Scientific journals

Abbots, J., Williams, R. and Davey Smith, G. (1999) 'Association of medical, physiological, behavioural and socio-economic factors with elevated mortality in men of Irish heritage in the west of Scotland' Journal of Public Health Medicine, 21, 1: 46-54.

Bartley, M., Blane, D. and Montgomery, S. (1997) 'Health and the life course: why safety nets matter' British Medical Journal, 314: 1194-1196.

Bartley, M., Davey Smith, G. and Blane, D. (1998) 'Beyond the Black Report' Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5: 563-577.

Bartley, M., Sacker, A., Firth, D. and Fitzpatrick, R. (1998) R. 'Social position, social roles and women's health in England: changing relationships 1984-1993' Social Science and Medicine, 46: 99-115.

Bartley, M. (1999) 'Measuring women's social position: the importance of theory' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53, 10: 601-602.

Bartley, M., Sacker, A., Firth, D. and Fitzpatrick, R. (1999) 'Understanding social variation in cardiovascular risk factors in men and women: the advantage of theoretically based measures' Social Science and Medicine, 49: 831-845.

Bartley, M., Firth, D., Fitzpatrick, R. and Lynch, K. (2000) 'Towards explaining health inequalities' (correspondence) British Medical Journal, 321: 961-2.

Bartley, M. and Ferrie, J. (2001) 'Glossary: unemployment, job insecurity and health', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 776-781.

Benzeval, M. and Judge, K. (1997) 'Income dynamics and health', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 51, 5I: 588 (abstract).

Benzeval, M., Judge, K. and Taylor, J. (2000) 'Evidence on the relationship between low income and poor health: is the government doing enough? Fiscal Studies, 21, 3: 375-99.

Benzeval, M. and Judge, K. (2001) 'Income and health: the time dimension' Social Science and Medicine, 52: 1371-90.

Berney, L. R. and Blane, D. B. (1997) 'Collecting retrospective data: accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records' Social Science and Medicine, 45: 1519-1525.

Berney, L., Blane, D., Davey Smith, G., Gunnell, D., Holland, P. and Montgomery, S. (2000) 'Socio-economic measures in early old age as indicators of previous lifetime exposure to environmental health hazards' Sociology of Health and Illness, 22: 415-430.

Blane, D., Berney, L. R., Davey Smith, G., Gunnell, D., and Holland, P. (1998) 'Reconstructing the life course: health during early old age in a follow-up study based on the Boyd Orr cohort' Public Health, November 1998.

Blane, D., Montgomery, S. and Berney, L. R. (1998) 'Social class differences in lifetime exposure to environmental hazards.' Sociology of Health and Illness, 20: 532-536.

Blane, D., Mitchell, R. and Bartley, M. (2000) 'The "inverse housing law" and respiratory health' The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 54: 745-749.

Blane, D., Berney, L. and Montgomery, S. (2001) 'Domestic labour, paid employment and women's health: analysis of lifecourse data' Social Science and Medicine, 52: 959-965.

Brimblecombe, N., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (1999) 'Mortality and migration in Britain - first results from the British Household Panel Survey' Social Science and Medicine, 49, 7: 981-88.

Brimblecombe, N., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000) 'Migration and geographical inequalities in health in Britain: an exploration of the lifetime socio-economic characteristics of migrants' Social Science and Medicine, 50, 6: 861-878.

Burström, B., Diderichsen, F., Shouls, S. and Whitehead, M. (1999) 'Lone mothers in Sweden: trends in health and socio-economic circumstances 1979-1995' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53: 750-56.

Burström, B., Whitehead, M., Lindholm, C. and Diderichsen, F. (2000) 'Inequality in the social consequences of illness: how well do people with long-term illness fare in the British and Swedish labor markets?' International Journal of Health Services, 30, 3: 435-451.

Congdon, P., Campos, R., Curtis, S., Southall, H., Gregory, I. N. and Jones, I. R. (2001) 'Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s' International Journal of Population Geography, 7: 35-51.

