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Neil Small is affiliated with the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas primarily within medicine and health professions, with a particular focus on general health professions and genetics. Additional research interests include sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Neil Small's recent published papers include:

  • "The Caregiver Health Effects of Caring for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-analysis", 2020, published in Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • "Fine-scale population structure and demographic history of British Pakistanis", 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "The social determinants of child health and inequalities in child health", 2022, published in Paediatrics and Child Health
  • "An annotated and critical glossary of the terminology of inclusion in healthcare and health research", 2020, published in Research Involvement and Engagement
  • "Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity", 2021, published in Critical Social Policy

Neil Small frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Paediatrics and Child Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Neil Small include:

  • John Wright
  • Shahid Islam
  • Brian Kelly
  • Kate E. Pickett
  • Sufyan Abid Dogra

Best Publications

  • Cohort Profile: The Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study

    John Wright;Neil Small;Pauline Raynor;Derek Tuffnell

  • A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health: a contribution to understanding the psychosocial pathway of health inequalities

    Eleonora P Uphoff;Kate E Pickett;Baltica Cabieses;Baltica Cabieses;Neil Small

  • Risk Factors for Congenital Anomaly in a Multiethnic Birth Cohort: An Analysis of the Born in Bradford Study

    Eamonn Sheridan;John Wright;Neil Small;Peter C. Corry

  • Barriers to advance care planning in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

    Merryn Gott;C. Gardiner;Neil Small;Sheila Payne

  • Older people's views of a good death in heart failure : Implications for palliative care provision

    Merryn Gott;Neil Small;Sarah Barnes;Sheila Payne

  • Exploring the care needs of patients with advanced COPD: An overview of the literature

    Clare Gardiner;Merryn Gott;Sheila Payne;Neil Small

  • Dying trajectories in heart failure

    Merryn Gott;Sarah Barnes;Chris Parker;Sheila Payne

  • Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes

    David W. Clark;Yukinori Okada;Kristjan H. S. Moore;Dan Mason

  • The Caregiver Health Effects of Caring for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-analysis

    Sarah Masefield;Stephanie Louise Prady;Trevor Andrew Sheldon;Neil Small

  • Predictors of the quality of life of older people with heart failure recruited from primary care

    Merryn Gott;Sarah Barnes;Chris Parker;Sheila Payne

  • Living with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: patients concerns regarding death and dying:

    Clare Gardiner;Merryn Gott;Neil Small;Sheila Payne

  • Communication in heart failure: perspectives from older people and primary care professionals.

    Sarah Barnes;Merryn Gott;Sheila Payne;David Seamark

  • Religious beliefs about causes and treatment of epilepsy

    Hanif Ismail;John Wright;Penny Rhodes;Neil Small

  • Enhancing Patient-Professional Communication About End-of-Life Issues in Life-Limiting Conditions: A Critical Review of the Literature

    Sarah Barnes;Clare Gardiner;Merryn Gott;Sheila Payne

  • Prevalence of symptoms in a community-based sample of heart failure patients.

    Sarah Barnes;Merryn Gott;Sheila Payne;Chris Parker

  • 'She would help me from the heart': an ethnography of Egyptian women in labour.

    Amina El-Nemer;Soo Downe;Neil Small

  • Too Ill to Talk?: User Involvement in Palliative Care

    Neil Small;Penny J. Rhodes

  • Death, Gender and Ethnicity

    David Field;Jennifer Lorna Hockey;Neil Small

  • Born in Bradford’s Better Start: an experimental birth cohort study to evaluate the impact of early life interventions

    Josie Dickerson;Philippa K Bird;Rosemary McEachan;Kate Pickett

  • Stigma and GPs’ perceptions of dementia

    Dianne M. Gove;Murna G. Downs;M. Vernooij-Dassen;Neil A. Small

  • Effects of locality based community hospital care on independence in older people needing rehabilitation: randomised controlled trial

    John Green;John Young;Anne Forster;Karen Mallinder

  • Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual

    Jeanne Katz;Jenny Hockey;Neil Small

Frequent Co-Authors

Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Kate E. Pickett
Kate E. Pickett University of York
Raj Bhopal
Raj Bhopal University of Edinburgh
Eamonn Sheridan
Eamonn Sheridan University of Leeds
Rosemary R. C. McEachan
Rosemary R. C. McEachan National Health Service
Russell Mannion
Russell Mannion University of Birmingham
Mark Mon-Williams
Mark Mon-Williams University of Leeds
Marie Loh
Marie Loh Nanyang Technological University
Alan H. Bittles
Alan H. Bittles Edith Cowan University

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