Publications
Below is a selection of publications authored by colleagues in the Kent Public Health team.
1. Linked Data and Health Informatics
These papers explore the use of linked datasets to inform public health planning and research.
- Data for Everyone's Health: Public Health Intelligence
Explores the role of data in shaping inclusive and effective public health intelligence.
- Linked data analysis of learning disability health checks and emergency hospital admissions in the Kent Integrated Dataset
Examines how health checks for people with learning disabilities relate to emergency hospital admissions using linked data.
- Characteristics of patients with body mass index recorded within the Kent Integrated Dataset (KID)
Describes the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with BMI data in the KID.
- Social gradients in health and social care costs: Analysis of linked electronic health records in Kent
Analyses how socioeconomic status affects health and social care costs using linked records.
- Developing a risk prediction tool for lung cancer in Kent and Medway, England: cohort study using linked data
Presents a predictive model for lung cancer risk using linked health data.
- Implementing the English health inequalities agenda: addressing challenges to person-level, cross-sectoral data linkage, access and routine use for local authority public health
Discusses barriers and enablers to using linked data for addressing health inequalities.
- Understanding how to build a social licence for using novel linked datasets for planning and research in Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Explores public perceptions and trust in the use of linked datasets for research.
2. Public Health Modelling and Decision Support
These studies focus on using modelling techniques to support public health decision-making.
- Embedding systems thinking in local authority public health practice: a case study
Describes Level 7 Systems Thinking Apprenticeship training by PH specialists highlighting how they applied their new skills and key reflections.
- Embedding OR modelling as decision support in health capacity planning: insights from an evaluation
Evaluates the use of operational research models in healthcare capacity planning.
- Use of System Dynamics Modelling for Evidence-Based Decision Making in Public Health Practice
Demonstrates how system dynamics modelling can inform public health strategies.
- Planning for healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Southeast of England: a system dynamics modelling approach
Applies system dynamics to plan healthcare services during the COVID-19 crisis.
3. Health, Inequalities and Wider Determinants
These papers address public health topics and broader social and economic factors influencing health.
- Underserved groups access to reproductive services: A literature review of women aged 18–25years
Reviews barriers and facilitators to reproductive health services for young women.
- Domestic violence and suicide in women under the care of mental health services in the UK, 2015–2021: a national observational study
Examines the intersection of domestic violence and suicide among women in mental health services.
- Improving and protecting health in England needs more than the NHS
Argues for a whole-society approach to health improvement beyond the NHS.
- Exploring freely accessible data describing wider determinants of health in England
Identifies and evaluates open data sources on social determinants of health.
4. Public Health Economics
These works evaluate the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions.
- A systematic review of economic evaluations of local authority commissioned preventative public health interventions
Reviews economic evaluations of interventions targeting obesity, inactivity, substance use, and smoking.
5. COVID-19 and Public Health Response
Focused on managing public health during the pandemic.
- Managing COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons - A brief review of literature and key lessons learnt
Summarises strategies and challenges in managing COVID-19 in prison settings.