Stephen Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 149067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2551-9717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“That's All We Wanted, to Be Heard, Listened to, Just to Be Validated and Believed”
Understanding the limited effectiveness of a whole-school relationships and sexual-health programme
Previous trials of whole-school relationships and sexual-health programmes have not reported on fidelity, reach or acceptability, despite the importance of these factors for interpreting outcomes. Our trial of the Positive Choices whole-school relationships and sexual-health programme found limited effectiveness in secondary schools in England. We aimed to understand whether sub-optimal fidelity, reach or acceptability might explain the results. …
Methodological approach to evaluating the DreamBox Reading Plus intervention
Background Improving reading skills in primary school pupils is a crucial focus for educators, researchers, and policymakers worldwide. Within the United Kingdom many schools are opting to use “evidence-based” reading programs to deliver or supplement the teaching of reading. This article reports a protocol for a rigorous efficacy study of DreamBox Reading Plus, an online adaptive program aimed at improving reading fluency, comprehension, and voc…
Screening with Persuasion
The mechanisms by which a whole-school intervention might improve sexual health
Whole-school interventions go beyond classroom education, promoting health by modifying school environments. These can be effective in delaying sexual debut and increasing contraception use but mechanisms are poorly understood. Qualitative research within realist evaluation can explore mechanisms via building 'context-mechanism-outcome configurations', describing how interventions trigger mechanisms that interact with context to generate outcomes…
Understanding the Preferences and Considerations of the Public Towards Risk‐Stratified Screening for Colorectal Cancer
CONTEXT: Risk stratification has been suggested as a strategy for improving cancer screening. Any changes to existing programmes must be acceptable to the public. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the preferences and considerations of individuals relating to the introduction of different risk-based strategies to determine eligibility for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. STUDY DESIGN: Participants completed a discrete choice experiment (DCE…
The impact of having a carer on adult health and social care utilisation across five settings of care
INTRODUCTION: An estimated 6.8 million people are (informal) carers in the UK. The economic value of annual carer contributions is an estimated .·132bn. Reliance on carers appears to be increasing. There is mixed evidence on whether carers are substitutes for formal care. This study investigated the association between having a carer and service use patterns across five care settings when compared to a matched cohort without a carer. MATERIALS AN…
Is Morality Open to the Free Will Skeptic
The primary aim of this essay is to consider whether free will skeptics’ assertions of moral claims pertaining to human agents and their actions are consistent with the rejection of the kind of moral responsibility—namely, that which requires free will—that is espoused by virtually all of them. In order to address this issue, I will examine one of the most well-known and detailed defenses of morality by a free will skeptic; namely, that provided …
Child maltreatment and parental domestic violence and abuse, co-occurrence and the effect on lifetime outcomes in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
Exposure to child maltreatment (CM), and parental domestic violence and abuse (DVA), impose considerable adverse life outcomes in both the short and long term, yet, the extent and effects of their co-occurrence on outcomes have not been comprehensively quantified. This study describes the analysis of data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, quantifying the prevalence of CM, parental DVA, co-occurrence rates, and the impact o…
Feasibility and acceptability of an acceptance-based guided self-help programme for weight loss maintenance
Evidence use as sociomaterial practice? A qualitative study of decision-making on introducing service innovations in health care
A policy aspiration is that evidence should inform decision-making on introducing health service innovations. Internationally, innovation adoption has historically been slow and patchy. Three innovations in the English and Scottish National Health Service were analysed qualitatively: stroke service reconfiguration; revised national guidance on cancer referral; and ‘virtual’ glaucoma outpatient clinics. The authors identify three sociomaterial mec…
A community jury study exploring the public acceptability of using risk stratification to determine eligibility for cancer screening
INTRODUCTION: Using risk stratification to determine eligibility for cancer screening is likely to improve the efficiency of screening programmes by targeting resources towards those most likely to benefit. We aimed to explore the implications of this approach from a societal perspective by understanding public views on the most acceptable stratification strategies. METHODS: We conducted three online community juries with 9 or 10 participants in …