Davey Smith, G., Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (1998) 'Shrinking areas and mortality' The Lancet, 352: 1439-40.
Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Shaw, M. (1999) 'The widening health gap: what are the solutions?' Critical Public Health, 9, 2: 151-170.

Davey Smith, G., Chaturvedi, N. Harding, S., Nazroo, J. and Williams, R. (2000) 'Ethnic inequalities in health: a review of UK epidemiological evidence' Critical Public Health, 40, 4: 375-408.

Davey Smith, G. (2000) 'Learning to live with complexity: ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and health in Britain and the United States' American Journal of Public Health, 90: 1694-98.

Emslie, C., Hunt, K. and Watt, G. M. C. (2001) 'Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems' Sociology of Health and Illness, 23, 2: 203-233.

Emslie, C., Hunt, K. and Watt, G. M. C. (2001) '"I'd rather go with a heart attack than drag on" Lay images of heart disease and the problems they present for primary and secondary prevention' Coronary Health Care, 5, 1: 25-32.

Exworthy, M. and Berney, L. (2000) 'What counts and what works? Evaluating policies to tackle health inequalities' Renewal, 8, 4: 47-55.

Exworthy, M., Powell, M., Berney, L. and Hallam, E. (2001) 'Understanding health variations and policy variations' Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 11, 1: 39-42.

Fenton, S. and Charsley, K. (2000) 'Epidemiology and sociology as incommensurate games: accounts from the study of health and ethnicity' Health, 4.

Ferrie, J. (2001) 'Is job insecurity harmful to health?' Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 94: 71-76.

Ferrie, J. (2001) 'Commentary: do social programmes contribute to mental well-being?: the long-term impact of unemployment on depression in the US' International Journal of Epidemiology, 30: 170-172.

Gatrell, A. (1997) 'Structures of geographical and social space and their consequences for human health' Geografiska Annaler, 79, 3: 141-154.

Goddard, M. and Smith, P. (2001) 'Equity of access to health care services: theory and evidence' Social Science and Medicine, 59, 9: 1149-1162.

Graham, H. (1998) 'Promoting health against inequality: using research to identify targets for intervention' Health Education Journal, 57, 4: 292-302.

Graham, H. (2000) 'Understanding health inequalities', MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, June, 10, 2: 144-148.

Grundy, E. and Holt, G. (2000) 'Adult life experiences and health in early old age in Great Britain' Social Science and Medicine, 51: 1061-1074.

Gunnell, D., Berney, L., Holland, P., Maynard, M., Blane, D., Frankel, S. and Davey Smith, G. (2000) 'How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly, and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood?' International Journal of Epidemiology, 29: 456-464.

Hallqvist, J., Diderichsen, F., Theorell, T., Reuterwall, C. and Ahlbom, A. (1998) 'Is the effect of job strain due to interaction between high psychological demand and low decision latitude?' Social Science and Medicine, 46: 1405-1415.

Halpern, D. and Nazroo, J. (2000) 'The ethnic density effect: results from a national community survey of England and Wales' International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 46, 1: 34-46.

Hertzman, C., Matthews, S., Power, C. and Manor, O. (2001) 'Using an interactive framework of society and lifecourse to explain self-rated health in early adulthood' Social Science and Medicine, 53: 1575-1585.

Heslop, P., Davey Smith, G., Macleod. J. and Hart, C. (1999) 'The socio-economic position of women, risk factors and mortality' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53: 668.

Heslop, P., Davey Smith, G., Carroll, D., Macleod, J., Hyland, F. and Hart, C. (2001) 'Perceived stress and coronary heart disease risk factors: the contribution of socio-economic position' British Journal of Health Psychology, 6: 167-178.

Heslop, P., Davey Smith, G., Macleod, J. and Hart, C. (2001) 'The socioeconomic position of employed women, risk factors and mortality' Social Science and Medicine, 53: 477-485.

Hiscock, R., Macintyre, S., Ellaway, A. and Kearns, A. (2001) 'Explanations for health inequalities between owners and social renters' Journal of Social Issues, 18, 1-2: 50-66.

