Richard F Heller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3574565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard F Heller |
| PRENOMES | Richard F |
| SOBRENOME | Heller |
| ASSINATURA | HELLER R F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3161-5967 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Stories of Hope
Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. From rethinking systems and curriculum design to fostering imaginative collaboration and exploring the role of technology, the book highlights practical, hopeful interventions that are already making a difference.
Distributing Knowledge Creation to Include Underrepresented Populations
This paper documents biases in the creation of knowledge through underrepresentation of diverse populations and population groups in the way research is conducted and published, and subsequently, in the way educational resources are developed and delivered. Research that incorporates the experience of distributed population groups will have greater local applicability, and knowledge published and disseminated in ways that make it available to dis…
Designing Educational Futures
This commentary is a working out loud of what a liberatory education might entail that builds on partnership and co-creation. Proposed is the addition of collaboration as a central element to education, to break individuality and hierarchy – for collective, socially just action. The perquisites for this is openness – and the abandonment of the neoliberal competitive approach to education as well as the conscious development and use of Open EdTech…
Increasing dietary fish intake has contributed to decreasing mortality from CHD among the older population in Hong Kong
Objective To test whether change in the frequency of fish intake at population level would affect the trends of death from CHD and how many CHD events could be prevented in Hong Kong, a population among those with the highest fish consumption and the lowest CHD mortality in the world. Design Time trends analysis with data from repeated dietary surveys and death registration. Setting Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China. Subjects A total of 3…
Body-mass index and incidence of cancer
The population effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity
Area-based interventions offer the potential to increase physical activity for many sedentary people in countries such as the UK. Evidence on the effect of individual and area/neighbourhood influences on physical activity is in its infancy, and despite its value to policy makers a population focus is rarely used. Data from a population-based health and lifestyle survey of adults in northwest England were used to analyse associations between indiv…
How well do trends in incidence of heroin use reflect hypothesised trends in prevalence of problem drug use in the North West of England
This study investigates whether hypotheses about trends in the prevalence of problem drug use (PDU), prompted by capture--recapture based age-specific prevalence estimates, are corroborated by estimates of trends in incidence. Lag correction techniques were used to provide incidence estimates adjusted for the time-lag between onset of drug use and its first recorded treatment for heroin users seeking treatment in three areas of North West England…
Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, Body Mass Index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor …
With the exception of women's BMI, South-Asian individuals had either lower or similar levels of the examined cardiovascular risk factor levels, compared with Caucasian individuals. Although time trends in smoking were converging, other risk factors trends were similar between the two ethnic groups. Overall the findings do not support the hypothesis that the relatively high cardiovascular disease burden in UK South-Asians is due to higher levels …
Mid-term Body Mass Index increase among obese and non-obese individuals in middle life and deprivation status
In the study setting, the BMI of non-obese individuals aged 35-55 was increasing over time independently of deprivation status; among obese individuals a positive association with higher deprivation was found. The findings support that socioeconomic differences in mean BMI and obesity status are principally attained prior to 35 years of age. Efforts to tackle inequalities in mean BMI and obesity status should principally concentrate in earlier li…
Development and Testing of the Japanese Version of the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Instrument
Attitudes of developing world physicians to where medical research is performed and reported
Conducting high quality local research is likely to be an effective way of getting research findings into practice in developing countries
Implementing guidelines in primary care
The use of population impact measures could help the Primary Care Organisation to prioritise resource allocation, although the results will vary according to local conditions which should be taken into account before the measures are used in practice
A population perspective to evidence based medicine
We explore the notion that the public health community could learn lessons from the success of evidence based medicine (EBM) and develop a public health counterpart called “Evidence for Population Health”. While EBM focuses on individual patients, its public health counterpart would aim to improve the health of communities effectively and efficiently
Impact numbers
