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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 34 in total

  1. Job insecurity and risk of diabetes: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

    Jane E. Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  2. Is treatment “intensity” associated with healthier lifestyle choices? An application of the dose response function

    Eleonora Fichera, Richard Emsley, and Matt Sutton

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Medicine
    4. Health
    5. Sport

  3. Concordance of health states in couples. Analysis of self-reported, nurse administered and blood-based biomarker data in Understanding Society

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Medicine
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  4. Changes in social capital and cigarette smoking behaviour over time: a population-based panel study of temporal relationships

    Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Psychology

  5. ‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

    Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute

    1. Public Policy
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  6. Health and employment: commentary

    Stephen Bevan

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  7. Changes in employment status: does poor health matter?

    Don J. Webber, Dominic Page, Michail Veliziotis, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  8. Unemployment is bad for health: so what's the role for social policy?

    Daniel Sage

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health

  9. Parents' health and children's help

    John Ermisch

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Social Networks
    4. Households
    5. Health
    6. Caregiving

  10. Short- and long-run estimates of the local effects of retirement on health

    Eduardo Fe and Bruce Hollingsworth

    1. Older People
    2. Time Use
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis

  11. The price of sharing: support for universal and equal access to health care in diversifying neighborhoods

    Anja Neundorf and Charlotte Cavaille

    1. Politics
    2. Area Effects
    3. Migration
    4. Social Change
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Health
    7. Social Attitudes
    8. Race Relations

  12. The dynamic effects of retirement on well-being

    Dusanee Kesavayuth, Robert E. Rosenman, and Vasileios Zikos

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Labour Market
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  13. Does commuting affect health?

    Annemarie Künn-Nelen

    1. Health
    2. Commuting

  14. Association of volunteering with mental well-being: a lifecourse analysis of a national population-based longitudinal study in the UK

    Faiza Tabassum, John Mohan, and Peter Smith

    1. Well Being
    2. Social Capital
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Behaviour

  15. Health in a hurry: the impact of rush hour commuting on our health and wellbeing

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    1. Time Use
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Commuting
    5. Travel

  16. Public–private sector interactions and the demand for supplementary health insurance in the United Kingdom

    Anikó Bíró and Mark Hellowell

    1. Insurance
    2. Public Policy
    3. Health

  17. '…Do it with joy!' – Subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations

    Martin Binder

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  18. The impact of air pollution on health problems in Britain

    Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

    1. Environmental Sociology
    2. Economics
    3. Health

  19. A better politics: how government can make us happier

    Danny Dorling

    1. Politics
    2. Philosophy
    3. Well Being
    4. Societies
    5. Health

  20. Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis

    Rebecca J. Bentley, David Pevalin, Emma Baker, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Household Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Housing Market

  21. Smile or die: can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

    Martin Binder and Guido Buenstorf

    1. Psychology
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  22. Unpaid caregiving and paid work over life-courses: different pathways, diverging outcomes

    Fiona Carmichael and Marco G. Ercolani

    1. Labour Market
    2. Well Being
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Caregiving

  23. Financial strain in the United Kingdom

    Declan French

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Household Economics
    5. Debt: Indebtedness
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Economic Policy

  24. The state of social capital in Britain: a policy briefing from Understanding Society

    Raj Patel

    1. Area Effects
    2. Young People
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Societies
    7. Social Capital
    8. Health
    9. Sport
    10. Arts
    11. Social Behaviour

  25. Are rural residents happier? A quantitative analysis of subjective wellbeing in Scotland

    Alana Gilbert, Kathryn Colley, and Deborah Roberts

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Rural Sociology
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  26. The education effect: higher educational qualifications are robustly associated with beneficial personal and socio-political outcomes

    Matthew J. Easterbrook, Toon Kuppens, and Antony S. R. Manstead

    1. Politics
    2. Psychology
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Social Attitudes
    7. Higher Education

  27. Introduction of a National Minimum Wage reduced depressive symptoms in low-wage workers: a quasi-natural experiment in the UK

    Aaron Reeves, Martin McKee, Johan Mackenbach, et al.

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

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

    Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Young People
    2. Public Policy
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification

  29. The 2008 financial crisis: changes in social capital and its association with psychological wellbeing in the United Kingdom – a panel study

    Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health
    6. Finance
    7. Social Psychology

  30. The determinants of transitions into sheltered accommodation in later life in England and Wales

    Athina Vlachantoni, Olga Maslovskaya, Maria Evandrou, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Housing Market
    5. Caregiving

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