Hiscock, R., Kearns, A., Macintyre, S. and Ellaway, A. (2001) 'Ontological security and psycho-social benefits from the home: qualitative evidence on issues of tenure' Housing, Theory and Society, 18: 50-66.

Hiscock, R., Macintyre, S., Ellaway, A. and Kearns, A. (2002) 'Do cars provide psychosocial benefits to their users' Transportation Research D: Transport and the Environment, 7, 2: 119-135.

Holland, P., Berney, L., Blane, D., Davey Smith, G., Gunnell, D. J. and Montgomery, S.M. (2000) 'Life course accumulation of disadvantage: childhood health and hazard exposure during adulthood' Social Science and Medicine, 50: 1285-1295.

Holt, G. and Grundy, E. (2000) 'Comparing health inequality in men and women' (letter) British Medical Journal, 321: 961.

Hunt, K., Davison, C., Emslie, C. and Ford, G. (2000), 'Are perceptions of family history of heart disease related to health-related attitudes and behaviour?' Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 15, 2: 131-143.

Hunt, K. and Emslie, C. (2001) 'Commentary: The prevention paradox in lay epidemiology - Rose revisited' International Journal of Epidemiology, 30: 442-446.

Hunt, K., Emslie, C. and Watt, G. M. C. (2001) 'Lay constructions of a "family history" of heart disease: potential for misunderstandings in the clinical encounter?' The Lancet, 357: 1168-1171.

Karlsen, S. and Nazroo, J. Y. (2002) 'Agency and structure: the impact of ethnic identity and racism on the health of ethnic minority people' Sociology of Health and Illness, 24, 1: 1-20.

Karlsen, S. and Nazroo, J.Y. (2002) 'The relationship between racial discrimination, social class and health among ethnic minority groups' American Journal of Public Health, 92, 4: 624-31.

Karlsen, S., Nazroo, J.Y. and Stephenson, R, (2002) 'Ethnicity,environment and health: putting ethnic inequalities in health in their place' Social Science and Medicine, 55, 9: 155-69.

Kearns, A., Hiscock, R., Ellaway, A. and Macintyre, S. (2000) '"Beyond four walls" - the psycho-social benefits of home: evidence from West Central Scotland' Housing Studies, 15, 3: 387-410.

Kirimaki, M., Vahlera, J., Pentti, J. and Ferrie, J. (2000) 'Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on the health of employees: a longitudinal cohort study of changes in work, social relationships and health behaviours' British Medical Journal, 320: 971-75.

Macintyre, S., Hiscock, R., Kearns, A. and Ellaway, A. (2001) 'Housing tenure and car access: further exploration of the nature of their relationships with health in a UK setting' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55, 5: 330-331.

Macleod, J., Davey Smith, G., Heslop, P., Oliver, S. and Hart, C. (1999) 'Always look on the bright side of life? The influence of reporting tendency when exposure and outcome measurements are based on self report' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53: 660.

MacLeod, J., Davey Smith, G., Heslop, P., Metcalfe, C., Carroll, D. and Hart, C. (2001) 'Psychological stress and the risk of both subjective and objective coronary heart disease: illustration of the influence of bias in observational epidemiology' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 878-884.

MacLeod, M. D. (1999) '"Why did it happen to me?" The role of social cognition processes in adjustment and recovery from criminal victimisation and illness' Current Psychology, 18: 18-31.

Manor, O., Matthews, S. and Power, C. (2000) 'Dichotomous or categorical response?: analysing self-rated health and lifetime social class' International Journal of Epidemiology, 29: 149-157.

Manor, O., Power, C. and Matthews, S. (2001) 'Self rated health and limiting longstanding illness: interrelationships with morbidity in early adulthood' International Journal of Epidemiology, 30: 600-607.

Martikainen. P., Stansfeld, S. A., Hemingway, H. and Marmot, M. G. (1999) 'Determinants of socio-economic differences in change in physical and mental functioning' Social Science and Medicine, 49: 499-507.

