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'What Counts is What Works'? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health (2010)
Journal Article
Perkins, N., Smith, K., Hunter, D., Bambra, C., & Joyce, K. (2010). 'What Counts is What Works'? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health. Policy and Politics, 38(1), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557309x458425

Partnership working has been a central feature of New Labour's approach to the delivery of health and social policy since 1997. A number of partnership-based initiatives have centred on reducing health inequalities and improving health. This article... Read More about 'What Counts is What Works'? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health.

Material, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical factors in the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in mortality: evidence from the HUNT study (2009)
Journal Article
Skalická, V., Lenthe, F., Bambra, C., Krokstad, S., & Mackenbach, J. (2009). Material, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical factors in the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in mortality: evidence from the HUNT study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(5), 1272-1284. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyp262

Background: Previous studies have assessed the relative importance of material, psychosocial and behavioural factors in the explanation of relative socio-economic inequalities in mortality, but research into the contribution of biomedical factors has... Read More about Material, psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical factors in the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in mortality: evidence from the HUNT study.

Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, K., Bambra, C., Joyce, K., Perkins, N., Hunter, D. J., & Blenkinsopp, E. (2009). Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008. Journal of Public Health, 31(2), 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdp002

Objective To systematically review the available evidence on the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes (health improvement and/or a reduction in health inequalities) in England between 1997 and 2008. Design Systematic review... Read More about Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008.

Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment (2009)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Gibson, M., Sowden, A., Wright, K., Whitehead, M., & Petticrew, M. (2009). Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment. Preventive Medicine, 48(5), 454-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.018

Objective. To map the health effects of interventions which aim to alter the psychosocialwork environment, with a particular focus on differential impacts by socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity, or age. Methods. A systematic approach was used to... Read More about Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment.

Welfare state regimes and the political economy of health (2009)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2009). Welfare state regimes and the political economy of health. Humanity & Society, 33, 99-117

International research on the social determinants of health has increasingly integrated a welfare state perspective, comparing and explaining the differing health outcomes of developed countries through reference to the concept of welfare state regim... Read More about Welfare state regimes and the political economy of health.

Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: A comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries (2009)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., & Eikemo, T. (2009). Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: A comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63(2), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2008.077354

Background: The relationship between unemployment and increased risk of morbidity and mortality is well established. However, what is less clear is whether this relationship varies between welfare states with differing levels of social protection for... Read More about Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: A comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries.

Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of thirteen European countries (2009)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Pope, D., Swami, V., Stanistreet, D., Roskam, A., Kunst, A., & Scott-Samuel, A. (2009). Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of thirteen European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63(1), 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.070292

Background: This study is the first to examine the relationship between gender and self-assessed health (SAH), and the extent to which this varies by socio-economic position in different European welfare state regimes (Liberal, Corporatist, Social De... Read More about Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of thirteen European countries.

Reviewing evidence on complex social interventions: appraising implementation in systematic reviews of the health effects of organisational-level workplace interventions (2009)
Journal Article
Egan, M., Bambra, C., Petticrew, M., & Whitehead, M. (2009). Reviewing evidence on complex social interventions: appraising implementation in systematic reviews of the health effects of organisational-level workplace interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.071233

Objective: We appraised the reporting of intervention implementation in studies included in systematic reviews of organisational-level workplace interventions. Implementation is taken to include such factors as intervention setting, resources, planni... Read More about Reviewing evidence on complex social interventions: appraising implementation in systematic reviews of the health effects of organisational-level workplace interventions.

Welfare state regimes and income related health inequalities: a comparison of 23 European countries (2008)
Journal Article
Eikemo, T., Bambra, C., Joyce, K., & Dahl, E. (2008). Welfare state regimes and income related health inequalities: a comparison of 23 European countries. European Journal of Public Health, 18(6), 593-599. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckn092

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of income-related health inequalities varies between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Bismarckian, Southern and Eastern). Specifically, it examined whether the S... Read More about Welfare state regimes and income related health inequalities: a comparison of 23 European countries.