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"Getting sicker quicker": does living in a more deprived neighbourhood mean your health deteriorates faster?

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A Monte Carlo method to estimate the confidence intervals for the concentration index using aggregated population register data

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A comparison of health inequalities in urban and rural Scotland

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A comparison of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2004 with the 2009 + 1 SIMD: does choice of measure affect the interpretation of inequality in mortality?

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A comparison of trends in caesarean section rates in former communist (transition) countries and other European countries

scientific article published on 30 November 2012

A multilevel analysis of diet and socio-economic status in Scotland: investigating the 'Glasgow effect'.

scientific article published on 25 November 2008

Adiposity has differing associations with incident coronary heart disease and mortality in the Scottish population: cross-sectional surveys with follow-up

scientific article published on 3 July 2012

Adolescent smoking and tertiary education: opposing pathways linking socio-economic background to alcohol consumption

scientific article published on 09 May 2016

Alcohol, financial crisis and reform: learning from the Russian experience ⬇️

scientific article published on May 3, 2012

An international study of hospital readmissions and related utilization in Europe and the USA.

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Analysing the effect of area of residence over the life course in multilevel epidemiology

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Assessing Preventable Hospitalisation InDicators (APHID): protocol for a data-linkage study using cohort study and administrative data

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Assessing the impact of mobility on health: implications for life course epidemiology

scientific article published in February 2005

Assessing the representativeness of population-sampled health surveys through linkage to administrative data on alcohol-related outcomes

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Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change. A population-based study.

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Change and persistence in healthcare inequities: access to elective surgery in Finland in 1992--2003.

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Cohort profile: the Scottish health surveys cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies

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Commentary: long-term monitoring of health inequalities in Scotland--a response to Frank and Haw.

scientific article published on March 2013

Comparing the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on all-cause mortality using two hierarchical areal units in the capital region of Helsinki

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Contextual effect on mortality of neighbourhood level education explained by earlier life deprivation

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Contribution of problem drug users' deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study

scientific article published on 22 July 2008

Contribution of smoking-related and alcohol-related deaths to the gender gap in mortality: evidence from 30 European countries

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Declining cardiovascular mortality masks unpalatable inequalities

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Developing a new small-area measure of deprivation using 2001 and 2011 census data from Scotland

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Disentangling the impacts of geography and Aboriginality on serious road transport injuries in New South Wales

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Disparities in Revascularization Rates After Acute Myocardial Infarction Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People in Australia

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Disparities in cataract surgery between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia

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Do differences in the administrative structure of populations confound comparisons of geographic health inequalities?

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Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland ⬇️

scientific article published on December 22, 2011

Does the primary school attended influence self-reported health or its risk factors in later life? Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Study.

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Dundas et al. Respond to “Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity”.

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Dying younger in Scotland: Trends in mortality and deprivation relative to England and Wales, 1981-2011.

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Early-life school, neighborhood, and family influences on adult health: a multilevel cross-classified analysis of the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study

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Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross sectional study

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Effects of fully-established Sure Start Local Programmes on 3-year-old children and their families living in England: a quasi-experimental observational study

scientific article published in November 2008

Empirical Bayes methods for disease mapping

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Enhancing Health Through Access to Nature: How Effective are Interventions in Woodlands in Deprived Urban Communities? A Quasi-experimental Study in Scotland, UK

scientific article published on 15 June 2019

Estimating hidden populations: a new method of calculating the prevalence of drug-injecting and non-injecting female street prostitution

scientific article published in November 1991

Estimating the population prevalence of injection drug use and infection with human immunodeficiency virus among injection drug users in Glasgow, Scotland

scientific article published in August 1993

Evaluation of health in pregnancy grants in Scotland: a protocol for a natural experiment.

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Examining the relationship between length of stay and readmission rates for selected diagnoses in Scottish hospitals.

scientific article published in September 1995

Explaining the social patterning of lung function in adulthood at different ages: the roles of childhood precursors, health behaviours and environmental factors

scientific article published on 08 August 2013

Explaining trends in Scottish coronary heart disease mortality between 2000 and 2010 using IMPACTSEC model: retrospective analysis using routine data

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Exploring disparities in acute myocardial infarction events between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians: roles of age, gender, geography and area-level disadvantage

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

Factors influencing the outcome of non-surgical periodontal treatment: a multilevel approach

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Female streetworking prostitution and HIV infection in Glasgow

scientific article published in October 1992

Fetal growth and ratio of placental weight to birth weight

scientific article published on April 1992

Geographic variation of inpatient care costs at the end of life

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Gestational age and obstetric performance

scientific article published on January 11, 1992

Growth and nutrition in children with cerebral palsy

scientific article published in September 1990

Health impacts of environmental and social interventions designed to increase deprived communities’ access to urban woodlands: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 9 January 2019

Health inequalities and births to single mothers

scientific article published in June 1993

Homicides involving knives and other sharp objects in Scotland, 1981–2003

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How did the recent increase in the supply of coronary operations in Finland affect socioeconomic and gender equity in their use?

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How effective is the Forestry Commission Scotland's woodland improvement programme--'Woods In and Around Towns' (WIAT)--at improving psychological well-being in deprived urban communities? A quasi-experimental study

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

How have trends in lifespan variation changed since 1950? A comparative study of 17 Western European countries.

scientific article published on 27 November 2015

How much of the difference in life expectancy between Scottish cities does deprivation explain?