Matthews, S., Hertzman, C., Ostry, A. and Power, C. (1998) 'Gender, work roles and psychosocial work characteristics as determinants of health' Social Science and Medicine, 46: 1417-1424.

Matthews, S., Manor, O. and Power, C. (1999) 'Socio-economic inequalities in health: are there gender differences?' Social Science and Medicine, 48: 49-60.

Matthews, S., Stansfeld, S. and Power, C. (1999) 'Social support in young adults at age 33: the influence of gender, employment status and social class' Social Science and Medicine, 49: 133-142.

Matthews, S., Power, C. and Stansfeld, S. A. (2001) 'Psychological distress and work and home roles: a focus on socio-economic differences in distress' Psychological Medicine, 31: 725-736.

Matthews, S. and Power, C. (2002) 'Socio-economic gradients in psychological distress: a focus on women, social roles and work - home characteristics' Social Science and Medicine, 54: 799-810.

Metcalfe, C., Davey Smith, G., Sterne, J.A.C., Heslop, P., Macleod, J. and Hart, C. (2001) 'Individual employment histories and subsequent cause specific hospital admissions and mortality: a prospective study of a cohort of male and female workers with 21 years follow up' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 503-504.

Mitchell, R., Gleave, S., Bartley, M., Wiggins, R. D. and Joshi, H. E. (2000) 'Do attitude and area influence health? A multilevel approach to health inequalities' Health and Place, 6: 67-79.

Montgomery, S., Berney, L. and Blane D. (2000) 'Prepubital stature and blood pressure in early old age' Archives of Disease in Childhood, 82: 358-363.

Nazroo, J.Y. (1998) 'Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability? Explaining ethnic inequalities in health' Sociology of Health and Illness monograph on the Sociology of Health Inequality, 20, 5: 710-730.

Nazroo, J.Y. (2001) 'South Asians and Heart Disease: An assessment of the importance of socioeconomic position' Ethnicity and Disease, 11, 3: 401-11.

Oliver, A., Cookson, R., McDaid, D. and Exworthy, M. (2001) 'Developing a UK Health Equity Network' Public Health, 115: 1-2.

Popay, J. and Williams, G. (1998) 'Partnership in health: beyond the rhetoric' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Editorial, 52: 410-411.

Popay, J., Williams, G., Thomas, C. and Gatrell, A. (1998) 'Theorising inequalities in health: the place of lay knowledge' Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5: 619-644.

Powell, M. A. and Exworthy, M. (2001) 'Joined-up solutions to address health inequalities: analysing policy, process and resource streams' Public Money and Management, 21, 4: 21-26.

Power, C. and Matthews, S. (1997) 'Origins of health inequalities in a national population sample' The Lancet, 350: 1582-87.

Power, C., Manor, O. and Matthews, S. (1998) 'Inequality in self-rated health: explanations from different stages of the life course' The Lancet, 351: 1009-14.

Power, C., Manor, O. and Matthews, S. (1999) 'The duration and timing of exposure: effects of socio-economic environment on adult health' American Journal of Public Health, 89: 1059-1065.

Rice, N. and Smith, P. (2001) 'Ethics and geographical equity in health care' Journal of Medical Ethics, 27, 4: 256-261.

Richards, H. and Emslie, C. (2000) 'The "doctor" or the "girl from the University"? Considering the influence of professional roles on qualitative interviewing' Family Practice, 17, 1: 71-75.

Roberts, H. and Sheldon, T. (1998) 'Unfair shares in health' New Economy, 5, 4: 213-218.

Roberts, H. (2000) 'Sure Start: why do we think it might work?' Archives of Disease in Childhood, 82: 435-437.

Roberts, H. and Newman, T. (2001) 'Reducing inequalities in child health' Professional Care of Mother and Child, Editorial, 11, 4.

