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"A hard day's night?" The effects of Compressed Working Week interventions on the health and work-life balance of shift workers: a systematic review

scientific article published on September 2008

"I realised it weren't about spending the money. It's about doing something together:" the role of money in a community empowerment initiative and the implications for health and wellbeing

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

'First, do no harm': are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study

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'McDonalds and KFC, it's never going to happen': the challenges of working with food outlets to tackle the obesogenic environment

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

A framework for assessing health systems from the public's perspective: the ALPS approach

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

A longitudinal study of the impact of social deprivation and disease severity on employment status in the UK cystic fibrosis population

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A neural mechanism for sudden death after myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 1 October 2003

Absence of socioeconomic inequalities in access to good-quality breast cancer treatment within a population-wide screening programme in Turin (Italy).

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Adverse childhood experiences or adverse childhood socioeconomic conditions?

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact

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Are randomized trials of hormone replacement therapy in symptomatic women with breast cancer feasible?

scientific article published on February 2000

As the health divide widens in Sweden and Britain, what's happening to access to care?

scientific article published on October 18, 1997

Assembling the evidence jigsaw: insights from a systematic review of UK studies of individual-focused return to work initiatives for disabled and long-term ill people.

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Assessing the impact of rising child poverty on the unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England, 2000-2017: time trend analysis

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Author's response: understanding the natural progression in %FEV1decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal study

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Avulsion fragmentation of the tibial tuberosity apophysis and associated patellar tendon enthesopathy in a skeletally immature dog.

scientific article published on 22 March 2013

Breaking bad news sensitively: what is important to patients in their last year of life?

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty: qualitative study.

scientific article published on November 2007

Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer?

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Changes in income in the years before death: a record linkage study in Stockholm County.

scientific article published on May 2007

Child health unravelling in UK

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Child mortality in the UK.

scientific article published in November 2014

Cochlear endoscopy with preservation of hearing in guinea pigs

scientific article published in October 1994

Consensus conference: Progestagen use in postmenopausal women

scientific article published on November 1988

Controlled and dependent: experiences of living on social assistance in Sweden

scholarly article by Anneli Marttila et al published 18 February 2009 in International Journal of Social Welfare

Corrigendum to "Trends in mental health inequalities in England during a period of recession, austerity and welfare reform 2004 to 2013" [Social Sci. Med. 147C (2015) 324-331].

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Counting the human costs: opportunities for and barriers to promoting health.

scientific article published in January 1994

Crime, fear of crime and mental health: synthesis of theory and systematic reviews of interventions and qualitative evidence

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: mapping review of theories and causal pathways.

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Delayed and differential effects of the economic crisis in Sweden in the 1990s on health-related exclusion from the labour market: a health equity assessment

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Development of a framework for identifying and measuring collective control as a social determinant of health: findings from an evaluation of a natural policy experiment in empowerment

scientific article published in The Lancet

Differential vulnerability and susceptibility: how to make use of recent development in our understanding of mediation and interaction to tackle health inequalities

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Dilemmas in providing resilience-enhancing social services to long-term social assistance clients. A qualitative study of Swedish social workers

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Discrepancy between phenotype and genotype on screening for factor V Leiden after transplantation.

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Do 'flexicurity' Policies Work for People With Low Education and Health Problems? A Comparison of Labour Market Policies and Employment Rates in Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom 1990-2010.

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Do Social Policies and Political Context Matter for Health in the United Kingdom?

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Doctors need to take the lead on poverty's effects on health

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Does 'welfare-to-work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare-to-work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness.

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Does non-employment contribute to the health disadvantage among lone mothers in Britain, Italy and Sweden? Synergy effects and the meaning of family policy

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

Does the concept of resilience contribute to understanding good quality of life in the context of epilepsy?

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Effectiveness of return-to-work interventions for disabled people: a systematic review of government initiatives focused on changing the behaviour of employers.

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

Effects of child long-term illness on maternal employment: longitudinal findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published in February 2017

Effects on mental health of a UK welfare reform, Universal Credit: a longitudinal controlled study

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness

scientific article published on 12 May 2013

Equal North: how can we reduce health inequalities in the North of England? A prioritization exercise with researchers, policymakers and practitioners

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Equity and health sector reforms: can low-income countries escape the medical poverty trap?

