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List of works by Sam Harper

A Future for Observational Epidemiology: Clarity, Credibility, Transparency

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A More Complete Picture of Higher Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence Among Blacks Compared to Whites

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Accounting for Selection Bias in Studies of Acute Cardiac Events

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Achieving effective universal health coverage with equity: evidence from Chile

scientific article published on 5 August 2013

An equity dashboard to monitor vaccination coverage.

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004

scientific article published on 15 March 2008

Analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities using the concentration index

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Antenatal corticosteroid administration and early school age child development: A regression discontinuity study in British Columbia, Canada

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Are work demands associated with mental distress? Evidence from women in rural India

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Assessing disparities in colorectal cancer mortality by socioeconomic status using new tools: health disparities calculator and socioeconomic quintiles.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Assessing the impact of TRAP laws on abortion and women's health in the USA: a systematic review

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Associations between income inequality and mortality among US states: the importance of time period and source of income data

scientific article published on 7 July 2005

Authors' reply re: Maternal and neonatal outcomes after implementation of a hospital policy to limit low-risk planned caesarean deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation: an interrupted time-series analysis

scientific article published in May 2016

Burden of disease, health indicators and challenges for epidemiology in North America

scientific article published on 9 March 2012

Challenges in reproducing results from publicly available data: an example of sexual orientation and cardiovascular disease risk

scientific article

Comment on the equity impact of women's community groups on inequalities in neonatal mortality

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Commentary: Best Practice for What? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders--where to next for the SS income inequality?

scientific article published on December 2003

Commentary: Trends in indigenous inequalities in mortality in New Zealand

scientific article published on 29 June 2009

Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiology

scientific article published in August 2007

Commentary: What explains widening geographic differences in life expectancy in New Zealand?

scientific article published on 9 May 2006

Comparison of Rates of Firearm and Nonfirearm Homicide and Suicide in Black and White Non-Hispanic Men, by U.S. State

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomes

scientific article published on 28 April 2005

Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors and Mortality

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Country-level predictors of vaccination coverage and inequalities in Gavi-supported countries.

scientific article

Declining United States Life Expectancy: A First Look.

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Decomposing income-related inequality in cervical screening in 67 countries

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

Decomposing socioeconomic health inequalities

scientific article published on 9 January 2010

Deficiency of the Odds Ratio for Common Outcomes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Determinants of increased opioid-related mortality in the United States and Canada, 1990-2013: a systematic review

scientific article

Did the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of death

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Did the Great Recession increase suicides in the USA? Evidence from an interrupted time-series analysis.

scientific article published on June 2017

Distance to emergency obstetric services and early neonatal mortality in Ethiopia

scientific article

Diverging socioeconomic inequality in life expectancy of Francophones and Anglophones in Montréal, Québec: tobacco to blame?

Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Marijuana Use? Replication Study and Extension

scientific article published on 29 January 2012

Do Seat Belt Laws Still Work? Replication and Re-Evaluation of Recent Evidence

scientific article published in 2015

Do Socioeconomic Inequalities in Neonatal Mortality Reflect Inequalities in Coverage of Maternal Health Services? Evidence from 48 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Do minimum wages improve early life health? Evidence from developing countries

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Does Segregation Lead to Lower Birth Weight?: An Instrumental Variable Approach

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Economic conditions and health behaviours during the 'Great Recession'.

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Economic downturns and suicide mortality in the USA, 1980-2010: observational study

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Educational Inequalities in Small for Gestational Age Birth Over Time: Influence of Outcome Misclassification

scientific article published in 2011

Educational and wealth inequalities in tobacco use among men and women in 54 low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 24 November 2016

Educational inequalities in preterm and term small-for-gestational-age birth over time.

scientific article

Erratum to: Inequalities of health indicators for policy makers: six hints

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Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approaches

scientific article published on May 2006

Francophone and Anglophone perinatal health: temporal and regional inequalities in a Canadian setting, 1981–2008

