Sra Barnes Sarah (Reino Unido )

Disciplina :

• Needs assessment, planning and economic evaluation
• International health system and policy

Perfil :

• Sarah joined the section in January 2007 as a Lecturer in Public Health. She lectures on the Masters in Public Health, leading the Needs Assessment, Planning and Economic Evaluation module and co-leading the inquiry-based International Health: Policy and Systems module. She is also the ScHARR Alumni Co-ordinator.

  Research Interests

  Sarah gained a BA (hons) in Psychology from the University of Sheffield, before completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion at Sheffield Hallam University. She gained her PhD in 2003 at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture which was a multi-method study examining the private, semi-private and public areas of care settings for older people and their relationship to resident quality of life. During this time, Sarah concurrently worked as a Research Assistant on the multi-disciplinary EPSRC-funded EQUAL project Design in Caring Environments, a cross-sectional study of quality of life and building design in residential and nursing care homes for older people.

  In August 2006 Sarah successfully completed the Project Management of a three year, multi-method, longitudinal study identifying the need for end of life care among older people with heart failure and their families, and developing an understanding of the nature and timing of appropriate service responses. It was the first study to recruit a large, community-based sample of heart failure patients in the UK. New methods of identifying heart failure patients from primary care records were used to recruit over 500 heart failure patients and over 200 family carers from a number of UK GP practices.