Michael P Kelly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 187964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael P Kelly |
| PRENOMES | Michael P |
| SOBRENOME | Kelly |
| ASSINATURA | KELLY M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2029-5841 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 274 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
How populist-aligned views are reflected in people's accounts of the receipt of public health interventions
Economic evaluation of participation in Community Led Organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK
This paper presents an economic evaluation of community-led and -owned organisations that deliver activities to support health and wellbeing. Because community-led organisations (CLOs) are a vital part of the social and solidarity economy, they increasingly feature in public health policies targeting disadvantaged populations. However, little is known about the value CLOs generate as few economic evaluations of them exist and those available focu…
Exploring personality correlates of falsification of Covid-19 lateral flow tests through vignettes
Regular testing using rapid antigen lateral flow tests (LFTs) was an important prevention strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, falsification of home LFTs was a concern. Using a large quota-representative sample of adults ( n = 1295) in England, we conducted a vignette survey consisting of four hypothetical scenarios of LFT falsification behaviours (FBs) to examine whether prosocial personality traits were associated with attitudes towa…
The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models
This is the first attempt to rigorously and coherently propose methods to incorporate the influences on behaviour into health economic models of public health interventions. It may not always be feasible or necessary to model the influences on behaviour explicitly, but it is essential to develop an understanding of the key influences. Changing behaviour and maintaining that behaviour change could have different influences; thus, there could be be…
Is Government Policy a Barrier or Facilitator to the Work of Place-Based Community-led Nonprofits
In this paper we explore whether government policy acts as a barrier or facilitator to the work of nonprofits, and in what ways (if at all) different policy contexts influence the work of place-based community-led nonprofit organizations working to improve the health and wellbeing of their communities. Employing ‘abductive’ analysis of qualitative data collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 20 non-profit leade…
Categorising and cohabiting
In this article we argue that social practices, which consist of sayings and doings that extend across space and time, generate and sustain distinctive patterns of microbial interaction. In taking this approach, we position practice theory within and not outside the realm of contemporary biological processes, including processes that matter for human health. In working towards this conclusion, we show how categories and distinctions (e.g. between…
Infant mortality and social causality
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur Newsholme, the Medical Officer of the Local …
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research
Findings highlight the positive impact of strong evidence-provider/user relationships and the importance of governments' commitment to co-produced research programmes to address policy problems and transparency in the dissemination of methods and findings. From the findings we have created a framework, 'STEPS' (Sharing, Transparency, Engagement, Partnership, Strong relationships), of five recommendations for units working with policymakers. These…
Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK
BACKGROUND: Evidence regarding the effectiveness of 20 miles per hour (mph) speed limit interventions is limited, and rarely have long-term outcomes been assessed. We investigate the effect of a 20 mph speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume at 1 and 3 years post-implementation. METHODS: An observational, repeated cross-sectional design was implemented, using routinely collected data for road traffic coll…
Trend shifts in road traffic collisions
Empirical study of road traffic collision (RTCs) rates is challenging at small geographies due to the relative rarity of collisions and the need to account for secular and seasonal trends. In this paper, we demonstrate the successful application of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) to describe RTCs time series using monthly data from the city of Edinburgh (STATS19) as a case study. While both models have comparabl…
Perceived Barriers and Facilitators for Bedtime Routines in Families with Young Children
Several theory-based, and potentially modifiable, determinants of optimal bedtime routines were identified in this study, providing important information for future interventions. Several of the key determinants identified were transient (tiredness) and/or non-conscious (habit), suggesting that future interventions may need to be deployed in real time, and should extend beyond conventional techniques
Bedtime Oral Hygiene Behaviours, Dietary Habits and Children’s Dental Health
Background: Oral hygiene behaviours as well as dietary habits before bed can affect children's dental health resulting in higher prevalence of dental disease. Dental disease can affect children's health, development and even school performance. If left untreated, dental disease can progress and it can lead to extractions under general anaesthetic causing further distress for children and families. Consistent and appropriate oral hygiene behaviour…
Bedtime Routine Characteristics and Activities in Families with Young Children in the North of England
Bedtime routines have been shown to have significant associations with health, wellbeing and development outcomes for children and parents. Despite the importance of bedtime routines, most research has been carried out in the United States, with little information on bedtime routine characteristics and activities for families in other countries such as the United Kingdom and England in particular. Additionally, little is known about the possible …