Objective: To describe new measures of risk from case-control and cohort studies, which are simple to understand and relate to numbers of the population at risk. Design: Theoretical development of new measures of risk. Setting: Review of literature and previously described measures. Main results: The new measures are: (1) the population impact number (PIN), the number of those in the whole population among whom one case is attributable to the exp…
Knowledge and perception about stroke among an Australian urban population
The study suggests that educational strategies may be required to improve knowledge about a wide range of issues concerning stroke in the community, as a prelude to developing preventive programmes
Trends in the hospital management of unstable angina
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the hospital management of unstable angina (UAP) in 1996 and 1998, according to patient demographic variables and disease severity. DESIGN: Medical record review. SETTING: 37 hospitals across New South Wales, Australia, representative of the secondary and tertiary care hospitals in the State. PARTICIPANTS: All patients (or a random sample of patients) with UAP admitted to these hospitals during five months in 1996 and …
Mortality after acute myocardial infarction is lower in metropolitan regions than in non-metropolitan regions
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: 47 acute public hospitals in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of New South Wales, …
Reducing coronary heart disease in the Australian Coalfields
Coronary events and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Our study found evidence for the adverse effects of exposure to ETS on risk of coronary heart disease among women, especially at home. For men the issue is unclear according to the data from our study. Additional studies with detailed information on possible confounders and adequate statistical power are needed. Most importantly, they should use methods for measuring exposure to ETS that are sufficiently accurate to permit the investigation of do…
An improved questionnaire for assessing quality of life after acute myocardial infarction
Western Diseases
1Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 2Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Changes in diet and coronary heart disease mortality among social classes in Great Britain
Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality has declined in Britain since the early 1970s and followed a reduction in dietary fat intake in the population. We attempted to determine whether there have been changes in dietary fat intakes by social classes and to see whether they correspond to social class changes in CHD mortality, where the greatest reduction has been in the upper social class groups. Dietary fat intake was specially obtained by social…
Social class and ischaemic heart disease
In England and Wales there has been an increasing excess of ischaemic heart disease death rates among men and women of social classes IV and V compared with those in classes I and II and this excess is greater in young than in old adults. The male excess over women in IHD death rates is much greater in social classes I and II than in classes IV and V. Although men in professional occupations are at low risk for IHD compared with men in other occu…
Detection and treatment of hypertension in an inner London community
A postal survey of a random sample of the population living near St Mary's Hospital, Paddington was taken to determine earlier experience in these people of blood pressure measurement and treatment. Eighty-five per cent of those who could return their questionnaires did so; eighty per cent of the respondents said they had had their blood pressure measured in the past, and 60% reported such a measurement during the previous three years. The respon…
East Fulham Revisited
You will remember the election at Fulham,' said Baldwin in his speech of appalling frankness in the House of Commons on 12 November 1936. Baldwin himself evidently did not remember it very well, for he continued; 'when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7000 votes' (the correct figure was 4840). Most important, he said the seat was lost 'on no issue but the pacifist', and used this interpretation of the East Fulham electi…
The population effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity
Area-based interventions offer the potential to increase physical activity for many sedentary people in countries such as the UK. Evidence on the effect of individual and area/neighbourhood influences on physical activity is in its infancy, and despite its value to policy makers a population focus is rarely used. Data from a population-based health and lifestyle survey of adults in northwest England were used to analyse associations between indiv…
A population perspective to evidence based medicine
We explore the notion that the public health community could learn lessons from the success of evidence based medicine (EBM) and develop a public health counterpart called “Evidence for Population Health”. While EBM focuses on individual patients, its public health counterpart would aim to improve the health of communities effectively and efficiently
Mortality after acute myocardial infarction is lower in metropolitan regions than in non-metropolitan regions
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: 47 acute public hospitals in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of New South Wales, …
Social class and ischaemic heart disease
In England and Wales there has been an increasing excess of ischaemic heart disease death rates among men and women of social classes IV and V compared with those in classes I and II and this excess is greater in young than in old adults. The male excess over women in IHD death rates is much greater in social classes I and II than in classes IV and V. Although men in professional occupations are at low risk for IHD compared with men in other occu…
