Linda Heath
Biographic Data
| ID | 281068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Heath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Heath |
| SIGNATURE | HEATH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1628-1981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Evaluation of the experience of people referred under the NHS enhanced service incentive for obesity to the NHS digital weight management programme: A mixed method study
Background Internationally, guidelines recommend clinicians identify patients living with obesity and offer referral to weight management programmes, especially patients with related co-morbidities. In 2021, NHS England introduced the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme for people living with obesity and a diagnosis of hypertension or diabetes or both. The programme is offered at three levels of intensity with people triaged to the appropriat…
Conceptualising lifestyle “choices: ” A qualitative study of GP attitudes towards patients living with “obesity” in the UK
As a complex condition that often arises due to numerous social, environmental and political factors, “obesity” can be understood by healthcare providers as a health outcome that is directly linked to issues that are outside of individual control. UK GPs who participated in a series of focus groups examining attitudes about the role of individual responsibility in weight loss often demonstrated contradictory beliefs when asked about the relations…
Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory
Clinical trials have shown that providing advice and support for people with excess weight can lead to meaningful weight loss. Despite this evidence and guidelines endorsing this approach, provision in real-world clinical settings remains low. We used Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to understand why people are often not offered weight management advice in primary care in England. Data from policy, clinical practice and focus groups were analys…
Triangulation: Methodology
Impacts of humor and relevance on the remembering of lecture details
Although much previous research has been conducted on remembering humorous materials, only a few studies have examined how visual humorous examples relevant to lecture content enhance the recall and/or recognition of the lecture details. In addition, previous studies have produced conflicting results and have methodological limitations. The present study investigated the interactions between humor and relevance in recall and recognition performan…
Social Psychology of Politics
Preventive and punitive criminal justice policy support in Trinidad: The media’s role
An unresolved research question regarding crime and justice policy is the relationship between an individual’s media consumption and their support for punitive and preventive criminal justice policies. The relationship between media, crime, and justice is under-examined in countries other than the United States and Britain and the relationship between media and criminal justice policy support remains less than fully understood in all locales. In …
Theory and Research on Small Groups
The Social Psychology of Politics
Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Charges that the mass media create unwarranted levels of fear of crime are almost as old as the media themselves. Researchers entered the fray in large numbers in the 1960s, documenting the effects of television, newspapers, and movies on perceptions of crime and fear of criminal victimization. Recent developments in mass media, such as the rise in popularity of crime reenactment television programs, the access to more violence via cable, VCR, an…
Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology
Imitative violence in the real world: A reanalysis of homicide rates following championship prize fights
Recently, Phillips [Am Soc Rev, 1983; 48:560–568] reported that the homicide rate increases on the third day after heavyweight championship prize fights. The present paper reports a reanalysis of Phillips's data using more sophisticated statistical techniques and examining several theoretically important variables not discussed by Phillips or his critics. Using a conservative analysis strategy, our results suggest that the increases in homicides …
Dimensions of Television Violence
Family Violence, Television Viewing Habits, and Other Adolescent Experiences Related to Violent Criminal Behavior
This study employs multivariate analyses with retrospective self‐report data to assess the relative importance of certain childhood and adolescent experiences to the commission of violent crimes as an adult. Specifically, the relationship is examined between violent criminal behavior and exposure to family violence, exposure to television violence, school performance, other adolescent activities, and differential reinforcement for previous illega…
Television and Violent Criminal Behavior: Beyond the Bobo Doll
This study builds on the research concerning television viewing and aggression by extending the external validity, or generalizability, of the dependent variable. We assess the relationship between self-reported television viewing at 8, 10, and 12 years of age and the subsequent commission of a violent criminal act. This study is based on interview data from 48 males incarcerated for violent crimes and 45 nonincarcerated, nonviolent males matched…
Impact of newspaper crime reports on fear of crime: Multimethodological investigation
Impact of the introduction of television on crime in the United States: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Crime, Women, and the Quality of Urban Life
Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Charges that the mass media create unwarranted levels of fear of crime are almost as old as the media themselves. Researchers entered the fray in large numbers in the 1960s, documenting the effects of television, newspapers, and movies on perceptions of crime and fear of criminal victimization. Recent developments in mass media, such as the rise in popularity of crime reenactment television programs, the access to more violence via cable, VCR, an…
Impact of newspaper crime reports on fear of crime: Multimethodological investigation
Crime, Women, and the Quality of Urban Life
Family Violence, Television Viewing Habits, and Other Adolescent Experiences Related to Violent Criminal Behavior
This study employs multivariate analyses with retrospective self‐report data to assess the relative importance of certain childhood and adolescent experiences to the commission of violent crimes as an adult. Specifically, the relationship is examined between violent criminal behavior and exposure to family violence, exposure to television violence, school performance, other adolescent activities, and differential reinforcement for previous illega…
Television and Violent Criminal Behavior: Beyond the Bobo Doll
This study builds on the research concerning television viewing and aggression by extending the external validity, or generalizability, of the dependent variable. We assess the relationship between self-reported television viewing at 8, 10, and 12 years of age and the subsequent commission of a violent criminal act. This study is based on interview data from 48 males incarcerated for violent crimes and 45 nonincarcerated, nonviolent males matched…
