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John Britton is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, with a focus on medical research primarily related to smoking behavior, public health, and respiratory medicine.

Their research output spans a variety of topics, with key areas including:

  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

John Britton's main field of study is Medicine, with a specific concentration across several subfields such as:

  • Physiology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • General Health Professions

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Rachael L Murray
  • Ilze Bogdanovica
  • Muralidhar M Kulkarni
  • Veena Kamath
  • Alexander B Barker

John Britton's recent publications include:

  • "Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking (YESS) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of adding a personalised smoking cessation intervention to a lung cancer screening programme," 2020, BMJ Open
  • "Understanding long-term trends in smoking in England, 1972-2019: an age-period-cohort approach," 2021, Addiction
  • "The effect of tobacco and alcohol consumption on poverty in the United Kingdom," 2020, Addiction
  • "Feasibility, uptake and impact of a hospital-wide tobacco addiction treatment pathway: Results from the CURE project pilot," 2020, Clinical Medicine
  • "A situational analysis of tobacco control in Ghana: progress, opportunities and challenges," 2020, Journal of Global Health Reports

Their work has been published frequently in several academic venues, with the following being significant:

  • BMJ Open
  • Addiction
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Journal of Public Health
  • Tobacco Control

Best Publications

  • Prenatal and Passive Smoke Exposure and Incidence of Asthma and Wheeze: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Hannah Burke;Jo Leonardi-Bee;Ahmed Hashim;Hembadoon Pine-Abata

  • Lung cancer and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis : A population-based cohort study

    Richard Hubbard;Andrea Venn;Sarah Lewis;John Britton

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function.

    E Repapi;I Sayers;L V Wain;P R Burton

  • Validity and repeatability of the IUATLD (1984) bronchial symptoms questionnaire: an international comparison

    P. G. J. Burney;L. A. Laitinen;S. Perdrizet;H. Huckauf

  • Vascular Factors and Risk of Dementia: Design of the Three-City Study and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population

    Marilyn Antoniak;Maura Pugliatti;Richard Hubbard;John Britton

  • Cystic fibrosis: current survival and population estimates to the year 2000.

    J S Elborn;D J Shale;J R Britton

  • Prevalence of wheeze and asthma and relation to atopy in urban and rural Ethiopia

    Haile Yemaneberhan;Zegaye Bekele;Andrea Venn;Sarah Lewis

  • Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function

    María Soler Artigas;Daan W. Loth;Louise V. Wain;Sina A. Gharib

  • Varenicline versus transdermal nicotine patch for smoking cessation: Results from a randomised, open-label trial

    Henri-Jean Aubin;Alex Bobak;John R Britton;Cheryl Oncken

  • Exposure to parental and sibling smoking and the risk of smoking uptake in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jo Leonardi-Bee;Mirriam Lisa Jere;John Britton

  • Prevalence, diagnosis and relation to tobacco dependence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a nationally representative population sample.

    Lion Shahab;Martin J Jarvis;John Britton;Robert West

  • Independent effects of intestinal parasite infection and domestic allergen exposure on risk of wheeze in Ethiopia: a nested case-control study.

    Sarah Scrivener;Haile Yemaneberhan;Mehila Zebenigus;Daniel Tilahun

  • Environmental tobacco smoke and fetal health: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Jo A Leonardi-Bee;Alan Robert Smyth;John Britton;Tim Coleman

  • Living near a main road and the risk of wheezing illness in children.

    Andrea J. Venn;Sarah A. Lewis;Marie Cooper;Richard Hubbard

  • Occupational exposure to metal or wood dust and aetiology of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

    R Hubbard;S Lewis;K Richards;I Johnston

  • Asthma and current intestinal parasite infection: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jo Leonardi-Bee;David Pritchard;John Britton

  • REBOUND INCREASE IN BRONCHIAL RESPONSIVENESS AFTER TREATMENT WITH INHALED TERBUTALINE

    A.S. Vathenen;B.G. Higgins;A.J. Knox;J.R. Britton

  • Parental and household smoking and the increased risk of bronchitis, bronchiolitis and other lower respiratory infections in infancy: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Laura L Jones;Ahmed Hashim;Tricia McKeever;Derek G Cook

  • Dietary magnesium, lung function, wheezing, and airway hyperreactivity in a random adult population sample

    J Britton;I Pavord;K Richards;A Wisniewski

  • Dietary antioxidant vitamin intake and lung function in the general population.

    J R Britton;I D Pavord;K A Richards;A J Knox

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis University of Nottingham
Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill University of Adelaide
Anne E. Tattersfield
Anne E. Tattersfield University of Nottingham
Alan J. Knox
Alan J. Knox University of Nottingham
Richard Hubbard
Richard Hubbard University of Nottingham
Ian D. Pavord
Ian D. Pavord University of Oxford
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Peter Burney
Peter Burney Imperial College London
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Christine Godfrey
Christine Godfrey University of York

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