Jane South

Datos Biográficos

ID283966
NOMBREJane South
NOMBRESJane
APELLIDOSouth
FIRMASOUTH J
AFILIACIONESLeeds Beckett University
ORCID0000-0003-1462-7632
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAS57
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • Community engagement approaches to improve health

    Open AccessAnne-Marie Bagnall, Jane South et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This qualitative case study research found that in successful community engagement projects, community expertise is respected and valued, allowing community members to be fully involved and take ownership of the projects. Sufficient time should be allowed for this process. Flexibility and adaptation of project materials, protocols and role descriptions is important in overcoming barriers to community engagement

  • Exploring research capacity and capability in a local authority

    Open AccessJ Woodall, C D Bracewell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Data demonstrated variance between research practice, partnerships and culture in departments where space for intellectual curiosity was tempered by service demands. There were exceptions to this, where departmental views of research were positive and leaders valued the research-informed culture

  • Asset Based Community Development

    Open AccessJane South, Susan Coan et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2024

    This paper responds to challenges around how to generate robust evidence in keeping with the principles of an asset-based approach based on mobilization of community strengths. The design of a collaborative evaluation of a multi-site Asset Based Community Development program is described and emergent learning discussed. A qualitative mixed method design was used to capture changes at community and program level drawing on diverse sources of evide…

  • A qualitative synthesis of practice-based learning from case studies on Covid community champion programmes in England, UK

    Open AccessJane South, J Woodall et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    By focusing on how community champion approaches were applied by local authorities in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study contributes to knowledge on volunteer mobilisation as a mechanism to improve public health communication and outreach. Notwithstanding the limitations of experiential evidence, the synthesis of practice-based learning highlights potentially transferable community engagement strategies for health protection and hea…

  • Synthesising Practice-Based Case Study Evidence From Community Interventions

    Open AccessJane South, Kris Southby et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Referencias: 43

    Practice-based case studies that describe learning from implementation are a useful source of evidence for policy makers, practitioners and researchers. Despite the value of narratives developed in context as a form of experiential or applied evidence, little is known about appropriate qualitative review and synthesis methods to deal with multiple practice-based case studies. This paper reports on a methodological study to develop and pilot a syn…

  • Changing the culture

    Open AccessCatherine Homer, J Woodall et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Research leadership is required in local government to create a culture of evidence-based principles and policy. The embedded research model has high utility in gaining depth of information and recognising contextual and local factors which would support research capacity development

  • The contribution of peer research in evaluating complex public health interventions

    Open AccessKris Southby, Susan Coan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Including peer research as part of complex public health intervention evaluations can help uncover important contextual and ecological details beyond the reach of more traditional evaluation data collection. Peer research can also empower and build research/evaluation capacity within communities, which is particularly pertinent for community empowerment interventions

  • Understanding Qualitative and Community Indicators of Poverty for National Health Insurance Scheme Exemptions in Ghana

    Open AccessDa Costa Aboagye, Jane South et al.ARTICLEIllness Crisis & Loss2022Referencias: 13

    The exemptions of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for poor people in Ghana have not been sufficiently explored. Using a qualitative approach that involved gathering and analyzing viewpoints from the community, this article investigates the factors that are used to determine NHIS exemptions. Focus group discussions and interviews of key informants were conducted during the period (August 2015–August 2016) within the Ashanti and Greater…

  • The individual, place, and wellbeing – a network analysis

    Open AccessEoin McElroy, Matthew Ashton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    These findings highlight the complex relationships that exist between individual, community and place characteristics in the context of subjective wellbeing, and that all domains need to be considered when developing population-level strategies to improve wellbeing. Further consideration needs to be given to how this might happen in practice, for example through a combination of consistent use of community engagement methodologies alongside Healt…

  • Evaluation of Community Perspectives on National Health Insurance Policy to Health Service Delivery in Ghana

    Open AccessDa Costa Aboagye, Jane South et al.ARTICLEIllness Crisis & Loss2021Referencias: 22

    This article aims to examine the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) policy from the perspective of local communities. Qualitative data from 9 key informant interviews and 72 community respondents in 9 focus group discussions were analyzed using a thematic network approach. The focus-group discussions took place in seven different communities in seven regions of Ghana. The findings noted a disconnection between NHIS policy and community life.…

  • Being Well Together

    Open AccessStephen Atkinson, Anne-Marie Bagnall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2020

    This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion of community is widely understood as about something more than the sum of the parts. Capturing subjective aspects of local life that are not simply individual but reflect the ways in which people feel …

  • An evidence-based framework on community-centred approaches for health

    Open AccessJane South, Anne-Marie Bagnall et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2019

    Community participation is a central concept for health promotion, covering a breadth of approaches, purposes and activities. This paper reports on a national knowledge translation project in England, UK, which resulted in a conceptual framework and typology of community-based approaches, published as national guidance. A key objective was to develop a conceptual framework linked to sources of evidence that could be used to support increased upta…

