Shona Hilton

Dados Biográficos

ID257863
NOMEShona Hilton
PRENOMESShona
SOBRENOMEHilton
ASSINATURAHILTON S
AFILIAÇÕESMRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
ORCID0000-0003-0633-8152
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS49
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES86
TOTAL COMO AUTOR49
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Co-production of a youth advocacy video on the harms of e-cigarette advertising in Scotland

    Open AccessMarissa J Smith, Caroline Vaczy et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2025

    This study aimed to investigate young people’s exposure to and perceptions of e-cigarette advertising to co-produce an advocacy video. This focus on e-cigarette marketing and its targeted appeal to young people comes at a crucial juncture, as policymakers in the UK and Scotland channel considerable efforts into shaping new regulations in response to these concerns, such as banning disposable e-cigarettes. The research to co-design a video was con…

  • Young people’s smoking and vaping behaviour, and comparative perceptions of appeal, imagery and harm, across different vape devices and a tobacco cigarette

    Open AccessAnne Marie Mackintosh, Danielle Mitchell et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction After the introduction of a new generation of disposable vapes (e.g., Elf Bar) in the UK in 2021, there was a rapid increase in their use by young people and concern about their availability and marketing. This study examined young people’s vaping and smoking between 2020 and 2023, and perceptions of a disposable vape, a tank model and a traditional cigarette, to examine whether disposable vapes may have contributed to the rise in yo…

  • Co-production as an approach for developing youth advocacy videos on countering unhealthy food marketing and e-cigarette advertising

    Open AccessMarissa J Smith, Caroline Vaczy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This research underscores the value of co-production in health promotion, demonstrating its effectiveness in tailoring interventions to the unique perspectives and needs of the target audience. Notably, it also addresses a significant gap in the existing evidence base, which has historically focused on individual interventions rather than systemic or community-level approaches

  • Mothers’ endorsement of the ideals and expected practices of parental determinism

    Hilllary Collins, Daniel Wight et al.ARTICLEFamilies Relationships and…2025Referências: 2

    Parental determinism is a term coined by sociologist Frank Furedi to describe and critique an argument directly associating parents’ quotidian behaviour with their children’s outcomes and therefore, the future of society. This study involved qualitative interviews with 22 mothers living in Scotland to examine their views about the ideals of parental determinism and suggest possible factors explaining the varying endorsement. Of the mothers who mo…

  • Health inequalities and contemporary youth

    Open AccessGillian Fergie, Katherine E Smith et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2025Citada por: 1Referências: 11

    Young people coming of age amidst widespread socioeconomic uncertainty have a unique vantage from which to interpret how social, economic and environmental factors might influence health and the generation of health inequalities. Despite this, only a small number of existing studies of 'lay' understandings of health inequalities have focused on young people. This arts-based qualitative study builds on that body of research, in the context of the …

  • Developing a logic model for communication-based interventions on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

    Open AccessJennika Virhia, Elena Laurie et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The importance of communication in enhancing people’s awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is consistently recognised in global and national action plans (NAPs). Despite this, there have been relatively few national AMR communication campaigns which use a structured approach to take account of the local context, encompass co-design with the target audience and use a logic model to help inform its design, implementation an…

  • “Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi

    Open AccessSusan Nayiga, Eleanor E Macpherson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: The overuse of antimicrobial medicines is a global health concern, including as a major driver of antimicrobial resistance. In many low- and middle-income countries, a substantial proportion of antibiotics are purchased over-the-counter without a prescription. But while antibiotics are widely available, information on when and how to use them is not. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand the acceptability among experts and professionals o…

  • Young people's perspectives on addressing UK health inequalities

    Open AccessGillian Fergie, Caroline Vaczy et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2023

    INTRODUCTION: It is increasingly recognised by UK researchers and population health advocates that an important impetus to effective policy action to address health inequalities is activation of public dialogue about the social determinants of health and how inequalities might be addressed. The limited body of existing scholarship reaches varying conclusions on public preferences for responding to health inequalities but with consensus around the…

  • Expert views on high fat, salt and sugar food marketing policies to tackle obesity and improve dietary behaviours in the UK

    Open AccessShona Hilton, Caroline Vaczy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    While HFSS marketing restrictions have a role to play and send a strong signal - provided they are implemented comprehensively - investment in these policies needs to be part of wider efforts to tackle the underlying drivers of obesity

  • Implementation of the polluter pay’s principle in tobacco control in the UK

    Open AccessMarissa J Smith, C Patterson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The PPP from environmental law was predominantly seen as an approach that could be usefully applied to the tobacco industry. However, there is no one size fits all template, therefore its implementation would need to be adapted to fit the UK context

  • Contextual influences on the role of evidence in e-cigarette recommendations

    Marissa J Smith, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2023Referências: 7

    This research suggest internal and external contextual factors mutually interact and influence how evidence is incorporated into recommendations. This dynamic interplay of contextual factors may help explain the why different policy approaches are pursued concerning public health topics, particularly e-cigarettes

  • Newspaper framing of food and beverage corporations’ sponsorship of sport

    Open AccessLauren Carters-White, L E Carters-White et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The findings of this study are particularly useful for public health organisations who seek regulatory change, as it may provide further insight into countering industry framing practices, raising the salience of regulation of sport sponsorship and thus increasing the likelihood of regulatory development that seeks to improve population health

  • Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates

    Open AccessPhilip Leifeld, Tim Henrichsen et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2022Citada por: 6Referências: 32

    Political actors participate in policy debates as an advocacy strategy to influence political opponents and public opinion. They often engage in cross-sectoral advocacy by participating in multiple adjacent debates. To investigate what factors influence cross-sectoral advocacy in policy debates, we examined advocacy coalitions in two health policy debates in the UK – the regulation of sugar-sweetened beverages and alcoholic drinks. We predicted c…

  • Evidence use in E-cigarettes debates

    Open AccessKatherine E Smith, Theresa Ikegwuonu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    E-cigarette debates are likely to reconcile only if a clear majority of participants in the uncertain 'middle ground' settle on a more fixed position. Our results suggest that many participants in Scottish e-cigarette debates occupy this 'middle ground' and express concerns that can be empirically assessed, implying evidence has the potential to play a more important role in settling e-cigarette debates than previous research suggests

  • Understanding commercial actors’ engagement in policy debates on proposed e-cigarette regulation in Scotland

    Theresa Ikegwuonu, Shona Hilton et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    Awareness of the various commercial interests and strategic positioning of commercial actors in e-cigarette policy should inform public health advocacy and policy development, including managing conflicts of interest in the context of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3

  • Configuring the PrEP user

    Open AccessIsabel Young, Nicola Boydell et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been hailed as a revolutionary intervention for HIV prevention. PrEP's controversial status in the UK has generated significant media coverage. It is important to understand what role the media plays in framing PrEP policy issues. We undertook a qualitative analysis of UK newsprint articles between 2012 and 2016 to examine how PrEP was framed as a public health intervention up until a controversial policy decis…

  • Exposure to unhealthy product advertising

    Open AccessJonathan R Olsen, C Patterson et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2021Citada por: 1Referências: 4

    This study aimed to understand socio-spatial inequalities in the placement of unhealthy commodity advertisements at transportation stops within the Central Belt of Scotland and to measure advertisement exposure using children's individual-level mobility data. We found that children who resided within more deprived areas had greater contact with the transport network and also greater exposure to unhealthy food and drink product advertising, compar…

  • Whose rights deserve protection? Framing analysis of responses to the 2016 Committee of Advertising Practice consultation on the non-broadcast advertising of foods and soft drinks to children

    Open AccessLauren Carters-White, Stephanie Chamber et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2021Citada por: 1Referências: 6

    Exposure to advertising of food and beverages high in fat sugar and salt (HFSS) is considered a factor in the development of childhood obesity. This paper uses framing analysis to examine the strategic discursive practices employed by non-industry and industry responders to the Committee of Advertising Practice's consultation responses (n = 86) on UK regulation of non-broadcast advertising of foods and soft drinks to children. Our analysis demons…

  • How men and women learn about sex

    Open AccessSusan Patterson, Lisa Mcdaid et al.ARTICLESex Education2020

    Attitudes towards sexual health and relationships are learned from a young age, and there is an ongoing need for innovative and comprehensive approaches to sex education that keep pace with rapidly changing contexts of people's lives. We used thematic analysis of data from two qualitative studies in Scotland to explore learning contexts from a multi-generational perspective, as well as the influence of different socio-cultural factors on provisio…

  • E-Cigarettes

    Open AccessHeide Weishaar, Heide Beatrix Weishaar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Concerns have been raised that the divisions emerging within public health in response to electronic cigarettes are weakening tobacco control. This paper employed thematic and network analysis to assess 90 policy consultation submissions and 18 interviews with political actors to examine the extent of, and basis for, divisions between health-focused actors with regard to the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and appropriate approaches to regulat…

  • Following in the footsteps of tobacco and alcohol? Stakeholder discourse in UK newspaper coverage of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy

    Open AccessShona Hilton, Christina Buckton et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective: In politically contested health debates, stakeholders on both sides present arguments and evidence to influence public opinion and the political agenda. The present study aimed to examine whether stakeholders in the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) debate sought to establish or undermine the acceptability of this policy through the news media and how this compared with similar policy debates in relation to tobacco and alcohol industrie…

  • The media and public health

    Open AccessLesley Henderson, Shona HiltonARTICLECritical Public Health2018

    In this editorial, we examine what we see as the critical issues facing media research in emerging public health debates and call for a research agenda that takes account of media production, underpinned by political sciences

  • Mass media and risk factors for cancer

    Open AccessSara Macdonald, Yvonne Cunningham et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018Citada por: 3Referências: 6

  • Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway

    Open AccessAmy Nimegeer, Hilary Thomson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Citada por: 2Referências: 28

  • Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study

    Open AccessLynn Naven, Gordon Inglis et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2017Referências: 9

    RHRN produced a process for collecting near-real-time data for policy-relevant topics, although obtaining and maintaining representative samples was problematic. Adaptations were identified to inform a more sustainable model of near-real-time data collection and dissemination in the future