Associations with sub-optimal clinic attendance and reasons for missed appointments among heterosexual women and men living with HIV in London
Poor engagement in HIV care is associated with poorer health outcomes and increased mortality. Our survey examined experiential and circumstantial factors associated with clinic attendance among women (n = 250) and men (n = 106) in London with heterosexually-acquired HIV. While no associations were found for women, among men, sub-optimal attendance was associated with insecure immigration status (25.6% vs. 1.8%), unstable housing (32.6% vs. 10.2%…
Evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the ‘strengthening families, strengthening communities’ group-based parenting programme
Prospectively registered Randomised Controlled Trial ISRCTN15194500
Search, Information, and Prices
Consider a market with identical firms offering a homogeneous good. For any given ex ante distribution of the price count (the number of firms from which a consumer obtains a quote), we derive a tight upper bound on the equilibrium distribution of sales prices. The bound holds across all models of firms’ common-prior higher-order beliefs about the price count, including the extreme cases of full information and no information. One implication of …
The Emergency Prescription Assistance Program's (Epap)
Defining Coordinated Care for People with Rare Conditions
INTRODUCTION: To coordinate care effectively for rare conditions, we need to understand what coordinated care means. This review aimed to define coordinated care and identify components of coordinated care within the context of rare diseases; by drawing on evidence from chronic conditions. METHODS: A systematic scoping review. We included reviews that reported or defined and outlined components of coordinated care for chronic or rare conditions. …
Observational Implications of Non-Exponential Discounting
Dans cette note, nous donnons un exemple élémentaire avec une fonction d’utilité concave où la règle d’épargne essentiellement unique et consistante est discontinue ; une telle règle d’épargne ne peut pas survenir avec une fonction d’escompte exponentielle
Evaluation Research
Evaluation is the application of research methods in order to make judgments about policies, programs, or interventions with the aim of either determining or improving their effectiveness, and/or informing decisions about their future. Different types of evaluation include formative, summative, process, impact, and economic evaluation. A number of different movements or schools of evaluation can be distinguished, often favoring particular methods…
Improving the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis in low-resource settings through task sharing and decentralization
Background: Task sharing of TTE may improve capacity for heart failure diagnosis and management in patients in remote, low-resource settings but the impact on diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes has not been studied.Objectives: Determine feasibility and impact of non-expert training in transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) to improve the diagnosis and outcomes of patients with suspected heart failure in Uganda.Methods: This two-part study exa…
The people living with HIV stigma survey UK 2015
We aim to understand the difference in stigma and discrimination, in particular sexual rejection, experienced between gay and heterosexual men living with HIV in the UK. The People Living with HIV StigmaSurvey UK 2015 recruited a convenience sample of persons with HIV through over 120 cross sector community organisations and 46 HIV clinics to complete an online survey. 1162 men completed the survey, 969 (83%) gay men and 193 (17%) heterosexual me…
Improving the healthcare response to domestic violence and abuse in primary care
This is the first interrupted time series analysis of an intervention to improve the health care response to domestic violence. The findings will characterise the impact of IRIS implementation outside a trial setting and its suitability for national implementation in the United Kingdom
Laws and authority
Preferences for prenatal diagnosis of sickle‐cell disorder
BACKGROUND: Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) for sickle-cell disorder (SCD) is moving closer to implementation and studies considering stakeholder preferences are required to underpin strategies for offering NIPD in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE: Determine service user and provider preferences for key attributes of prenatal diagnostic tests for SCD and examine views on NIPD. METHOD: A questionnaire that includes a discrete choice experiment …
Information and Interaction
On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests
An important question in political economy concerns the form of transfers to special interests. The Chicago view is that political competition leads politicians to make such transfers efficiently. The Virginia position is that lack of information on the part of voters leads politicians to favor inefficient 'sneaky' methods of redistribution. This paper analyzes the form of transfers in a model of political competition in which politicians have in…
