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A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory (2015)
Journal Article
Scott-Samuel, A., & Bambra, C. (2016). A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory. International Journal of Health Services, 46(1), 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731415625252

For more than 30 years, socialism within the UK Labour Party – which was in government from 1997 to 2010 and is currently the main UK parliamentary opposition – has been in decline. Despite its origins as a party of and for the working class, Labour... Read More about A Week Is a Long Time in Politics: The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory.

Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality (2015)
Journal Article
Lake, A., Warren, J., Copeland, A., Rushmer, R., & Bambra, C. (2016). Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality. Journal of Public Health, 38(4), e446-e454. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv172

Background This paper presents the results of an exercise to scope the potential of a virtual network to support dissemination, collaboration and innovation among the UK research community on the topic of ‘work and health and well-being’. Methods Thr... Read More about Developing virtual public health networks: aspiration and reality.

Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity (2015)
Journal Article
Cairns, J., Bambra, C., Hillier-Brown, F., Moore, H., & Summerbell, C. (2015). Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity. Journal of Public Health, 37(4), 659-670. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdu077

Background: Addressing socio-economic inequalities in obesity is a public health priority and the workplace is seen as a potential health promotion site. However, there is a lack of evidence on what works. This article systematically reviews studies... Read More about Weighing up the evidence: a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace interventions to tackle socio-economic inequalities in obesity.

Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research (2015)
Journal Article
Garthwaite, K., Smith, K., Bambra, C., & Pearce, J. (2016). Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research. Sociology of Health & Illness, 38(3), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12374

Following government commitments to reducing health inequalities from 1997 onwards, the UK has been recognised as a global leader in health inequalities research and policy. Yet health inequalities have continued to widen by most measures, prompting... Read More about Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities: perspectives of UK researchers on past, present and future directions in health inequalities research.

Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: an analysis of the 2010 European Working Conditions survey (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Austerity, Welfare Reform and the English Health Divide (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Go slow: an umbrella review of the effects of 20mph zones and limits on health and health inequalities (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Who knows the risk? A multilevel study of systematic variations in work-related safety knowledge in the European workforce (2015)
Journal Article
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.