Individual variation in white matter microstructure is related to better recovery from negative stimuli
The uncinate fasciculus is a white matter tract that may facilitate emotion regulation by carrying connections from the prefrontal cortex to regions of the temporal lobe, including the amygdala. Depression and anxiety are associated with reduced uncinate fasciculus fractional anisotropy (FA)-a diffusion tensor imaging measure related to white matter integrity. In the current study, we tested whether FA in the uncinate fasciculus is associated wit…
Tweeting about twenty
Overall, public attitudes towards the policies were positive, thus policymakers should be less anxious about potential public backlash when considering the scale-up of 20mph speed restrictions
Public understanding of Covid-19 antibody testing and test results
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, antibody testing was proposed by several countries as a surveillance tool to monitor the spread of the virus and potentially to ease restrictions. In the UK, antibody testing originally formed the third pillar of the UK Government's COVID-19 testing programme and was thought to offer hope that those with a positive antibody test result could return to normal life. However, at that time scientists and the …
A qualitative exploration of the mechanisms, pathways and public health outcomes of a city centre 20mph speed limit intervention
Obese societies
The prevalence of obesity and related health problems has increased sharply in recent decades. Dominant medical, economic, psychological, and especially epidemiological accounts conceptualise these trends as outcomes of individuals' lifestyles - whether freely chosen or determined by an array of obesogenic factors. As such, they rest on forms of methodological individualism, causal narratives, and a logic of substitution in which people are encou…
Is It Justifiable to Make Self-Determination Illusory to Motivate a Specific Health Outcome
A nudge is an intervention designed to prompt people to "voluntarily" make the choice intended by those who altered the choice environment or situation, and therefore using nudges is thought to undermine self-determination. Evidence for this assumption is weak, however, and sets aside much of what we know about human conduct sociologically. This paper argues that the practical consciousness that people have about their own actions and reasons for…
What can sociology offer urban public health
There is untapped empirical and theoretical potential within sociology, which could and should be harnessed for urban public health. The resurgence of interest in cities as both threats to human he
Family lifestyle dynamics and childhood obesity
The analysis suggests that interventions should therefore be prolonged and persuasive and target the underlying lifestyle of a family as early as possible during childhood in order to have the greatest cumulative influence. Our results suggest that children from advantaged backgrounds are more likely to be exposed to healthier lifestyles and that this leads to inequalities in the prevalence of obesity. To reduce inequalities in childhood obesity,…
Bedtime routines child wellbeing & development
The results of the present study highlight the potentially important role of bedtime routines in a variety of areas associated with child wellbeing and the need for further research
The preliminary measurement properties of the person-centred community care inventory (PERCCI)
The PERCCI has promising measurement properties and can be recommended for use in research with older adults using community mental health and social care services. Future developments must identify how sensitive the instrument is in detecting changing service quality
Anxiety in the orthopedic patient
Causal narratives in public health
Research in the health sciences has been highly successful in revealing the aetiologies of many morbidities, particularly those involving the microbiology of communicable disease. This success has helped form a narrative to be found in numerous public health documents, about interventions to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (e.g., obesity or alcohol related pathologies). These focus on tackling the purported pathogenic factors causi…
Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body
The sociological conceptualisation of chronic illness requires a sociology which indicates the physicality of the body theoretically. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the body might be integrated into sociological accounts of the experience of chronic illness in a way that acknowledges biological and social facts. Central to our argument is the connection between bodily aspects of self and identity. Self and identity are core aspects o…
Self, identity and radical surgery
Data are reported from interviews, analysed qualitatively, with persons who had had ulcerative colitis cured by radical surgery. The procedures performed on the subjects were total colectomy and ileostomy. The subjects were left permanently faecally incontinent by these procedures. Using concepts derived from the work of Mead, and developed in interactionist sociology, the consequences for self and identity of these operations are considered. The…
The Narrative Self in Autobiographical Accounts of Illness
The paper analyzes autobiographical accounts of the experience of chronic illness and its treatment to develop a sociological theory of the self. It is suggested that 'self' is not a biologistic or psychologistic thing. Rather self is autobiographical narrative - hence the narrative self. It is argued that four elements constitute such narrative selves in autobiographical discourse: evaluative relationships between events in time; cosmology; powe…
The TIPPME intervention typology for changing environments to change behaviour
Coping with an ileostomy
Socioeconomic differences in purchases of more vs. less healthy foods and beverages
Obese societies
