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Public acceptance of obesity prevention policies in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Fatemi, M., Murray, R., & Langley, T. (2021). Public acceptance of obesity prevention policies in the UK. Journal of Cancer Policy, 27, Article 100256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2020.100256

Background: Half of the UK population will get cancer during their lifetime, with the current survival rate at 50 %. Behavioural factors such as obesity contribute to two-fifths of the UK's most common cancers. Food ‘pricing’ and ‘place and promotion... Read More about Public acceptance of obesity prevention policies in the UK.

Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. (2020)
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Paskins, Z., Crawford-Manning, F., Cottrell, E., Corp, N., Wright, J., Jinks, C., …Sahota, O. (2020). Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e040634. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040634

OBJECTIVE: To explore the acceptability of different bisphosphonate regimens for the treatment of osteoporosis among patients, clinicians and managers, payers and academics.

DESIGN: A systematic review of primary qualitative studies. Seven databas... Read More about Acceptability of bisphosphonates among patients, clinicians and managers: a systematic review and framework synthesis..

Experiences and views of women, children, and professionals regarding second-hand smoke exposure prevention in Middle Eastern countries: a qualitative systematic review protocol (2020)
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Hassanein, Z., Langley, T., Murray, R., Bogdanovica, I., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2021). Experiences and views of women, children, and professionals regarding second-hand smoke exposure prevention in Middle Eastern countries: a qualitative systematic review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 18(1), 222-228. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00248

Objective: This systematic review aims to identify and explore the experiences and views regarding secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among women and children in the home, workplace, school, personal vehicles, and public places from the perspectives of... Read More about Experiences and views of women, children, and professionals regarding second-hand smoke exposure prevention in Middle Eastern countries: a qualitative systematic review protocol.

Patients' attitudes towards cost feedback to doctors to prevent unnecessary testing: a qualitative focus group study (2020)
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Young, B., Fogarty, A. W., Skelly, R., Shaw, D., Thurley, P., Sturrock, N., …Cranwell, J. (2020). Patients' attitudes towards cost feedback to doctors to prevent unnecessary testing: a qualitative focus group study. Public Health, 185, 338-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.023

© 2020 The Authors Objectives: There is a need to improve efficiency in healthcare delivery without compromising quality of care. One approach is the development and evaluation of behavioural strategies to reduce unnecessary use of common tests. Howe... Read More about Patients' attitudes towards cost feedback to doctors to prevent unnecessary testing: a qualitative focus group study.

Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation: an example from tobacco control (2020)
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Langley, T., Gillespie, D., Lewis, S., Eminson, K., Brennan, A., Docherty, G., & Young, B. (2020). Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation: an example from tobacco control. Journal of Public Health, 43(3), 639-646. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa032

Background

The evaluation of large-scale public health policy interventions often relies on observational designs where attributing causality is challenging. Logic models – visual representations of an intervention’s anticipated causal pathway –... Read More about Developing logic models to inform public health policy outcome evaluation: an example from tobacco control.

‘I Felt Welcomed in Like They’re a Little Family in There, I Felt Like I Was Joining a Team or Something’: Vape Shop Customers’ Experiences of E-Cigarette Use, Vape Shops and the Vaping Community (2019)
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Langley, T., Bell-Williams, R., Pattinson, J., Britton, J., & Bains, M. (2019). ‘I Felt Welcomed in Like They’re a Little Family in There, I Felt Like I Was Joining a Team or Something’: Vape Shop Customers’ Experiences of E-Cigarette Use, Vape Shops and the Vaping Community. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(13), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132341

Background: Specialist electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) shops, known as vape shops, provide access to a less harmful alternative to smoking. This study aimed to understand customers’ experiences of vaping and vape shops, and the extent to which smo... Read More about ‘I Felt Welcomed in Like They’re a Little Family in There, I Felt Like I Was Joining a Team or Something’: Vape Shop Customers’ Experiences of E-Cigarette Use, Vape Shops and the Vaping Community.

What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014? (2019)
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Varona-Perez*, P., Bridges, S., Lorenzo-Vazquez, E., Suarez-Medina, R., Venero-Fernandez, S.-J., Langley, T., …Fogarty, A. W. (2019). What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014?. Public Health, 173, 126-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.05.014

Objectives: Cuba is a tobacco producing country that has been economically isolated as a consequence of an embargo imposed by the USA, and has also experienced a severe economic depression in the 1990s after the withdrawal of support by the former So... Read More about What is the association between price and economic activity with cigarette consumption in Cuba from 1980 to 2014?.

An evaluation of a price transparency intervention for two commonly prescribed medications on total institutional expenditure: a prospective study (2018)
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Langley, T., Lacey, J., Johnson, A., Newman, C., Khare, M., Skelly, R., …Fogarty, A. W. (2018). An evaluation of a price transparency intervention for two commonly prescribed medications on total institutional expenditure: a prospective study. Future Hospital Journal, 5(3), 198-202. https://doi.org/10.7861/futurehosp.5-3-198

Importance: Providing cost feedback has been demonstrated to decrease demand from clinicians.
Objective: We tested the hypothesis that providing the cost of drugs to clinicians would modify total expenditure.
Design: A prospective study design with... Read More about An evaluation of a price transparency intervention for two commonly prescribed medications on total institutional expenditure: a prospective study.

Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to tobacco smoking among students in the Gambia (2018)
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Jallow, I. K., Britton, J., & Langley, T. (2019). Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to tobacco smoking among students in the Gambia. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 21(8), 1113–1121. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty128

Introduction: Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death, and kills about 7 million people annually. As smoking prevalence is falling in developed countries, tobacco businesses are turning to low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to generate... Read More about Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to tobacco smoking among students in the Gambia.

Vape shops: who uses them and what do they do? (2018)
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Pattinson, J., Lewis, S., Bains, M., Britton, J., & Langley, T. (2018). Vape shops: who uses them and what do they do?. BMC Public Health, 18, Article 541. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5467-9

Background: ‘Vape shops’ are a popular source for buying electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and related products. The products that vape shops sell, their marketing techniques and the extent to which they provide information or encouragement to smo... Read More about Vape shops: who uses them and what do they do?.

Prevalence and factors associated with exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) among young people: a cross-sectional study from The Gambia (2018)
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Jallow, I. K., Britton, J., & Langley, T. (2018). Prevalence and factors associated with exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) among young people: a cross-sectional study from The Gambia. BMJ Open, 8(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019524

Background: Annually 600,000 deaths are attributed to exposure of non-smokers to second-hand smoke (SHS). These include 165,000 among children, about 60% of which occur in Africa and South-East Asia. In 2011 only four countries in the African region... Read More about Prevalence and factors associated with exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) among young people: a cross-sectional study from The Gambia.

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Impact of Standardized Tobacco Packaging Legislation on University Students (2018)
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Poundall, T., Bogdanovica, I., & Langley, T. (2018). A Cross-Sectional Study of the Impact of Standardized Tobacco Packaging Legislation on University Students. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 27(3), 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2018.1431992

Background: European Union and national legislation implemented from May 2016 mean that from May 2017 all tobacco products in the United Kingdom must be sold in standardized packs without external branding and with prominent graphic health warnings.... Read More about A Cross-Sectional Study of the Impact of Standardized Tobacco Packaging Legislation on University Students.

Frequency of stepping down antibiotics and nebuliser treatment is lower at weekends compared to weekdays: an observational study (2017)
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Lewis, S., Langley, T., Lacey, J., Skelly, R., Norwood, M., Sturrock, N., & Fogarty, A. W. (2017). Frequency of stepping down antibiotics and nebuliser treatment is lower at weekends compared to weekdays: an observational study. Clinical Medicine, 17(6), https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-6-504

We hypothesised that delays in providing non-urgent medication step-downs at weekends to medical management may be associated with increased length of stay.In a novel use of electronic prescribing data, we analysed emergency admissions from a busy ac... Read More about Frequency of stepping down antibiotics and nebuliser treatment is lower at weekends compared to weekdays: an observational study.

Awareness of standardised tobacco packaging among adults and young people during the final phase of policy implementation in Great Britain (2017)
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Bogdanovica, I., Opazo-Breton, M., Langley, T., & Britton, J. (2017). Awareness of standardised tobacco packaging among adults and young people during the final phase of policy implementation in Great Britain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14080858

Background: In May 2016, along with the latest European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), standardised packaging legislation was implemented in the UK. During the following 12-month transition period, both new and old types of packaging were allowed... Read More about Awareness of standardised tobacco packaging among adults and young people during the final phase of policy implementation in Great Britain.

Rapidly Increasing Trend of Recorded Alcohol Consumption Since the End of the Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka (2017)
Journal Article
Nugawela, M. D., Lewis, S., Szatkowski, L., & Langley, T. (2017). Rapidly Increasing Trend of Recorded Alcohol Consumption Since the End of the Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 52(5), 550-556. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agx044

Aim: To evaluate temporal changes in recorded alcohol consumption in Sri Lanka during and after the armed conflict 1998 – 2013.

Methods: District level alcohol sales, and mid-year population data for the whole study period (1998-2013) were consis... Read More about Rapidly Increasing Trend of Recorded Alcohol Consumption Since the End of the Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka.

The impact of TV mass media campaigns on calls to a national quitline and the use of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy: a Structural vector autoregression analysis (2017)
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Haghpanahan, H., Mackay, D. F., Pell, J. P., Bell, D., Langley, T., & Haw, S. (2017). The impact of TV mass media campaigns on calls to a national quitline and the use of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy: a Structural vector autoregression analysis. Addiction, 112(7), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13793

Aims: To estimate 1) the immediate impact; 2) the cumulative impact; and 3) the duration of impact of Scottish tobacco control TV mass media campaigns (MMCs) on smoking cessation activity, as measured by calls to Smokeline and the volume of prescribe... Read More about The impact of TV mass media campaigns on calls to a national quitline and the use of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy: a Structural vector autoregression analysis.

The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes (2015)
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Lewis, S., Sims, M., Richardson, S., Langley, T., Szatkowski, L., McNeill, A., & Gilmore, A. B. (2015). The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes. BMC Public Health, 15, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2207-2

BACKGROUND: There is considerable evidence that tobacco control mass media campaigns can change smoking behaviour. In the UK, campaigns over the last decade have contributed to declines in smoking prevalence and been associated with falls in cigarett... Read More about The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes.

Economic evaluations of tobacco control mass media campaigns: a systematic review (2015)
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Atusingwize, E., Lewis, S., & Langley, T. (2015). Economic evaluations of tobacco control mass media campaigns: a systematic review. Tobacco Control, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051579

BACKGROUND: International evidence shows that mass media campaigns are effective tobacco control interventions. However, they require substantial investment; a key question is whether their costs are justified by their benefits. The aim of this study... Read More about Economic evaluations of tobacco control mass media campaigns: a systematic review.