John Newton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3705266 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Newton |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Newton |
| ASSINATURA | NEWTON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Public Health England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5641-6457 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1958 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Nature contact and health risk Behaviours
Emerging evidence suggests that residential greenspace is associated with a lower prevalence of health risk behaviours, but it remains unclear whether these effects are generalizable across countries or different types of nature contact. Using representative cross-sectional samples from 18 countries/regions, we examined the associations between two types of nature contact (greenspace, nature visits), current smoking and everyday drinking. After c…
Tobacco Control Leaders Call for a Balanced Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Vaping
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade
The nature and effects of that unhappy and disgraceful branch of commerce, which has long been maintained on the Coast of Africa, with the sole, and professed design of purchasing our fellow-creatures, in order to supply our West-India islands and the American colonies, when they were ours, with Slaves; is now generally understood. The people who remain, on ship-board, upon the open coast, if accustomed to the climate, are liable to the attack of…
Continuing Burden of Tobacco-Related Harm
Continuing Burden of Tobacco-Related Harm: E-Cigarette Policy in England Is Evidence Based and Not Exceptional John N. Newton FFPH, FRCP, and Martin Dockrell BA Affiliation John N. Newton is with Public Health England, London; Division of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; and the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Truro, Cornwall, UK. Martin Dockrell is with Public Health England.Cop…
Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? Comments on the authors' response to earlier criticism
Academic debate is healthy and helps us to clarify the evidence base for the interested reader. However, it is unusual for a peer-reviewed paper in a reputable journal to receive quite as much criticism as that which greeted publication of the paper by Peckham et al on fluoride and hypothyroidism.1 Two highly critical commentaries were published at the time.2 ,3 A subsequent review article4 in the Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice conclud…
Nutrient prices and concentrations in Midwestern agricultural watersheds
Water fluoridation and hypothyroidism
Dental caries remains a significant public health problem in many countries and an important cause of health inequalities. In England, almost a third of 5-year-old children and over two-fifths of 15-year-old teenagers are affected, and substantially higher rates of disease are seen among deprived communities.1 Dental disease can cause impaired nutrition and growth,2 ,3 and is one of the most common causes of child hospital admission. Long-term im…
Salvation at Sea
This chapter presents excerpts from John Newton's An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ******** (1764). Best known for his hymn “Amazing Grace,” Newton made other significant contributions to evangelicalism. In the Authentic Narrative, Newton confessed his blasphemous language and implicit immorality as a seaman in the mid-1740s. During one evening in March 1748, while aboard a ship called the Greyh…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
This 1786 publication is a translation of a prizewinning Latin essay written by Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) at Cambridge the previous year. Clarkson's deep research into the Atlantic slave trade instilled in him a sense of duty, inspiring him to devote his life to abolitionism. The publication of the essay introduced Clarkson to like-minded campaigners, notably William Wilberforce (1759–1833) and Granville Sharpe (1735–1813), with whom he helped …
Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life
This volume brings together seventeen essays drawing on various cultures and countries, from the narratives of Komi hunters living near the Ural Mountains in north-east Russia to those of pilgrims
Only to connect
This article provides an example of the contribution a systems psychodynamic approach can make to action research. Drawing from a case study of a complex inter-organizational project, the authors argue that the concept of 'communicative space' requires consideration of affectivity, and the holding of an emotional space for people to connect symbiotically with each other. The case material illustrates how system pressures were having the opposite …
Patients' involvement in medical audit in general practice
The paper considers how patients might be involved in medical audit. It argues that there are ethical, political and clinical justifications for widening the current ‘medical model’ to include patients' views of mainly sociopsychological matters, and that these are intrinsic to the delivery of health care and evaluations of its quality. The potential barriers to such involvement are doctor-patient relationships; the culture of general practice; t…
Sensible Proof of Spirits”
This paper examines beliefs about ghosts from 1650 to 1700 as an area in its own right, as distinct from, albeit related to, earlier post-reformation beliefs. It particularly considers the approach of anti-sadducean writers to ghosts and spirits, and seeks to explore the historical context for such beliefs. Notes [1] For an examination of the ambiguities of interpretation among those who subscribed to demonic theories in the period 1530–1640, see…
Colonialism above the Snowline
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals
Comparing measures of variation