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Global and national socioeconomic disparities in obesity, overweight, and underweight status

scientific article

Global income-related inequalities in HIV testing

scientific article published on 27 January 2011

Global socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use: internationally comparable estimates from the World Health Surveys

scientific article published on 18 February 2012

Global variability in fruit and vegetable consumption

scientific article

Harper et al. Respond to "Measuring Social Disparities in Health"

scientific article published on 25 February 2008

Has the Increase in Disability Insurance Participation Contributed to Increased Opioid-Related Mortality?

scientific article

Health equity: Utopian and scientific

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Highly active antiretroviral therapy and socioeconomic inequalities in AIDS mortality in Spain

scientific article published on 13 February 2007

Impact of selective evidence presentation on judgments of health inequality trends: an experimental study

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Implicit value judgments in the measurement of health inequalities

scientific article published in March 2010

Increased Duration of Paid Maternity Leave Lowers Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Quasi-Experimental Study

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Increased risk of coronary heart disease in female smokers

scientific article published in The Lancet

Increasing educational inequality in preterm birth in Quebec, Canada, 1981-2006.

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Individual- and community-level determinants of Inuit youth mental wellness.

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Inequalities in Indigenous Oral Health: Findings from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Inequalities in cancer survival and the NHS cancer plan: evidence of progress?

scientific article published on August 2010

Inequalities of health indicators for policy makers: six hints

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Injection Drug Use, Unemployment, and Severe Food Insecurity Among HIV-HCV Co-Infected Individuals: A Mediation Analysis.

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Injection drug use, food insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: a longitudinal cohort analysis.

scientific article

International shortfall inequality in life expectancy in women and in men, 1950-2010

scientific article published on 29 May 2012

Invited Commentary: A-P-C... It's Easy as 1-2-3!

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review

scientific article published on January 2004

Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 2. U.S. National and regional trends in income inequality and age- and cause-specific mortality

scientific article published in January 2004

Life expectancy gap between the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority of a Canadian population

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Life-course socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Framingham Offspring Study

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Maternal and neonatal outcomes after implementation of a hospital policy to limit low-risk planned caesarean deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation: an interrupted time-series analysis

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Maternal education and stillbirth: estimating gestational-age-specific and cause-specific associations

scientific article published in March 2012

Measuring the effect of Family Medicine Group enrolment on avoidable visits to emergency departments by patients with diabetes in Quebec, Canada

scientific article

Methadone treatment, severe food insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: A propensity score matching analysis.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: Using Data Relevant to Healthy People 2010 Cancer-Related Objectives

scientific article published in 2010

Monitoring equity in vaccination coverage: A systematic analysis of demographic and health surveys from 45 Gavi-supported countries

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Mortality inequality in populations with equal life expectancy: Arriaga's decomposition method in SAS, Stata, and Excel

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

National female literacy, individual socio-economic status, and maternal health care use in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Neighbourhood Walkability and Daily Steps in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Neighbourhood walkability, daily steps and utilitarian walking in Canadian adults

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Oregon's Hard-Stop Policy Limiting Elective Early-Term Deliveries: Limitations of Before-and-After Studies in Evaluating Obstetric Policies

scientific article published on April 2017

P2-526 Social determinants of depressive symptoms among older adults in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published in August 2011

Paid maternity leave and childhood vaccination uptake: Longitudinal evidence from 20 low-and-middle-income countries

scientific article published on 11 July 2015

Primary Enforcement of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws and Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Promise and Pitfalls of the Sibling Comparison Design in Studies of Optimal Birth Spacing

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Reducing social inequalities in health: the role of simulation modelling in chronic disease epidemiology to evaluate the impact of population health interventions

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Relation of socioeconomic position with ankle-brachial index

scientific article published on 10 September 2011

Relative and absolute disparities in preterm birth related to neighborhood education

scientific article published on 7 May 2011

Relative measures alone tell only part of the story ⬇️

scientific article published on September 23, 2010

Removing user fees for facility-based delivery services: a difference-in-differences evaluation from ten sub-Saharan African countries

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Safety of labour and delivery following closures of obstetric services in small community hospitals

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Simulation models for socioeconomic inequalities in health: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 4 November 2013

Social Epidemiology

scientific article published in November 2012

Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Delivered Face-to-Face and by a Mobile Phone to Strengthen Vaccination Uptake and Improve Child Health in Rural India: Randomized Pilot Study

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Social determinants and the decline of cardiovascular diseases: understanding the links

scientific article published on January 2011

Social inequalities in tooth loss: A multinational comparison.

