Public Health Wales

From behavioural insight to system design: Reframing the role of psychology in public health

Contemporary public health challenges, including non-communicable diseases, persistent inequalities, misinformation, and complex organisational systems, are fundamentally shaped by behavioural, social, and psychological processes. Although this is increasingly recognised, psychol...

An early-phase process evaluation of a whole-systems approach to healthy weight among children and families in Wales

Background: Childhood obesity in Wales is a significant public health issue, with prevalence rates particularly high among socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. The Welsh Government has responded to this issue by launching the Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales strategy, which...

How is cancer prehabilitation delivered in practice? A process evaluation of a Welsh cancer prehabilitation programme

In Wales, there are over 1,000 new cases of cancer each month, making it one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Cancer prehabilitation interventions are designed to improve a patient’s lifestyle and, in-turn, their physical and psychological resilience prior to tre...

Challenges in establishing epidemiological cut-off values for the Burkholderia cepacia complex

ABSTRACT The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) is comprised of 24 species of gram-negative bacteria that cause opportunistic infections. While antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) has historically been used to guide treatment for BCC infections, recent work highlighting pr...

Using Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to identify the potential health, wellbeing and equity impacts of a proposed national lung cancer screening programme in Wales

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer mortality, with prognosis strongly dependent on early detection. Emerging evidence from major trials and pilot programmes in the United Kingdom (UK) demonstrates that low dose computed tomography (LDCT) within a lung cancer screenin...