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

How robust are the estimated effects of air pollution on health? Accounting for model uncertainty using Bayesian model averaging

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Improving spatial nitrogen dioxide prediction using diffusion tubes: A case study in West Central Scotland

scientific article published on October 2015

Increasing socioeconomic inequalities in first acute myocardial infarction in Scotland, 1990-92 and 2000-02.

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Indicators of chronic noncommunicable diseases in women of reproductive age that are beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of Bolsa Família

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Injecting drug use and female street-working prostitution in Glasgow

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

International differences in self-reported health measures in 33 major metropolitan areas in Europe

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Is the "Glasgow effect" of cigarette smoking explained by socio-economic status?: a multilevel analysis

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League tables and acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in February 1998

Life course influence of residential area on cause-specific mortality

scientific article published in January 2008

Methodological challenges in the evaluation of community interventions

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Modelling Future Coronary Heart Disease Mortality to 2030 in the British Isles

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Modelling supply and demand influences on the use of health care: implications for deriving a needs-based capitation formula

scientific article published in December 2003

Mortality after admission for acute myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia: a multilevel data linkage study

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Multilevel modeling of regional variation in equity in health care

scientific article published on September 2008

Multilevel modelling and public health policy

scientific article published on January 2003

Multilevel modelling of the geographical distributions of diseases

scientific article published on January 1999

Multilevel models: applications to health data.

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Neighbourhood food and physical activity environments in England, UK: does ethnic density matter?

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No quick fix: understanding the difference between fixed and random effect models

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Overweight status and psychological well-being in adolescent boys and girls: a multilevel analysis

scientific article published on 28 July 2008

Patterns of neuropsychological function in a low-birthweight population

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Population mobility, deprivation and self-reported limiting long-term illness in small areas across Scotland

scientific article published on 12 February 2008

Proof firm downsizing and diagnosis-specific disability pensioning in Norway

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Protocol for a mixed-methods longitudinal study to identify factors influencing return to work in the over 50s participating in the UK Work Programme: Supporting Older People into Employment (SOPIE)

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Reliability of population and prevalence estimates

scientific article published in April 1992

Risk behaviours among male clients of female prostitutes

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Scaling COVID-19 against inequalities: should the policy response consistently match the mortality challenge?

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Scottish mortality rates 2000–2002 by deprivation and small area population mobility ⬇️

scientific article published on September 29, 2010

Selective internal migration. Does it explain Glasgow's worsening mortality record?

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Severity and pattern of peri-implantitis-associated bone loss

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Socio-demographic and health characteristics of individuals left behind in deprived and declining areas in Scotland

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Sociodemographic and health characteristics, rather than primary care supply, are major drivers of geographic variation in preventable hospitalizations in Australia

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Socioeconomic and racial differences in obstetric procedures

scientific article published on 01 August 1993

Socioeconomic differences in mortality amenable to health care among Finnish adults 1992-2003: 12 year follow up using individual level linked population register data

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Socioeconomic equity in amenable mortality in Finland 1992-2008.

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Socioeconomic gradients in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Scotland: the roles of composition and context

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Socioeconomic position and adolescent trajectories in smoking, drinking, and psychiatric distress

scientific article published on 02 May 2013

Socioeconomic position and early adolescent smoking development: evidence from the British Youth Panel Survey (1994-2008)

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmö, Sweden, in 2001

scientific article published on May 2006

Statistical methods to enhance reporting of Aboriginal Australians in routine hospital records using data linkage affect estimates of health disparities

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Sure Start in England

scientific article published in The Lancet

The effect of area of residence over the life course on subsequent mortality

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The effect of previous cesarean sections on current cesarean rates

The influence of both individual and area based socioeconomic status on temporal trends in Caesarean sections in Scotland 1980-2000.

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The relationship between body size and mortality in the linked Scottish Health Surveys: cross-sectional surveys with follow-up. ⬇️

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The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: population-based study.

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Trends and inequalities in short-term acute myocardial infarction case fatality in Scotland, 1988-2004

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Trends in adult cardiovascular disease risk factors and their socio-economic patterning in the Scottish population 1995-2008: cross-sectional surveys

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Trends in cardiovascular disease biomarkers and their socioeconomic patterning among adults in the Scottish population 1995 to 2009: cross-sectional surveys

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Trends in national suicide rates for Scotland and for England & Wales, 1960-2008.

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Urban-rural inequalities in ischemic heart disease in Scotland, 1981-1999

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Urban/rural inequalities in suicide in Scotland, 1981-1999.

scientific article published on 11 January 2005

Use of record-linkage to handle non-response and improve alcohol consumption estimates in health survey data: a study protocol

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Using cohort studies in lifecourse epidemiology

scientific article published on 09 February 2012

Variation in community intervention programmes and consequences for children and families: the example of Sure Start Local Programmes

What do doctors know of statistics?

scientific article published in March 1991

Why does Scotland have a higher suicide rate than England? An area-level investigation of health and social factors.

scientific article published on 10 June 2012

Why has mortality from coronary heart disease in young adults levelled off?

scientific article published on 14 July 2009

Women and evaluation of inequalities in the distribution of risk factors for Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), Vigitel 2016-2017

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Youth unemployment at times of recession: what does the future hold? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 12, 2013

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