Louise Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5188-8113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Razones Que Llevan a Un Uso Crónico De Benzodiazepinas
Youth Perspectives on the Effects of a Family-centered Media Literacy Intervention to Encourage Healthier Eating
A pretest-posttest field test with control group (N = 189 parent-child dyads) tested a structural model representing youths' (ages 9-14) perspectives to examine the efficacy of a family-centered, media literacy-oriented intervention promoting fruit and vegetable consumption. The intervention facilitated critical discussion about nutrition and media, mentored by the parent. Results showed that youths' increases in fruit and vegetable consumption f…
Perceived Changes in Social Connectedness Across the Life Course
Social connection is important across the life course, but overall levels have been declining. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique context to examine social connectedness and adaptive capacity in times of social adversity. We used a parallel mixed method design to collect online survey data from a representative U.S. sample (N = 359). Applying an exploratory sequential approach, we used a general linear model multivariate approach to repeate…
The learning experiences of UK autistic university students during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study explored the learning experiences of autistic university students in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, covering the period from the first lockdown in March 2020 to the removal of restrictions in July 2021 and the subsequent return to in-person learning. Data were generated from 17 participants using an online qualitative survey and were analysed with reflexive thematic analysis. We developed an overarching theme of ‘change impacts l…
The association between physical activity and self-rated health in Atlantic Canadians
The population of Atlantic Canada is aging rapidly and has among the highest rates of chronic disease in the country. This cross-sectional study drew data from the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (Atlantic PATH) study to investigate the association between physical activity and self-rated health among adults in this population. The results suggest that physical activity is associated with and may help to improve perceived health status…
Health Behaviors at the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives: We examined perceived behavior change since implementation of physical distancing restrictions and identified modifiable (self-rated health, resilience, depressive symptoms, social support and subjective wellbeing) and non-modifiable (demographics) risk/protective factors. Methods: A representative US sample (N = 362) completed an online survey about potential risk/protective factors and health behaviors prior to the pandemic and afte…
Evaluation of a Program to Help Low-Income, Latina Mothers Help Their Children Cope With Stress
Rural‐Urban Disparities in Total Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Related Health Indicators
PURPOSE: To describe and compare the sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics of urban and rural residents in Atlantic Canada. METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses of baseline data from the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health cohort were conducted. Specifically, 17,054 adults (35-69 years) who provided sociodemographic characteristics, measures of obesity, and a record of chronic disease and health behaviors were included in the analyse…
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) – a Pan Canadian cohort study
CAHHM is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the impact of community level factors, individual health behaviours, and access to health services, on cognitive function, subclinical vascular disease, fat distribution, and the development of chronic diseases among adults living in Canada
Small-area spatio-temporal analyses of bladder and kidney cancer risk in Nova Scotia, Canada
Modelling the spatio-temporal distribution of disease risk enabled the quantification of risk relative to expected background levels and the identification of high risk areas. It also permitted the determination of the relative stability of the observed patterns over time and in this study, pointed to excess risk potentially driven by exposure to risk factors that act in a sustained manner over time
Premature mortality due to social and material deprivation in Nova Scotia, Canada
Socioeconomic deprivation is an important determinant of health equity and affects every segment of the population. Deprivation accounted for 40% of premature deaths. The 4.3% of the study population living in extreme levels of socioeconomic deprivation experienced a twofold increased risk of dying prematurely. Nationally, this inequitable risk could translate into a significant public health burden
Youth health care utilization in Nova Scotia
No improvement in socioeconomic inequalities in birthweight and preterm birth over four decades
Socioeconomic inequalities did not narrow over the four decades for birthweight and widened for preterm birth. Mean birthweight adjusted for gestational age increased in all socioeconomic groups, suggesting an overall increase in fetal growth
Immunization Completeness of Children Under Two Years of Age in Nova Scotia, Canada
The epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents revisited
The influence of childhood IQ and education on social mobility in the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort
As upward social mobility has been associated with better health as well as more general benefits to society, supportive measures to improve childhood circumstances that could result in increased IQ and educational attainment may have long-term population health and wellbeing benefits
O5-6.4 Lifecourse predictors of physical activity at age 50 years
Introduction Beneficial effects of physical activity (PA) on health are well known, but limited evidence exists for lifecourse factors that may influence physical activity levels in adulthood. Our aim was to investigate the relative contributions of a range of factors from across life to variations in PA levels in the Newcastle 1000 Families Study. Methods Detailed information was collected prospectively during childhood. At age 50 years, 574 stu…
