Background: Employment disruptions can impact smoking and alcohol consumption. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented furlough schemes to prevent job loss. We examine how furlough was associated with smoking, vaping and alcohol consumption in the UK. Methods: Data from 27,841 participants in eight UK adult longitudinal surveys were analysed. Participants self-reported employment status […]

[…] and Marxist measures were generally stronger for women and older respondents, and physical health associations with all measures were stronger among those aged 50+ years. Conclusions: The impact of social class on health is multi-faceted. Policies to reduce health inequalities should focus more on unequal capital ownership, economic democracy and educational inequalities, reflecting Marxist […]

[…] with COVID-19 illness, lack of access to support services (especially for those with a pre-existing condition), lack of control and fears for the future. To understand the impact of the past few years on mental health and productivity in the North and to explore the opportunities for levelling up mental health and improving productivity […]

[…] of moving home. The shock of UK Covid-19 lockdown policy, which negatively impacted all young adults, provides an opportunity to investigate how living with parents and siblings impact young men’s and women’s mental health during periods of adversity. By linking Millennium Cohort Study mainstage data to the Covid-19 survey, siblings appeared to moderate levels […]

[…] of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts. Inequalities are not static, easily measurable, and essentially quantifiable circumstances of life. They are processes which impact on individuals throughout the life course, interacting with each other, accumulating, attenuating, reproducing, or distorting themselves along the way. The chapters in this handbook examine various […]

Context: There is very little research on the impact of caring on physical health, and the evidence that exists is mixed. There is also lack of evidence on the role of other factors including both socio-economic factors and the role played by care services and unmet needs for such services. Aims: This study aims […]

[…] paper uses U.K. household longitudinal data (BHPS) for the early 1990s and estimates single and competing risk discrete time duration models of residence duration to investigate the impact of negative housing equity on residential moves. Strong evidence for an adverse impact on mobility is found, along with results to suggest that the home-owners do […]

[…] Wave of the British Household Panel Survey and a model evolved from replicating six existing British studies, we find that the model specification adopted has an important impact on the estimated differential and that the choice of which group means to use when evaluating the mean differential in multi-equation models is of considerable importance. […]