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Details for Dr Patricia Lucas
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Patricia Lucas |
| Job title | Reader, Child Health Research |
| Department | School for Policy Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | Phd |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Book reviews editor for the journal Psychology, Health and Medicine. |
| Keywords | early childhood development child disability child poverty child deprivation inequalities in health educational interventions nutritional interventions social interventions |
| Areas of expertise | My interests have ranged from poor readers, to breast feeding, growth in infancy, nutrition intervention, depression in fathers of young children, to mentoring and CBT for conduct disordered youth. I am currently collaborating on research with academics in the UK and internationally. My research falls into two main categories: Early childhood development. • Primary focus on educational, nutritional and social interventions and outcomes for children. • Secondary areas of research have included child disability, poverty and deprivation, and inequalities in health. Systematic reviews and the development of an evidence base for policy • completed systematic reviews on infant growth and outcomes and population interventions for improving nutrition and diet. • currently working on a review for the Cochrane Collaboration of the benefits to children of increased welfare payments to families and a knowledge review of evidence on challenging behaviour in children’s residential care with Professor David Berridge. |