Changes in diet and coronary heart disease mortality among social classes in Great Britain
Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality has declined in Britain since the early 1970s and followed a reduction in dietary fat intake in the population. We attempted to determine whether there have been changes in dietary fat intakes by social classes and to see whether they correspond to social class changes in CHD mortality, where the greatest reduction has been in the upper social class groups. Dietary fat intake was specially obtained by social…
Reducing coronary heart disease in the Australian Coalfields
East Fulham Revisited
You will remember the election at Fulham,' said Baldwin in his speech of appalling frankness in the House of Commons on 12 November 1936. Baldwin himself evidently did not remember it very well, for he continued; 'when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7000 votes' (the correct figure was 4840). Most important, he said the seat was lost 'on no issue but the pacifist', and used this interpretation of the East Fulham electi…
Impact numbers
Objective: To describe new measures of risk from case-control and cohort studies, which are simple to understand and relate to numbers of the population at risk. Design: Theoretical development of new measures of risk. Setting: Review of literature and previously described measures. Main results: The new measures are: (1) the population impact number (PIN), the number of those in the whole population among whom one case is attributable to the exp…
East Fulham Revisited
You will remember the election at Fulham,' said Baldwin in his speech of appalling frankness in the House of Commons on 12 November 1936. Baldwin himself evidently did not remember it very well, for he continued; 'when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7000 votes' (the correct figure was 4840). Most important, he said the seat was lost 'on no issue but the pacifist', and used this interpretation of the East Fulham electi…
Detection and treatment of hypertension in an inner London community
A postal survey of a random sample of the population living near St Mary's Hospital, Paddington was taken to determine earlier experience in these people of blood pressure measurement and treatment. Eighty-five per cent of those who could return their questionnaires did so; eighty per cent of the respondents said they had had their blood pressure measured in the past, and 60% reported such a measurement during the previous three years. The respon…
Social class and ischaemic heart disease
In England and Wales there has been an increasing excess of ischaemic heart disease death rates among men and women of social classes IV and V compared with those in classes I and II and this excess is greater in young than in old adults. The male excess over women in IHD death rates is much greater in social classes I and II than in classes IV and V. Although men in professional occupations are at low risk for IHD compared with men in other occu…
Changes in diet and coronary heart disease mortality among social classes in Great Britain
Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality has declined in Britain since the early 1970s and followed a reduction in dietary fat intake in the population. We attempted to determine whether there have been changes in dietary fat intakes by social classes and to see whether they correspond to social class changes in CHD mortality, where the greatest reduction has been in the upper social class groups. Dietary fat intake was specially obtained by social…
An improved questionnaire for assessing quality of life after acute myocardial infarction
Western Diseases
1Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 2Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Coronary events and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Our study found evidence for the adverse effects of exposure to ETS on risk of coronary heart disease among women, especially at home. For men the issue is unclear according to the data from our study. Additional studies with detailed information on possible confounders and adequate statistical power are needed. Most importantly, they should use methods for measuring exposure to ETS that are sufficiently accurate to permit the investigation of do…
Reducing coronary heart disease in the Australian Coalfields
Mortality after acute myocardial infarction is lower in metropolitan regions than in non-metropolitan regions
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) between metropolitan and non-metropolitan hospitals after adjustment for patients' severity; to examine the role of the use of effective cardiac medications in the possible mortality difference between these types of hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: 47 acute public hospitals in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of New South Wales, …
Knowledge and perception about stroke among an Australian urban population
The study suggests that educational strategies may be required to improve knowledge about a wide range of issues concerning stroke in the community, as a prelude to developing preventive programmes
Trends in the hospital management of unstable angina
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the hospital management of unstable angina (UAP) in 1996 and 1998, according to patient demographic variables and disease severity. DESIGN: Medical record review. SETTING: 37 hospitals across New South Wales, Australia, representative of the secondary and tertiary care hospitals in the State. PARTICIPANTS: All patients (or a random sample of patients) with UAP admitted to these hospitals during five months in 1996 and …
