role of mother–child healthcare ...
Nicos Middleton, Eleni Hadjigeorgiou, Ourania Kolokotroni, Veronika Christodoulides, Ioanna Koliandri, Christiana Nicolaou, Maria Papadopoulou, Christiana Kouta, Maria Karanikola, Alison Baum, the Baby Buddy Forward team   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers and enablers to delivery of Making Every Contact Count: A cross-sectional study [PDF]

Eur J Public Health, 2023
Abstract Background The public health impact of the Irish Making Every Contact Count (MECC) brief intervention programme is dependent on delivery by healthcare professionals. We aimed to identify enablers and modifiable barriers to MECC intervention delivery to optimize MECC implementation.
Hayes, C B, Meade, O, O'Brien, M, Noone, C, Lawless, A, McSharry, J, Murphy, A, Murphy, P J, O'Reilly, O, Byrne, M   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Due ontologie della realtà storica. Documentalità e intenzionalità collettiva alla prova della storicizzazione

Rivista di Estetica, 2012
Realist ontologies about history stress that entities such as documents, their sources, and events whom they are talking about are objectively given in the ontological reality of social history, beyond our skills to recognize them.
Stefano Vaselli
doaj   +1 more source

Are healthcare professionals delivering opportunistic behaviour change interventions? A multi-professional survey of engagement with public health policy

Implementation Science, 2018
Background “Making Every Contact Count” (MECC), a public health policy in the UK, compels healthcare professionals to deliver opportunistic health behaviour change interventions to patients during routine medical consultations.
Chris Keyworth, Tracy Epton, Joanna Goldthorpe, Rachel Calam, Christopher J. Armitage   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time and Architecture

Techne, 2020
In the Italian language, the term “tempo” (literally time) is a word of daily use to which we attribute many meanings. It can signify a chronological dimension between past, present and future, an epoch or a period, a phase of an action, as well as ...
Massimo Lauria, Riccardo Pollo
doaj   +1 more source

Salmonella lipopolysaccharide‐containing supported lipid bilayers as platforms to study bacteriophage interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace, Alyssa Borges, Charles Arnaud, Tove Karlsson, Nina K. Bröker, Stefanie Barbirz, Marta Bally   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public health practitioners’ views of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ initiative and standards for its evaluation [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2018
National Health Service England encourages staff to use everyday interactions with patients to discuss healthy lifestyle changes as part of the 'Making Every Contact Count' (MECC) approach. Although healthcare, government and public health organisations are now expected to adopt this approach, evidence is lacking about how MECC is currently implemented
A Chisholm, P Ang-Chen, S Peters, J Hart, J Beenstock   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources