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GCPH documents

References

General papers and documents related to the work of the Centre can be found below.

Population health

• Evans RG and Stoddart GL (1990) ‘Producing Health, Consuming Health Care’ Social Science and Medicine 31(12): 1347-63
• Evans RG and Stoddart GL (2003) ‘Consuming Research, Producing Policy’ American Journal of Public Health 93(3): 371-379
• Kindig D and Stoddart G (2003) ‘What is Population Health?’ American Journal of Public Health 93(3): 380-383

Inequality and health

• BMJ collection on socioeconomic determinants of health
• Reprints and reflections on income and inequality as determinants of mortality (2002). International Journal of Epidemiology 31: 533-551
• Wilkinson & Marmot (2003) ‘Social Determinants of Health. The Solid Facts.’ Second edition. World Health Organisation.
• Ross NA, Dorling D, Dunn JR, Henricksson G, Glover J, Lynch J and Weitoft GR (2005) ‘Metropolitan Income Inequality and Working-age Mortality: A cross-sectional analysis using comparable data from five countries.’ Journal of Urban Health 82(1): 101-110
• Hart JT (1971) ‘The Inverse Care Law.’ Lancet 1(7696): 405-12
• Marmot M, Shipley M, Brunner E & Hemingway H (2001) ‘Relative contribution of early life and adult socioeconomic factors to adult morbidity in the Whitehall II Study.’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 55: 301-307.

Scotland’s health

• Hanlon P et al (2001) ‘Chasing the Scottish Effect. Why Scotland needs a step-change in health if it is to catch up with the rest of Europe.’ Public Health Institute of Scotland/Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency.
• Hanlon P et al (2005) ‘Why is Mortality Higher in Scotland than in England and Wales? Decreasing influence of socioeconomic deprivation between 1981 and 2001 supports the existence of a ‘Scottish Effect’.’ Journal of Public Health 27(2): 199-204
• Mitchell R, Fowkes G, Blane D and Bartley M (2005) ‘High rates of Ischaemic Heart Disease in Scotland are not explained by conventional risk factors.’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59: 565-567
• Clark D, McKeon A, Sutton M and Wood R (2004) ‘Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland’ Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency of the NHS in Scotland.
• Scottish Government (2007) Health in Scotland 2006: Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer
• Watt G C M and Ecob R (2000) ‘A comparison of mortality trends in Edinburgh and Glasgow: are the age-cohort predictions of mortality differences supported on the 1991 data?’ Journal of Public Health Medicine 22(3): 330–336.

Neighbourhood influences on health

• Tafford M & Marmot M (2004) ‘Neighbourhood deprivation and health: does it affect us all equally?’ International Journal of Epidemiology 32: 357-366.
• Cummins S, Stafford M, Macintyre S, Marmot M & Ellaway A (2005) ‘Neighbourhood environment and its association with self rated health: evidence from Scotland and England’ Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 59: 207-213
• Macintyre S, Maciver S & Sooman A (1993) ‘Area, class and health: should we be focusing more on places or people?’ Journal of Social Policy 22:213-234.
• Stafford M, Bartley M, Mitchell R & Marmot M (2001) ‘Characteristics of individuals and characteristics of areas: investigating their influence on health in the Whitehall II study.’ Health and Place 7(2): 117-129

Subjective and psycho-social influences on health

• Kristenson M, Eriksen H R, Sluiter J K, Starke D, Ursin H (2004) ‘psychobiological mechanisms of socioeconomic differences in health’ Social Science and Medicine 58: 1511-1522
• Macleod J, Davey Smith G, Metcalfe C & Hart C (2005) ‘Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men.’ Social Science and Medicine 61(9): 1916-1929
• Marmot M and Wilkinson R G (eds) (1999) ‘Social Determinants of Health’ Oxford University Press
• Scott G (2005) ‘Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion: a UK problem’ Scottish Anti-Poverty Review Summer 2005 pp15-17 (www.povertyalliance.org)
• Stansfeld SA, Fuhrer R, Shipley MJ & Marmot MG (2002) ‘Psychological distress as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in the Whitehall II Study.’ International Journal of Epidemiology 31: 248-255
• Kuper H & Marmot M (2003) ‘Job strain, job demands, decision latitude, and risk of coronary heart disease within the Whitehall II study.’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 57(2): 147-153.