A population perspective to evidence based medicine
We explore the notion that the public health community could learn lessons from the success of evidence based medicine (EBM) and develop a public health counterpart called “Evidence for Population Health”. While EBM focuses on individual patients, its public health counterpart would aim to improve the health of communities effectively and efficiently
Impact numbers
Objective: To describe new measures of risk from case-control and cohort studies, which are simple to understand and relate to numbers of the population at risk. Design: Theoretical development of new measures of risk. Setting: Review of literature and previously described measures. Main results: The new measures are: (1) the population impact number (PIN), the number of those in the whole population among whom one case is attributable to the exp…
Attitudes of developing world physicians to where medical research is performed and reported
Conducting high quality local research is likely to be an effective way of getting research findings into practice in developing countries
Implementing guidelines in primary care
The use of population impact measures could help the Primary Care Organisation to prioritise resource allocation, although the results will vary according to local conditions which should be taken into account before the measures are used in practice
Development and Testing of the Japanese Version of the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Instrument
Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, Body Mass Index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor …
With the exception of women's BMI, South-Asian individuals had either lower or similar levels of the examined cardiovascular risk factor levels, compared with Caucasian individuals. Although time trends in smoking were converging, other risk factors trends were similar between the two ethnic groups. Overall the findings do not support the hypothesis that the relatively high cardiovascular disease burden in UK South-Asians is due to higher levels …
Mid-term Body Mass Index increase among obese and non-obese individuals in middle life and deprivation status
In the study setting, the BMI of non-obese individuals aged 35-55 was increasing over time independently of deprivation status; among obese individuals a positive association with higher deprivation was found. The findings support that socioeconomic differences in mean BMI and obesity status are principally attained prior to 35 years of age. Efforts to tackle inequalities in mean BMI and obesity status should principally concentrate in earlier li…
How well do trends in incidence of heroin use reflect hypothesised trends in prevalence of problem drug use in the North West of England
This study investigates whether hypotheses about trends in the prevalence of problem drug use (PDU), prompted by capture--recapture based age-specific prevalence estimates, are corroborated by estimates of trends in incidence. Lag correction techniques were used to provide incidence estimates adjusted for the time-lag between onset of drug use and its first recorded treatment for heroin users seeking treatment in three areas of North West England…
The population effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity
Area-based interventions offer the potential to increase physical activity for many sedentary people in countries such as the UK. Evidence on the effect of individual and area/neighbourhood influences on physical activity is in its infancy, and despite its value to policy makers a population focus is rarely used. Data from a population-based health and lifestyle survey of adults in northwest England were used to analyse associations between indiv…
Body-mass index and incidence of cancer
Increasing dietary fish intake has contributed to decreasing mortality from CHD among the older population in Hong Kong
Objective To test whether change in the frequency of fish intake at population level would affect the trends of death from CHD and how many CHD events could be prevented in Hong Kong, a population among those with the highest fish consumption and the lowest CHD mortality in the world. Design Time trends analysis with data from repeated dietary surveys and death registration. Setting Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China. Subjects A total of 3…
Designing Educational Futures
This commentary is a working out loud of what a liberatory education might entail that builds on partnership and co-creation. Proposed is the addition of collaboration as a central element to education, to break individuality and hierarchy – for collective, socially just action. The perquisites for this is openness – and the abandonment of the neoliberal competitive approach to education as well as the conscious development and use of Open EdTech…
Stories of Hope
Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. From rethinking systems and curriculum design to fostering imaginative collaboration and exploring the role of technology, the book highlights practical, hopeful interventions that are already making a difference.
Distributing Knowledge Creation to Include Underrepresented Populations
This paper documents biases in the creation of knowledge through underrepresentation of diverse populations and population groups in the way research is conducted and published, and subsequently, in the way educational resources are developed and delivered. Research that incorporates the experience of distributed population groups will have greater local applicability, and knowledge published and disseminated in ways that make it available to dis…
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