Simon Walker

Biographic Data

ID3746443
NAMESimon Walker
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMEWalker
SIGNATUREWALKER S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Jyväskylä
ORCID0000-0003-1099-8831
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Prevalence and associated factors of prehypertension in Afghanistan

    Open AccessShah Jahan Shayan, Noreen Siddiqi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: In Afghanistan, approximately 40% of adults aged 30-79 years are living with hypertension. The stage of prehypertension represents a critical point for early detection and prevention of hypertension and its complications. This study aims to determine the prevalence of prehypertension and explore its associations with socio-demographic, behavioural, and biological factors in the Afghan adult population. Methods: This study utilised dat…

  • Conduit or conductor? Physician providers’ descriptions of their role as MAiD assessors in the first years after legalisation in Canada

    Janine Winters, Simon Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    PURPOSE: This qualitative study investigates how Canadian physician-providers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) perceived their role in making judgements when assessing patients for MAiD. METHODOLOGY: 21 Canadian physician MAiD providers were interviewed about their experience as early-adopting providers. The data were analysed using a phenomenological approach to identify themes and thematic groupings regarding providers' perceptions of role…

  • Unlocking the potential of community pharmacies to address hypertension in South Asia

    Open AccessShaikh Afaq, Helen Elsey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Hypertension is a leading contributor to cardiovascular disease in South Asia, affecting over 40% of adults, of whom most remain undiagnosed or poorly managed. Despite urgent healthcare needs, the already overstretched public primary care systems in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in rapidly growing urban areas, are falling short. Community pharmacies, often the first point of contact for low-income urban residents, represent an op…

  • Providing medically assisted dying in Canada

    Janine Winters, C Jaye et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2025

    PURPOSE: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada places the medical provider at the centre of the process. The MAiD provider holds primary responsibility for determining eligibility and becomes acquainted with patients' inner desires and expressions of suffering. This is followed by the MAiD procedure of administering the lethal agent and being present at the death of eligible patients. We report participants' perceptions of the emotional an…

  • High health system performance, low health system resilience

    Open AccessFinn McGuire, Megha Rao et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2025

  • Engagement of coMmunity through Participatory learning and action for cOntrol and preVEntion of type II Diabetes and its Risk factors (Empower-D) - A Protocol for a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

    Open AccessKhalid Rehman, Amber Tahir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The trial is registered with clinicaltrials.gov-NCT06561126. Date of registration: 23rd August 2024

  • Elizabeth Hightower Allen. First & Wildest

    Simon Walker, Simon Mark WalkerARTICLEEnvironmental Ethics2025

  • Changes in female football players’ in-season training load, intensity and physical performance

    Open AccessEero Heikki Johannes Savolainen, Johanna K Ihalainen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2024References: 2

    Introduction This observational study investigated: (1) potential changes in female football players’ in-season training load, intensity and physical performance, and (2) if in-season accumulated training load, intensity, or their progression are associated to changes in physical performance. Methods Thirty-five national level female players (∼21 years, n = 35) from three top-teams of the Finnish national league participated. Players performed te…

  • Epistemic problems with mental health legislation in the doctor–patient relationship

    Giles Newton-Howes, Simon Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    Mental health legislation that requires patients to accept ‘care’ has come under increasing scrutiny, prompted primarily by a human rights ethic. Epistemic issues in mental health have received some attention, however, less attention has been paid to the possible epistemic problems of mental health legislation existing. In this manuscript, we examine the epistemic problems that arise from the presence of such legislation, both for patients withou…

  • Average demands and most demanding passages of national-level female soccer matches

    Open AccessEero Heikki Johannes Savolainen, Tomi Vänttinen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2023Cited by: 2References: 26

    IntroductionThis study aims to (1) determine the average and most demanding passage (MDP) load of national-level female soccer matches and (2) evaluate the relationship between average and MDP load during small-sided games (SSGs), large-sided games (LSGs), and matches.MethodsA total of 37 national-level female soccer players from a single club senior team and the U18 team participated. The average and 1-, 3-, and 5-min MDP external (total, high-s…

  • Body composition in male lifelong trained strength, sprint and endurance athletes and healthy age-matched controls

    Open AccessSimon Walker, Mikaela B Von Bonsdorff et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2023Cited by: 1References: 38

    IntroductionAging involves many physiological processes that lead to decreases in muscle mass and increases in fat mass. While regular exercise can counteract such negative body composition outcomes, masters athletes maintain high levels of exercise throughout their lives. This provides a unique model to assess the impact of inherent aging. The present study compared lean mass and fat mass in young and masters athletes from different sports to ag…

  • Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense

    Neil Pickering, Giles Newton-Howes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    If a person is competent to consent to a treatment, is that person necessarily competent to refuse the very same treatment? Risk relativists answer no to this question. If the refusal of a treatment is risky, we may demand a higher level of decision-making capacity to choose this option. The position is known as asymmetry. Risk relativity rests on the possibility of setting variable levels of competence by reference to variable levels of risk. In…

