Frank De Vocht

Datos Biográficos

ID1742591
NOMBREFrank De Vocht
NOMBRESFrank
APELLIDODe Vocht
FIRMADE VOCHT F
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0000-0003-3631-627X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAS19
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Harms and Health Inequalities in the Night-Time Economy

    Open AccessPaige M Hulls, Michael P Daly et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2026

    Goods and services consumed in the night-time economy (NTE) are associated with adverse health outcomes. These outcomes are more prevalent in areas with greater deprivation and among minoritized population subgroups. This study was aimed at exploring the views of local authority stakeholders on the harms and health inequalities in the NTE. We focused on inequalities from alcohol and gambling, their relationship with the NTE and how different form…

  • Primary school physical activity culture in the UK

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Lydia Emm-Collison et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: Physical activity is fundamental for children's health and well-being, yet most children are not active enough. School-based interventions aiming to increase children's physical activity have largely been ineffective, perhaps due to a lack of consideration of the unique culture within each school. The aim of this paper is to understand the key aspects of physical activity culture in English primary schools using the organizational c…

  • Community‐Led Adaptation, Weather Extremes, and Health and Wellbeing

    Open AccessAnna Cronin De Chavez, Lee Towers et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2026

    Community‐led action is of increasing interest for policy, local government, and the design of adaptation under a changing climate. Previous research has shown how community‐led responses to climate impacts, such as flooding and heat, can be important in mitigating their ill health and wellbeing effects. But the evidence base on the character and nature of such actions by communities is at present scattered. In this paper, we review the internati…

  • ‘Very’ selective licensing – An exploration of English local authorities’ adoption of a discretionary landlord licensing scheme, 2006-2019

    Open AccessJakob Petersen, Alexandros Alexiou et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2026

    Since 2006 English Local Authorities (LA) have had discretionary powers to implement a type of landlord licensing scheme, Selective Licensing (SL), in the private rental sector. The scheme is intended to improve housing standards in areas marked by antisocial behaviour, poor housing conditions, low housing demand, and high levels of migration, deprivation, and crime. Yet up to 2019, only 15% of LA had adopted SL. We examine temporal, socio-econom…

  • Opportunities and challenges in community-led action on weather extremes for health and wellbeing

    Open AccessLee Towers, Anna Cronin De Chavez et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026

    Communities play critical roles in mitigating health and wellbeing impacts from weather extremes such as heat, cold and flood events. Community-led actions in affected localities have been shown to be an important part of effective planning and response, particularly in supporting socially and economically marginalised populations. They have also been suggested to face multiple challenges limiting their ability to ensure continuity, scale up, and…

  • Electrohypersensitivity

    Open AccessFrank De Vocht, Martin RöösliARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Electrohypersensitivity (EHS), or idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF), is a condition with fluid and transient symptoms associated to exposure to non-ionizing radiation by people claiming to suffer from it. However, the scientific evidence linking the exposure to the reported effects to datwe has eluded researchers, and may not even exist. In the current perspective we outline what is objectively kn…

  • Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – findings from online system mapping workshops with adolescents, policymakers and public health pra…

    Open AccessYanaina Chavez-Ugalde, Frank De Vocht et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study highlights the need for public health policymaking processes to provide youth with a space to voice influential elements and consequences, thereby co-creating policies and designing interventions to buffer risk factors and increase well-being in this critical transitional stage

  • A qualitative exploration of community kitchens to reduce household food waste as a public health intervention

    Open AccessChina Harrison, China R Harrison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    A refocus of the community kitchens as a scheme to provide social benefits, is likely to improve the scheme's reach and subsequent contribution to the health and wellbeing of socially isolated individuals

  • We just have to work with what we’ve got”

    Open AccessDanielle House, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The presence of facilities or resources alone does not determine pupil physical activity at primary school. Factors such as the social context of the school, logistical and timetabling challenges, seasonality, and how fit for purpose facilities are for that school, are important factors in school staff and pupils' use and management of these facilities, and whether their potential is maximised or undermined. Future research and policy must broade…

  • The complexity of promoting physical activity in English state primary schools

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Revisions to school regulatory systems and policies are needed to enable schools to prioritise physical activity so it is not dependent on "passionate" individuals. Senior leadership plays a key role in prioritising physical activity in the high pressure state primary school environment. It is important that practitioners and researchers consider these diverse and challenging social contextual factors within English state primary schools in inter…

  • Designing context-specific physical activity interventions for English primary schools

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study underscores the importance of context-specific approaches to promoting physical activity in primary schools. Context-specific intervention design should closely consider school context to ensure strategies are appropriate. Intervention designs should also include steps to understand different stakeholder goals, PTA funding disparities, and the appropriate areas of physical activity to target

  • The Value in Rapid, Multi-Site Team Ethnography for Understanding Context to Design Public Health Interventions

    Open AccessDanielle House, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referencias: 66

    Low levels of physical activity is a global public health challenge, and children are not taking part in recommended amounts of physical activity. To date, the majority of school-based physical activity interventions have not yielded increases in pupils’ physical activity levels, and it is suggested that this is partly due to traditional intervention approaches ignoring the role of individual school context. By context we mean the school setting,…

  • A synthesis of explanations for spatial inequalities in gambling harm

    Open AccessKatie Powell, Laura Fenton et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025Referencias: 2

    Place matters for understanding patterns of gambling harm as shown by the spatial clustering of both 'vulnerable' people and gambling outlets. Harms are experienced at a community level (and never restricted to individuals) and are spread unequally across communities of place. Following the liberalisation of gambling laws in the UK in the 1990s, gambling outlets and advertising have proliferated in many economically disadvantaged places, with the…

  • Physical activity interventions in European primary schools

    Open AccessAlice Porter, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Schools provide a unique environment to facilitate physical activity for children. However, many school-based physical activity interventions have not been effective. We propose a new approach, which allows schools to tailor interventions to their specific context. This scoping review aimed to identify intervention components from previous school-based physical activity interventions to form the basis of a tailored approach in a Eur…

  • Commentary

    Open AccessFrank De Vocht, Patricia AlbersARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

  • Perceived impacts of a school-based growth mindset programme ‘Mindset Teams’ in Scotland

    Open AccessKelly Morgan, Hayley Reed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Findings provide support for Mindset programmes focusing on the development of teachers' mindsets, highlighting the resultant perceived impacts this can have on both teachers and pupils alike. Future research should seek to capture health and wellbeing measures alongside attainment data to fully explore programme impacts

  • Natural experiments for the evaluation of place-based public health interventions

    Open AccessPatricia N Albers, Chiara Rinaldi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction Place-based public health evaluations are increasingly making use of natural experiments. This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the design and use of natural experiment evaluations (NEEs), and an assessment of the plausibility of the as-if randomization assumption. Methods A systematic search of three bibliographic databases (Pubmed, Web of Science and Ovid-Medline) was conducted in January 2020 to capture publications …

  • Rethinking children’s physical activity interventions at school

    Open AccessRussell Jago, Ruth Salway et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Physical activity is important for children’s health. However, evidence suggests that many children and adults do not meet international physical activity recommendations. Current school-based interventions have had limited effect on physical activity and alternative approaches are needed. Context, which includes school setting, ethos, staff, and sociodemographic factors, is a key and largely ignored contributing factor to school-based physical a…

  • Typology of how ‘harmful commodity industries’ interact with local governments in England

    Open AccessSarah McKevitt, Martin White et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Industries that produce and market potentially harmful commodities or services (eg, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, less healthy foods and beverages) are a major influence on the drivers of behavioural risk factors for non-communicable diseases. The nature and impact of interactions between public bodies and 'harmful commodity industries' (HCIs) has been widely recognised and discussed at national and international levels, but to date l…

  • The new normal for children’s physical activity and screen viewing

    Open AccessRobert Walker, Danielle House et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    There is a new normal for children's physical activity that is characterised by increased dependence on structured and organised physical activities, such as active clubs, and less on unstructured and spontaneous physical activities, such as physical play. While this may suit many children, girls and children from lower socio-economic households face barriers to participating in the new normal. It is important that affordable and equitable opport…

  • Assessing exposure to outdoor advertisement for products high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS); is self-reported exposure a useful exposure metric

    Open AccessLauren J Scott, Zoi Toumpakari et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Self-reported outdoor advertisement exposure is correlated with measured exposure, making this a useful methodology for population studies. It has the added advantage that it correlates with consumption. However, given that measurement error can be significant and self-reported exposure is known to be susceptible to various biases, inferences from studies using this exposure metric should be made with caution

  • Implementing a regional School Health Research Network in England to improve adolescent health and well-being, a qualitative process evaluation

    Open AccessEmily Widnall, Lorna Hatch et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This study identifies several barriers to be addressed and facilitators to be enhanced in order to achieve successful implementation of School Health Research Networks in England which include providing a unique offering to schools that is not too burdensome, supporting schools to take meaningful action with their data and to work closely with existing organisations, services and providers to become meaningfully embedded in the system

  • Advertisement of unhealthy commodities in Bristol and South Gloucestershire and rationale for a new advertisement policy

    Open AccessLauren J Scott, James Nobles et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Unhealthy product advertisements, particularly for unhealthy food and drinks, were observed more by younger people and those living in more deprived areas. Policies that specifically restrict such advertisements, therefore, have the potential to reduce health inequalities, as was the hope when this policy was developed. Future evaluation of the policy will provide evidence of any public health impact

  • Screen-viewing behaviours of children before and after the 2020–21 Covid-19 lockdowns in the UK

    Open AccessRuth Salway, Robert Walker et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Although screen-viewing was higher post-lockdown compared to pre-COVID-19, the high increases reported during lockdowns were not, on average, sustained post-lockdown. This may be attributed to a combination of short-term fluctuations during periods of strict restrictions, parental support in regulating post-lockdown behaviour and age-related, rather than COVID-19-specific, increases in screen-viewing. However, socio-economic differences in our sa…

  • Using systems thinking to understand how the South West - School Health Research Network can improve adolescent health and well-being

    Open AccessEmily Widnall, Patricia N Albers et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Schools offer a valuable setting to promote good health and mental well-being amongst young people. Schools are complex systems and therefore systems interventions are needed to improve pupil health and well-being. This paper presents a qualitative process evaluation of the South West- School Health Research Network, a systems level intervention. The evaluation is based on interviews with school staff, local authorities and wider stakeholders. Gi…