Theses - Public Health and Primary Care: Recent submissions
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Integrating behavioural science and design thinking: Development and evaluation of a mobile intervention to increase vegetable consumption
(2016-10-05)Poor diet including inadequate vegetable consumption is among the leading causes of death in the US and UK. Mobile applications (apps) have been heralded as a potentially transformative tool for delivering behavioural ... -
Old-age hippocampal sclerosis in the aged population
(2018-07-21)Old-age hippocampal sclerosis (HS), characterised by severe neuron loss in hippocampal CA1, is a poorly understood cause of dementia. At present no objective pathological HS criteria exist. In life HS is commonly diagnosed ... -
Understanding end-of-life admissions: an interview study of patients admitted to a large English hospital shortly before death
(2017-10-21)Hospital admissions for patients close to the end of life are considered ‘inappropriate’ in contemporary English health policy. Hospitals are supposedly unable to offer a ‘good’ death for patients, and dying there is thought ... -
The Influence of Hospital Policies and Culture on Do-Not-Resuscitate Decision-Making at the End of Life: A Sociological and Ethical Analysis
(Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2016-04-06)The aim of this thesis is to explore how institutional cultures and policies relating to patient autonomy influence physicians’ clinical and ethical approaches to do-notresuscitate (DNR) decision-making at the end of life. ...
