J P Pell

Biographic Data

ID1880432
NAMEJ P Pell
GIVEN NAMESJ P
FAMILY NAMEPell
SIGNATUREPELL J P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Glasgow
ORCID0000-0002-8898-7035
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • How can we maximise the benefits of smoke-free prisons? Decision analytic model to predict potential impacts on public health

    Open AccessNicola McMeekin, Ashley Brown et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Tobacco smoking prevalence remains high in disadvantaged populations such as people in prison. Smokefree prisons protect health, however around 90% of people who smoke pre-prison, relapse to smoking shortly after release. If people released from smokefree prisons maintain smoking abstinence this could benefit their health and finances. Knock-on effects of smoking relapse on families could also be avoided. Offering an intervention to reduce relaps…

  • Concern about the health effects of climate change according to experiences of climate events

    Open AccessJonathan R Olsen, Claire L Niedzwiedz et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2025

    Australia and United Kingdom (UK) nationally representative surveys of 4,378 adults. • Adults reported climate event experiences and perceived health threats. • 60% of Australians reported experiencing a climate event in the past five years compared to 29% of UK residents. • Heatwaves were the most common experience in both countries. • Climate event experiences accounted for 23-35% of perceived climate health threats. Climate change is now recog…

  • Effect of comprehensive tobacco control policies on maternal and child outcomes

    Open AccessAizhan Kyzayeva, Martin Shaw et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2025

    Comprehensive tobacco control measures were associated with reduction in maternal smoking during pregnancy, pre-eclampsia and SGA, underscoring their potential to improve perinatal outcomes and supporting the global implementation of WHO-recommended tobacco-control strategies

  • Identifying the Biomarker Profile of Pre-Frail and Frail People

    Open AccessWenying Chu, Nathan Lynskey et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Several biomarkers were linked to pre-frailty and frailty. Nonetheless, some of the associations differed by sex. Our findings contribute to a broader understanding of the pathophysiology of frailty as currently defined

  • Understanding covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual disabilities in England

    Open AccessFilip Sosenko, Daniel Mackay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    People with ID should be considered a priority group in future pandemics, such as shielding and vaccinations

  • Age within schoolyear and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in Scotland and Wales

    Open AccessMichael Fleming, Amrita Bandyopadhyay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Children younger within schoolyear are more likely to be treated for ADHD, suggesting immaturity may influence diagnosis. However, these children are more likely to be held back in countries that permit flexibility, attenuating the relative age effect

  • Implementation of a national smoke-free prison policy

    Open AccessNicola McMeekin, Olivia Wu et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Implementing a smoke-free prison policy is cost-effective over the short term and long term for people in custody and staff

  • Development and optimisation of a multi-component workplace intervention to increase cycling for the Cycle Nation Project

    Open AccessHayley Connell, Greig Logan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2022References: 4

    The Cycle Nation Project (CNP) aimed to develop, test the feasibility of and optimize a multi-component individual-/social-level workplace-based intervention to increase cycling among office staff at a multinational bank (HSBC UK). To do this, we first explored barriers to cycling in a nationally-representative survey of UK adults, then undertook focus groups with bank employees to understand any context-specific barriers and ways in which these …

  • Do we need consent to obtain consent? Public and participant feedback to using personal health data for recruitment

    Open AccessClaire E Hastie, David J Lowe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022References: 2

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  • Covid-19 infection and outcomes in a population-based cohort of 17 203 adults with intellectual disabilities compared with the general population

    Open AccessAngela Henderson, Michael Fleming et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2022Cited by: 1References: 15

    BACKGROUND: Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) may be at higher risk of COVID-19 death. We compared COVID-19 infection, severe infection, mortality, case fatality and excess deaths, among adults with, and without, ID. METHODS: Adults with ID in Scotland's Census, 2011, and a 5% sample of other adults, were linked to COVID-19 test results, hospitalisation data and deaths (24 January 2020-15 August 2020). We report crude rates of COVID-19 i…

  • Occupation and risk of severe Covid-19

    Open AccessMiriam Mutambudzi, Claire L Niedzwiedz et al.ARTICLEOccupational and Environmental…2021

    OBJECTIVES: To investigate severe COVID-19 risk by occupational group. METHODS: Baseline UK Biobank data (2006-10) for England were linked to SARS-CoV-2 test results from Public Health England (16 March to 26 July 2020). Included participants were employed or self-employed at baseline, alive and aged <65 years in 2020. Poisson regression models were adjusted sequentially for baseline demographic, socioeconomic, work-related, health, and lifestyle…

  • Neonatal mortality rates, characteristics, and risk factors for neonatal deaths in Ghana

