Outputs (119)

Shorter Lives in Stingier States: Social Policy Shortcomings Help Explain the US Mortality Disadvantage (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory (2015)
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Scott-Samuel, A., & Bambra, C. (2016). A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory. International Journal of Health Services, 46(1), 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731415625252

For more than 30 years, socialism within the UK Labour Party – which was in government from 1997 to 2010 and is currently the main UK parliamentary opposition – has been in decline. Despite its origins as a party of and for the working class, Labour... Read More about A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory.

Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality (2015)
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Lake, A., Warren, J., Copeland, A., Rushmer, R., & Bambra, C. (2016). Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality. Journal of Public Health, 38(4), e446-e454. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv172

Background This paper presents the results of an exercise to scope the potential of a virtual network to support dissemination, collaboration and innovation among the UK research community on the topic of ‘work and health and well-being’. Methods Thr... Read More about Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality.

A train journey through the English health divide: Topological map (2015)
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Bambra, C., & Orton, C. (2016). A train journey through the English health divide: Topological map. Environment and Planning A, 48(5), 811-814. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15621633

Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity (2015)
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Cairns, J., Bambra, C., Hillier-Brown, F., Moore, H., & Summerbell, C. (2015). Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity. Journal of Public Health, 37(4), 659-670. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdu077

Background: Addressing socio-economic inequalities in obesity is a public health priority and the workplace is seen as a potential health promotion site. However, there is a lack of evidence on what works. This article systematically reviews studies... Read More about Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity.

Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research (2015)
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Garthwaite, K., Smith, K., Bambra, C., & Pearce, J. (2016). Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38(3), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12374

Following government commitments to reducing health inequalities from 1997 onwards, the UK has been recognised as a global leader in health inequalities research and policy. Yet health inequalities have continued to widen by most measures, prompting... Read More about Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research.