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Equity aspects of the Primary Health Care Choice Reform in Sweden - a scoping review

scientific article published on 28 January 2017

Equity impacts of neoliberal reforms: what should the policy responses be?

scientific article published in January 2007

Erratum to: Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Evaluating the health inequalities impact of area-based initiatives across the socioeconomic spectrum: a controlled intervention study of the New Deal for Communities, 2002-2008.

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 1: the reality according to policymakers

scientific article published on October 2004

Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 2: assembling the evidence jigsaw

scientific article published on October 2004

Exploring loss and replacement of loss for understanding the impacts of epilepsy onset: a qualitative investigation

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Exploring the relation between class, gender, and self rated general health using the new socioeconomic classification. A study using data from the 2001 census

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Factors predictive of resilience and vulnerability in new-onset epilepsy

scientific article published on November 10, 2010

Family employment and child socioemotional behaviour: longitudinal findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

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Fear of crime and the environment: systematic review of UK qualitative evidence

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Financial stress and strain associated with terminal cancer--a review of the evidence

scientific article published on October 2007

Fit-for-work or fit-for-unemployment? Does the reassessment of disability benefit claimants using a tougher work capability assessment help people into work?

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Gender and socio-economic variations in employment among patients with a diagnosed musculoskeletal disorder: a longitudinal record linkage study in Sweden

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Getting to grips with health inequalities at last?

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Great leap backwards

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Group-based microfinance for collective empowerment: a systematic review of health impacts

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Health Trajectories in People with Cystic Fibrosis in the UK: Exploring the Effect of Social Deprivation

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Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes - the example of Italy, Sweden and Britain.

scientific article published on 8 January 2010

Health of young and elderly informal carers: analysis of UK census data

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Health trajectories in regeneration areas in England: the impact of the New Deal for Communities intervention

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Health underachievement and overachievement in English local authorities

scientific article published on August 2006

Hospital Deaths in Sweden: Are Individual Socioeconomic Factors Relevant?

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health

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How close have universal health systems come to achieving equity in use of curative services? A systematic review.

scientific article published on January 2007

How could differences in 'control over destiny' lead to socio-economic inequalities in health? A synthesis of theories and pathways in the living environment

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How do early-life adverse childhood experiences mediate the relationship between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adolescent health outcomes in the UK?

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

How do macro-level contexts and policies affect the employment chances of chronically ill and disabled people? Part I: The impact of recession and deindustrialization.

scientific article published in January 2011

How do macro-level contexts and policies affect the employment chances of chronically ill and disabled people? Part II: The impact of active and passive labor market policies.

scientific article published in January 2011

How equitable is vocational rehabilitation in Sweden? A review of evidence on the implementation of a national policy framework.

scientific article published on 07 June 2010

How well can poor child health and development be predicted by data collected in early childhood?

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Impact on health inequalities of rising prosperity in England 1998-2007, and implications for performance incentives: longitudinal ecological study

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Increased cardiac sympathetic nerve activity following acute myocardial infarction in a sheep model

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Inequalities in extending working lives beyond age 60 in Canada, Denmark, Sweden and England-By gender, level of education and health

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Inequalities in health--development and change

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Inequality in the face of death? Public expenditure on health care for different socioeconomic groups in the last year of life

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Inequality in the social consequences of illness: how well do people with long-term illness fare in the British and Swedish labor markets?

scientific article published in January 2000

Influence of socio-economic status on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection incidence, risk factors and clinical features

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Injustice is killing people on a large scale--but what is to be done about it?

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Introduction of a National Minimum Wage Reduced Depressive Symptoms in Low-Wage Workers: A Quasi-Natural Experiment in the UK.

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Investigating the impact of the English health inequalities strategy: time trend analysis

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Involving the public in epidemiological public health research: a qualitative study of public and stakeholder involvement in evaluation of a population-wide natural policy experiment.

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Is the health of the long-term unemployed better or worse in high unemployment areas?

scientific article published in January 2005

Is there a north-south divide in social class inequalities in health in Great Britain? Cross sectional study using data from the 2001 census

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Keep going in adversity - using a resilience perspective to understand the narratives of long-term social assistance recipients in Sweden

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Labor market participation following onset of seizures and early epilepsy: Findings from a UK cohort.

scientific article published on 24 October 2008

Living on social assistance with chronic illness: Buffering and undermining features to well-being.