    Open AccessShadrach Dare, Abraham Oduro et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Reducing neonatal mortality rates (NMR) in developing countries is a key global health goal, but weak registration systems in the region stifle public health efforts. OBJECTIVE: To calculate NMRs, investigate modifiable risk factors, and explore neonatal deaths by place of birth and death, and cause of death in two administrative areas in Ghana. METHODS: Data on livebirths were extracted from the health and demographic surveillance sy…

  • Changes over 15 years in the contribution of adiposity and smoking to deaths in England and Scotland

    Open AccessFrederick K Ho, Carlos Celis-Morales et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Adiposity now accounts for more deaths in England and Scotland than smoking among people in middle- and old-age. National strategies to address adiposity should be a public health priority

  • Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in Sars-CoV-2 infection

    Open AccessClaire L Niedzwiedz, Catherine O’donnell et al.ARTICLEBMC Medicine2020

  • A methodology for small area prevalence estimation based on survey data

    Open AccessRegina Tomie Ivata Bernal, Quéren Hapuque de Carvalho et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    The present study identified differences in the profile of smokers by the IVS in the city of Belo Horizonte. While the smoking prevalence declined in richer areas, it remained high in poor areas. This methodology can be used to produce reliable estimates for subgroups with greater vulnerability in small areas and thus subsidize the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of public health policies and programmes aimed at smoking

  • Socio‐economic inequalities in rates of amenable mortality in Scotland

    Open AccessMegan McMinn, Rosie Seaman et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2020Cited by: 1References: 9

    Socio-economic inequalities in amenable mortality rates are increasing across Europe, which is an affront to universal healthcare systems where the numbers of, and inequalities in, amenable deaths should be minimal and declining over time. However, the fundamental causes theory proposes that inequalities in health will be largest across preventable causes, where unequally distributed resources can be used to gain an advantage. Information on indi…

  • Educational and health outcomes of children and adolescents receiving antiepileptic medication

    Open AccessMichael Fleming, Catherine A Fitton et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Children on antiepileptic medication fare worse than peers across educational and health outcomes. In order to reduce school absenteeism and mitigate its effects, children with epilepsy should receive integrated care from a multidisciplinary team that spans education and healthcare

  • Secondhand smoke exposure and risk of incident peripheral arterial disease and mortality

    Open AccessLiya Lu, Daniel F Mackay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    SHS exposure was independently associated with all-cause mortality and may be associated with PAD, but larger studies, or meta-analyses, are required to confirm the latter

  • Smoke-free legislation and paediatric hospitalisations for acute respiratory tract infections

    Jasper V Been, Daniel F Mackay et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2017

    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…

  • UK Biobank

    Open AccessCathie Sudlow, John Gallacher et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2015

    Cathie Sudlow and colleagues describe the UK Biobank, a large population-based prospective study, established to allow investigation of the genetic and non-genetic determinants of the diseases of middle and old age.

  • The Relationship Between Financial Distress and Life-Course Socioeconomic Inequalities in Well-Being

    Claire L Niedzwiedz, J P Pell et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Cited by: 5References: 34

    Objectives. We investigated to what extent current financial distress explains the relationship between life-course socioeconomic position and well-being in Southern, Scandinavian, Postcommunist, and Bismarckian welfare regimes. Methods. We analyzed individuals (n = 18 324) aged 50 to 75 years in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, 2006–2009. Well-being was measured with CASP-12 (which stands for control, autonomy, self-realiz…

  • Association between physical and mental health-related quality of life and adverse outcomes; a retrospective cohort study of 5,272 Scottish adults

    Open AccessZia Ul Haq, Zia Ul-Haq et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Physical HRQoL is a significant predictor of a range of adverse outcomes, even after adjustment for adiposity and other confounders. This study highlights the importance of perceived health in the general population

  • Heaviness, health and happiness

    Zia Ul-Haq, Daniel F Mackay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014References: 36

    BACKGROUND: Obesity is known to increase the risk of many diseases and reduce overall quality of life. This study examines the relationship with self-reported health (SRH) and happiness. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of the 163 066 UK Biobank participants who completed the happiness rating. The association between adiposity and SRH and happiness was examined using logistic regression. SRH was defined as good (excellent, good), or …

  • Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on overweight and obesity

    Open AccessDaniel F Mackay, Daniel Mackay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Whilst active smoking may be associated with reduced risk of being overweight among some older adults, there was no evidence to support the belief among young people that smoking protects them from weight gain. Making this point in educational campaigns targeted at young people may help to discourage them from starting to smoke

  • Cross-sectional study of ethnic differences in the utility of area deprivation measures to target socioeconomically deprived individuals

    Open AccessJessica Baker, Richard Mitchell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2013Cited by: 4References: 16