Paramjit Gill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583642 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paramjit Gill |
| PRENOMES | Paramjit |
| SOBRENOME | Gill |
| ASSINATURA | GILL P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8756-6813 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Stakeholder recommendations to optimize vaccination implementation and uptake for disease outbreaks
Achieving sufficient vaccination coverage to mitigate disease outbreaks remains a persistent challenge in Nigeria, particularly for less-established vaccination programs. We aimed to obtain stakeholder recommendations for optimizing the implementation and uptake of less-established adult and childhood vaccination programs in Nigeria. We conducted eight Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 53 interviews with 132 participants purposively selected fro…
Seeking evidence of intersectional effects in emergency hospital readmissions of adults in England (2016–2019)
BACKGROUND: Using a large administrative dataset, we explore intersectional effects in the risk of unplanned readmission after hospital discharge in England. We test whether the size and direction of these effects aligns with societal power dynamics that underpin theories of intersectionality. METHODS: We use logistic regression to explore the risk amongst adults in England, of an unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge from hospital be…
Healthcare providers' perspectives on the organization of health services to manage people with multiple long-term conditions in primary care settings in Kerala, India
Background Multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) are a major public health challenge globally. Complexity in managing MLTCs and their adverse consequences confronts the public healthcare systems in India. However, data from India to understand how to improve capacity to manage multiple chronic conditions are limited. We aimed to explore the challenges healthcare providers (HCPs) face in managing people with MLTCs in a south Indian primary care se…
Prevalence, patterns, and determinants of multimorbidity in South Africa
Background Multimorbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa is under researched and includes distinct disease combinations to those seen in high income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of multimorbidity in South Africa, as well as the associated individual, area-level and contextual factors. Methodology Multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted on nationally representative 2016 South Africa Demogr…
South Asian patient experiences of professional interpreting service provision in general practice in England
No/low English proficiency patients need additional support when booking interpreted-assisted appointments. Increasing patient awareness of and confidence in professional language support is vital to uptake of services. Emphasising the benefits of professional support over informal options is important, with links to patient safety. We provide recommendations for general practice in how to support the uptake of professional interpreting services
Conducting tobacco control surveys among schoolchildren in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Most of the world’s 300 million smokeless tobacco (ST) users live in South Asia but ST policies for that region are poorly researched, developed and implemented. Longitudinal studies to understand the uptake and use of ST and smoking, and influences on these, such as health promotion strategies, are lacking. We planned to conduct longitudinal surveys among secondary school students in three countries with the highest ST burden: Bangladesh, India …
A socio-ecological framework examination of drivers of blood pressure control among patients with comorbidities and on treatment in two Nairobi slums; a qualitative study
Despite the known and effective treatments to control blood pressure, there is limited information on why there are high uncontrolled hypertension rates in urban slum settings. The aim of this paper is to explore the views of treated people with uncontrolled hypertension and other key stakeholders on the facilitators and barriers to blood pressure control among people with comorbid conditions in two Nairobi slums. The study was conducted in two N…
Beyond Information Provision
People from Black and Asian backgrounds are more likely to die from COVID-19 but less likely to be vaccinated, threatening to exacerbate health inequalities already experienced by ethnic minority groups. The literature suggests that mistrust rooted in structural inequality (including socioeconomic position and experience of racism) may be a key barrier to COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Understanding and addressing structural inequality is likely to lea…
Risk factors for upper limb fractures due to unintentional injuries among adolescents
Modifiable risk factors in relation to lifestyle factors and socioeconomic position were important determinants of upper limb fracture risk in adolescents. Many fractures can be prevented by strengthening awareness programmes in the community
Socioeconomic inequality in different phenotypes of childhood obesity and its determinants in Iran
According to the present study findings, all childhood obesity phenotypes were more prevalent in Iranian children with high SES. Therefore, due to obesity and other diseases, it is essential to implement environmental changes in addition to designing macro-educational programs and prevention strategies
The co-occurrence of overweight/obesity and anaemia among adult women, adolescent girls and children living in fifty-two low- and middle-income countries
Objective: To investigate the magnitude and distribution of concurrent overweight/obesity and anaemia among adult women, adolescent girls and children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Design: We selected the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys with anthropometric and Hb level measures. Prevalence estimates and 95 % CI of concurrent overweight/obesity and anaemia were calculated for every country, overall and stratified by…
Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process
This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthcare access of slum residents in the Global South. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were employed to examine the following research ques…
Intra‐household double burden of overweight/obesity and anaemia
Globally, overweight/obesity is rising rapidly while anaemia persists. Nevertheless, evidence on their coexistence at the household level remains limited. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we quantified the magnitude, distribution and inequalities (i.e., estimates by wealth, education level and residence) in the intra-household double burden (DBM) of overweight/obesity and anaemia among mothers and their children living in 49 lo…
Evaluation of a self-help intervention to promote the health and wellbeing of marginalised people including those living with leprosy in Nepal