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Lone mothers in Sweden: trends in health and socioeconomic circumstances, 1979-1995.

scientific article published on December 1999

Low socioeconomic status is associated with worse lung function in the Danish cystic fibrosis population

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Making the most of routine data in palliative care research--a case study analysis of linked hospital and mortality data on cancer and heart failure patients in Scotland and Oxford

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NHS reform: untried remedies for misdiagnosed problems?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Narrowing social inequalities in health? Analysis of trends in mortality among babies of lone mothers (abridged version 1)

scientific article published on April 1999

Neighbourhood unemployment and other socio-demographic predictors of emergency hospitalisation for infectious intestinal disease in England: a longitudinal ecological study

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Parental employment during early childhood and overweight at 7-years: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Pathways to inequalities in child health

scientific article published on 23 February 2019

Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups

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Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews

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Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: systematic review

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Poverty dynamics and health in late childhood in the UK: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Power, control, communities and health inequalities III: participatory spaces-an English case

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Power, control, communities and health inequalities. Part II: measuring shifts in power

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Predicting long-term recovery from depression in community settings in Western Europe: evidence from ODIN.

scientific article published on 25 December 2009

Preventive dental visiting: a critical interpretive synthesis of theory explaining how inequalities arise

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Protocol for a systematic review of the effects of schools and school-environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and syntheses

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Protocol for the development of a CONSORT-equity guideline to improve reporting of health equity in randomized trials

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Public pensions and unmet medical need among older people: cross-national analysis of 16 European countries, 2004-2010

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Putting context centre stage: evidence from a systems evaluation of an area based empowerment initiative in England

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Putting equity center stage: challenging evidence-free reforms.

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Reframing “participation” and “inclusion” in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: Evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative

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Relationship between socioeconomic status and gastrointestinal infections in developed countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Relationship between socioeconomic status and gastrointestinal infections in developed countries: a systematic review protocol

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Reporting of health equity considerations in cluster and individually randomized trials

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Resource allocation to health authorities: the quest for an equitable formula in Britain and Sweden

scientific article published on October 4, 1997

Retirement age caregivers and deprivation of area of residence in England and Wales

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

Reviewing evidence on complex social interventions: appraising implementation in systematic reviews of the health effects of organisational-level workplace interventions

scientific article published on 21 August 2008

Roma populations and health inequalities: a new perspective

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Setting targets to address inequalities in health

scientific article published on April 25, 1998

Shifting schedules: the health effects of reorganizing shift work.

scientific article published on May 2008

Social capital and health: tip-toeing through the minefield of evidence.

scientific article published in July 2001

Social inequalities in wheezing in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Social patterning of telephone health-advice for diarrhoea and vomiting: analysis of 24 million telehealth calls in England

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Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health: a comparative analysis of lone mothers in Britain and Sweden

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Sociodemographic and clinical risk factors for paediatric typical haemolytic uraemic syndrome: retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Socioeconomic differences in service use, payment and receipt of illness-related benefits in the last year of life: findings from the British Household Panel Survey

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Socioeconomic inequalities in the employment impact of ischaemic heart disease: a longitudinal record linkage study in Sweden

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Socioeconomic status and infectious intestinal disease in the community: a longitudinal study (IID2 study).

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Socioeconomic status is associated with symptom severity and sickness absence in people with infectious intestinal disease in the UK

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Stalling life expectancy and rising inequalities in England

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Studying social policy and resilience to adversity in different welfare states: Britain and Sweden

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Summary and Conclusions of the Study

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Surgery for diverticular disease results in a higher hernia rate compared to colorectal cancer: a population-based study from Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social determinants of health inequalities

scientific article published on August 6, 2010

Systematic review of the effects of schools and school environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and synthesis

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Tackling inequalities in health: evaluating the New Deal for Communities initiative

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Tackling the challenges to health equity in China

scientific article published on 17 October 2008

Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain.

scientific article published on 6 June 2009

The effect of a transition into poverty on child and maternal mental health: a longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

The effect of estrone on thrombin generation may explain the different thrombotic risk between oral and transdermal hormone replacement therapy

scientific article published on 14 June 2010

The effect of social deprivation on clinical outcomes and the use of treatments in the UK cystic fibrosis population: a longitudinal study.