Rogers, A., Huxley, P., Thomas, R., Robson, B., Evans, S., Stordy, J. and Gately, C. (2001) 'Evaluating the impact of a locality based social policy intervention on mental health: conceptual and methodological issues' International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 47, 4: 41-55.

Sacker, A., Firth, D., Fitzpatrick, R. and Bartley, M. (2000) 'Comparing health inequality in men and women: prospective study of mortality 1986-96' British Medical Journal, 320: 1303-7.

Sacker, A., Bartley, M., Firth, D. and Fitzpatrick, R. (2001) 'Dimensions of social inequality in the health of women in England: occupational, material and behavioural pathways' Social Science and Medicine, 52, 5: 763-781.

Sacker, A., Schoon, I. and Bartley, M. (2001) 'Sources of bias in special needs provision in mainstream primary schools: evidence from two British cohort studies' European Journal of Special Needs Education, 16, 3: 259-276.

Shaw, M., Dorling, D., and Brimblecombe, N. (1998) 'Changing the map: Health in Britain 1951-1991, Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5: 694-709 [also in Bartley, M., Blane, D. and Davey Smith, G. (eds.) The Sociology of Health Inequalities Oxford: Blackwell: 135-150].

Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (1998) 'Shrinking areas and mortality' The Lancet, 352: 1139-40.

Shaw, M., Dorling, D., and Brimblecombe, N. (1998) 'Health and houses in multiple occupation' Environmental Health Journal, 106, 10: 280-1.

Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (1998) 'Mortality among street sleeping youth in the UK' The Lancet, 29 August: 743.

Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (1999) 'Life chances in Britain by housing wealth and for homeless and vulnerably housed' Environment and Planning A, 31: 2239-48.

Shouls, S., Whitehead, M., Burström, B. and Diderichsen, F. (1998) 'The health of lone mothers in Britain over the last two decades: the role of social policy' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 52 (abstract).

Shouls, S., Whitehead, M., Burström, B. and Diderichsen, F. (1999) 'The health and socio-economic circumstances of British lone mothers over the last two decades' Population Trends, 95: 41-54.

Sloggett, A. and Joshi, H. (1998) 'Indicators of deprivation in longitudinal perspective' Environment and Planning A, 30: 1055-1076.

Smith, K. and Graham, E. (2000) 'Social deprivation and the development of clinical protocols' Advancing Nursing Studies, 3: 162-168.

Watt, G., McConnachie, A., Upton, M., Emslie, C. and Hunt, K. (2000) 'How accurately do adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from coronary disease?' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 54: 859-863.

Wardle, J., Griffith, J., Johnson, F. and Rapoport, L. (2000) 'Intentional weight control and food choice habits in a national representative sample of adults in the UK' International Journal of Obesity, 24: 534-540.

Wardle, J. and Griffith, J. (2001) 'Socio-economic status and weight control practices in British adults' Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 185-190.

Whitehead, M., Burström, B. and Diderichsen, F. (1999) 'Social policies and the patterns of inequalities in health: a comparative analysis of lone mothers in Britain and Sweden' Social Science and Medicine, 50, 2: 255-70.

Whitehead, M. (1999) 'Where do we stand? Research and policy issues concerning equity in health and in health care' Acta Oncologica, 38, 1: 441-450.

Whitehead, M., Burström, B. and Diderichsen, F. (2000) 'Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health: a comparative analysis of lone mothers in Britain and Sweden' Social Science and Medicine, 50, 2: 255-270.

Wiggins, R., Bartley, M., Gleave, S., Joshi, H., Lynch, K. and Mitchell, R. (1998) 'Limiting long-term illness: a question of where you live or who you are? A multilevel analysis of the 1971-1991 ONS longitudinal study' Risk, Decision and Policy, 3: 181-198.

Wiggins, R. D., Joshi, H., Bartley, M., Gleave, S. and Lynch, K. (2002) 'Geographical variation in women's health' Social Science and Medicine, 54, 5: 827-838.

Williams, A. (2001) 'How economics could extend the scope of ethical discourse' Journal of Medical Ethics, 27, 4: 251-255.

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