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Mitch Blair

Professor of Paediatrics and Child Public Health
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
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Effectiveness of home based support for older people: systematic review and meta-analysisCommentary: When, where, and why do preventive home visits work?

R Elkan, M Egger, D Kendrick, M Dewey, M Hewitt… - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes that offer health
promotion and preventive care to older people. Design: Systematic review and meta …

Adverse childhood experiences

M Boullier, M Blair - Paediatrics and Child Health, 2018 - Elsevier
The long term poor health outcomes in people who have experienced multiple adverse
events in childhood have been well documented since the original CDC-Kaiser study in the …

Does home visiting improve parenting and the quality of the home environment? A systematic review and meta analysis

D Kendrick, R Elkan, M Hewitt, M Dewey… - Archives of disease in …, 2000 - adc.bmj.com
AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes on parenting and quality of
the home environment. DESIGN Systematic review of the literature of randomised controlled …

Health services for children in western Europe

I Wolfe, M Thompson, P Gill, G Tamburlini, M Blair… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Western European health systems are not keeping pace with changes in child health needs.
Non-communicable diseases are increasingly common causes of childhood illness and …

[HTML][HTML] The effectiveness of domiciliary health visiting: a systematic review of international studies and a selective review of the British literature

R Elkan, D Kendrick, M Hewitt… - Database of Abstracts …, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MEDLINE from 1966 to July 1997, CINAHL from 1982 to July 1997, and EMBASE from 1980
to October 1997, were searched using an extensive list of search terms. Additional studies …

[BOOK][B] Child public health

M Blair, S Stewart-Brown, T Waterston, R Crowther - 2010 - books.google.com
Despite children making up around a quarter of the population, the first edition of this book
was the first to focus on a public health approach to the health and sickness of children and …

Children's health and development: approaches to early identification and intervention

F Oberklaid, G Baird, M Blair, E Melhuish… - Archives of disease in …, 2013 - adc.bmj.com
Many children arrive at school with problems of development and behaviour which affect
their educational achievement and social interaction and can have lifelong consequences …

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy–still a public health issue

T McAree, B Jacobs, T Manickavasagar… - Maternal & child …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The objectives of this study were to quantify the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and
deficiency in pregnancy, explore associated risk factors and discuss the public health …

Child health indicators for Europe: a priority for a caring society

MJ Rigby, LI Köhler, ME Blair… - European journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Background: Measurement of children's health is important for two reasons: first, because
young people are citizens in their own right, yet largely unable to act as self-advocates …

[HTML][HTML] How parents choose to use CAM: a systematic review of theoretical models

A Lorenc, Y Ilan-Clarke, N Robinson, M Blair - BMC Complementary and …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Background Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is widely used
throughout the UK and the Western world. CAM is commonly used for children and the …