Health Inequalities, Equity and International Health
Convenor
| Dr Clare Blackburn | School of Health and Social Studies |
The aim of this group is:
Much of the work of this group is concerned with understanding the way social and material circumstances shape health, health behaviour and access to health care across the life course. It has a particular interest in the implications for international, national and local health policy and practice. Recent research includes work on child health and child poverty; social and material circumstances of households with young children; disabled children and their households; incidence and prevalence of child disability; carers and access to ICTS; poverty and health behaviours, and social work and health inequalities. A number of researchers carry out work on social capital, men’s health inequalities and international health including living with the effects of prolonged conflict and forced migration in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.
Activities
13 February 2012 Workshop: 'People with Learning Disabilities: Promoting Health and Real Jobs'
March 2009 'Identifying the Circumstances of Disabled Children: A Global Perspective'
, Professor David Gordon, University of Bristol.
November 2008 'Kids with Disabilities: Definitions, Classifications and Human Rights- Professor Jerome Bickenbach, Queen's University, Canada
November 2007 Book Launch of edited book developed from day meeting on the Quinquennial Review of the Acheson Report held by the IoH. Dowler, E. and Spencer, N. (eds) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'. Bristol: The Policy Press.
March 2007 Conference: 'Can we count them? Disabled people and their households', University of Warwick.
October 2006 ‘Child Poverty: a global perspective’ – Professor David Gordon, University of Bristol.
May 2006 ‘Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Health Inequalities’ – Dr Tarani Chandola, University College London.
Research Projects
Title: Can we Count Them? : Disabled Children and their Households
PI and Co-applicants: J. Read, N.J.Spencer, C. Blackburn
Funding body: ESRC. Dates: 2006-7
Amount: £26,000
2003-2006
Title: Evaluation of Sure Start Coventry
Funding body: Sure Start Coventry
PI: Ms Chris Coe (SHSS), Prof Nick Spencer (SHSS) and Dr Maria Stuttaford
Selected publications
Blackburn, C., Read, J. and Spencer, N. (2007) Can we count them? Scoping data sources on disabled children and their households in the UK. Child: Care, Health and Development, 33, 3, 291-295.
Blackburn, C., Bonas, S., Spencer, N. J., Coe, C., Dolan, A. and Moy, R. (2005a) Parental smoking and passive smoking in infants: fathers matter too. Health Education Research, 20: 185-194.
Blackburn, C., Read, J., Hughes, N. (2005) Carers and the digital divide: factors affecting Internet use among carers in the UK. Health and Social Care in the Community, 13: 210-210.
Blackburn, C. and Read, J. (2005) ‘Carers’ perspectives on the Internet: implications for social and health care provision’. British Journal of Social Work, 35: 1175-1192.
Read, J. and Blackburn, C. (2005) ‘Using the Internet: the experiences of parents of disabled children’. Child: Health, Care and Development, 31: 507-515.
Bisset S. L., Markham W. A. and Aveyard P. (2007) School culture as an influencing factor on youth substance use. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60, 485-490
Blackburn, C., Bonas, S., Spencer, N. J., Coe, C., Dolan, A. and Moy, R. (2005a) Parental smoking and passive smoking in infants: fathers matter too. Health Education Research, 20: 185-194.
Blackburn, C., Bonas, S., Spencer, N., Coe, C., Dolan, A. and Moy, R. (2005b) ‘Smoking behaviour among fathers of new infants’. Social Science and Medicine, 61:527-526.
Coe, C, Gibson, A, Spencer, N. Stuttaford, M. Sure Start: Voices of the ‘hard-to-reach’ (In Press) Child: Care, Health and Development.
Dolan, A. (2007) ‘Good luck to them if they can get it’: Exploring working class men’s understandings and experiences of income inequality and material standards. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(5): 1-19.
Dolan, A., Thompson, V., Summer, S., and Hundt, G. (2005) “You ain’t going to say … I’ve got a problem down there”: workplace-based prostate health promotion with men, Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 20(6): 730-738.
Dolan, A. (2007) ‘That’s just the cesspool where they dump all the trash’: Exploring working class men’s perceptions and experiences of social capital and health. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 11 (4):475-495.
Dowler, E., Caraher, M and Lincoln, P. (2007) Inequalities in Food and Nutrition: Challenging 'lifestyles'. In Dowler, E. and Spencer, N. (eds) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Dowler, L. and Spencer, N. (eds) (2007) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to ‘Choosing Health’. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Markham W. A., Aveyard P., Bisset S. L., Lancashire E. R., Bridle C and Deakin S. Value-added education and smoking uptake in schools: a cohort study. In press Addiction.
Markham W. A., Aveyard P., Bullock A. D. and Thomas H. (2006) A preliminary investigation into factors influencing limiting longstanding illness amongst UK university graduates: a retrospective cohort study. Health. 10, 47-73.
Weare K. and Markham W A. (2006) What do we know about promoting mental health through schools. International Union for Health Promotion and Education. 12, 14-18.
Aveyard P., Markham W.A, Lancashire E., Almond J., Griffiths R. and Cheng K.K. (2005)
Is inter-school variation in smoking uptake and cessation due to differences in pupil composition? A cohort study. Health and Place, 11, 45-54.
Spencer, N., Blackburn, C., Bonas, S., Coe, C. and Dolan, A. (2005) Parent reported home smoking bans and toddler (18–30 month) smoke exposure: a cross-sectional survey. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 90: 670 – 674.
Spencer, N. J. (2005) ‘Does material disadvantage explain the increased risk of adverse health, educational and behavioural outcomes among children in lone parent households in Britain? A cross-sectional study’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (59):152-7.
Spencer,
Spencer, N. J. (2005) ‘Explaining the social gradient in smoking in pregnancy: early life course accumulation and cross-sectional clustering of social risk exposures in the 1958 British national cohort’, Social Science and Medicine, 62 (5): 1250-9 .
Spencer,
Spencer, N. and Law, C. (2007) Inequalities in pregnancy and early years and the impact across the lifecourse: progress and future challenges. In Dowler, E. and Spencer,. N. (eds) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Spencer, N. (2007) Behaving Badly? Smoking and the Role of Behaviour Change. In Dowler, E. and Spencer,. N. (eds) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Williams, S.J., Calnan, M. and Dolan, A. (2007) Explaining inequalities in health: theoretical, conceptual and methodological agendas. In Dowler, E. and Spencer,. N. (eds) Challenging Health Inequalities: From Acheson to 'Choosing Health'. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Events Calendar
Selected publications on health inequalities from research at Warwick University
LINKS
International Primary Care Research
Coventry Projects
Special Issue on Global Health Law (April 2004)
Meg Stacey, Upendra Baxi, Shaheen Ali and Gillian Hundt
MEMBERSHIP
Dr Ann Adams - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Professor Shaheen Ali - Law
Professor Wiji Arulampalam - Economics
Ms Deborah Biggerstaff - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Ms Elaine Blair - University Hospitals
Dr Loraine Blaxter - Institute of Health
Dr Hannah Bradby - Sociology
Dr Mick Carpenter - Sociology
Dr Jonathan Cave - Economics
Mr Matthew Clayton - Department of Politics and International Studies
Mrs Chris Coe, Institute of Health (SHSS)
Professor Jeremy Dale - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Alan Dolan, School of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Dr Liz Dowler - Sociology
Prof Lindsay Geoff - Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research
Dr Frances Griffiths - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Gill Grimshaw - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Anil Gumber - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Chris Harrison - Shool of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Dr Christina Hughes - Sociology
Prof Gillian Hundt - Instiute of Health
Dr Ann Jackson - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Ms Camilla Maclean - Warwick Business School (WBS)
Dr Wolfgang Markham - School of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Dr Eileen Mcleod - School of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Dr Robin Naylor - Department of Economics
Mr Paul O'Hare - Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust
Dr David Ormandy - School of Law
Mr David Owen - Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
Dr Andrew Parker - Sociology
Dr Moli Paul - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Mr N. Raymond - Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME)
Dr Janet Read - School of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Mrs Kysia Saul - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Prof Donald Singer - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Maria Stuttaford - University of Maastricht
Dr Celine Tan - School of Law
Dr Ravi Thiara - School of Health and Social Studies (SHSS)
Prof Margaret Thorogood - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Dr Jonathan Tritter - NHS Centre for Involvement
Prof Judith Trowell - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Research Centre
Prof Panos Vostanis - Child Psychiatry, Leicester University
Prof Scott Weich - Warwick Medical School (WMS)
Professor Simon Williams - Sociology