Outputs (5)

Shorter Lives in Stingier States: Social Policy Shortcomings Help Explain the US Mortality Disadvantage (2016)
Journal Article
Beckfield, J., & Bambra, C. (2016). Shorter Lives in Stingier States: Social Policy Shortcomings Help Explain the US Mortality Disadvantage. Social Science & Medicine, 171, 30-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.017

The United States has a mortality disadvantage relative to its political and economic peer group of other “rich democracies”. Recently it has been suggested that there could be a role for social policy in explaining this disadvantage. In this paper,... Read More about Shorter Lives in Stingier States: Social Policy Shortcomings Help Explain the US Mortality Disadvantage.

The first pan-European sociological health inequalities survey of the general population: the European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health (2016)
Journal Article
Eikemo, T., Bambra, C., Huijts, T., & Fitzgerald, R. (2017). The first pan-European sociological health inequalities survey of the general population: the European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health. European Sociological Review, 33(1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw019

The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial, academically driven, cross-sectional, pan-European social survey that charts and explains the interactions between Europe’s changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour patterns of it... Read More about The first pan-European sociological health inequalities survey of the general population: the European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health.

Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Mattheys, K., Bambra, C., Warren, J., Kasim, A., & Akhter, N. (2016). Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study. SSM - Population Health, 2, 350-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.04.006

Since 2010, the UK has pursued a policy of austerity characterised by public spending cuts and welfare changes. There has been speculation – but little actual research – about the effects of this policy on health inequalities. This paper reports on a... Read More about Inequalities in mental health and well-being in a time of austerity: Baseline findings from the Stockton-on-Tees cohort study.

The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review (2016)
Journal Article
Thomson, K., Bambra, C., McNamara, C., Huijits, T., & Todd, A. (2016). The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review. Systematic Reviews, 5, Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0235-3

Background: The welfare state is potentially an important macro-level determinant of health that also moderates the extent, and impact, of socio-economic inequalities in exposure to the social determinants of health. The welfare state has three main... Read More about The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review.

Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, T., Todd, A., O’Malley, C., Moore, H., Husband, A., Bambra, C., …Summerbell, C. (2016). Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation. BMJ Open, 6(2), Article e009828. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009828

Objectives: To systematically review the effectiveness of community pharmacy-delivered interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management. Design: Systematic review and meta-analyses. 10 electronic databases were searched fr... Read More about Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation.