A5026166440- Health disparities and outcomes
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Global Health Care Issues
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
University of York
2016-2025
University of Nairobi
2024
Boston College
2024
University of Technology Sydney
2024
University of Cambridge
2024
Australian National University
2024
Brunel University of London
2024
Leverhulme Trust
2023-2024
Northumbria University
2023
Emerald Group Publishing (United Kingdom)
2023
Population health tends to be better in societies where income is more equally distributed. Recent evidence suggests that many other social problems, including mental illness, violence, imprisonment, lack of trust, teenage births, obesity, drug abuse, and poor educational performance schoolchildren, are also common unequal societies. Differences the prevalence ill problems between less equal seem large extend vast majority population. Rather than referencing all literature, this paper...
Bradford Institute for Health Research, Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK, School of Studies, University Edinburgh Ethnicity and Research Group, Centre Population Sciences, College Medicine Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh, Sport, Exercise Loughborough University, Leicestershire, Medical Council Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Social Community Bristol, Paediatric Epidemiology Biostatistics, Leeds Genetics, Therapeutics, Faculty Health, Leeds, UK Department York,
To see if obesity, deaths from diabetes, and daily calorie intake are associated with income inequality among developed countries.Ecological study of 21 countries.Countries: Countries were eligible for inclusion they the top 50 countries highest gross national per capita by purchasing power parity in 2002, had a population over 3 million, available data on outcome measures.Percentage obese (body mass index >30) adult men women, diabetes mortality rates, consumption day.Adjusting income, was...
Abstract Background COVID‐19 vaccines can offer a route out of the pandemic, yet initial research suggests that many are unwilling to be vaccinated. A rise in spread misinformation is thought have played significant role vaccine hesitancy. To maximize uptake, it important understand why has been able take hold at this time and may pose more problem within certain contexts. Objective people's beliefs, their interactions with (mis)information during attitudes towards vaccine. Design...
Abstract There is now substantial evidence that larger income differences in a society increase the prevalence of most health and social problems tend to occur more frequently lower down ladder. The pathways through which human beings are sensitive inequality however less clear. This paper outlines explanatory theory we think best fits growing but incomplete body available. Inequality appears have its fundamental effects on quality relations—with implications affecting number...
Objectives To examine associations between child wellbeing and material living standards (average income), the scale of differentiation in social status (income inequality), exclusion (children relative poverty) rich developed societies. Design Ecological, cross sectional studies. Setting Cross national comparisons 23 countries; state within United States. Population Children young people. Main outcome measures The Unicef index its components for eight comparable US states District Columbia...
We investigated whether the processes underlying association between income inequality and population health are related to those responsible for socioeconomic gradient in disparities smaller when differences narrower.We used multilevel models a regression analysis of 10 age- cause-specific US county mortality rates on median household incomes state inequality. assessed more closely were also compared gradients more- less-equal states.Mortality strongly associated with inequality: across all...