Ireneous Soyiri
Biographic Data
| ID | 107838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ireneous Soyiri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ireneous |
| FAMILY NAME | Soyiri |
| SIGNATURE | SOYIRI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull, Hull, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Online Interest for Electronic Cigarettes Using Google Trends in the UK
BACKGROUND: Google Trends provides an easily accessible and cost-effective method of providing real-time insight into user interest. OBJECTIVE: to address the gap in UK prevalence data for e-cigarettes by analyzing Google Trends to identify correlations with official data from Action on Smoking and Health. The study further evaluates Google Trend's sensitivity to real-time events and the ability for predictive models to forecast future data based…
Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections
Our prespecified ITS approach suggested that implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland was associated with an increase in paediatric RTI events. We were concerned that this result, which contradicted published evidence, was spurious. The association was indeed reversed when accounting for an unanticipated antecedent break point in the temporal trend, suggesting that the legislation may in fact be protective. ITS analyses should be subj…
Coming of age, becoming obese
The pattern of overweight and obesity in the 16-35 age group further highlights this as a significant period for changes in health-related behaviours. Further longitudinal research is however needed to confirm the observed pattern and investigate causal factors
Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district
Food taboos and traditional beliefs targeting pregnant women exist in Upper Manya Krobo. Pregnant women are forbidden from eating snails, rats, snakes, hot foods and animal lungs. To a large extent, socio-cultural, and to a lesser, health concerns motivate the practice
Cohorts and community
BACKGROUND: Community engagement is an increasingly important requirement of public health research and plays an important role in the informed consent and recruitment process. However, there is very little guidance about how it should be done, the indicators for assessing effectiveness of the community engagement process and the impact it has on recruitment, retention, and ultimately on the quality of the data collected as part of longitudinal c…
Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district
Food taboos and traditional beliefs targeting pregnant women exist in Upper Manya Krobo. Pregnant women are forbidden from eating snails, rats, snakes, hot foods and animal lungs. To a large extent, socio-cultural, and to a lesser, health concerns motivate the practice
Cohorts and community
BACKGROUND: Community engagement is an increasingly important requirement of public health research and plays an important role in the informed consent and recruitment process. However, there is very little guidance about how it should be done, the indicators for assessing effectiveness of the community engagement process and the impact it has on recruitment, retention, and ultimately on the quality of the data collected as part of longitudinal c…
Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district
Food taboos and traditional beliefs targeting pregnant women exist in Upper Manya Krobo. Pregnant women are forbidden from eating snails, rats, snakes, hot foods and animal lungs. To a large extent, socio-cultural, and to a lesser, health concerns motivate the practice
Coming of age, becoming obese
The pattern of overweight and obesity in the 16-35 age group further highlights this as a significant period for changes in health-related behaviours. Further longitudinal research is however needed to confirm the observed pattern and investigate causal factors
Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections
Our prespecified ITS approach suggested that implementation of smoke-free legislation in Scotland was associated with an increase in paediatric RTI events. We were concerned that this result, which contradicted published evidence, was spurious. The association was indeed reversed when accounting for an unanticipated antecedent break point in the temporal trend, suggesting that the legislation may in fact be protective. ITS analyses should be subj…
Online Interest for Electronic Cigarettes Using Google Trends in the UK
BACKGROUND: Google Trends provides an easily accessible and cost-effective method of providing real-time insight into user interest. OBJECTIVE: to address the gap in UK prevalence data for e-cigarettes by analyzing Google Trends to identify correlations with official data from Action on Smoking and Health. The study further evaluates Google Trend's sensitivity to real-time events and the ability for predictive models to forecast future data based…
Environmental health (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)