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79
Citations
21255
World Ranking
412
National Ranking
29

Overview

Chris Rissel is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia, contributing extensively to fields related to medicine and health professions. Their body of work includes 151 publications in medicine and 96 in health professions, with a focus divided into several subfields such as general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, psychiatry and mental health, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

The main research topics covered by Chris Rissel encompass obesity, physical activity, and diet, with 84 publications; global health workforce issues, with 32 publications; breastfeeding practices and influences, and child nutrition and feeding issues, each with 30 publications. They also have significant work addressing mobile health and mHealth applications, child and adolescent health, and physical activity and health.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Public Health

Among their recent papers are:

  • Combinations of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep Duration and Their Associations With Physical, Psychological, and Educational Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review, 2022, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Interventions commenced by early infancy to prevent childhood obesity-The EPOCH Collaboration: An individual participant data prospective meta-analysis of four randomized controlled trials, 2020, Pediatric Obesity
  • Multi-strategy intervention increases school implementation and maintenance of a mandatory physical activity policy: outcomes of a cluster randomised controlled trial, 2021, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Effects of Telephone and Short Message Service Support on Infant Feeding Practices, "Tummy Time," and Screen Time at 6 and 12 Months of Child Age, 2020, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Antimicrobial stewardship in rural and remote primary health care: a narrative review, 2021, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Chris Rissel has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Li Ming Wen
  • Louise A. Baur
  • Sarah Taki
  • Seema Mihrshahi
  • Luke Wolfenden

Best Publications

  • Bullying behaviour and psychosocial health among school students in New South Wales, Australia: cross sectional survey

    Roberto Forero;Lyndall McLellan;Chris Rissel;Adrian Bauman

  • Empowerment: the holy grail of health promotion?

    Christopher Rissel

  • Associations of Parental Influences with Physical Activity and Screen Time among Young Children: A Systematic Review

    Huilan Xu;Li Ming Wen;Chris Rissel

  • Physical Activity Associated with Public Transport Use—A Review and Modelling of Potential Benefits

    Chris E. Rissel;Nada Curac;Mark Greenaway;Adrian E. Bauman

  • Demographic and Psychosocial Features of Participants in Bondage and Discipline, “Sadomasochism” or Dominance and Submission (BDSM): Data from a National Survey

    Juliet Richters;Richard O. De Visser;Chris E. Rissel;Andrew E. Grulich

  • A randomized, controlled trial of tai chi for the prevention of falls: The central sydney tai chi trial

    Alexander Voukelatos;Robert G. Cumming;Stephen R. Lord;Chris E. Rissel

  • Effectiveness of home based early intervention on children’s BMI at age 2: randomised controlled trial

    Li Ming Wen;Louise A Baur;Judy M Simpson;Chris Rissel

  • Active commuting to school among NSW primary school children: implications for public health.

    Dafna Merom;Dafna Merom;Catrine Tudor Locke;Adrian Bauman;Adrian Bauman;Chris Rissel;Chris Rissel

  • Sex in Australia: sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual experience among a representative sample of adults.

    Anthony M.A. Smith;Chris E. Rissel;Juliet Richters;Andrew E. Grulich

  • Inverse associations between cycling to work, public transport, and overweight and obesity: Findings from a population based study in Australia

    Li Ming Wen;Chris E. Rissel

  • Sex in Australia: Sexual difficulties in a representative sample of adults

    Juliet Richters;Andrew E. Grulich;Richard O. de Visser;Anthony M.A. Smith

  • A Profile of Pornography Users in Australia: Findings From the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships.

    Chris Rissel;Juliet Richters;Richard O. de Visser;Alan McKee

  • Can social dancing prevent falls in older adults? a protocol of the Dance, Aging, Cognition, Economics (DAnCE) fall prevention randomised controlled trial

    Dafna Merom;Dafna Merom;Robert Cumming;Erin Mathieu;Kaarin J. Anstey

  • Perspectives and images of cycling as a barrier or facilitator of cycling

    Michelle Daley;Chris E. Rissel;Chris E. Rissel

  • Sex in Australia: the rationale and methods of the Australian Study of Health and Relationships.

    Anthony M.A. Smith;Chris E. Rissel;Juliet Richters;Andrew E. Grulich

  • Sexual practices at last heterosexual encounter and occurrence of orgasm in a national survey.

    Juliet Richters;Richard de Visser;Chris Rissel;Anthony Smith

  • Cycling: getting Australia moving – barriers, facilitators and interventions to get more Australians physically active through cycling

    Adrian Bauman;Chris Rissel;Jan Garrard;Ian Ker

  • A guide to scaling up population health interventions

    Andrew J Milat;Robyn Newson;Lesley King;Chris Rissel

  • Community ownership and program continuation following a health demonstration project

    Neil Bracht;John R. Finnegan;Christopher Rissel;Rita Weisbrod

  • Increasing the scale and adoption of population health interventions: experiences and perspectives of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers

    Andrew J Milat;Andrew J Milat;Lesley King;Robyn Newson;Luke Wolfenden

  • A Five-Stage Community Organization Model for Health Promotion: Empowerment and Partnership Strategies

    Neil Bracht;Lee Kingsbury;Chris Rissel

  • Sex in Australia: heterosexual experience and recent heterosexual encounters among a representative sample of adults.

    Richard O. de Visser;Anthony M.A. Smith;Chris E. Rissel;Juliet Richters

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Ming Wen
Li Ming Wen University of Sydney
Juliet Richters
Juliet Richters University of New South Wales
Richard O. de Visser
Richard O. de Visser University of Sussex
Louise A. Baur
Louise A. Baur University of Sydney
Luke Wolfenden
Luke Wolfenden University of Newcastle Australia
Anthony M. A. Smith
Anthony M. A. Smith La Trobe University
Andrew Milat
Andrew Milat New South Wales Department of Health
Lesley King
Lesley King University of Sydney
Philayrath Phongsavan
Philayrath Phongsavan University of Sydney
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania

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