Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment (2022)
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Moreh, C., McGhee, D., & Vlachantoni, A. (2022). Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 462-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211058744

This article explores the motivational factors behind preferences for medical care in the country of residence or the country of origin among EU nationals living in the UK. Undertaking a thematic analysis on a large-N qualitative data set, the articl... Read More about Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment.

Identifying and addressing digital health risks associated with emergency pandemic response: Problem identification, scoping review, and directions toward evidence-based evaluation. (2022)
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(2022). Identifying and addressing digital health risks associated with emergency pandemic response: Problem identification, scoping review, and directions toward evidence-based evaluation. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104639 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104639

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital health applications in multifaceted disease management dimensions. This study aims (1) to identify risk issues relating to the rapid development and redeployment of COVID-19 rela... Read More about Identifying and addressing digital health risks associated with emergency pandemic response: Problem identification, scoping review, and directions toward evidence-based evaluation..

When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy (2021)
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(2021). When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257757

Context: The Covid-19 pandemic hit the developed world differentially due to accidental factors, and countries had to respond rapidly within existing resources, structures, and processes to manage totally new health challenges. This study aimed to id... Read More about When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy.

Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries (2021)
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Didier, P., Nguyen-The, C., Martens, L., Foden, M., Dumitrascu, L., Octavian Mihalache, A., Ioana Nicolau, A., Skuland, S. E., Truninger, M., Junqueira, L., & Maitre, I. (2021). Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries. Food Control, 127, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108062

Nearly 40% foodborne outbreaks in the European Union are attributable to food practices in domestic homes that include handling and preparation of raw chicken. Hand washing is an important way to prevent cross-contamination with pathogens during chic... Read More about Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries.

A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee (2021)
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Rigby, M. J. (2022). A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee. Child: Care, Health and Development, 48(1), 170-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12907

While children in general are usually seen as a societal priority, many children are disadvantaged by marginalization, with adverse effects on health and development. Following feasibility studies, the European Commission has now adopted a formal Chi... Read More about A commitment to marginalized children in the European Union: The hope and challenges of the EU Child Guarantee.

Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK (2021)
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(2021). Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1941820

Drawing on a mix-methods study comprised of an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, this article presents findings about the complexity and development in time of health service use by Polish migrants living in the United Kingdom. The... Read More about Transnational Healthcare as Process: multiplicity and directionality in the engagements with healthcare among Polish migrants in the UK.

'There's the end of an auld sang': Farewell to the NHS market. (2021)
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Paton, C. (2021). 'There's the end of an auld sang': Farewell to the NHS market. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(5), 1392-1396. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3173

The new White Paper, Integration and Innovation, prefiguring a Health and Social Care Bill for England, means that the NHS structure in England will have come full circle in the last 32 years, since the Thatcher government began in 1989 to implement... Read More about 'There's the end of an auld sang': Farewell to the NHS market..

World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation. (2020)
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(2020). World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 238-245. https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413312000033X

The UK, and England in particular, has suffered egregiously poor outcomes in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. This short perspective points to the explanation in terms of both current British politics and the public health policy inheritance. Boris Jo... Read More about World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation..

Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Breaking Free Online Health and Justice program for substance misuse in prison settings (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Breaking Free Online Health and Justice program for substance misuse in prison settings. Health and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-018-0078-1

Background
Substance misuse, including problematic drug and alcohol use, are significant issues in society that can have multiple detrimental effects. Many people access support for their substance misuse during prison sentences, due to the associat... Read More about Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Breaking Free Online Health and Justice program for substance misuse in prison settings.