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

The effects of maximising the UK's tobacco control score on inequalities in smoking prevalence and premature coronary heart disease mortality: a modelling study.

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The effects of the school environment on student health: a systematic review of multi-level studies.

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

The effects on student health of interventions modifying the school environment: systematic review

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

The experience of community engagement for individuals: a rapid review of evidence

scientific article published on 08 December 2010

The first 100 thrombolysis cases in a novel Scottish mesh telestroke system

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The harvest plot: a method for synthesising evidence about the differential effects of interventions

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The health and socio-economic circumstances of British lone mothers over the last two decades

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The health impacts of women's low control in their living environment: A theory-based systematic review of observational studies in societies with profound gender discrimination

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

The impact of NHS resource allocation policy on health inequalities in England 2001-11: longitudinal ecological study

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The impact of anemia on outcome of chemoradiation for limited small-cell lung cancer: a combined analysis of studies of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

The impact on health inequalities of approaches to community engagement in the New Deal for Communities regeneration initiative: a mixed-methods evaluation

The need for continuing education of the prescriber.

scientific article published in December 2000

The north-south health divide

scientific article published on February 15, 2011

The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation. 1. A systematic review of organisational-level interventions that aim to increase employee control

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The psychosocial and health effects of workplace reorganisation. 2. A systematic review of task restructuring interventions

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The rise of food poverty in the UK.

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

The role of income differences in explaining social inequalities in self rated health in Sweden and Britain

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The social and economic consequences of childhood asthma across the lifecourse: a systematic review

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The social and economic consequences of childhood-onset Type 1 diabetes mellitus across the lifecourse: a systematic review.

scientific article published on August 2006

To what extent have relaxed eligibility requirements and increased generosity of disability benefits acted as disincentives for employment? A systematic review of evidence from countries with well-developed welfare systems.

scientific article published on 30 August 2010

Too sick to work, too healthy to qualify: a cross-country analysis of the effect of changes to disability benefits

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Trading quality for relevance: non-health decision-makers' use of evidence on the social determinants of health

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Trends in mental health inequalities in England during a period of recession, austerity and welfare reform 2004 to 2013.

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Trends in poverty risks among people with and without limiting-longstanding illness by employment status in Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom during the current economic recession--a comparative study

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Understanding area-based community empowerment initiatives as events in systems and the implications for evaluating their potential to affect health inequalities

scientific article published in The Lancet

Understanding the natural progression in %FEV1 decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal study

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Validation of treatment induced specific adverse effect as a predictor of treatment benefit: a case study of NCIC CTG BR21.

scientific article published on 19 January 2008

Vietnam during economic transition: a tracer study of health service access and affordability

scientific article published in January 2007

What are the economic consequences for households of illness and of paying for health care in low- and middle-income country contexts?

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What can be done about inequalities in health?

scientific article published in October 1991

What is the effect of changing eligibility criteria for disability benefits on employment? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence from OECD countries

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

What is the evidence that differences in 'control over destiny' lead to socioeconomic inequalities in health? A theory-led systematic review of high-quality longitudinal studies on pathways in the living environment

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

What is the impact of flexicurity on the chances of entry into employment for people with low education and activity limitations due to health problems? A comparison of 21 European countries using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

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What is the qualitative evidence concerning the risks, diagnosis, management and consequences of gastrointestinal infections in the community in the United Kingdom? A systematic review and meta-ethnography

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

What puts children of lone parents at a health disadvantage?

scientific article published in The Lancet

When is a randomised controlled trial health equity relevant? Development and validation of a conceptual framework

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Who cares about equity in the NHS?

scientific article published on May 1994

William Farr's legacy to the study of inequalities in health.

scientific article published on January 2000

Winners and losers in flexible labor markets: the fate of women with chronic illness in contrasting policy environments--Sweden and Britain

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment.

scientific article published on 31 December 2008

Working towards social justice in health

scientific article published on August 1996