  • Risk-relativity is still a nonsense

    Neil Pickering, Giles Newton-Howes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    In this short response to Gray’s article Capacity and Decision Making we double down on our argument that risk-relativity is a nonsense. Risk relativity is the claim that we should set a higher standard of competence for a person to make a risky choice than to make a safe choice. Gray’s response largely involves calling attention to the complexities, ramifications and multiple value implications of decision-making, but we do not deny any of this.…

  • Movement characteristics during customized exergames after total knee replacement in older adults

    Open AccessMaarit Janhunen, Antti Löppönen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2022

    Introduction There is limited understanding of how older adults can reach kinematic goals in rehabilitation while performing exergames and conventional exercises, and how similar or different the kinematics during exergaming are when compared with conventional therapeutic exercise with similar movement. The aim of this study was to describe the movement characteristics performed during exercise in custom-designed exergames and conventional therap…

  • Acute Neuromuscular and Hormonal Responses to Power, Strength, and Hypertrophic Protocols and Training Background

    Open AccessJohanna Kotikangas, Simon Walker et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2022

    This study investigated how two slightly different athlete groups would differ in acute neuromuscular and endocrine responses to specific resistance exercise loadings and recovery compared to untrained participants. Power athletes (PA, n = 8), strength athletes (SA, n = 8) and non-athletes (NA, n = 7) performed power (PL, 7 × 6 × 50% of 1RM), maximal strength (MSL, 7 × 3 × 3RM), and hypertrophic (HL, 5 × 10 × 10RM) loadings in Smith-machine back-…

  • Infant mortality inequities for Māori in New Zealand

    Open AccessChristopher Rutter, Simon WalkerARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    As New Zealand, and other countries facing inequities such as the United States and Australia, move forward in constructing policy, they would do well to consider the lessons of how New Zealand policy changed the frequency of infant mortality in Māori populations. The study shows that the consideration of differential risks associated with disadvantaged groups is necessary for policy to successfully address inequities

  • Methods to promote equity in health resource allocation in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessJames Love-Koh, Susan Griffin et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    Unfair differences in healthcare access, utilisation, quality or health outcomes exist between and within countries around the world. Improving health equity is a stated objective for many governments and international organizations. We provide an overview of the major tools that have been developed to measure, evaluate and promote health equity, along with the data required to operationalise them. Methods are organised into four key policy quest…

  • A citizens' jury on euthanasia/assisted dying

    Open AccessSimon Walker, R Egan et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2020

    Euthanasia or assisted dying (EAD) remains a highly contentious issue internationally. Although polls report that a majority New Zealanders support EAD, there are concerns about the framing of the polling questions, and that those responding to the questions do not know enough about the situations described, the options available and the potential implications of EAD policy. One way to address these concerns is through a citizens' jury, which is …

  • Human Rights in the Trade and Sustainability Impact Assessment of the EU–Tunisia Free Trade Agreement

    Open AccessSimon WalkerARTICLEJournal of Human Rights Practice2018References: 1

    This article critically examines the integration of human rights in the trade and sustainability impact assessment of the proposed Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Tunisia. The main contribution of this article is to list the basic requirements of a human rights impact assessment methodology in the form of a list of questions as a means to evaluate impact assessments of trade agreements. Using this list, the article …

  • The euthanasia debate

    Open AccessJames E Young, R Egan et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2018Cited by: 1References: 5

    New Zealand is considering a change in law to permit euthanasia and/or assisted dying (EAD). We reviewed 20 years of research to investigate New Zealanders’ attitudes towards EAD, including those of health professionals. A systematic search was conducted using relevant databases. We identified 21 quantitative and 5 qualitative studies. For quantitative data, descriptive analyses were used to examine any demographic patterns that influenced attitu…

  • Effects of a 9-month resistance training intervention on quality of life, sense of coherence, and depressive symptoms in older adults

    Open AccessTiia Kekäläinen, Katja Kokko et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2017

    Resistance training is beneficial for environmental quality of life and sense of coherence. Attending resistance training twice a week seems to be the most advantageous for these aspects of psychological functioning

  • A qualitative study of patients’ perceptions of the value of molecular diagnosis for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)

    Open AccessNina Hallowell, Nicholas Jenkins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2016

  • Morrice McCrae, Saving the Army, The Life of Sir John Pringle

    Open AccessSimon WalkerARTICLEJournal of Scottish Historical…2016

  • Truth-telling to the patient, family, and the sexual partner

    Open AccessJing-Bao Nie, Simon Walker et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2015

    Patients' rights are central in today's legislation and social policies related to health care, including HIV care, in not only Western countries but around the world. However, given obvious socio-cultural differences it is often asked how or to what extent patients' rights should be respected in non-Western societies such as China. In this paper, it is argued that the patients' rights framework is compatible with Chinese culture, and that from t…

  • Patients' experiences and views of cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)

    Open AccessNina Hallowell, Nick Jenkins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2011