Theodora Pouliou- PhD
- Senior Data Scientist at Swansea University
Theodora Pouliou
- PhD
- Senior Data Scientist at Swansea University
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June 2013 - August 2014
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Publications (34)
Background
Child poverty remains a major global concern and a child's experience of deprivation is heavily shaped by where they live and the stability of their local neighbourhood. This study examines frequencies and patterns of residential mobility in children and young people (CYP) at a population level using novel geospatial techniques to assess...
Background
Routine monitoring of Body Mass Index (BMI) in general practice, and via national surveillance programmes, is essential for the identification, prevention, and management of unhealthy childhood weight. We examined and compared the presence and representativeness of children and young people’s (CYPs) BMI recorded in two routinely collecte...
Objectives
Youth obesity has increased substantially in recent decades; however, the potential role of the built environment in mitigating these trends is unclear. This study examines whether more walkable neighbourhoods are associated with lower levels of overweight/obesity for adolescents compared to less walkable neighbourhoods, after considerin...
Background
Routine monitoring of Body Mass Index (BMI) in general practice, and via national surveillance programmes, is essential for the identification, prevention, and management of low or excess childhood weight. We examined and compared the presence and representativeness of children and young people’s (CYPs) BMI recorded in two routinely coll...
Introduction:
Childhood obesity and physical inactivity are two of the most significant modifiable risk factors for the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Yet, a third of children in Wales and Australia are overweight or obese, and only 20% of UK and Australian children are sufficiently active. The purpose of the Built Environments An...
Objectives
In Wales almost a quarter of adults and 1 in 8 reception age children are obese. Linked data is a key tool to understanding the role of the built environment on obesity rates and is an important part of developing strategies to combat the obesity epidemic in Wales. ApproachWe set out to develop an analytical platform for generating evide...
Background
Little is known about mental health problems of children and young people (CYP) involved with public and private law family court proceedings, and how these CYP fare compared to those not involved in these significant disruptions to family life.
Aims
This study examined records of depression/anxiety in CYP involved in public and private...
Background
Little is known about common mental health problems of children and young people (CYP) involved with the family justice system. To address this evidence gap, this study examined records of depression and anxiety in CYP involved in public and private law proceedings using linked, routinely collected, population-level-data across Wales.
M...
Adolescents' engage in new behaviours such as substance use and change others, such as reducing physical activity. Risks to health from these tend to be considered separately. We examined the association between multiple risk behaviours at age 16 years and outcomes in early adulthood.
5591 young people enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Par...
The health benefits of individual and group participation in sports are well-known. While a positive association between participation in sport and self-assessed health has been reported for England and Scotland, research has been limited in Wales. In addition, research examining the relationship between levels of physical activity and the accessib...
Background
Adolescents engage in new and changed behaviours such as substance use or reduced physical activity. Evidence is accruing that these health risk behaviours co-occur at a population level and cluster within individuals. There has, however, been less focus on what the cumulative impact of engagement in multiple risk behaviours might be eve...
Maternal sun exposure in gestation and throughout the lifetime is necessary for vitamin D synthesis, and living near the sea is a population level index of seafood consumption. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Wales and examine its association with sun exposure, coastal living, and latitude. The...
Minimal Data to Replicate the Analysis.
This is a compressed Microsoft Excel file containing lower layer super output areas in Wales, population counts by age and gender groups, sunshine levels, and an indicator for coastal status.
(DOCX)
Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is a holistic approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school. The effectiveness of this approach has not yet been rigorously reviewed. MET...
Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is a holistic approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school. The effectiveness of this approach has not yet been rigorously reviewed. We...
Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is a holistic approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school. The effectiveness of this approach has not yet been rigorously reviewed. MET...
The objective of this paper was to identify heterogeneities associated with the relationships between the body mass index (BMI) and individual as well as socio-environmental correlates at the individual-and area-levels. The data sources used were: (i) the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey; (ii) the 2001 Canadian Census; and (iii) the Enhanced P...
Background:This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds’ physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socio-economic environments.
Methods: We analysed the association of environments with physical activity in 6497 singleton children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study with reliable accelerometer data (≥...
Background:
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is an holistic, settings-based approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school. The effectiveness of this approach has not been previously rigorously reviewed.
Objectives:
To assess the effectiveness of the Health Promoting Schools (HPS...
To describe levels of physical activity, sedentary time and adherence to Chief Medical Officers (CMO) physical activity guidelines among primary school-aged children across the UK using objective accelerometer-based measurements.
Nationally representative prospective cohort study.
Children born across the UK, between 2000 and 2002.
6497 7-year-old...
There is growing evidence of the health benefits of physical activity for young people, including reduced risk of obesity and improved psychological wellbeing. Conversely, sedentary behaviour is now recognised to increase the risk of later poor health. Patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour are established in early childhood. In July...
To investigate whether physical activity or sedentary behaviour at different life stages is associated with blood pressure (BP) in mid-adulthood; activity levels have accumulative associations with BP; and adult body mass index (BMI) mediates associations.
Information on activity and television-viewing was available at several ages (23, 33, 42, 45...
Background Recent studies show TV-viewing time being related to mortality independent to physical activity (PA). However, the mechanism behind this association is unclear.
Aim We investigate cross-sectional associations between sedentary behaviour and preclinical variations in markers for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes.
Methods Using dat...
To investigate associations between physical (in)activity at different life-stages and lipids in mid-adulthood, examining the role of potential confounding and mediating factors, such as adiposity.
Data from the 1958 British birth cohort (n=7824) were examined. Using linear regression, we analysed prospectively reported frequency of activity and TV...
Parent-offspring adiposity associations are well-established: offspring of obese parents have elevated risks of overweight/obesity. The aim of studies based on the 1958 British birth cohort has been to gain insights into explanations of these associations, such as whether parent-offspring BMI associations are due to offspring lifestyles or depend o...
To examine school-level opportunity structures of the built environment and student characteristics associated with being overweight.
Multi-level logistic regression analysis were used to examine the school- and student-level characteristics associated with the odds of a student being overweight among grade 5-8 students attending 30 elementary scho...
Overweight/obesity represent a significant public health problem in Canada and abroad. The objective of this paper is to identify potential associations between overweight/obesity and individual as well as socio-environmental determinants. The data sources used are the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey and the Desktop Mapping Technologies Incor...
The identification of spatial clusters of overweight and obesity can be a key indicator for targeting scarce public health resources. This paper examines sex-specific spatial patterns of overweight/obesity in Canada as well as investigates the presence of spatial clusters.
Using data on Body Mass Index (BMI) from the 2005 Canadian Community Health...
The objective of this paper was to identify heterogeneities associated with the relationships between the body mass index (BMI) and individual as well as socio-environmental correlates at the individual- and area-levels. The data sources used were: (i) the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey; (ii) the 2001 Canadian Census; and (iii) the Enhanced...
The objective of this paper was to reassess children's exposure to air pollution as well as investigate the importance of other covariates of respiratory health. We re-examined the Hamilton Children's Cohort (HCC) dataset with enhanced spatial analysis methods, refined in the approximately two decades since the original study was undertaken. Childr...
Respiratory diseases have been and still are one of the major challenges in health research. While many studies have demonstrated that respiratory health varies by socio-economic status and environmental exposure, consensus among the scientific community is still lacking regarding the sufficiency of evidence to infer a causal relationship therefore...