P1-491 Socio-economic variation in the use of ct scans in young people in the North of England, 1990–2002
Introduction Social patterning is known to influence health throughout life. In childhood, studies have shown increased injury rates in more deprived settings. Through this, it is also possible that socio-economic status may be related to rates of undergoing certain medical procedures with relatively high radiation doses, such as computed tomography (CT) scans. This study aimed to assess socio-economic variation among young people having CT scans…
P2-304 Childhood infectious diseases and premature adult mortality
Introduction Early life infections may negatively influence health in later life, but there have been few studies of the association, due to the difficulty of obtaining adequate information from throughout life. This study utilised longitudinal data from the Newcastle Thousand Families Study, a prospective cohort of 1147 individuals born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) in 1947, to assess the impact of various childhood infectious diseases on mortalit…
Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations
characteristics interact so that combinations of factors carry cumulative risk for CVD? (iii) are associations explained by early life predictors of CVD risk.Design: Birth cohort.Setting: England, Scotland and Wales.Participants: 7916 men and women in the 1958 British birth cohort who were in paid employment at 45 y.Main Outcome Measures: Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), blood pressure (BP), triglycerides, total and high density l…
Institutionalising science‐based practices in children's services
Over the past 30 years, researchers have documented effective, theory‐based programmes and practices that improve the health and well‐being of children. In order to produce measurable improvements in public health, such practices must be institutionalised; however, there are a number of barriers to translating what we know from science to what we do in practice. In the present article, we discuss a number of those barriers, including: cultural di…
Folic acid supplementation and social deprivation
Objective To assess the use of folic acid supplementation in relation to small-area measures of social deprivation. Design Cohort study. Setting Antenatal clinic, Women's Outpatients Services, Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, UK. Subjects Four hundred and fifty women attending their 18-week antenatal clinic appointment. No selection criteria were applied. Townsend scores were allocated using postcodes to provide a small-area measure (enumeration d…
Lifecourse study of bone health at age 49–51 years
Objective: To quantify the direct and indirect effects of fetal (position in family, weight, and social class at birth), childhood (breast feeding, growth, infections, and social class in childhood, age at menarche), and adult life (social class, alcohol consumption, smoking, diet, reproductive history, exercise, hormone replacement therapy use), and adult size (height, weight) on bone health at age 49–51 years, as measured by bone mineral densit…
Social mobility over the lifecourse and self reported mental health at age 50
Study objective: To investigate the effect of socioeconomic status throughout the lifecourse on self reported mental health at age 50 years. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Community setting in Newcastle upon Tyne, north east England. Participants: 503 subjects from a birth cohort assembled in 1947 who completed the 28 item version of the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Main results: There was an association between socioeconomic…
Social mobility over the lifecourse and self reported mental health at age 50
Study objective: To investigate the effect of socioeconomic status throughout the lifecourse on self reported mental health at age 50 years. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Community setting in Newcastle upon Tyne, north east England. Participants: 503 subjects from a birth cohort assembled in 1947 who completed the 28 item version of the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Main results: There was an association between socioeconomic…
The sex ratio of children in relation to paternal preconceptional radiation dose
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the occupational exposure to external ionising radiation of men employed at the Sellafield nuclear installation, West Cumbria, affects the sex of the children they subsequently father. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study using logistic regression to analyse the sex ratio, in particular in relation to paternal preconceptional irradiation. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The 260,060 singleton births between 1950 a…
Why is the sex ratio falling in England and Wales
Geographical variation in coronary revascularisationrates Sir -I found the paper by Black et all on the geographical variation in coronary re- vascularisation rates extremely interesting.This is a vital area if the NHS is to try to achieve a more equitable service.I am impressed by the tremendous size of the study embarked upon to investigate these variations and the wealth of information available for analysis.The authors report a negative corre…
Life course measures of socioeconomic position and self reported health at age 50
There is evidence that premature mortality is predicted by both cumulative1 and pathway measures of life course socioeconomic position (SEP).2 However, no work to date has investigated the relation between life course SEP and self reported health around age 50. We assessed the association between self reported limiting longstanding illness (LLSI) at age 50 and both cross sectional and life course measures of SEP. The Newcastle thousand families s…
Lifecourse study of bone health at age 49–51 years
Objective: To quantify the direct and indirect effects of fetal (position in family, weight, and social class at birth), childhood (breast feeding, growth, infections, and social class in childhood, age at menarche), and adult life (social class, alcohol consumption, smoking, diet, reproductive history, exercise, hormone replacement therapy use), and adult size (height, weight) on bone health at age 49–51 years, as measured by bone mineral densit…
