Outputs (20)

An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Social welfare matters: A realist review of when, how, and why unemployment insurance impacts poverty and health (2015)
Journal Article
O'Campo, P., Molnar, A., Ng, E., Renahy, E., Mitchell, C., Shankardass, K., …Muntaner, C. (2015). Social welfare matters: A realist review of when, how, and why unemployment insurance impacts poverty and health. Social Science & Medicine, 132, 88-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.025

The recent global recession and concurrent rise in job loss makes unemployment insurance (UI) increasingly important to smooth patterns of consumption and keep households from experiencing extreme material poverty. In this paper, we undertake a reali... Read More about Social welfare matters: A realist review of when, how, and why unemployment insurance impacts poverty and health.

Food for thought: an ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment (2015)
Report
Baumberg, B., Warren, J., Garthwaite, K., & Bambra, C. (2015). Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment. [No known commissioning body]

This report is part of a wider three-year research project looking at how non-medical factors are tangled up in the real world of incapacity. The project has four strands of work: · international comparisons of how incapacity assessment works in othe... Read More about Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment.

Better health at work? An evaluation of the effects and cost benefits of a structured workplace health improvement programme in reducing sickness absence (2015)
Journal Article
Braun, T., Bambra, C., Booth, M., Kasim, A., & Milne, E. (2015). Better health at work? An evaluation of the effects and cost benefits of a structured workplace health improvement programme in reducing sickness absence. Journal of Public Health, 37(1), 138-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdu043

Background This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the Better Health at Work Award—a structured regional workplace health programme which combined changes to the work environment with lifestyle interventions. Methods Baseline and follow-u... Read More about Better health at work? An evaluation of the effects and cost benefits of a structured workplace health improvement programme in reducing sickness absence.

How effective are interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among children and adults? Two systematic reviews (2015)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Hillier, F., Cairns, J., Kasim, A., Moore, H., & Summerbell, C. (2015). How effective are interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among children and adults? Two systematic reviews. Public Health Research, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.3310/phr03010

Background: Tackling obesity is one of the major contemporary public health policy challenges and is vital in terms of addressing health inequalities. Objectives: To systematically review the effectiveness of interventions (individual, community and... Read More about How effective are interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity among children and adults? Two systematic reviews.

All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010 (2015)
Journal Article
Copeland, A., Bambra, C., Nylén, L., Kasim, A., Riva, M., Curtis, S., & Burström, B. (2015). All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010. International Journal of Health Services, 45(1), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.2190/hs.45.1.b

This article is the first to comparatively examine the effects of two recessions on population health and health inequalities in the two historically contrasting welfare states of England and Sweden. Data from 1991–2010 on self-reported general healt... Read More about All in it together? The effects of recession on population health and health inequalities in England and Sweden, 1991 to 2010.