This research will provide information on the effectiveness of combined self-help and self-care groups, on quality of life, social integration and economic wellbeing for people living with leprosy, disability or who are socially and economically marginalised in low- and middle- income countries
Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries
Clinical records in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are often lacking or of too poor quality to accurately assess what happens during the patient consultation. We examined the most common methods for assessing healthcare workers’ clinical behaviour: direct observation, standardized patients and patient/healthcare worker exit interview. The comparative feasibility, acceptability, reliability, validity and pra…
From policy to patient
Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017
BACKGROUND: Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma. In this study, we aimed to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases globally, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on geographical and time trends from 1990 to 2017. METHODS: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease…
Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017
BACKGROUND: Health system planning requires careful assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology, but data for morbidity and mortality of this disease are scarce or non-existent in many countries. We estimated the global, regional, and national burden of CKD, as well as the burden of cardiovascular disease and gout attributable to impaired kidney function, for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. We use…
Impact of the societal response to Covid-19 on access to healthcare for non-Covid-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in slum communities. METHODS: In seven slums in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan, we explored stakeholder perspectives and experiences of healthc…
Social networks, health and identity
There are generational and age-based differences in how members use locations to access and develop social support for particular lifestyle choices. The pursuit of a healthier lifestyle varies across the diverse migrant community, determined by social hierarchies and socio-cultural factors. Living close to similar others can limit exposure to novel lifestyle choices and efforts need to be made to promote wider integration between communities and …
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016
BACKGROUND: Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic, comparable method of quantifying health loss by disease, age, sex, year, and location to provide information to health systems and policy makers on more than 300 causes of disease and injury, including strok…
Cultural adaptation of a children’s weight management programme
ISRCTN81798055 , registered: 13/05/2014
Long-term conditions, self-management and systems of support
The findings have implications for the design and delivery of primary care and community services which support the prevention and management of NCDs in an increasingly diverse population
The Relationship Between Spirituality, Health and Life Satisfaction of Undergraduate Students in the UK
Where’s the evidence? Debates in modern medicine
Don’t be put off by the title. This is not a textbook on evidence based medicine (EBM) and statistics but about issues that evidence based health raises when patients present with problems that can be difficult to manage. It is a collection of very short essays that were first published in
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’
Little is known about health and social care experiences of patients with rare long-term neurological conditions. Furthermore, black and minority ethnic (BME) service users are often perceived to be under-represented in health services research. BME service users have been described as ‘hard to reach’ in the past. However, evidence suggests that a variety of recruitment methods need to be used in order to increase recruitment. We employed a range…
The myth of agency and patient choice in health care? The case of drug treatments to prevent coronary disease
Long-term conditions, self-management and systems of support
The findings have implications for the design and delivery of primary care and community services which support the prevention and management of NCDs in an increasingly diverse population
Are Racial and Ethnic Minorities Less Willing to Participate in Health Research?
BACKGROUND: It is widely claimed that racial and ethnic minorities, especially in the US, are less willing than non-minority individuals to participate in health research. Yet, there is a paucity of empirical data to substantiate this claim. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We performed a comprehensive literature search to identify all published health research studies that report consent rates by race or ethnicity. We found 20 health research studies that …
An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States
Background Migrant workers in the United States have extremely poor health. This paper aims to identify ways in which the social context of migrant farm workers affects their health and health care. Methods and Findings This qualitative study employs participant observation and interviews on farms and in clinics throughout 15 months of migration with a group of indigenous Triqui Mexicans in the western US and Mexico. Study participants include mo…
The myth of agency and patient choice in health care? The case of drug treatments to prevent coronary disease
Sri Lankan tsunami refugees
BACKGROUND: On the 26th December 2004 the Asian tsunami devastated the Sri Lankan coastline. More than two years later, over 14,500 families were still living in transitional shelters. This study compares the health of the internally displaced people (IDP), living in transitional camps with those in permanent housing projects provided by government and non-government organisations in Sri Lanka. METHODS: This study was conducted in seven transitio…
Access to interpreting services in England
Overcoming language barriers to health care is a global challenge. There is great linguistic diversity in the major cities in the UK with more than 300 languages, excluding dialects, spoken by children in London alone. However, there is dearth of data on the number of non-English speakers for planning effective interpreting services. The aim was to estimate the number of people requiring language support amongst the minority ethnic communities in…
Experiences of outreach workers in promoting smoking cessation to Bangladeshi and Pakistani men
Outreach workers expanded reach of the service through taking it to diverse locations of relevance to Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. The optimum method of outreach to retain and treat Bangladeshi and Pakistani smokers effectively in cessation programmes needs further development
Exposure to and opinions towards sex education among adolescent students in Mumbai