Political Correctness
An informed advisor wishes to convey her valuable information to an uninformed decision maker with identical preferences. Thus she has a current incentive to truthfully reveal her information. But if the decision maker thinks that the advisor might be biased in favor of one decision and the advisor does not wish to be thought to be biased, the advisor has a reputational incentive to lie. If the advisor is sufficiently concerned about her reputati…
Inequity and inequality in the use of health care in England
Indians in East Africa
HE people of the four territones of East Africa, Kenya, Tanganyika, | Uganda, and Zanzibar constitute a plural society . The population s is divided into African, Arab, European, Indian categories; and in a total population of just over I8,300,000, Africans number approximately I8,000,000, Arabs 7g,ooo, Europeans 50,ooo, and Indians I98,000. All these categories have widely different cultllral habits and languages, and regard one another as very …
Challenging the Values of Hunting
Socioeconomic variation in the impact of obesity on health-related quality of life
The contribution of smoking and obesity to income-related inequalities in health in England
Large-Scale Social Experimentation in Britain
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration programme is a major current welfare-to-work social experiment, the largest random allocation evaluation ever mounted in Great Britain. This article draws on experience gained in designing the ERA Demonstration to explore the strengths and limitations of social experimentation for policy evaluation and analysis. The focus of the discussion is on the reasons for the choice of random allo…
Income-related inequality in health and health-related behaviour
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found the socioeconomic gradient in health among adolescents to be lower than that observed during childhood and adulthood. The aim of this study was to examine income-related inequalities in health and health-related behaviour across the lifespan in England to explore 'equalisation' in adolescence. METHODS: We used five years of data (2006-2010) from the Health Survey for England to explore inequalities in six i…
Can regional resource shares be based only on prevalence data? An empirical investigation of the proportionality assumption
Increasing capacity of rural clients to access economic development programs
Recognizing the importance of a meaningful business visitation program as a mechanism to monitor the health of a business community, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has supported rural municipalities and organizations in their implementation of business retention and expansion (BRE) programs since 1998. Since that time, OMAFRA has provided support for over 240 community/volunteer-led projects, with more than …
The Scope of US National Park Service Archaeology at Home and Abroad
After the RCT
BACKGROUND: When implemented at scale, the impact on health and health inequalities of public health interventions depends on who receives them in addition to intervention effectiveness. METHODS: The MEND 7-13 (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it!) programme is a family-based weight management intervention for childhood overweight and obesity implemented at scale in the community. We compare the characteristics of children referred to the MEND prog…
Decomposing socio-economic inequality in colorectal cancer screening uptake in England
Indians in East Africa
HE people of the four territones of East Africa, Kenya, Tanganyika, | Uganda, and Zanzibar constitute a plural society . The population s is divided into African, Arab, European, Indian categories; and in a total population of just over I8,300,000, Africans number approximately I8,000,000, Arabs 7g,ooo, Europeans 50,ooo, and Indians I98,000. All these categories have widely different cultllral habits and languages, and regard one another as very …
Medvedev on stalinism
Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, Macmillan, New York, 1971, pp. 566 + Ixx, $17.95
The Distribution of Physician Extenders
As part of the Medicare Physician Extender Reimbursement Study, a mail survey was conducted of 5,572 physician extenders (PEs) to identify potential study participants. Analysis of survey results indicates that PEs are distributed disproportionately more often than physicians to primary care practices and to rural low income areas. However, there are substantial differences among types of PEs with regard to practice location and practice arrangem…
The Soviet Union and the Philippine Communist Movement
Soviet policy towards the Philippine communist movement has passed through three distinct phases, each of which reflected its different triangular set of relations with the United States and China. During the first era of Soviet and Chinese unity against “US imperialism,” the Soviets aided the formation and growth of Philippine communism and its insurrection against the Philippine government. During the second era of Soviet-Chinese-American trian…
Inflation dynamics and the parallel market for foreign exchange
