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Cryptocurrency and new financial instruments: unquantified public health harms (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, N., & Ferris, S. (2022). Cryptocurrency and new financial instruments: unquantified public health harms. Lancet Public Health, 7(8), Article e655. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667%2822%2900173-6

Public health harms from gambling are now well recognised. Public Health England estimates societal gambling-related harm in England exceeds £1·27 billion. Australian research estimates that the years lost to disability from gambling exceeds that of... Read More about Cryptocurrency and new financial instruments: unquantified public health harms.

Opportunistic Non-Governmental Organisation Delivery of a Virtual Stop Smoking Service in England during the COVID-19 Lockdown (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, N. P., Callister, M. E., Copeland, H., Griffiths, S., Holtam, L., Lambert, P., …Murray, R. L. (2022). Opportunistic Non-Governmental Organisation Delivery of a Virtual Stop Smoking Service in England during the COVID-19 Lockdown. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), Article 7722. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137722

Smoking cessation services have rapidly transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes include pivoting from face-to-face to telephone and video call support, remote provision of stop smoking aids and more flexible appointments. This study reports... Read More about Opportunistic Non-Governmental Organisation Delivery of a Virtual Stop Smoking Service in England during the COVID-19 Lockdown.

Human judgement forecasting tournaments: A feasibility study based on the COVID-19 pandemic with public health practitioners in England (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, N., & Ferris, S. (2022). Human judgement forecasting tournaments: A feasibility study based on the COVID-19 pandemic with public health practitioners in England. Public Health In Practice, 3, Article 100260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2022.100260

Objectives: To explore the viability of running human judgement forecasting tournaments with public health practitioners, and to gather initial data on forecasting accuracy and participant perceptions of forecasting. Study design: Quality improvement... Read More about Human judgement forecasting tournaments: A feasibility study based on the COVID-19 pandemic with public health practitioners in England.

When is Subnational, Supralocal Tobacco Control "just right"? A Qualitative Study in England (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, N., Cheeseman, H., Arnott, D., Pierce, E., Langley, T. E., Murray, R., …Bains, M. (2022). When is Subnational, Supralocal Tobacco Control "just right"? A Qualitative Study in England. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 24(8), 1241-1246. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac069

Introduction: Subnational, supralocal (or "regional") approaches to tobacco control are often central federal nation tobacco control and can be superfluous for very small nations. However, their relevance to countries with weak intermediate tiers of... Read More about When is Subnational, Supralocal Tobacco Control "just right"? A Qualitative Study in England.