Immunization Completeness of Children Under Two Years of Age in Nova Scotia, Canada
Cancer in young people in the north of England, 1968-85
OBJECTIVE--To determine whether the seeming excess of childhood leukaemia and lymphoma identified in Seascale, Cumbria, UK, remains unusual when put into a wider context. DESIGN--Analysis of cancer incidence by geographical area. SETTING--The north of England including the Northern and North Western Regional Health Authority regions and the Southport and South Sefton districts of the Mersey Regional Health Authority. SUBJECTS--Altogether 6686 cas…
Estimating the Population of Young People by Ethnic Group in the Northern Region of England, 1971-91
We estimate the numbers of young people aged 0-24 years, resident in the Northern Region in 1971, 1981, and 1991 by ethnic group, age, sex, and birth place (inside-outside the United Kingdom). In 1991 the numbers of residents by ethnic group, age, and sex were obtained from the census and adjusted for underenumeration; the numbers born inside and outside the United Kingdom were estimated from the 1991 Census Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR). In…
Audit of ascertainment of deaths to children born in Cumbria, UK, 1950-89 through the NHS central register
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the completeness of notification of deaths by the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) for England and Wales. DESIGN: Deaths for a birth cohort were ascertained through scanning the relevant volumes of NHSCR. Attempts were made to confirm these deaths and additional deaths were ascertained through searching local records. Logistic regression was used to investigate how the probability of a death being miss…
Cancer in young people in the north of England, 1968-85
OBJECTIVE--To determine whether the seeming excess of childhood leukaemia and lymphoma identified in Seascale, Cumbria, UK, remains unusual when put into a wider context. DESIGN--Analysis of cancer incidence by geographical area. SETTING--The north of England including the Northern and North Western Regional Health Authority regions and the Southport and South Sefton districts of the Mersey Regional Health Authority. SUBJECTS--Altogether 6686 cas…
The sex ratio of children in relation to paternal preconceptional radiation dose
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the occupational exposure to external ionising radiation of men employed at the Sellafield nuclear installation, West Cumbria, affects the sex of the children they subsequently father. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study using logistic regression to analyse the sex ratio, in particular in relation to paternal preconceptional irradiation. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The 260,060 singleton births between 1950 a…
Why is the sex ratio falling in England and Wales
Geographical variation in coronary revascularisationrates Sir -I found the paper by Black et all on the geographical variation in coronary re- vascularisation rates extremely interesting.This is a vital area if the NHS is to try to achieve a more equitable service.I am impressed by the tremendous size of the study embarked upon to investigate these variations and the wealth of information available for analysis.The authors report a negative corre…
Birds
In Birds Aristophanes seems to have set out to dazzle his audience with a display of metrical and musical virtuosity. Here, in consequence, we face most painfully our inability to appreciate what he was doing, except theoretically and intellectually. The repeated use of certain rhythms with structural and thematic functions, which is so common a feature of Aristophanes’ plays, is absent here.
Thesmophoriazusae
Birds and points forward to Frogs. Parts of the play are marked by the predominance, or significant presence, of particular metres. Again, however, Tkesm. differs from Lys. in that changes of metre seem to have little structural function. Choice of metre reflects subject-mattter: trochaic for comment, dochmiacs for emotion, etc.
Decline in sex ratios at birth, England and Wales, 1973-90
Audit of ascertainment of deaths to children born in Cumbria, UK, 1950-89 through the NHS central register
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the completeness of notification of deaths by the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) for England and Wales. DESIGN: Deaths for a birth cohort were ascertained through scanning the relevant volumes of NHSCR. Attempts were made to confirm these deaths and additional deaths were ascertained through searching local records. Logistic regression was used to investigate how the probability of a death being miss…
Estimating the Population of Young People by Ethnic Group in the Northern Region of England, 1971-91
We estimate the numbers of young people aged 0-24 years, resident in the Northern Region in 1971, 1981, and 1991 by ethnic group, age, sex, and birth place (inside-outside the United Kingdom). In 1991 the numbers of residents by ethnic group, age, and sex were obtained from the census and adjusted for underenumeration; the numbers born inside and outside the United Kingdom were estimated from the 1991 Census Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR). In…
Life course measures of socioeconomic position and self reported health at age 50
There is evidence that premature mortality is predicted by both cumulative1 and pathway measures of life course socioeconomic position (SEP).2 However, no work to date has investigated the relation between life course SEP and self reported health around age 50. We assessed the association between self reported limiting longstanding illness (LLSI) at age 50 and both cross sectional and life course measures of SEP. The Newcastle thousand families s…
Folic acid supplementation and social deprivation
