Sarah Sowden
Newcastle University
36 Papers
15 Citations
Sarah Sowden is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 18 publications. Previous affiliations of Sarah Sowden include University College London.
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Papers
Reducing health inequalities through general practice
Anna Gkiouleka,Geoff Wong,Sarah Sowden,Clare Bambra,Rikke Siersbaek,Sukaina Manji,Annie Moseley,Rebecca Harmston,Isla Kuhn,John Ford +9 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted a realist review by searching MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library for systematic reviews of interventions into health inequality in general practice.
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Monitoring inequalities in the National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England: added value of ACORN, a commercial geodemographic classification tool.
TL;DR: ACORN had value as a supplementary deprivation marker for monitoring inequalities in chlamydia screening in England and illustrates that a commercial geodemographic tool in combination with an established deprivation index may overcome limitations in Monitoring inequalities in sexual health service use.
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Revisiting the risks associated with health and healthcare reform in England: perspective of Faculty of Public Health members
Mark Lambert,Sarah Sowden +1 more
TL;DR: The UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) considered the risks of the proposed legislation and remains opposed to many of the Act’s provisions, but some respondents considered the current arrangements as irredeemable and advocated revoking the act and undertaking structural reorganization.
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Socio-economic inequalities in patient, primary care, referral, diagnostic, and treatment intervals on the lung cancer care pathway: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: If there are socio-economic inequalities in time from symptom onset to treatment for lung cancer, if such inequalities are present, the review evidence will help inform the development of interventions to reduce the time to diagnosis and treatment, ultimately helping to reduce socio- economic inequalities in survival.
Patient experiences of the urgent cancer referral pathway-Can the NHS do better? Semi-structured interviews with patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer.
TL;DR: In England, cancer waiting time targets are currently not being met, and between 2015 and 2018 only 71% of patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer started treatment within the recommended 62 days of referral.
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