Nicholas Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 1415606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Imperial College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4120-9727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience
Journal Article Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience Get access David M Foreman, David M Foreman † **Institute of Psychiatry & Isle of Man Govt. †Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nicky Best, Nicky Best ****GlaxoSmithKline and Imperial College, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Online appendix for
Evaluating the No Cold Calling Zones in Peterborough, England
Some police forces in the UK institute 'No Cold Calling' (NCC) zones to reduce cold callings (unsolicited visits to sell products or services), which are often associated with rogue trading and distraction burglary. This paper evaluates the NCC-targeted areas chosen in 2005-06 in Peterborough and reports whether they experienced a measurable impact on their burglary rates in the period up to 2008. Time-series data for burglary at the census outpu…
Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies
This study aims to review epidemiologic evidence of the association between exposure to chlorination disinfection by-products (DBPs) and congenital anomalies. All epidemiologic studies that evaluated a relationship between an index of DBP exposure and risk of congenital anomalies were analyzed. For all congenital anomalies combined, the meta-analysis gave a statistically significant excess risk for high versus low exposure to water chlorination o…
Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for Alri mortality among African children
BACKGROUND: Almost half of global child deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where three-quarters of the population cook with solid fuels. This study aims to quantify the impact of fuel type and cooking practices on childhood ALRI mortality in Africa, and to explore implications for public health interventions. METHODS: Early-release World Health Survey data for the year 2003 were pooled for 16 Afr…
Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes
Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies
There is currently much interest in conducting spatial analyses of health outcomes at the small-area scale. This requires sophisticated statistical techniques, usually involving Bayesian models, to smooth the underlying risk estimates because the data are typically sparse. However, questions have been raised about the performance of these models for recovering the "true" risk surface, about the influence of the prior structure specified, and abou…
Tracing ingestion of ‘novel’ foods in UK diets for possible health surveillance – a feasibility study
Objective: To investigate the feasibility of using commercially available data on household food consumption to carry out food and nutritional surveillance. Design: Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) collects information on foods brought home for consumption among a representative quota sample of the British population. In total, 33 177 households and 105 667 individuals provided data between 1991 and 2000. These were used to investigate sociodemographic…
Happy Valley
Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes
Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for Alri mortality among African children
BACKGROUND: Almost half of global child deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where three-quarters of the population cook with solid fuels. This study aims to quantify the impact of fuel type and cooking practices on childhood ALRI mortality in Africa, and to explore implications for public health interventions. METHODS: Early-release World Health Survey data for the year 2003 were pooled for 16 Afr…
Evaluating the No Cold Calling Zones in Peterborough, England
Some police forces in the UK institute 'No Cold Calling' (NCC) zones to reduce cold callings (unsolicited visits to sell products or services), which are often associated with rogue trading and distraction burglary. This paper evaluates the NCC-targeted areas chosen in 2005-06 in Peterborough and reports whether they experienced a measurable impact on their burglary rates in the period up to 2008. Time-series data for burglary at the census outpu…
Happy Valley
Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies
There is currently much interest in conducting spatial analyses of health outcomes at the small-area scale. This requires sophisticated statistical techniques, usually involving Bayesian models, to smooth the underlying risk estimates because the data are typically sparse. However, questions have been raised about the performance of these models for recovering the "true" risk surface, about the influence of the prior structure specified, and abou…
Tracing ingestion of ‘novel’ foods in UK diets for possible health surveillance – a feasibility study
Objective: To investigate the feasibility of using commercially available data on household food consumption to carry out food and nutritional surveillance. Design: Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) collects information on foods brought home for consumption among a representative quota sample of the British population. In total, 33 177 households and 105 667 individuals provided data between 1991 and 2000. These were used to investigate sociodemographic…
Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes
Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for Alri mortality among African children
BACKGROUND: Almost half of global child deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where three-quarters of the population cook with solid fuels. This study aims to quantify the impact of fuel type and cooking practices on childhood ALRI mortality in Africa, and to explore implications for public health interventions. METHODS: Early-release World Health Survey data for the year 2003 were pooled for 16 Afr…
Chlorination disinfection by-products in drinking water and congenital anomalies
This study aims to review epidemiologic evidence of the association between exposure to chlorination disinfection by-products (DBPs) and congenital anomalies. All epidemiologic studies that evaluated a relationship between an index of DBP exposure and risk of congenital anomalies were analyzed. For all congenital anomalies combined, the meta-analysis gave a statistically significant excess risk for high versus low exposure to water chlorination o…
Evaluating the No Cold Calling Zones in Peterborough, England
Some police forces in the UK institute 'No Cold Calling' (NCC) zones to reduce cold callings (unsolicited visits to sell products or services), which are often associated with rogue trading and distraction burglary. This paper evaluates the NCC-targeted areas chosen in 2005-06 in Peterborough and reports whether they experienced a measurable impact on their burglary rates in the period up to 2008. Time-series data for burglary at the census outpu…
Online appendix for
Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience
Journal Article Improving Child Protection by Integrating Research Evidence and Clinical Experience Get access David M Foreman, David M Foreman † **Institute of Psychiatry & Isle of Man Govt. †Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nicky Best, Nicky Best ****GlaxoSmithKline and Imperial College, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Environmental health (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bayesian probability (2 works) · Confidence interval (2 works)