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NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity (2011)
Journal Article
Gabbay, M., Taylor, L., Sheppard, L., Hillage, J., Bambra, C., Ford, F., …Kelly, M. (2011). NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity. British Journal of General Practice, 61(584), e118-124. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp11x561221

Long-term sickness absence and incapacity benefits (disability pension) rates have increased across industrialised countries. Effective measures are needed to support return to work. The recommendations of this guidance were informed by the most appr... Read More about NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity.

Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people (2011)
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Clayton, S., Bambra, C., Gosling, R., Povall, S., Misso, K., & Whitehead, M. (2011). Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people. BMC Public Health, 11, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-170

Background: Employment rates of long-term ill and disabled people in the UK are low and 2.63 million are on disability-related state benefits. Since the mid-1990 s, UK governments have experimented with a range of active labour market policies aimed... Read More about Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people.

The effects of health care reforms on health inequalities: a review and analysis of the European evidence base (2011)
Journal Article
Gelormino, E., Bambra, C., Spadea, T., Bellini, S., & Costa, G. (2011). The effects of health care reforms on health inequalities: a review and analysis of the European evidence base. International Journal of Health Services, 41(2), 209-230. https://doi.org/10.2190/hs.41.2.b

Health care is widely considered to be an important determinant of health. The health care systems of Western Europe have recently experienced significant reforms, under pressure from economic globalization. Similarly, in Eastern Europe, health care... Read More about The effects of health care reforms on health inequalities: a review and analysis of the European evidence base.

Real world reviews: A beginner’s guide to undertaking systematic reviews of public health policy interventions (2011)
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Bambra, C. (2011). Real world reviews: A beginner’s guide to undertaking systematic reviews of public health policy interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 65(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.088740

Background The systematic review is becoming an increasingly popular and established research method in public health. Obtaining systematic review skills are therefore becoming a common requirement for most public health researchers and practitioners... Read More about Real world reviews: A beginner’s guide to undertaking systematic reviews of public health policy interventions.

Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health (2011)
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Gibson, M., Petticrew, M., Bambra, C., Sowden, A., Wright, K., & Whitehead, M. (2011). Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health & Place, 17(1), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.09.011

Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged to be important social determinants of health, through three main pathways: (1) internal housing conditions, (2) area characteristics and (3) housing tenure. We conducted a systematic overv... Read More about Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health.

Reducing health inequalities in priority public health conditions: using rapid review to develop proposals for evidence-based policy (2010)
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Bambra, C., Joyce, K., Bellis, M., Greatley, A., Greengross, S., Hughes, S., …Maryon-Davies, A. (2010). Reducing health inequalities in priority public health conditions: using rapid review to develop proposals for evidence-based policy. Journal of Public Health, 32(4), 496-505. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdq028

Background In November 2008, the Secretary of State for Health (England) commissioned an independent review to propose effective strategies for reducing health inequalities. Review task groups were given just 3 months to make preliminary evidence-bas... Read More about Reducing health inequalities in priority public health conditions: using rapid review to develop proposals for evidence-based policy.

Worklessness and regional differences in the social gradient in general health: Evidence from the 2001 English census (2010)
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Bambra, C., & Popham, F. (2010). Worklessness and regional differences in the social gradient in general health: Evidence from the 2001 English census. Health & Place, 16(5), 1014-1021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.06.006

Background There has been much focus on separating contextual and compositional influences on social inequalities in health. However, there has been less focus on the important role of place in shaping the distribution of risk factors. Spatial variat... Read More about Worklessness and regional differences in the social gradient in general health: Evidence from the 2001 English census.

Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health (2010)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Netuveli, G., & Eikemo, T. (2010). Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health. International Journal of Health Services, 40(3), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.2190/hs.40.3.b

This article uses data from three waves of the European Social Survey (2002, 2004, 2006) to compare educational inequalities in self-reported health (good vs. bad) and limiting longstanding illness in six age groups based on decade of birth (1930s-19... Read More about Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health.