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Socio-economic inequalities and oral health in Canada and the United States

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Socioeconomic differentials in cause-specific mortality among South Korean adolescents

scientific article published on 03 November 2006

Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey

scientific article published on 28 October 2012

Socioeconomic inequality in neonatal mortality in countries of low and middle income: a multicountry analysis

scientific article

Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Socioeconomic status, oral health and dental disease in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States

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Survey data with sampling weights: Is there a “best" approach? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 17, 2012

THE AUTHORS REPLY

The "Americanisation" of migrants: evidence for the contribution of ethnicity, social deprivation, lifestyle and life-course processes to the mid-20th century Coronary Heart Disease epidemic in the US.

scientific article published on 10 February 2006

The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Seat Belt Use by Socioeconomic Position

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The Impact of Parental and Medical Leave Policies on Socioeconomic and Health Outcomes in OECD Countries: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature

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The annual cannabis holiday and fatal traffic crashes

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

The changing gender differences in life expectancy in Korea 1970-2005.

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

The contribution of excise cigarette taxes on the decline in youth smoking in Canada during the time of the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy (2002-2012).

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: relative and absolute perspectives

scientific article published on 2 January 2009

The effect of affordable daycare on health and well-being over the life-course

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

The effect of affordable daycare on women's mental health: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in rural India

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The effect of agency on women's mental distress: A prospective cohort study from rural Rajasthan, India

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well-being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster-randomized impact evaluation study

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

The effect of intimate partner violence on women's mental distress: a prospective cohort study of 3010 rural Indian women

scientific article published on 08 June 2019

The effect of metropolitan-area mortgage delinquency on health behaviors, access to health services, and self-rated health in the United States, 2003-2010.

scientific article published on 14 May 2016

The effect of paid maternity leave on early childhood growth in low-income and middle-income countries.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks

scientific article published in February 2013

The relationship of living arrangements and depressive symptoms among older adults in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Trauma Surveillance and Registry Development in Mozambique: Results of a 1-Year Study and the First Phase of National Implementation

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Trends in Area-Socioeconomic and Race-Ethnic Disparities in Breast Cancer Incidence, Stage at Diagnosis, Screening, Mortality, and Survival among Women Ages 50 Years and Over (1987-2005)

scientific article published in January 2009

Trends in Differences in US Mortality Rates Between Black and White Infants

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Trends in Educational Inequalities in Drug Poisoning Mortality: United States, 1994-2010

scientific article published in September 2015

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths in the United States, 1995-2010.

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap among US states, 1990-2009.

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Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003.

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Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap, 2003-2008.

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Trends in the contribution of major causes of death to the black-white life expectancy gap by US state

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Understanding the rapid increase in life expectancy in South Korea

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Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured review

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Using change in a seat belt law to study racially-biased policing in South Carolina

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Using inter-institutional practice variation to understand the risks and benefits of routine labour induction at 41(+0) weeks

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Validation of population-based disease simulation models: a review of concepts and methods

scientific article (publication date: 18 November 2010)

We?ll Take the Red Pill: A Reply to Asada.

scientific article published in December 2010

Who benefits from removing user fees for facility-based delivery services? Evidence on socioeconomic differences from Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone

scientific article published on 2 May 2015

Who cares about health inequalities? Cross-country evidence from the World Health Survey

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Would Stronger Seat Belt Laws Reduce Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths?: A Semi-Bayesian Analysis

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Would achieving healthy people 2010's targets reduce both population levels and social disparities in heart disease?

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

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