Public Health Intelligence Challenges for Sub-national Public Health Authorities Responding to Disease Outbreaks

This repository provides extended data for a PhD study. Background: COVID-19 provided an impetus to improve emergency response capabilities. In England, local authorities (LAs) responded to limit virus spread and to mitigate its impacts using public health intelligence (PHI). Factors that influenced PHI provision had not been explored from the perspective of staff. The study aimed to contribute evidence to support policy and practice development around sub-national provision of PHI during an infectious disease emergency. Methods: This was a mixed methods, sequential, exploratory, study involving: (1) a systematic review of international studies to investigate factors influencing PHI provision by sub-national (e.g. provincial, regional, district or county) public health authorities (PHAs) during propagated disease outbreaks. (2) Comparative case studies including document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 12 PHI staff at four LAs to explore their experiences and views around responding to COVID-19. (3) A survey of local authority PHI staff to investigate if case study findings are generalisable to PHI staff more broadly

Stereotypes, Common Ingroup Identity and Outgroup Admiration (Survey)

A survey data for the "Stereotypes, Common Ingroup Identity and Outgroup Admiration" research projec

Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset on work and family outcomes during Covid-19 pandemic

Here we offer open access to the Familydemic Cross Country and Gender Dataset (FCCGD), which offers cross country and gender comparative data on work and family outcomes among parents of dependent children, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It covers six countries from two different continents representing diverse welfare regimes as well as policy reactions to the pandemic outbreak. The FCCGD was created using the first wave of a comparative, web-based international survey (Familydemic) carried out between June and September 2021, on representative samples of parents (aged 20-59) living with at least one child under 12 in Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the US. While individual datasets are not available due to country-level restriction policies, the presented database allows for cross-country comparison of a wide range of employment outcomes and work arrangements, the division of diverse tasks of unpaid labour (housework and childcare) in couples, experiences with childcare and school closures due to pandemic and subjective assessments of changes to work-life balance, career prospects and the financial situation of families. The detailed description of how the dataset was created can be found in Data Descriptor published in Scientific Data (Springer Nature): https://rdcu.be/c2GwL IMPORTANT: Before accessing the data please DOWNLOAD IT as the built-in OSF browser distorts the tables

Preliminary studies

Preliminary studies for the project "Study of patterns of brain wave activity during kinesthetic motor imaginations with the use of haptic interfaces and EEG measurement". Validation of questionnaire methods