Impact of the introduction of television on crime in the United States: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory
Clinical trials have shown that providing advice and support for people with excess weight can lead to meaningful weight loss. Despite this evidence and guidelines endorsing this approach, provision in real-world clinical settings remains low. We used Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to understand why people are often not offered weight management advice in primary care in England. Data from policy, clinical practice and focus groups were analys…
Impacts of humor and relevance on the remembering of lecture details
Although much previous research has been conducted on remembering humorous materials, only a few studies have examined how visual humorous examples relevant to lecture content enhance the recall and/or recognition of the lecture details. In addition, previous studies have produced conflicting results and have methodological limitations. The present study investigated the interactions between humor and relevance in recall and recognition performan…
Preventive and punitive criminal justice policy support in Trinidad: The media’s role
An unresolved research question regarding crime and justice policy is the relationship between an individual’s media consumption and their support for punitive and preventive criminal justice policies. The relationship between media, crime, and justice is under-examined in countries other than the United States and Britain and the relationship between media and criminal justice policy support remains less than fully understood in all locales. In …
Crime, Women, and the Quality of Urban Life
Impact of the introduction of television on crime in the United States: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Impact of newspaper crime reports on fear of crime: Multimethodological investigation
Dimensions of Television Violence
Family Violence, Television Viewing Habits, and Other Adolescent Experiences Related to Violent Criminal Behavior
This study employs multivariate analyses with retrospective self‐report data to assess the relative importance of certain childhood and adolescent experiences to the commission of violent crimes as an adult. Specifically, the relationship is examined between violent criminal behavior and exposure to family violence, exposure to television violence, school performance, other adolescent activities, and differential reinforcement for previous illega…
Television and Violent Criminal Behavior: Beyond the Bobo Doll
This study builds on the research concerning television viewing and aggression by extending the external validity, or generalizability, of the dependent variable. We assess the relationship between self-reported television viewing at 8, 10, and 12 years of age and the subsequent commission of a violent criminal act. This study is based on interview data from 48 males incarcerated for violent crimes and 45 nonincarcerated, nonviolent males matched…
Imitative violence in the real world: A reanalysis of homicide rates following championship prize fights
Recently, Phillips [Am Soc Rev, 1983; 48:560–568] reported that the homicide rate increases on the third day after heavyweight championship prize fights. The present paper reports a reanalysis of Phillips's data using more sophisticated statistical techniques and examining several theoretically important variables not discussed by Phillips or his critics. Using a conservative analysis strategy, our results suggest that the increases in homicides …
Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology
Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Charges that the mass media create unwarranted levels of fear of crime are almost as old as the media themselves. Researchers entered the fray in large numbers in the 1960s, documenting the effects of television, newspapers, and movies on perceptions of crime and fear of criminal victimization. Recent developments in mass media, such as the rise in popularity of crime reenactment television programs, the access to more violence via cable, VCR, an…
Theory and Research on Small Groups
The Social Psychology of Politics
Preventive and punitive criminal justice policy support in Trinidad: The media’s role
An unresolved research question regarding crime and justice policy is the relationship between an individual’s media consumption and their support for punitive and preventive criminal justice policies. The relationship between media, crime, and justice is under-examined in countries other than the United States and Britain and the relationship between media and criminal justice policy support remains less than fully understood in all locales. In …
Social Psychology of Politics
Impacts of humor and relevance on the remembering of lecture details
Although much previous research has been conducted on remembering humorous materials, only a few studies have examined how visual humorous examples relevant to lecture content enhance the recall and/or recognition of the lecture details. In addition, previous studies have produced conflicting results and have methodological limitations. The present study investigated the interactions between humor and relevance in recall and recognition performan…
Triangulation: Methodology
Conceptualising lifestyle “choices: ” A qualitative study of GP attitudes towards patients living with “obesity” in the UK
As a complex condition that often arises due to numerous social, environmental and political factors, “obesity” can be understood by healthcare providers as a health outcome that is directly linked to issues that are outside of individual control. UK GPs who participated in a series of focus groups examining attitudes about the role of individual responsibility in weight loss often demonstrated contradictory beliefs when asked about the relations…
Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory
Clinical trials have shown that providing advice and support for people with excess weight can lead to meaningful weight loss. Despite this evidence and guidelines endorsing this approach, provision in real-world clinical settings remains low. We used Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to understand why people are often not offered weight management advice in primary care in England. Data from policy, clinical practice and focus groups were analys…
Evaluation of the experience of people referred under the NHS enhanced service incentive for obesity to the NHS digital weight management programme: A mixed method study
Background Internationally, guidelines recommend clinicians identify patients living with obesity and offer referral to weight management programmes, especially patients with related co-morbidities. In 2021, NHS England introduced the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme for people living with obesity and a diagnosis of hypertension or diabetes or both. The programme is offered at three levels of intensity with people triaged to the appropriat…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Medical emergency (4 works)