Recent Publications, Conference Presentations and Reports to policy makers
Shepherd M The Health and wellbeing impact of waste management technologies: A guide to practice in Wales. Report for Wales Health Impact Support Unit. (Forthcoming)
Shepherd M. Report of the Health Impact Assessment of Proposed Changes to Mental Health Services in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Report to Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Local Health Board. 2011 http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=111321
Shepherd M, Grimstead I, Davidson G, Owen R. TXT2 Public: using digital communications technology to engage excluded communities. Creating Publics, London July 2011
Shepherd M, Chadderton C . ‘Local Voices’: the potential for HIA in raising the bar on public participation. International Health Impact Assessment Conference. Granada, Spain. April 2011
Elliott E, Harrop, E., Rothwell, H, Shepherd, M. and Williams, G. Working Paper 134: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Health in Wales: A Review and Case Study, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, November (2010), ISBN 978-1-904815-97-6, 2010 http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp134.pdf
Shepherd M. Thinking upstream: the challenge of health inequalities in Wales in Social Exclusion in Wales Winckler V ed, Cardiff, Bevan Foundation. 2010 http://www.bevanfoundation.org/publications/poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-wales-2/
Anderson E, Shepherd M, Salisbury C. “Taking off the suit”: engaging the community in primary health care decision-making. Health Expectations, 9(1) 70-80, 2006 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2006.00364.x/abstract
Shepherd M A review of the evidence on health inequities and community cohesion with recommendations for strengthening the health assets approach. 2012 resources/Inequalities%20brief%20interventions.pdf
Shepherd M Assessing the contribution that different approaches to training of health and social service staff can make to reducing health inequities: A review of evidence. 2012 resources/Assets%20report.pdf
Shepherd M Every Contact Counts: A review of evidence. 2012 resources/Every%20contact%20counts.pdf
Elliott E, Byrne E, Shirani F, Gong Y, Henwood K, Morgan H, Shepherd M, Palmer S, Williams G. A review of theories, concepts and interventions relating to community-level strengths and their impact on health and well being. Connected Communities Programme , London, Arts & Humanities Research Board 2012
Chadderton C; Elliott E; Hacking N; Shepherd M; Williams G 2012 Health impact assessment in the UK planning system: the possibilities and limits of community engagement. Health Promotion International 2012; doi: 10.1093/heapro/das031
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