late 1970s and is now rising.After allowing for the proportion of births to mothers over 35 years, the trend with year remains significant at the 5% level, OR=0-9996, (95%CI: 0 9995, 0 9997).Over the period there has also been a steady increase in the proportion of single mothers.As single mothers are more likely to have boys,4 it is likely that the decline in the sex ratio of children born to other women is even greater.This decline in the sex r…
An Assessment of Coping With Environmental Hazards in Northern Aboriginal Communities
Impressions of the north, its landscape, and people are drawn largely from public images, not personal experience, making misconceptions commonplace among non‐residents. The objective of this research is to improve our understanding of how communities cope with flood hazards through an assessment of the complex integration of traditional knowledge, community evolution, and modern technologies. This intersection of forces could influence vulnerabi…
Geographical variation in hospital admission rates
OBJECTIVE--To measure variation in hospital admission rates between health districts in part of the English NHS, comparing a wide range of medical and surgical conditions. DESIGN--Retrospective analysis of interdistrict variation using linked routine hospital admission data. Comparisons were also made with levels of variation reported from the USA. SETTING--Oxford Regional Health Authority, 1979-86. SUBJECTS--Six district health authorities--tota…
Prevalence of total hip replacement
OBJECTIVE--To determine the prevalence of completed elective total hip replacements in a defined elderly population. DESIGN--Cross sectional postal questionnaire survey with additional data and validation from general practice and hospital records. SETTING--Six general practices in the English counties of Avon, Somerset, and Oxfordshire. SUBJECTS--A total of 7806 patients aged 65 years and over (94.7% response). RESULTS--The overall prevalence (9…
What a Difference a Day Makes
Richard A. Berk, Phyllis J. Newton, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, What a Difference a Day Makes: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Shelters for Battered Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1986), pp. 481-490
Does Arrest Really Deter Wife Battery? An Effort to Replicate the Findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment
In this paper we try to replicate the findings from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment (Sherman and Berk, 1984). Using longitudinal data from the criminal justice system on 783 wife-battery incidents, an ex post factor design coupled with a propensity-score analysis reveals that arrests substantially reduce the number of new incidents of wife battery. In addition, the reductions are greatest for batterers whom the police would ordinarily be …
Cops on Call
In this paper, we examine factors that affect whether the police are summoned to incidents of spousal violence. The actions of bystanders are distinguished from the actions of victims, and we find that victims and bystanders are moved by somewhat different influences. We also find that the immediate features of the situation dominate the decision to call the police and that many legitimate concerns are salient (e.g., whether there are injuries). …
The changing pattern of a comprehensive infertility clinic
The results of a comprehensive daily fertility clinic are presented for the years 1970–72, together with a 2-month schedule of investigation for the couples. Twenty-seven per cent had ovulation problems, 18% fallopian tube blockage or adhesions, 25% oligo- or aspermia and 27% were normal to investigation. The treatment of these conditions is discussed; the highest pregnancy rate was seen in those with no treatment (45%) indicating the use of reas…
Science in an Enchanted World
Science in an Enchanted World: Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill." The Seventeenth Century, 36(2), pp. 361–362
Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, by Emma Wilby, Eastbourne, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, 604 pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8451-9180-1Isobel Gowdie was a cottar's wife living in the outlying areas of Auldearn, a small town located roughly half way between Inverness and Elgin in the north-east of Scotland. She is known to history for four confessions she related in early 1662…
Does Arrest Really Deter Wife Battery? An Effort to Replicate the Findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment
In this paper we try to replicate the findings from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment (Sherman and Berk, 1984). Using longitudinal data from the criminal justice system on 783 wife-battery incidents, an ex post factor design coupled with a propensity-score analysis reveals that arrests substantially reduce the number of new incidents of wife battery. In addition, the reductions are greatest for batterers whom the police would ordinarily be …
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals
Cops on Call
In this paper, we examine factors that affect whether the police are summoned to incidents of spousal violence. The actions of bystanders are distinguished from the actions of victims, and we find that victims and bystanders are moved by somewhat different influences. We also find that the immediate features of the situation dominate the decision to call the police and that many legitimate concerns are salient (e.g., whether there are injuries). …
What a Difference a Day Makes
Richard A. Berk, Phyllis J. Newton, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, What a Difference a Day Makes: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Shelters for Battered Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1986), pp. 481-490
Sensible Proof of Spirits”
This paper examines beliefs about ghosts from 1650 to 1700 as an area in its own right, as distinct from, albeit related to, earlier post-reformation beliefs. It particularly considers the approach of anti-sadducean writers to ghosts and spirits, and seeks to explore the historical context for such beliefs. Notes [1] For an examination of the ambiguities of interpretation among those who subscribed to demonic theories in the period 1530–1640, see…
Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life
This volume brings together seventeen essays drawing on various cultures and countries, from the narratives of Komi hunters living near the Ural Mountains in north-east Russia to those of pilgrims
Only to connect
This article provides an example of the contribution a systems psychodynamic approach can make to action research. Drawing from a case study of a complex inter-organizational project, the authors argue that the concept of 'communicative space' requires consideration of affectivity, and the holding of an emotional space for people to connect symbiotically with each other. The case material illustrates how system pressures were having the opposite …
An Assessment of Coping With Environmental Hazards in Northern Aboriginal Communities
Impressions of the north, its landscape, and people are drawn largely from public images, not personal experience, making misconceptions commonplace among non‐residents. The objective of this research is to improve our understanding of how communities cope with flood hazards through an assessment of the complex integration of traditional knowledge, community evolution, and modern technologies. This intersection of forces could influence vulnerabi…
Geographical variation in hospital admission rates
OBJECTIVE--To measure variation in hospital admission rates between health districts in part of the English NHS, comparing a wide range of medical and surgical conditions. DESIGN--Retrospective analysis of interdistrict variation using linked routine hospital admission data. Comparisons were also made with levels of variation reported from the USA. SETTING--Oxford Regional Health Authority, 1979-86. SUBJECTS--Six district health authorities--tota…
Water fluoridation and hypothyroidism
Dental caries remains a significant public health problem in many countries and an important cause of health inequalities. In England, almost a third of 5-year-old children and over two-fifths of 15-year-old teenagers are affected, and substantially higher rates of disease are seen among deprived communities.1 Dental disease can cause impaired nutrition and growth,2 ,3 and is one of the most common causes of child hospital admission. Long-term im…
Communicating in Jargon
The changing pattern of a comprehensive infertility clinic
The results of a comprehensive daily fertility clinic are presented for the years 1970–72, together with a 2-month schedule of investigation for the couples. Twenty-seven per cent had ovulation problems, 18% fallopian tube blockage or adhesions, 25% oligo- or aspermia and 27% were normal to investigation. The treatment of these conditions is discussed; the highest pregnancy rate was seen in those with no treatment (45%) indicating the use of reas…
Cops on Call
In this paper, we examine factors that affect whether the police are summoned to incidents of spousal violence. The actions of bystanders are distinguished from the actions of victims, and we find that victims and bystanders are moved by somewhat different influences. We also find that the immediate features of the situation dominate the decision to call the police and that many legitimate concerns are salient (e.g., whether there are injuries). …
Does Arrest Really Deter Wife Battery? An Effort to Replicate the Findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment
In this paper we try to replicate the findings from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment (Sherman and Berk, 1984). Using longitudinal data from the criminal justice system on 783 wife-battery incidents, an ex post factor design coupled with a propensity-score analysis reveals that arrests substantially reduce the number of new incidents of wife battery. In addition, the reductions are greatest for batterers whom the police would ordinarily be …
What a Difference a Day Makes
Richard A. Berk, Phyllis J. Newton, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, What a Difference a Day Makes: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Shelters for Battered Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug., 1986), pp. 481-490
Geographical variation in hospital admission rates
OBJECTIVE--To measure variation in hospital admission rates between health districts in part of the English NHS, comparing a wide range of medical and surgical conditions. DESIGN--Retrospective analysis of interdistrict variation using linked routine hospital admission data. Comparisons were also made with levels of variation reported from the USA. SETTING--Oxford Regional Health Authority, 1979-86. SUBJECTS--Six district health authorities--tota…
Prevalence of total hip replacement
OBJECTIVE--To determine the prevalence of completed elective total hip replacements in a defined elderly population. DESIGN--Cross sectional postal questionnaire survey with additional data and validation from general practice and hospital records. SETTING--Six general practices in the English counties of Avon, Somerset, and Oxfordshire. SUBJECTS--A total of 7806 patients aged 65 years and over (94.7% response). RESULTS--The overall prevalence (9…
An Assessment of Coping With Environmental Hazards in Northern Aboriginal Communities
Impressions of the north, its landscape, and people are drawn largely from public images, not personal experience, making misconceptions commonplace among non‐residents. The objective of this research is to improve our understanding of how communities cope with flood hazards through an assessment of the complex integration of traditional knowledge, community evolution, and modern technologies. This intersection of forces could influence vulnerabi…
Comparing measures of variation