The majority responding indicated a desire for more widespread implementation of school-based sex education, particularly amongst female respondents
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’
Little is known about health and social care experiences of patients with rare long-term neurological conditions. Furthermore, black and minority ethnic (BME) service users are often perceived to be under-represented in health services research. BME service users have been described as ‘hard to reach’ in the past. However, evidence suggests that a variety of recruitment methods need to be used in order to increase recruitment. We employed a range…
P2-494 Differential outcome and treatment rates for peripheral vascular disease in the black, Asian and White British population
Introduction Peripheral vascular disease is under researched with no outcome data for the UK. It has the same underlying pathology and treatment modalities as coronary heart disease and is just as preventable. Aim To document treatment and outcomes for lower limb peripheral vascular disease in those aged 50–84 by ethnic group. Method Secondary analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics (2003–2009) patient data with 77 million admission episodes. Age…
What is research? Views of minority groups
Background and Objectives Black and minority ethnic groups are often excluded from research, and the reasons for this are complex. E-ECHOES (Ethnic-echocardiographic heart of England screening) was a large community based heart failure study among South Asian and Black African and Black Caribbean communities. The research study reported here followed on from E-ECHOES, and aimed to explore why minority ethnic groups are under-represented in cardio…
The role of support groups in facilitating families in coping with a genetic condition and in discussion of genetic risk information
Background Giving children and young people information about genetic conditions and associated risk has been shown to be important to their identity, coping and decision making. Parents, however, find talking to their children difficult, and support from health professionals is often not available to them. Objective To explore the role of support groups in family coping, and in assisting parents’ communication about risk with children in familie…
Mixed methods evaluation of targeted case finding for cardiovascular disease prevention using a stepped wedged cluster RCT
It is possible to design a stepped wedge randomised controlled trial using routine data to determine the primary outcome to evaluate implementation of a cardiovascular prevention programme
The Relationship Between Spirituality, Health and Life Satisfaction of Undergraduate Students in the UK
A cluster-randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a childhood obesity prevention programme delivered through schools, targeting 6–7 year old children
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN97000586 (registered May 2010)
Long-term conditions, self-management and systems of support
The findings have implications for the design and delivery of primary care and community services which support the prevention and management of NCDs in an increasingly diverse population
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016
BACKGROUND: Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic, comparable method of quantifying health loss by disease, age, sex, year, and location to provide information to health systems and policy makers on more than 300 causes of disease and injury, including strok…
Cultural adaptation of a children’s weight management programme
ISRCTN81798055 , registered: 13/05/2014
Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017
BACKGROUND: Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma. In this study, we aimed to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases globally, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on geographical and time trends from 1990 to 2017. METHODS: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease…
Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017
BACKGROUND: Health system planning requires careful assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology, but data for morbidity and mortality of this disease are scarce or non-existent in many countries. We estimated the global, regional, and national burden of CKD, as well as the burden of cardiovascular disease and gout attributable to impaired kidney function, for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. We use…
Impact of the societal response to Covid-19 on access to healthcare for non-Covid-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in slum communities. METHODS: In seven slums in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan, we explored stakeholder perspectives and experiences of healthc…
Social networks, health and identity
There are generational and age-based differences in how members use locations to access and develop social support for particular lifestyle choices. The pursuit of a healthier lifestyle varies across the diverse migrant community, determined by social hierarchies and socio-cultural factors. Living close to similar others can limit exposure to novel lifestyle choices and efforts need to be made to promote wider integration between communities and …
Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process
This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthcare access of slum residents in the Global South. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were employed to examine the following research ques…
Intra‐household double burden of overweight/obesity and anaemia
Globally, overweight/obesity is rising rapidly while anaemia persists. Nevertheless, evidence on their coexistence at the household level remains limited. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we quantified the magnitude, distribution and inequalities (i.e., estimates by wealth, education level and residence) in the intra-household double burden (DBM) of overweight/obesity and anaemia among mothers and their children living in 49 lo…
Evaluation of a self-help intervention to promote the health and wellbeing of marginalised people including those living with leprosy in Nepal
This research will provide information on the effectiveness of combined self-help and self-care groups, on quality of life, social integration and economic wellbeing for people living with leprosy, disability or who are socially and economically marginalised in low- and middle- income countries
Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries
Clinical records in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are often lacking or of too poor quality to accurately assess what happens during the patient consultation. We examined the most common methods for assessing healthcare workers’ clinical behaviour: direct observation, standardized patients and patient/healthcare worker exit interview. The comparative feasibility, acceptability, reliability, validity and pra…
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