by Ruth Crocker | Dec 30, 2013 | Healthy Communities, Publications
This involved an evaluation of the SmokeScreen Mediology, an innovative campaign to prevent young people taking up smoking. It focused on making young people aware of how smoking is presented in the media (such as films, music videos, computer games and fashion) by...
by Ruth Crocker | Dec 28, 2013 | Research Project Case Studies
Who for: Leicester City NHS STOP! Smoking Service. Methods: Good practice literature review, pre-intervention online surveys, post-intervention online surveys, consultation (both by phone and face-to-face interviews) with stakeholders, quantitative data analysis of...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Jan 24, 2025
Healthy Communities Research Contact Us As the drug and alcohol treatment agenda has developed over the past decade, we have established a strong track record undertaking work in the area of substance misuse. This has included numerous service evaluations and needs...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News
The approach of October heralds the return of Stoptober – a 28 day challenge providing support to those who would like to stop smoking: https://stoptober.smokefree.nhs.uk/ Stoptober is a public health campaign which is supported by a number of famous comedians such as...
by tacklingviolenceprofessionalshalloffame_zm1bll | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog, Front Page, News, Research
The Royal Society for Health have called for the smoking ban to be extended to beer gardens, outdoor areas of restaurants, parks and outside of school gates. According to an article from the BBC, the society want to make smoking appear to be less ‘normal’...