The prevalence of obesity and related health problems has increased sharply in recent decades. Dominant medical, economic, psychological, and especially epidemiological accounts conceptualise these trends as outcomes of individuals' lifestyles - whether freely chosen or determined by an array of obesogenic factors. As such, they rest on forms of methodological individualism, causal narratives, and a logic of substitution in which people are encou…
Person‐centredness in the community care of older people
‘Person‐centredness’ is a ubiquitous term, employed in modern care services to signify policies and practices that attend to the uniqueness of each individual user. Despite being highly regarded in older adult community care services, there is much ambiguity over its precise meaning. Existing reviews of person‐centredness and its attributes have tended to focus on the medico‐nursing literature, neglecting other interpretations, such as those rele…
Chancers, pests and poor wee souls
This paper explores the relationship between psychiatric nurses and'problem'patients as a means of commenting on the occupation of psychiatric nursing. Proceeding from a detailed examination of the case of one particularly problematic female patient, and drawing on a body of observational and interview data relating mainly, though not exclusively, to nursing activity on two very different psychiatric wards, we argue that what is critical in deter…
The judgement process in evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment
This article describes the judgements used to interpret evidence in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and health technology assessment (HTA). It outlines the methods and processes of EBM and HTA. Respectively, EBM and HTA are approaches to medical clinical decision making and efficient allocation of scarce health resources. At the heart of both is a concern to review and synthesise evidence, especially evidence derived from randomised controlled tria…
Causal narratives in public health
Research in the health sciences has been highly successful in revealing the aetiologies of many morbidities, particularly those involving the microbiology of communicable disease. This success has helped form a narrative to be found in numerous public health documents, about interventions to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (e.g., obesity or alcohol related pathologies). These focus on tackling the purported pathogenic factors causi…
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research
Findings highlight the positive impact of strong evidence-provider/user relationships and the importance of governments' commitment to co-produced research programmes to address policy problems and transparency in the dissemination of methods and findings. From the findings we have created a framework, 'STEPS' (Sharing, Transparency, Engagement, Partnership, Strong relationships), of five recommendations for units working with policymakers. These…
Investigating the impact of a 20 miles per hour speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume in Belfast, UK
BACKGROUND: Evidence regarding the effectiveness of 20 miles per hour (mph) speed limit interventions is limited, and rarely have long-term outcomes been assessed. We investigate the effect of a 20 mph speed limit intervention on road traffic collisions, casualties, speed and volume at 1 and 3 years post-implementation. METHODS: An observational, repeated cross-sectional design was implemented, using routinely collected data for road traffic coll…
Categorising and cohabiting
In this article we argue that social practices, which consist of sayings and doings that extend across space and time, generate and sustain distinctive patterns of microbial interaction. In taking this approach, we position practice theory within and not outside the realm of contemporary biological processes, including processes that matter for human health. In working towards this conclusion, we show how categories and distinctions (e.g. between…
Infant mortality and social causality
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur Newsholme, the Medical Officer of the Local …
A qualitative exploration of the mechanisms, pathways and public health outcomes of a city centre 20mph speed limit intervention
Methodological, Theoretical, Infrastructural, and Design Issues in Conducting Good Outcome Studies
This article outlines a set of methodological, theoretical, and other issues relating to the conduct of good outcome studies. The article begins by considering the contribution of evidence-based medicine to the methodology of outcome research. The lessons which can be applied in outcome studies in nonmedical settings are described. The article then examines the role of causal pathways between interventions and outcomes and especially the importan…
Social Causes of Health and Disease ‐ by Cockerham, W.C
Cockerham, W.C. Social Causes of Health and Disease . Cambridge : Polity Press , 2007 £17.99 (pbk) viii+232 pp . ISBN 978-0-7456-3588-0 This book is an elegant and clear exposition of the thesis that some disease is caused directly by social factors. The argument is not that there is an epidemiological association, nor statistical correlation between patterns of illness and social factors, but rather that social factors in some circumstances are …
What is a Case? The Problem of Definition in Psychiatric Community Surveys/Handbook of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice/Sociology of Mental Disorder/Caring For the Mentally Ill in the Community (Bo…
Chancers, pests and poor wee souls
This paper explores the relationship between psychiatric nurses and'problem'patients as a means of commenting on the occupation of psychiatric nursing. Proceeding from a detailed examination of the case of one particularly problematic female patient, and drawing on a body of observational and interview data relating mainly, though not exclusively, to nursing activity on two very different psychiatric wards, we argue that what is critical in deter…
Engineers in Britain
One.- 1 Introduction: Sociology and Engineering.- 2 Engineering and the Social Process.- 3 Engineering and the British Economic Problem.- 4 The British Economy in Context.- 5 The Legal and Political Context of Engineering.- Two.- 6 Engineering Education.- 7 Theories of Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction.- 8 The Colleagues of the Engineer.- 9 The Organization and Experience of Engineering.- 10 Engineers, Professional Associations and Trade Union…