Objective To assess the use of folic acid supplementation in relation to small-area measures of social deprivation. Design Cohort study. Setting Antenatal clinic, Women's Outpatients Services, Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, UK. Subjects Four hundred and fifty women attending their 18-week antenatal clinic appointment. No selection criteria were applied. Townsend scores were allocated using postcodes to provide a small-area measure (enumeration d…
Lifecourse study of bone health at age 49–51 years
Objective: To quantify the direct and indirect effects of fetal (position in family, weight, and social class at birth), childhood (breast feeding, growth, infections, and social class in childhood, age at menarche), and adult life (social class, alcohol consumption, smoking, diet, reproductive history, exercise, hormone replacement therapy use), and adult size (height, weight) on bone health at age 49–51 years, as measured by bone mineral densit…
Social mobility over the lifecourse and self reported mental health at age 50
Study objective: To investigate the effect of socioeconomic status throughout the lifecourse on self reported mental health at age 50 years. Design: Prospective cohort study Setting: Community setting in Newcastle upon Tyne, north east England. Participants: 503 subjects from a birth cohort assembled in 1947 who completed the 28 item version of the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Main results: There was an association between socioeconomic…
Institutionalising science‐based practices in children's services
Over the past 30 years, researchers have documented effective, theory‐based programmes and practices that improve the health and well‐being of children. In order to produce measurable improvements in public health, such practices must be institutionalised; however, there are a number of barriers to translating what we know from science to what we do in practice. In the present article, we discuss a number of those barriers, including: cultural di…
Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations
characteristics interact so that combinations of factors carry cumulative risk for CVD? (iii) are associations explained by early life predictors of CVD risk.Design: Birth cohort.Setting: England, Scotland and Wales.Participants: 7916 men and women in the 1958 British birth cohort who were in paid employment at 45 y.Main Outcome Measures: Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), blood pressure (BP), triglycerides, total and high density l…
The epidemiology of chronic pain in children and adolescents revisited
The influence of childhood IQ and education on social mobility in the Newcastle Thousand Families birth cohort
As upward social mobility has been associated with better health as well as more general benefits to society, supportive measures to improve childhood circumstances that could result in increased IQ and educational attainment may have long-term population health and wellbeing benefits
O5-6.4 Lifecourse predictors of physical activity at age 50 years
Introduction Beneficial effects of physical activity (PA) on health are well known, but limited evidence exists for lifecourse factors that may influence physical activity levels in adulthood. Our aim was to investigate the relative contributions of a range of factors from across life to variations in PA levels in the Newcastle 1000 Families Study. Methods Detailed information was collected prospectively during childhood. At age 50 years, 574 stu…
P1-491 Socio-economic variation in the use of ct scans in young people in the North of England, 1990–2002
Introduction Social patterning is known to influence health throughout life. In childhood, studies have shown increased injury rates in more deprived settings. Through this, it is also possible that socio-economic status may be related to rates of undergoing certain medical procedures with relatively high radiation doses, such as computed tomography (CT) scans. This study aimed to assess socio-economic variation among young people having CT scans…
P2-304 Childhood infectious diseases and premature adult mortality
Introduction Early life infections may negatively influence health in later life, but there have been few studies of the association, due to the difficulty of obtaining adequate information from throughout life. This study utilised longitudinal data from the Newcastle Thousand Families Study, a prospective cohort of 1147 individuals born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) in 1947, to assess the impact of various childhood infectious diseases on mortalit…
Immunization Completeness of Children Under Two Years of Age in Nova Scotia, Canada
No improvement in socioeconomic inequalities in birthweight and preterm birth over four decades
Socioeconomic inequalities did not narrow over the four decades for birthweight and widened for preterm birth. Mean birthweight adjusted for gestational age increased in all socioeconomic groups, suggesting an overall increase in fetal growth
Premature mortality due to social and material deprivation in Nova Scotia, Canada
Socioeconomic deprivation is an important determinant of health equity and affects every segment of the population. Deprivation accounted for 40% of premature deaths. The 4.3% of the study population living in extreme levels of socioeconomic deprivation experienced a twofold increased risk of dying prematurely. Nationally, this inequitable risk could translate into a significant public health burden
Youth health care utilization in Nova Scotia
Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) – a Pan Canadian cohort study
CAHHM is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the impact of community level factors, individual health behaviours, and access to health services, on cognitive function, subclinical vascular disease, fat distribution, and the development of chronic diseases among adults living in Canada
Small-area spatio-temporal analyses of bladder and kidney cancer risk in Nova Scotia, Canada
Modelling the spatio-temporal distribution of disease risk enabled the quantification of risk relative to expected background levels and the identification of high risk areas. It also permitted the determination of the relative stability of the observed patterns over time and in this study, pointed to excess risk potentially driven by exposure to risk factors that act in a sustained manner over time
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