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Chris Saville

@cwnsaville

I research health geography in Wales. Dysgu (siarad?) Cymraeg.

Bangor, Wales Katılım Aralık 2008
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Chris Saville@cwnsaville·
@epkaufm Hi Eric, do you not think there is an important distinction between a university limiting speech and a student union society turning down a request by a political party to speak to their members? Not saying that the latter is inconsequential or desirable, but seems different
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I've started a blog! Going to look at the intersection of health and culture. Link to my first post on semaglutides in the comment below.
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Enjoyed presenting and hearing all the presentations today at our @PsychBangor hosted workshop on sustainable environmental transitions. Great to welcome Prof Tomas from @ceuma_oficial for his keynote. Lots of great talks from across @BangorUni and lots of food for thought
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@Oohgpwales Use a citation manager like Zotero and you can choose the citation style
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Social identity processes can shape the way we make important health decisions, and this needs to be considered in public health messaging. The paper is available open access here: #bib51" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 8/
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This was also robust to adjusting for a range of possible confounding variables - ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic circumstances, area-level poverty etc
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This pattern disappeared when we adjusted for responses to a survey item asking about whether people had a responsibility to their local community to get vaccinated, but did not when we adjusted for items measuring confidence in vaccines 6/
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In the US, although vaccination rates fell off with the proportion of Trump voters in a county, this fall off was steeper for Biden voters than Trump voters 4/
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We think this is because people who were on the fence about vaccination were considering the benefits of vaccination for others in their communities when making vaccination decisions and weighted this lower when they were in the minority locally 5/
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In Wales, vaccination rates fell off in those who didn't identity as Welsh as the proportion of people in their local area who did increased. 3/
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We used survey data from Wales and the US to look at whether people who were in the minority locally with regard to salient social identities (national identity in Wales and political partisanship in the US) were less likely to get vaccinated than those in the majority 2/
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Attendees at #UKSBM2024 - come and see our symposium on health inequalities in post-industrial communities, tomorrow 10:20-11:20 in Megalithic 1&2 (great room name) @UKSBM Three great talks and also my one!
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Laura Hughes@Laura_K_Hughes·
🚨 Part 1/2 stories looking at human health risks posed by abandoned metal mines across Britain. At least 500 tonnes of harmful metals leak into the Welsh environment each year from just 129, according to government estimates obtained by the @FT on.ft.com/3IQFnCt
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@ArthurCDent Road safety has apparently massively improved in most places but not the US. Also guns and, more recently, the opioid epidemic.
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Arthur Dent@ArthurCDent·
I’m sure everyone’s got their own (political hobby horse) take on this but I’m genuinely curious. Why? Health system, diet, what…
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