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Steven Allender

Steven Allender

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
19776
World Ranking
1534
National Ranking
114

Overview

Steven Allender is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Health Professions and Medicine. Their work encompasses numerous publications across several subfields, including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management Science and Operations Research, and Physiology.

Their research topics cover a range of themes such as obesity, physical activity, and diet; health policy implementation science; community health and development; global public health policies and epidemiology; food security and health in diverse populations; health disparities and outcomes; and physical activity and health.

Recent key publications by Steven Allender include:

  • Four-Year Behavioral, Health-Related Quality of Life, and BMI Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity, 2021, Obesity

Among other influential recent papers related to their field are:

  • Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health - a perspective on definitions and distinctions, 2022, Public Health Research & Practice
  • Sleep and obesity among children: A systematic review of multiple sleep dimensions, 2020, Pediatric Obesity
  • Identifying the views of adolescents in five European countries on the drivers of obesity using group model building, 2020, European Journal of Public Health
  • Tools and analytic techniques to synthesise community knowledge in CBPR using computer-mediated participatory system modelling, 2020, npj Digital Medicine

Steven Allender's frequent co-authors include Claudia Strugnell, Colin Bell, Melanie Nichols, Andrew Brown, and Liliana Orellana, highlighting collaboration across various research projects.

Common publication venues for their research include:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Obesity Reviews
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Public Health

In addition to journal articles, Steven Allender has contributed to scholarly books, including a recent publication titled Systemic, Cross-Sectoral, or Regulatory Interventions to Improve Population Nutrition and Related Global Health Challenges, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

    Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

  • Understanding participation in sport and physical activity among children and adults: a review of qualitative studies

    Steven Allender;Gill Cowburn;Charlie Foster

  • European cardiovascular disease statistics

    Steven Allender;Peter Scarborough;Vito Peto;Mike Rayner

  • Coronary heart disease statistics.

    Steven Allender;Vito Peto;Peter Scarborough;Asha Kaur

  • The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006–07 NHS costs

    Peter Scarborough;Prachi Bhatnagar;Kremlin K. Wickramasinghe;Steve Allender;Steve Allender

  • The associations between sedentary behaviour and mental health among adolescents: a systematic review

    Erin Hoare;Karen Milton;Charlie Foster;Steven Allender

  • Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health - a perspective on definition and distinctions.

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  • The burden of physical activity-related ill health in the UK

    Steven Allender;Charlie Foster;Peter Scarborough;Mike Rayner

  • Life-change events and participation in physical activity: a systematic review

    Steven Allender;Lauren Hutchinson;Charles Foster

  • The burden of overweight and obesity related ill health in the UK

    Steven Allender;M Rayner

  • A Community Based Systems Diagram of Obesity Causes.

    Steven Allender;Brynle Owen;Jill Kuhlberg;Janette Lowe

  • Coronary heart disease trends in England and Wales from 1984 to 2004: concealed levelling of mortality rates among young adults

    Martin E O'Flaherty;Earl S Ford;Steven Allender;Peter Scarborough

  • Modelling the health impact of environmentally sustainable dietary scenarios in the UK.

    P Scarborough;S Allender;S Allender;D Clarke;K Wickramasinghe

  • Quantification of Urbanization in Relation to Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review

    Steven Allender;Charlie Foster;Lauren Hutchinson;Carukshi Arambepola

  • The burden of smoking related ill health in the UK

    Steven Allender;Ravikumar Balakrishnan;Peter Scarborough;Premila Webster

  • Population-level changes to promote cardiovascular health

    Torben Jørgensen;Torben Jørgensen;Simon Capewell;Eva Prescott;Steven Allender

  • Level of urbanization and noncommunicable disease risk factors in Tamil Nadu, India

    Steven Allender;Ben Lacey;Premila Webster;Mike Rayner

  • Sleep and obesity among children: A systematic review of multiple sleep dimensions.

    Bridget Morrissey;Elsie Taveras;Steven Allender;Claudia Strugnell

  • Screen time and physical activity behaviours are associated with health-related quality of life in Australian adolescents

    Kathleen E. Lacy;Steven E. Allender;Steven E. Allender;Peter J. Kremer;Andrea M. de Silva-Sanigorski;Andrea M. de Silva-Sanigorski

  • Associations between obesogenic risk factors and depression among adolescents: a systematic review

    E Hoare;H Skouteris;M Fuller-Tyszkiewicz;Lynne Millar

  • Patterns of coronary heart disease mortality over the 20th century in England and Wales: Possible plateaus in the rate of decline

    Steven Allender;Peter Scarborough;Martin O'Flaherty;Simon Capewell

  • Cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Mike Rayner;Steven Allender;Peter Scarborough

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlie Foster
Charlie Foster University of Bristol
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne
Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
Lisa M. Barnett
Lisa M. Barnett Deakin University
Helen Skouteris
Helen Skouteris Monash University
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
John Coveney
John Coveney Flinders University
Peter Kremer
Peter Kremer Deakin University
Lesley King
Lesley King University of Sydney

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