Jan Savinc
jan savinc

Jan Savinc

Research Fellow

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  J.Savinc@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am a Research Fellow in Health Data Science at 麻豆社区 and the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Science.

My research interests are in using large datasets collected routinely by public bodies for studies to benefit public health. I am interested in areas of mental health, childhood adversity, end of life care, suicide prevention, alcohol & drug use.

I am also interested in using population data research to inform policy, and in educating the public about how their data are used by public agencies and researchers.

My current projects include investigating the increase of home deaths since the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland, and a study of mental health and substance use contacts for people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE). I have previously worked on projects looking at childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns prior to young person suicide (CHASE), and on the 2015-2020 evaluation of the Glasgow Improving Cancer Journeys (ICJ).

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Advisory panel to Scottish Government: Spiritual Care Minimal Data Set
  • Scottish Government CMO/CNO Care Home Data & Analytics Steering Group

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Adult social care linked data research: opportunities & challenges in identifying a UK four nations approach

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Nomination for Response to Covid-19 Award by ADR UK
  • Research poster prize, Annual Research Meeting of the NRS mental health research network

 

Grant Reviewer

  • ESRC Peer Review College Member

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer: Discover Mental Health
  • Reviewer: conference abstracts & workshops, ADR UK 2025
  • Reviewer: BJPsych Open
  • Reviewer: Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
  • Reviewer: BMC Palliative Care
  • Reviewer: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS)
  • Reviewer: IPDLN 2022 conference abstracts
  • Reviewer: Journal of Research in Nursing

 

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Inequalities of provision of nationally funded clinical academic training awards for healthcare professionals: quantitative comparisons across the four nations of the UK

Journal Article
Peters, A., Cameron, H., Cunningham, S., Dawkes, S., Donaldson, J., Hughes, L., Savinc, J., & MacArthur, J. (online)
Inequalities of provision of nationally funded clinical academic training awards for healthcare professionals: quantitative comparisons across the four nations of the UK. Journal of Research in Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1177/17449871241291947
Background: There is a common perception that investment in clinical academic training awards for healthcare professions (not medicine and dentistry) in England outweighs that...

Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2024)
Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland. BMC Health Services Research, 24, Article 457. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10923-2
Introduction: Preventative spend is a global health and social care strategy. Improving Cancer Journeys (ICJ) is a proactive, holistic, multidisciplinary project consistent wi...

Childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a case-control 36 year linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981-2017

Journal Article
Dougall, N., Savinc, J., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O鈥機onnor, R. C., Williams, B., 鈥urray, J. (in press)
Childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a case-control 36 year linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981-2017. BJPsych Open,
Background Childhood adversity (CA) is associated with increased later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. Opportunities for earlier healthcare identification ...

Individuals who lived alone or with an unpaid carer approaching the end of life at 2001 and 2011 census in Scotland

Report
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. (2023)
Individuals who lived alone or with an unpaid carer approaching the end of life at 2001 and 2011 census in Scotland. Scottish Government
The census provides invaluable information on Scotland鈥檚 population and linking it to other data enables analysis of specific groups to inform policy. The following briefing p...

Associations between home death, demographic factors and health care service usage for people who died in Scotland before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland

Journal Article
Savinc, J. (2023)
Associations between home death, demographic factors and health care service usage for people who died in Scotland before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), Article 3:039. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2220
Objectives To compare pre-pandemic and pandemic associations between death at home and: 1) demographic characteristics, 2) health care usage characteristics of people who died...

Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison

Journal Article
Connell, C., Kjellgren, R., & Savinc, J. (2023)
Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), Article 3:99. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2314
Objectives To compare the use of NHS services for mental health and substance use (MH/SU) between people released from prison and the general population. This paper describes ...

The secret world of data

Presentation / Conference
Savinc, J., McVie, S., & Baird, H. (2023, September)
The secret world of data
Data is all around us. How our data is used, by whom and for whose benefit is a major topic of discussion. So, what is really being done with it? Who can use it and why? And h...

Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations

Journal Article
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. M. (2023)
Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations. Journal of Public Health, 45(4), e664鈥揺667. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad156
Deaths at home increased in Scotland at the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by ~35%. The majority did not involve COVID-19. This has implications for...

Impact of Childhood Adversity and mental health on young person suicide: the CHASE study

Presentation / Conference
Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Savinc, J., Abbott-Smith, S., & Murray, J. (2023, May)
Impact of Childhood Adversity and mental health on young person suicide: the CHASE study. Paper presented at European Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health, Ume氓, Sweden
Background Suicide rates have been increasing in recent years after a period of decline since the 1990s, with notable increases in those aged 15-24. Childhood adversity is a k...

10 minute Research Update - Why has there been an increase in 'Deaths at Home' since 2020

Digital Artefact
Savinc, J. (2023)
10 minute Research Update - Why has there been an increase in 'Deaths at Home' since 2020. [Podcast]
A current research project within our Health and social care programme is investigating whether there was an increase in deaths at home during and after the Covid19 pandemi...