Outputs (119)

Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: an analysis of the 2010 European Working Conditions survey (2015)
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van der Wel, K., Bambra, C., Dragano, N., Eikemo, T., & Lunau, T. (2015). Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: an analysis of the 2010 European Working Conditions survey. Sociology of Health & Illness, 37(8), 1157-1172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12293

In this article we ask whether the level of sickness benefit provision protects the health of employees, particularly those who are most exposed to hazardous working conditions or who have a little education. The study uses the European Working Condi... Read More about Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: an analysis of the 2010 European Working Conditions survey.

Go slow: an umbrella review of the effects of 20mph zones and limits on health and health inequalities (2015)
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Cairns, J., Warren, J., Garthwaite, K., Greig, G., & Bambra, C. (2015). Go slow: an umbrella review of the effects of 20mph zones and limits on health and health inequalities. Journal of Public Health, 37(3), 515-520. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdu067

Background Transport is an important determinant of health and there is a well-established association between socio-economic status (SES) and risk of road accidents. Effective traffic calming interventions such as 20 mph zones and limits may therefo... Read More about Go slow: an umbrella review of the effects of 20mph zones and limits on health and health inequalities.

Austerity, Welfare Reform and the English Health Divide (2015)
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Bambra, C., & Garthwaite, K. (2015). Austerity, Welfare Reform and the English Health Divide. Area, 47(3), 341-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12191

In this commentary we argue that spatial inequalities in health will increase in England as a result of the entwined policies of austerity and welfare reform. We describe the health divide and outline the actual and potential effects of austerity and... Read More about Austerity, Welfare Reform and the English Health Divide.

Benefits and Barriers to the Public Health Pharmacy: A qualitative exploration of providers’ and commissioners’ perceptions of the Healthy Living Pharmacy Framework (2015)
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Firth, H., Todd, A., & Bambra, C. (2015). Benefits and Barriers to the Public Health Pharmacy: A qualitative exploration of providers’ and commissioners’ perceptions of the Healthy Living Pharmacy Framework. Perspectives in Public Health, 135(5), 251-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913915579457

Aims: The aims of this study were to explore the barriers to the implementation and progression of the Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) framework, from both provider and commissioner perspectives, and to ascertain whether the successes and barriers of t... Read More about Benefits and Barriers to the Public Health Pharmacy: A qualitative exploration of providers’ and commissioners’ perceptions of the Healthy Living Pharmacy Framework.

Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce (2015)
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Dragano, N., Lunau, T., Eikemo, T., Toch-Marquardt, M., van der Wel, K., & Bambra, C. (2015). Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 72(8), 553-559. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2014-102402

Objectives Health and safety instructions are important components of occupational prevention. Albeit instruction is mandatory in most countries, research suggests that safety knowledge varies among the workforce. We analysed a large European sample... Read More about Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce.

An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health (2015)
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Beckfield, J., Bambra, C., Eikemo, T., Huijts, T., McNamara, C., & Wendt, C. (2015). An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health. Social Theory & Health, 13(3-4), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2015.19

Social inequalities in health endure, but also vary, through space and time. Building on research that documents the durability and variability of health inequality, recent research has turned towards the welfare state as a major explanatory factor i... Read More about An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health.

The effectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modifiable health risk factors in deprived populations (2015)
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Abbas, S., Pollard, T., Wynn, P., Learmonth, A., Joyce, K., & Bambra, C. (2015). The effectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modifiable health risk factors in deprived populations. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 72(9), 664-669. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2014-102743

Objectives To establish whether a programme of targeted health screening, with referral to appropriate interventions, offered to an employed but socioeconomically deprived group was effective in overcoming barriers to uptake of such services and impr... Read More about The effectiveness of using the workplace to identify and address modifiable health risk factors in deprived populations.

This divided land: An examination of regional inequalities in exposure to brownfield land and the association with morbidity and mortality in England (2015)
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Bambra, C., Cairns, J., Kasim, A., Smith, J., Robertson, S., Copeland, A., & Johnson, K. (2015). This divided land: An examination of regional inequalities in exposure to brownfield land and the association with morbidity and mortality in England. Health & Place, 34, 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.05.010

This paper is the first empirical examination of the association between brownfield land and spatial inequalities in health. Linear mixed modelling of ward-level data suggests that there is higher exposure and susceptibility to brownfield land in the... Read More about This divided land: An examination of regional inequalities in exposure to brownfield land and the association with morbidity and mortality in England.

Access all areas? An area-level analysis of accessibility to general practice and community pharmacy services in England by urbanity and social deprivation (2015)
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Todd, A., Copeland, A., Husband, A., Kasim, A., & Bambra, C. (2015). Access all areas? An area-level analysis of accessibility to general practice and community pharmacy services in England by urbanity and social deprivation. BMJ Open, 5(5), Article e007328. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007328

Objectives (1) To determine the percentage of the population in England that has access to a general practitioner (GP) premises within a 20 min walk (the accessibility); (2) explore the relationship between the walking distance to a GP premises and u... Read More about Access all areas? An area-level analysis of accessibility to general practice and community pharmacy services in England by urbanity and social deprivation.

Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank (2015)
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Garthwaite, K., Collins, P., & Bambra, C. (2015). Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank. Social Science & Medicine, 132, 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.019

Emergency foodbanks have become an increasingly prominent and controversial feature of austerity in Europe and the USA. In the UK, foodbanks have been called a ‘public health emergency’. Despite this, there has been no UK research examining the healt... Read More about Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank.