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Displaying all 27 Publications

Current search: 'Health', 'Journal Article' and '2020'

  1. DNA methylation signature of passive smoke exposure is less pronounced than active smoking: the Understanding Society study

    Paige M. Hulls, Frank de Vocht, Yanchun Bao, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Households
    3. Health
    4. Biology
    5. Genetics

  2. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael James Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  3. Understanding Society at 10 years

    Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Geography
    4. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Research
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Surveys
    10. Sociology
    11. Biology
    12. Genetics
    13. Covid 19

  4. Using biomarkers to predict healthcare costs: evidence from a UK household panel

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  5. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael J. Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  6. Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  7. Estimating variation of Covid-19 'infection' in the population: results from Understanding Society's (UKHLS) first monthly covid-19 survey

    Richard Breen and John Ermisch

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Demography
    4. Health
    5. Covid 19

  8. A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data

    Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas, and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  9. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and pandemic related stressors among adults in the UK

    Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, Cara L. Booker, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  10. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Living Standards
    6. Public Policy
    7. Welfare Benefits
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Health
    11. Covid 19

  11. Studying health-related internet and mobile device use using web logs and smartphone records

    Ruben L. Bach and Alexander Wenz

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Demography
    3. Health
    4. Surveys
    5. Social Stratification

  12. How Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Jonathan Burton, Peter Lynn, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Households
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Health
    4. Surveys
    5. Covid 19

  13. A cross-national design to estimate effects of COVID-induced non-pharmacological interventions

    Dean Lillard

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Media
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Economics
    8. Public Policy
    9. Survey Methodology
    10. Research
    11. Health
    12. Surveys
    13. Covid 19

  14. Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England

    Renee Reichl Luthra, Alita Nandi, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Social Groups
    3. Social Networks
    4. Migration
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour
    8. Race Relations

  15. Refractory depression – mechanisms and efficacy of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RefraMED): findings of a randomised trial on benefits and harms

    Thomas R. Lynch, Roelie J. Hempel, Ben Whalley, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Psychiatry
    3. Economics
    4. Research
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  16. Fertility history and biomarkers using prospective data: evidence from the 1958 National Child Development Study

    Maria Sironi, George B. Ploubidis, and Emily Grundy

    1. Demography
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Biology

  17. Circulating fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: individual participant data meta-analysis in up to 16 126 participants

    Maria Carolina Borges, Amand Floriaan Schmidt, Barbara Jefferis, et al.

    1. Medicine
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  18. Religiosity and mental wellbeing among members of majority and minority religions: findings from Understanding Society, The UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Ozan Aksoy, David Bann, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Religion
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Social Behaviour

  19. Social isolation and memory decline in later-life

    Sanna Read, Adelina Comas-Herrera, and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Psychology
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  20. International comparisons of social differences in inflammatory markers: different patterns, same drivers?

    Meena Kumari

    1. Social Groups
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Biology

  21. Causal effects of the timing of life-course events: age at retirement and subsequent health

    Nicola Barban, X. de Luna, E. Lundholm, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis

  22. Population priorities for successful aging: a randomized vignette experiment

    Elise Whitley, Michaela Benzeval, and Frank Popham

    1. Older People
    2. Demography
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  23. Socioeconomic patterning of vaping by smoking status among UK adults and youth

    Michael J. Green, Linsay Gray, Helen Sweeting, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Demography
    4. Health
    5. Social Stratification

  24. Educational differentials in key domains of physical activity by ethnicity, age and sex: a cross-sectional study of over 40 000 participants in the UK household longitudinal study (2013–2015)

    Meg E. Fluharty, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Education
    3. Health
    4. Sport
    5. Commuting
    6. Travel

  25. Biomarkers as precursors of disability

    Apostolos Davillas and Stephen Pudney

    1. Disability
    2. Health
    3. Life Course Analysis
    4. Biology

  26. Ex ante inequality of opportunity in health, decomposition and distributional analysis of biomarkers

    Apostolos Davillas and Andrew M. Jones

    1. Economics
    2. Health
    3. Biology

  27. The association between parity, CVD mortality and CVD risk factors among Norwegian women and men

    Øystein Kravdal, Aage Tverdal, and Emily Grundy

    1. Households
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Health
    4. Life Course Analysis

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