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How can integrated services help sick and disabled people remain in employment? Findings from an evaluation of an in-work support service in the North of England (2015)
Book Chapter
Warren, J., Garthwaite, K., & Bambra, C. (2015). How can integrated services help sick and disabled people remain in employment? Findings from an evaluation of an in-work support service in the North of England. In C. Grover, & L. Piggott (Eds.), Disabled people, work and welfare: Is employment really the answer?. Policy Press

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients (2015)
Journal Article
Garthwaite, K. (2015). ‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients. Social Policy and Administration, 49(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12119

This article focuses upon social networks and their relationship to stigma and identity for long-term sickness benefits recipients in the North East of England. Drawing on empirical qualitative research with long-term sickness benefits recipients, th... Read More about ‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients.

Becoming incapacitated? Long-term sickness benefit recipients and the construction of stigma and identity narratives (2015)
Journal Article
Garthwaite, K. (2015). Becoming incapacitated? Long-term sickness benefit recipients and the construction of stigma and identity narratives. Sociology of Health & Illness, 37(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12168

The transition to becoming ‘incapacitated’ and receiving sickness benefits represents a significant shift in an individual's narrative. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 25 long-term sickness benefits recipients in North-East England, this article... Read More about Becoming incapacitated? Long-term sickness benefit recipients and the construction of stigma and identity narratives.