Engineering Disability
Some problems in health promotion research
It is argued that health promotion research faces three critical problems: defining adequate research questions; identifying appropriate areas for research and developing a theoretical basis for problem formulation. it is suggested that if health promotion research is to be a vigorous part of the emerging discipline of health promotion, rather than simply an evaluative tool, and if health promotion research is to be distinguished from epidemiolog…
Proletarianisation, the Division of Labour and the Labour Process
The article attempts to advance a definition of proletarianism which will allow the reader to grasp the precise nature of the process with particular reference to the economic and technical aspects. Proletarianisation is identified with a loss of the work of supervision and management, congruents of the work experience of the new middle class. This is followed by a critique of some current notions of proletarianisation as evidenced in the study o…
Engineers in Britain
Engineers in Britain
The role of research in the new public health
The Engineering Dimension
The earliest human societies relied for their subsistence on the hunting of animals and the gathering of food. The small bands of people who lived together pursuing these activities appear to have been the prototype of all human organisation. Hunting and gathering was the predominant type of social organisation until perhaps 12,000 years ago. Tools and weapons were not made of metal till around 4,000 B.C., the plough was not in use until about a …
Coping with an ileostomy
Measuring Health
Self, identity and radical surgery
Data are reported from interviews, analysed qualitatively, with persons who had had ulcerative colitis cured by radical surgery. The procedures performed on the subjects were total colectomy and ileostomy. The subjects were left permanently faecally incontinent by these procedures. Using concepts derived from the work of Mead, and developed in interactionist sociology, the consequences for self and identity of these operations are considered. The…
Advanced In Medical Sociology Vol. IV
Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body
The sociological conceptualisation of chronic illness requires a sociology which indicates the physicality of the body theoretically. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the body might be integrated into sociological accounts of the experience of chronic illness in a way that acknowledges biological and social facts. Central to our argument is the connection between bodily aspects of self and identity. Self and identity are core aspects o…
Body image and sociology
Body Image and Sociology
Les AA. s'attachent a repondre aux critiques adressees par S. J. Willians en 1966 dans un article intitule «Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body : a rejoinder to Michael Kelly and David Field», publie en 1996, a l'encontre de leurs analyses de l'image du corps dans le cadre des maladies chroniques. Ils montrent que celui-ci s'est attache a mettre en question leurs conceptions de l'identite et du corps. Ils examinent la notion d'image d…
The Narrative Self in Autobiographical Accounts of Illness
The paper analyzes autobiographical accounts of the experience of chronic illness and its treatment to develop a sociological theory of the self. It is suggested that 'self' is not a biologistic or psychologistic thing. Rather self is autobiographical narrative - hence the narrative self. It is argued that four elements constitute such narrative selves in autobiographical discourse: evaluative relationships between events in time; cosmology; powe…
Behaviour Change Following a Workplace Health Check
An observational study, involving 1053 employees of a Glasgow factory, was conducted to determine the overall level of behaviour change and the characteristics of those who responded after attending a workplace health check. Eight hundred and sixty-eight individuals received one of four versions of a health check. Participants were deemed to have ‘responded’ if they made one or more of the advised behaviour changes (stopped smoking, increased exe…
Keeping Your Temple Clean
Social Causes of Health and Disease ‐ by Cockerham, W.C
Cockerham, W.C. Social Causes of Health and Disease . Cambridge : Polity Press , 2007 £17.99 (pbk) viii+232 pp . ISBN 978-0-7456-3588-0 This book is an elegant and clear exposition of the thesis that some disease is caused directly by social factors. The argument is not that there is an epidemiological association, nor statistical correlation between patterns of illness and social factors, but rather that social factors in some circumstances are …
Evidence based public health
Judging nudging
Nudging has captured the imagination of the public, researchers, and policy makers as a way of changing human behaviour, with both the UK and US governments embracing it. Theresa Marteau and colleagues ask whether the concept stands up to scientific scrutiny
The judgement process in evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment
This article describes the judgements used to interpret evidence in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and health technology assessment (HTA). It outlines the methods and processes of EBM and HTA. Respectively, EBM and HTA are approaches to medical clinical decision making and efficient allocation of scarce health resources. At the heart of both is a concern to review and synthesise evidence, especially evidence derived from randomised controlled tria…
Methodological, Theoretical, Infrastructural, and Design Issues in Conducting Good Outcome Studies
This article outlines a set of methodological, theoretical, and other issues relating to the conduct of good outcome studies. The article begins by considering the contribution of evidence-based medicine to the methodology of outcome research. The lessons which can be applied in outcome studies in nonmedical settings are described. The article then examines the role of causal pathways between interventions and outcomes and especially the importan…
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