  • Complexity and Community Context

    Open AccessJane South, Daniel Button et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Community empowerment interventions, which aim to build greater individual and community control over health, are shaped by the community systems in which they are implemented. Drawing on complex systems thinking in public health research, this paper discusses the evaluation approach used for a UK community empowerment programme focused on disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It explores design choices and the tension between the overall enquiry questio…

  • A Rapid Review of Barriers to Volunteering for Potentially Disadvantaged Groups and Implications for Health Inequalities

    Open AccessKris Southby, Jane South et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2019

    Despite volunteering being a feature of community life in the UK, differences as to who volunteers are evident. Reporting on a rapid review of the evidence on volunteering and inequalities, the aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the breadth and interconnectedness of barriers to volunteering for potentially disadvantaged groups. Sixty-seven articles were identified, to produce a map of factors affecting volunteer participation. Finding…

  • Getting past the dual logic

    Open AccessJane South, Gianfranco Giuntoli et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2015Referencias: 4

    Asset-based approaches seek to identify and mobilise the personal, social and organisational resources available to communities. Asset mapping is a recognised method of gathering an inventory of neighbourhood assets and is underpinned by a fundamentally different logic to traditional needs assessments. The aim of this paper is to explore how asset mapping might be used as a tool for health improvement. It reports on a qualitative evaluation of a …

  • Towards a middle-range theory of mental health and well-being effects of employment transitions

    Open AccessGianfranco Giuntoli, Skye Hughes et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2015Referencias: 25

    This article builds upon previous theoretical work on job loss as a status passage to help explain how people's experiences of involuntary unemployment affected their mental well-being during the 2009-2010 economic recession. It proposes a middle-range theory that interprets employment transitions as status passages and suggests that their health and well-being effects depend on the personal and social meanings that people give to them, which are…

  • Control and choice in English prisons

    Open AccessJ Woodall, Rachael Dixey et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2014

    The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric has not translated across all prison environments. T…

  • Developing evidence for public health policy and practice

    Jane South, MIMA CATTANARTICLEEvidence & Policy2014Citada por: 4

    Effective knowledge translation processes are critical for the development of evidence-based public health policy and practice. This paper reports on the design and implementation of an innovative approach to knowledge translation within a mixed methods study on lay involvement in public health programme delivery. The study design drew on scientific and experiential knowledge, and included iterative feedback loops to ensure that lay and professio…

  • Evaluating community engagement as part of the public health system

    Jane South, Gemma PhillipsARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Citada por: 3Referencias: 32

    Community participation and leadership is a central tenet of public health policy and practice. Community engagement approaches are used in a variety of ways to facilitate participation, ranging from the more utilitarian, involving lay delivery of established health programmes, to more empowerment-oriented approaches. Evaluation methods within public health, adapted from clinical medicine, are most suited to evaluating community engagement as an …

  • Rewarding altruism

    Open AccessJane South, Martin E Purcell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Citada por: 6Referencias: 30

  • New, normative, English-sample data for the Short Form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4)

    Open AccessSheryl L Warttig, Mark Forshaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2013Citada por: 34Referencias: 33

    This article provides population norms for the Short Form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4) and investigates the relationship between PSS-4 scores and sociodemographic variables. The PSS-4 was administered to an English sample ( n = 1568) and was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Sociodemographic variables explained 19.5% of variance in PSS-4 scores, and mean PSS-4 scores were significantly different from the mean scores reported in …

  • 'Think differently and be prepared to demonstrate trust'

    Open AccessJane South, Angela Meah et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2012

    Professional support processes are critical for the establishment and maintenance of community health worker programmes. This paper reports on three public hearings held in England, UK, that were conducted as part of a national study into approaches to develop and support lay people in public health roles. Individuals with relevant theoretical or practical expertise, including lay activists, presented evidence in public as expert witnesses. Forma…

  • Prisoners’ perspectives on the transition from the prison to the community

    Open AccessJ Woodall, Rachael Dixey et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2012

    transition from the prison to the community: implications for settings-based health promotion Abstract Through qualitative exploration with soon-to-be-released men in three prisons in England, this paper examines the difficulties that prisoners envisage on returning back to community settings; entering other settings such as workplaces; and the implications the transition may have for their health.Interviews and focus groups were conducted with t…

  • The community health apprentices project – the outcomes of an intermediate labour market project in the community health sector

    Jane South, Katherine Jackson et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2011Citada por: 1

    This paper reports on the outcomes of the Community Health Apprentices Project, an intermediate labour market (ILM) project delivered in two neighbouring areas of Bradford, England. The project was illustrative of current UK policy in its attempt to both address unemployment and health inequalities. The aim of the paper is to improve understanding of the type and range of outcomes that can result from ILM projects based in the community health se…

  • Implementing a community-based self care training initiative

    Open AccessJane South, F J Darby et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2010Citada por: 4Referencias: 2

    Within the UK, there is growing recognition that individuals will need to take increased responsibility for managing their own health for there to be improvements in population health. The current evidence base on self care interventions reflects an interest in enhancing self care knowledge, skills and behaviour in relation to the management of long-term conditions. In contrast, this paper reports on a community-based self care initiative that wa…