Outputs (119)

Is patriarchy the source of men’s higher mortality? (2005)
Journal Article
Stanistreet, D., Bambra, C., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Is patriarchy the source of men’s higher mortality?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59(10), 873-876. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2004.030387

Objective: To examine the relation between levels of patriarchy and male health by comparing female homicide rates with male mortality within countries. Hypothesis: High levels of patriarchy in a society are associated with increased mortality among... Read More about Is patriarchy the source of men’s higher mortality?.

Towards a politics of health (2005)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Fox, D., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2005). Towards a politics of health. Health Promotion International, 20(2), 187-193. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dah608

The importance of public policy as a determinant of health is routinely acknowledged, but there remains a continuing absence of mainstream debate about the ways in which the politics, power, and ideology which underpin public policy influence people'... Read More about Towards a politics of health.

Reviewing the evidence: reflections from experience (2005)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2005). Reviewing the evidence: reflections from experience. Evidence and Policy, 1(2), 243-256. https://doi.org/10.1332/1744264053730752

Evidence-based policy (EBP), along with the 'systematic review', has recently emerged as a prominent strand within social science and public policy research. A number of articles have heralded this emergence but the vast majority are theoretical and... Read More about Reviewing the evidence: reflections from experience.

Does 'welfare to work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare to work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness (2005)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Whitehead, M., & Hamilton, V. (2005). Does 'welfare to work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare to work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness. Social Science & Medicine, 60(9), 1905-1918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.09.002

Welfare to work programmes directed at increasing the employment chances of people with a disability or a chronic illness are a controversial aspect of welfare reform in countries such as the UK. There has been considerable public debate about their... Read More about Does 'welfare to work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare to work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness.

Cash versus services: 'worlds of welfare' and the decommodification of cash benefits and health care services (2005)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2005). Cash versus services: 'worlds of welfare' and the decommodification of cash benefits and health care services. Journal of Social Policy, 34(2), 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279404008542

Welfare state models have focused almost exclusively on the study of cash benefits, and typologies established on this limited basis have been used to generalise about all forms of welfare state provision. This ignores the fact that welfare states ar... Read More about Cash versus services: 'worlds of welfare' and the decommodification of cash benefits and health care services.

Worlds of welfare and the health care discrepancy (2005)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2005). Worlds of welfare and the health care discrepancy. Social Policy and Society, 4(1), 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746404002143

The nature of welfare regimes has been an ongoing debate within the comparative social policy literature since the publication of Esping-Andersen's ‘Three Worlds of Welfare’ (1990). This article draws upon recent developments within this debate, most... Read More about Worlds of welfare and the health care discrepancy.

Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw (2004)
Journal Article
Whitehead, M., Petticrew, M., Graham, H., Macintyre, S., Bambra, C., & Egan, M. (2004). Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(10), 817-821. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2003.015297

Study objective: To garner research leaders’ perceptions and experiences of the types of evidence that influence policy on health inequalities, and their reflections on how the flow of such research evidence could be increased. Design, setting, and p... Read More about Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw.

The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind? (2004)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2004). The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind?. Social Policy and Society, 3(3), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s147474640400171x

The nature of welfare state regimes has been an ongoing debate within the comparative social policy literature since the publication of Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). This paper engages with two aspects of this debat... Read More about The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind?.

Weathering the storm: convergence, divergence and the robustness of the worlds of welfare (2004)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2004). Weathering the storm: convergence, divergence and the robustness of the worlds of welfare. Social policy journal, 3(3), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1300/j185v03n03_02

Esping-Andersen's 'three worlds of welfare' typology has been the subject of an intensive and unrelenting academic debate for the past decade. This debate has been fairly extensive in its, overwhelmingly negative, evaluation but it has ignored what i... Read More about Weathering the storm: convergence, divergence and the robustness of the worlds of welfare.