ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2022
Making better use of natural experimental evaluation in population health.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impacts of built environment changes on physical activity in Canada: a systematic review of natural experiments.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2026Pooled it
- Rethinking children's physical activity interventions at school: A new context-specific approach.Frontiers in public health · 2023Trial
- Evaluability assessment of a targeted national anti-child poverty policy: option appraisal for evaluating the Scottish Child Payment.Health research policy and systems · 2026Article
- Evaluation of special educational needs and disability provision in English primary schools using administrative health and education data in the ECHILD database.International journal of population data science · 2026Article
- Impact of the rollout of the national social prescribing link worker programme on population outcomes: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional survey.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025Article
- A window on health adaptations in a changing climate.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Low back pain and work-related factors among home health care workers with self-governing or conventional team structure - a natural experiment with a cross-sectional design.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2025Article
- How is health equity considered in policy evaluations employing quasi-experimental methods? A scoping review and content analysis.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Holistic modelling as a catalyst for effective obesity policy.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
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- The impact of the world's first regulatory, multi-setting intervention on sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents (ENERGISE): a natural experiment evaluation.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Prioritizing a research agenda on built environments and physical activity: a twin panel Delphi consensus process with researchers and knowledge users.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Using administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on child and maternal health: a research framework from the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet).Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
- Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis?Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
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