late 1970s and is now rising.After allowing for the proportion of births to mothers over 35 years, the trend with year remains significant at the 5% level, OR=0-9996, (95%CI: 0 9995, 0 9997).Over the period there has also been a steady increase in the proportion of single mothers.As single mothers are more likely to have boys,4 it is likely that the decline in the sex ratio of children born to other women is even greater.This decline in the sex r…
Colonialism above the Snowline
Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals
Sensible Proof of Spirits”
This paper examines beliefs about ghosts from 1650 to 1700 as an area in its own right, as distinct from, albeit related to, earlier post-reformation beliefs. It particularly considers the approach of anti-sadducean writers to ghosts and spirits, and seeks to explore the historical context for such beliefs. Notes [1] For an examination of the ambiguities of interpretation among those who subscribed to demonic theories in the period 1530–1640, see…
Patients' involvement in medical audit in general practice
The paper considers how patients might be involved in medical audit. It argues that there are ethical, political and clinical justifications for widening the current ‘medical model’ to include patients' views of mainly sociopsychological matters, and that these are intrinsic to the delivery of health care and evaluations of its quality. The potential barriers to such involvement are doctor-patient relationships; the culture of general practice; t…
Only to connect
This article provides an example of the contribution a systems psychodynamic approach can make to action research. Drawing from a case study of a complex inter-organizational project, the authors argue that the concept of 'communicative space' requires consideration of affectivity, and the holding of an emotional space for people to connect symbiotically with each other. The case material illustrates how system pressures were having the opposite …
Salvation at Sea
This chapter presents excerpts from John Newton's An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of ******** (1764). Best known for his hymn “Amazing Grace,” Newton made other significant contributions to evangelicalism. In the Authentic Narrative, Newton confessed his blasphemous language and implicit immorality as a seaman in the mid-1740s. During one evening in March 1748, while aboard a ship called the Greyh…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
This 1786 publication is a translation of a prizewinning Latin essay written by Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) at Cambridge the previous year. Clarkson's deep research into the Atlantic slave trade instilled in him a sense of duty, inspiring him to devote his life to abolitionism. The publication of the essay introduced Clarkson to like-minded campaigners, notably William Wilberforce (1759–1833) and Granville Sharpe (1735–1813), with whom he helped …
Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life
This volume brings together seventeen essays drawing on various cultures and countries, from the narratives of Komi hunters living near the Ural Mountains in north-east Russia to those of pilgrims
Nutrient prices and concentrations in Midwestern agricultural watersheds
Water fluoridation and hypothyroidism
Dental caries remains a significant public health problem in many countries and an important cause of health inequalities. In England, almost a third of 5-year-old children and over two-fifths of 15-year-old teenagers are affected, and substantially higher rates of disease are seen among deprived communities.1 Dental disease can cause impaired nutrition and growth,2 ,3 and is one of the most common causes of child hospital admission. Long-term im…
Are fluoride levels in drinking water associated with hypothyroidism prevalence in England? Comments on the authors' response to earlier criticism
Academic debate is healthy and helps us to clarify the evidence base for the interested reader. However, it is unusual for a peer-reviewed paper in a reputable journal to receive quite as much criticism as that which greeted publication of the paper by Peckham et al on fluoride and hypothyroidism.1 Two highly critical commentaries were published at the time.2 ,3 A subsequent review article4 in the Journal of Evidence-based Dental Practice conclud…
Continuing Burden of Tobacco-Related Harm
Continuing Burden of Tobacco-Related Harm: E-Cigarette Policy in England Is Evidence Based and Not Exceptional John N. Newton FFPH, FRCP, and Martin Dockrell BA Affiliation John N. Newton is with Public Health England, London; Division of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; and the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Truro, Cornwall, UK. Martin Dockrell is with Public Health England.Cop…
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade
The nature and effects of that unhappy and disgraceful branch of commerce, which has long been maintained on the Coast of Africa, with the sole, and professed design of purchasing our fellow-creatures, in order to supply our West-India islands and the American colonies, when they were ours, with Slaves; is now generally understood. The people who remain, on ship-board, upon the open coast, if accustomed to the climate, are liable to the attack of…
Tobacco Control Leaders Call for a Balanced Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Vaping
Science in an Enchanted World
Science in an Enchanted World: Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill." The Seventeenth Century, 36(2), pp. 361–362
Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland, by Emma Wilby, Eastbourne, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, 604 pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8451-9180-1Isobel Gowdie was a cottar's wife living in the outlying areas of Auldearn, a small town located roughly half way between Inverness and Elgin in the north-east of Scotland. She is known to history for four confessions she related in early 1662…
Medicine (13 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Environmental health (6 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)