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Luke R. Allen, PhD

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Luke A Allen

- Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Cited by 717

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic status and non-communicable disease behavioural risk factors in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review

L Allen, J Williams, N Townsend, B Mikkelsen… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Non-communicable diseases are the leading global cause of death and
disproportionately afflict those living in low-income and lower-middle-income countries …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of associations between non-communicable diseases and socioeconomic status within low-and lower-middle-income countries

J Williams, L Allen, K Wickramasinghe… - Journal of global …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally.
Eighty-two percent of premature NCD deaths occur within low-and lower middle-income …

Are we facing a noncommunicable disease pandemic?

L Allen - Journal of epidemiology and global health, 2017 - Springer
The global boom in premature mortality and morbidity from noncommunicable diseases
(NCDs) shares many similarities with pandemics of infectious diseases, yet public health …

[HTML][HTML] The commercial determinants of health

I Kickbusch, L Allen, C Franz - The Lancet Global Health, 2016 - thelancet.com
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan has noted that “efforts to prevent non-communicable
diseases go against the business interests of powerful economic operators”. 1 Selling …

Lessons on the COVID-19 pandemic, for and by primary care professionals worldwide

S Rawaf, LN Allen, FL Stigler, D Kringos… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has modified organisation and processes of primary care. In this
paper, we aim to summarise experiences of international primary care systems. We explored …

The coronavirus outbreak: the central role of primary care in emergency preparedness and response

C Dunlop, A Howe, D Li, LN Allen - BJGP open, 2020 - bjgpopen.org
Background On the last day of 2019, a cluster of cases of a pneumonia with unknown cause
were reported by the Chinese authorities to the World Health Organization (WHO), believed …

[HTML][HTML] GEM building taxonomy (Version 2.0)

S Brzev, C Scawthorn, AW Charleson, L Allen… - 2013 - pubs.usgs.gov
This report documents the development and applications of the Building Taxonomy for the
Global Earthquake Model (GEM). The purpose of the GEM Building Taxonomy is to describe …

Critical literacies in schools: A primer

A Luke, A Woods - Voices from the Middle, 2009 - publicationsncte.org
This article serves as a condensed history of the evolution of “critical literacy” and offers a
context—social, cultural, and economic—that allows readers to understand its purpose and …

[BOOK][B] Well-being and suicidality among transgender youth after gender-affirming hormones.

LR Allen, LB Watson, AM Egan, CN Moser - 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: This study is a longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of gender-affirming
hormones for improving psychological well-being and decreasing suicidality among …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of non-communicable disease policies from 2015 to 2020: a geopolitical analysis of 194 countries

LN Allen, S Wigley, H Holmer - The Lancet Global Health, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of
morbidity and mortality globally. We aimed to analyse trends in implementation of WHO …