Pinto (1990) in World Bank Economic Review 3, 321–338, showed that unification of official and ‘parallel’ market exchange rates may lead to an increase in steady-state inflation, because of the fiscal impact of real official exchange rate changes. This paper shows how this, and other comparative static and stability results in Pinto (1990), are reversed under the assumption that official exchange rate devaluation reduces money creation in the eco…
On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests
An important question in political economy concerns the form of transfers to special interests. The Chicago view is that political competition leads politicians to make such transfers efficiently. The Virginia position is that lack of information on the part of voters leads politicians to favor inefficient 'sneaky' methods of redistribution. This paper analyzes the form of transfers in a model of political competition in which politicians have in…
Policy Persistence
Brother Number One
Contagion
Each player in an infinite population interacts strategically with a finite subset of that population. Suppose each player's binary choice in each period is a best response to the population choices of the previous period. When can behaviour that is initially played by only a finite set of players spread to the whole population? This paper characterizes when such contagion is possible for arbitrary local interaction systems. Maximal contagion occ…
Political Correctness
An informed advisor wishes to convey her valuable information to an uninformed decision maker with identical preferences. Thus she has a current incentive to truthfully reveal her information. But if the decision maker thinks that the advisor might be biased in favor of one decision and the advisor does not wish to be thought to be biased, the advisor has a reputational incentive to lie. If the advisor is sufficiently concerned about her reputati…
Social Value of Public Information
What are the welfare effects of enhanced dissemination of public information through the media and disclosures by market participants with high public visibility? We examine the impact of public information in a setting where agents take actions appropriate to the underlying fundamentals, but they also have a coordination motive arising from a strategic complementarity in their actions. When the agents have no socially valuable private informatio…
Crusade Propaganda and Ideology
Surveying Freedom
Philosophers working in the nascent field of ‘experimental philosophy’ have begun using methods borrowed from psychology to collect data about folk intuitions concerning debates ranging from action theory to ethics to epistemology. In this paper we present the results of our attempts to apply this approach to the free will debate, in which philosophers on opposing sides claim that their view best accounts for and accords with folk intuitions. Aft…
Large-Scale Social Experimentation in Britain
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration programme is a major current welfare-to-work social experiment, the largest random allocation evaluation ever mounted in Great Britain. This article draws on experience gained in designing the ERA Demonstration to explore the strengths and limitations of social experimentation for policy evaluation and analysis. The focus of the discussion is on the reasons for the choice of random allo…
Inequity and inequality in the use of health care in England
The impact of obesity on employment
Mothers’ child support arrangements
This article examines the means through which parents make arrangements for the payment of child support. The chances of mothers obtaining private maintenance agreements, Child Support Agency (CSA) awards or no award are compared by examining a number of factors, including the characteristics of separated mothers and fathers. The analysis is based on data collected through the Families and Children Study. The results show that private agreements,…
Can regional resource shares be based only on prevalence data? An empirical investigation of the proportionality assumption
Socioeconomic variation in the impact of obesity on health-related quality of life
The contribution of smoking and obesity to income-related inequalities in health in England
Rationalizable implementation
Government Round-Up
Study protocol for the 10 Top Tips (10TT) Trial
ISRCTN16347068
Scoping the impact of the national child measurement programme feedback on the child obesity pathway
This study will provide the first large scale evaluation of the National Child Measurement Programme feedback. Findings from this evaluation will inform future planning of the National Child Measurement Programme
Factors Predicting Medicare National Coverage
BACKGROUND: Interventions considered to be particularly controversial or expected to significantly impact the Medicare program in the United States are considered in National Coverage Determinations. Medicare coverage for such interventions is limited to those deemed "reasonable and necessary" for the diagnosis or treatment of an illness or injury. What constitutes reasonable and necessary has not, however, been clearly defined. OBJECTIVE: To det…
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