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Dr Richard J Pinder

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Director of Undergraduate Public Health Education
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 0789richard.pinder

 
 
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313Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Jumbe:2021:rs.3.rs-27881/v2,
author = {Jumbe, S and Milner, A and Clinch, M and Kennedy, J and Pinder, RJ and Sharpe, CA and Fenton, K},
doi = {rs.3.rs-27881/v2},
title = {A qualitative evaluation of Southwark Council’s public health approach for mitigating the mental health impact of the 2017 London Bridge and Borough Market terror attack},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-27881/v2},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>        <jats:p>BackgroundOver recent years there have been several major terror attacks in cities across Europe. These attacks result in deaths, physical injuries, and pose long-term threats to mental health and wellbeing of large populations. Although psychologists and psychiatrists have completed important work on mental health responses to disaster exposure including terrorist attacks, the mental health and wellbeing impacts of such attacks have been comparatively less examined in academic literature than the acute health response to physical injuries. This paper reflects on Southwark Council’s pioneering public health response to the June 2017 terror attack at London Bridge and Borough Market. It aims to explore the perceptions of mental health and wellbeing impact of the incident, and evaluate Council led efforts to minimise mental health and wellbeing sequelae following the attack.Methods A rapid qualitative evaluation informed by the logic underpinning Southwark Council’s response was conducted. Nineteen in-depth semi-structured interviews with consenting Southwark Council employees, residents, business owners, and workers from the London Borough of Southwark were conducted. Seven formative interviews were conducted with members of Southwark Council and other individuals directly involved in the planning and/or delivery of the mental health and wellbeing response. Twelve subsequent interviews were then conducted with residents, business owners and council employees to examine the mental health and wellbeing impacts of the attack and the effectiveness of the response. A thematic analysis of transcribed interviews was undertaken. Results The main theme found was that the attack had a wide-reaching negative impact and the main subthemes found that delivering the response was a challenge, that there was multifacted damage botha cross and within communities, and there was limited visibility of the res
AU  - Jumbe,S
AU  - Milner,A
AU  - Clinch,M
AU  - Kennedy,J
AU  - Pinder,RJ
AU  - Sharpe,CA
AU  - Fenton,K
DO  - rs.3.rs-27881/v2
PY  - 2021///
TI  - A qualitative evaluation of Southwark Council’s public health approach for mitigating the mental health impact of the 2017 London Bridge and Borough Market terror attack
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-27881/v2
ER  -
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