John MacLeod

The relative efficacy of two levels of a primary care intervention for family members affected by the addiction problem of a close relative: a randomized trial (2009)

Copello, Alex, Templeton, Lorna, Orford, Jim, Velleman, Richard, Patel, Asmita, Moore, Laurence, ...

Objectives: A randomized trial to compare two levels of an intervention (full versus brief) for use by primary healthcare professionals with family members affected by the problematic drug or alcohol...

Assessing IDU prevalence and health consequences (HCV, overdose and drug-related mortality) in a primary care trust: implications for public health action (2009)

Hickman, Mathew, Hope, Vivian, Coleman, Barbara, Parry, John, Telfer, Maggie, Twigger, John, ...

Background We report on an exercise to estimate the prevalence of injecting drug use (IDU) and associated harms in a single primary care trust. Methods Covariate capture–recapture methods to...

Parental drug use, early adversities, later childhood problems and children's use of tobacco and alcohol at age 10: birth cohort study (2008)

MacLeod, John, Hickman, Matthew, Bowen, Erica, Alati, Rosa, Tilling, Kate

Aims To estimate the prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use among children at age 10 years and to investigate possible influences on this. Design Birth cohort study. Setting England. Participants A...

Cause-specific hospital admission and mortality among working men: association with socioeconomic circumstances in childhood and adult life, and the mediating role of daily stress (2005)

Metcalfe, Chris, Davey Smith, George, Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Heslop, Pauline, Macleod, John, Hart, Carole L.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of childhood and adulthood social class with the occurrence of specific diseases, including those not associated with a high...

Self-reported stress and subsequent hospital admissions as a result of hypertension, varicose veins and haemorrhoids (2003)

Metcalfe, Chris, Smith, George Davey, Macleod, John, Heslop, Pauline, Hart, Carole

Background This study examines a cohort in which individuals of privileged socio‐economic position report greater psychological stress. We have previously shown in this cohort that stress is...

Health for All in Nicaragua (1990)

MACLEOD, JOHN

Macleod J. Health for all in Nicaragua. Family Practice 1990; 7: 20–23. The state of health care in Nicaragua can be attributed in part to the interaction between ‘revolutionary’ and ‘counter...