Outputs (119)

Age and gender of informal carers: a population-based study in the UK (2007)
Journal Article
Dahlberg, L., Bambra, C., & Demack, S. (2007). Age and gender of informal carers: a population-based study in the UK. Health and Social Care in the Community, 15(5), 439-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.2007.00702.x

This paper identifies variations in the age and gender characteristics of informal carers in the UK. The paper is based on the Individual Sample of Anonymous Record (SAR), a 3% random sample of the 2001 UK Census. The sample size was 1,825,595. Of th... Read More about Age and gender of informal carers: a population-based study in the UK.

Women’s empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: An ecological study (2007)
Journal Article
Stanistreet, D., Swami, V., Pope, D., Bambra, C., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2007). Women’s empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: An ecological study. The Journal of men's health & gender, 4(3), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmhg.2007.05.003

Background This study examined the association between mortality due to injury and poisoning among men and women in Europe and nine indicators of women's empowerment (i.e. women's challenging of existing power structures that subordinate women). Meth... Read More about Women’s empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: An ecological study.

Incapacity or unemployment? The utility of an administrative data source as an updatable indicator of population health (2007)
Journal Article
Norman, P., & Bambra, C. (2007). Incapacity or unemployment? The utility of an administrative data source as an updatable indicator of population health. Population, Space and Place, 13(5), 333-352. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.458

Despite the availability of mortality data, a lack of annually accessible morbidity information for small geographical areas in England and Wales means that health studies are often restricted to using decennial, self-reported Census measures. Whilst... Read More about Incapacity or unemployment? The utility of an administrative data source as an updatable indicator of population health.

A politics of health glossary (2007)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Fox, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2007). A politics of health glossary. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(7), 571-574. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.046128

This glossary reflects a (re-)emerging awareness within public health of the political dimension of health and health inequalities, and it also attempts to define some of the key concepts from the political science literature in a way which will be o... Read More about A politics of health glossary.

What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socio-economic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability? (2007)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., & Pope, D. (2007). What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socio-economic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(5), 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.052662

Objective: To investigate how anti-discrimination legislation in the form of the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) affected socioeconomic disparities in the employment rates of people with a limiting long-term illness (LLTI) or disability. Desig... Read More about What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socio-economic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability?.

'Sifting the wheat from the chaff’: A two-dimensional discriminant analysis of welfare state regime theory (2007)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2007). 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff’: A two-dimensional discriminant analysis of welfare state regime theory. Social Policy and Administration, 41(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00536.x

Welfare state modelling has long been an important strand within comparative social policy. However, since the publication of Esping-Andersen's 'Worlds of Welfare' typology, welfare state classification has become particularly prominent and a multitu... Read More about 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff’: A two-dimensional discriminant analysis of welfare state regime theory.

What is the association between sickness absence, mortality and morbidity? (2006)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., & Norman, P. (2006). What is the association between sickness absence, mortality and morbidity?. Health & Place, 12(4), 728-733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.02.008

This paper examines the area-level relationships in England and Wales between sickness absence (‘incapacity benefit’), mortality and morbidity. It uses a random sample of incapacity benefit claims, and population counts of mortality and Census morbid... Read More about What is the association between sickness absence, mortality and morbidity?.

Decommodification and the worlds of welfare revisited (2006)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2006). Decommodification and the worlds of welfare revisited. Journal of European Social Policy, 16(1), 73-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928706059835

This paper critically examines the theoretical, empirical and methodological limitations of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare decommodification index. It highlights an, to date, overlooked error in Esping-Andersen’s original calculations that... Read More about Decommodification and the worlds of welfare revisited.

Health status and the worlds of welfare (2006)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2006). Health status and the worlds of welfare. Social Policy and Society, 5(1), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746405002721

One of the most substantial additions made by the 'three worlds of welfare' thesis to the welfare state modelling business is that comparisons should examine what welfare states actually do rather than how much they are afforded or which services the... Read More about Health status and the worlds of welfare.

Has the disability discrimination act closed the employment gap? (2005)
Journal Article
Pope, D., & Bambra, C. (2005). Has the disability discrimination act closed the employment gap?. Disability and Rehabilitation, 27(20), 1261-1266. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638280500075626

Study objective. To investigate whether the disparity in employment rates between people with a limiting long-term illness or disability and those without has decreased since the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK. Design.... Read More about Has the disability discrimination act closed the employment gap?.