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Area variation in mortality in Tasmania (Australia): the contributions of socioeconomic disadvantage, social capital and geographic remotenessGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland, 4059 Australia
Health Place 12:291-305. 2006....
Can the built environment reduce health inequalities? A study of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and walking for transportGavin Turrell
School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia
Health Place 19:89-98. 2013..g. smoking, poor diet), thus serving to contain or reduce neighbourhood inequalities in chronic disease...- The influence of neighbourhood disadvantage on smoking cessation and its contribution to inequalities in smoking statusGavin Turrell
School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 31:645-52. 2012..This study examined the association between neighbourhood disadvantage and smoking cessation and its relationship with neighbourhood inequalities in smoking... 
Validation of de-identified record linkage to ascertain hospital admissions in a cohort studyAlison Beauchamp
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 11:42. 2011..We sought to develop and validate a method for linking a cohort study to a state-wide hospital admissions dataset with limited availability of unique identifying variables...- Measuring factors that influence the utilisation of preventive care services provided by general practitioners in AustraliaJianzhen Zhang
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane QLD 4006, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 9:218. 2009.... - A multilevel investigation of inequalities in clinical and psychosocial outcomes for women after breast cancerPhilippa H Youl
Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Council Queensland, Spring Hill, QLD, Australia
BMC Cancer 11:415. 2011..We have a limited understanding of how individual and area-level factors are related to each other, and their associations with survival and other clinical and psychosocial outcomes... - A multilevel study of the determinants of area-level inequalities in colorectal cancer survivalPeter D Baade
Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Council Queensland, PO Box 201, Spring Hill QLD 4004, Australia
BMC Cancer 10:24. 2010..At present we know very little about the reasons for these inequalities, hence our capacity to intervene to reduce the inequalities is limited... - Neighborhood disadvantage and physical activity: baseline results from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal studyGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
Ann Epidemiol 20:171-81. 2010..To examine the association between neighborhood disadvantage and physical activity (PA)... - Utilisation of general practitioner services by socio-economic disadvantage and geographic remotenessGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:152-8. 2004.... - A multilevel study of area socio-economic status and food purchasing behaviourGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia
Public Health Nutr 12:2074-83. 2009..The present study examined the association between area socio-economic status (SES) and food purchasing behaviour... - Socio-economic pathways to diet: modelling the association between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviourGavin Turrell
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Public Health Nutr 9:375-83. 2006.... - Do places affect the probability of death in Australia? A multilevel study of area-level disadvantage, individual-level socioeconomic position and all-cause mortality, 1998-2000Gavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:13-9. 2007..Area-level socioeconomic differences in mortality therefore may be an artefact of varying population compositions and not the characteristics of areas as such... - The independent contribution of neighborhood disadvantage and individual-level socioeconomic position to self-reported oral health: a multilevel analysisGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 35:195-206. 2007..To examine the association between neighborhood disadvantage and individual-level socioeconomic position (SEP) and self-reported oral health... - Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood: evidence from the Alameda County StudyGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:723-30. 2007..4% of those alive in 1994). Relationships were examined before and after adjustment for changed socioeconomic circumstances after 1965... - Socioeconomic disadvantage and the purchase of takeaway food: a multilevel analysisGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Appetite 51:69-81. 2008.... - A multilevel analysis of socioeconomic (small area) differences in household food purchasing behaviourG Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:208-15. 2004..To examine the association between area and individual level socioeconomic status (SES) and food purchasing behaviour... - Structural, material and economic influences on the food-purchasing choices of socioeconomic groupsG Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Aust N Z J Public Health 20:611-7. 1996..This evidence leaves largely unanswered the question of why socioeconomic groups differ in their food-purchasing behaviours... - Socioeconomic differences in food purchasing behaviour and suggested implications for diet-related health promotionG Turrell
Queensland University of Technology, School of Public Health, Brisbane QLD, Australia
J Hum Nutr Diet 15:355-64. 2002..Also, the type of food people buy influences the quality of their nutrient intake... - Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle ageGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:S43-51. 2002..To examine the influence of childhood and adult socioeconomic position, socioeconomic mobility, and cumulative disadvantage across the lifecourse on cognitive function in late middle age... - Socio-economic position and height in early adulthoodGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:468-72. 2002..To examine the relationship between socio-economic position and height in early adulthood... - Socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause and specific-cause mortality in Australia: 1985-1987 and 1995-1997G Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, VictoriaPark Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD 4059 Australia
Int J Epidemiol 30:231-9. 2001..This study describes trends in socioeconomic mortality inequality in Australia for males and females aged 0-14, 15-24 and 25-64 years over the period 1985-1987 to 1995-1997... - Social determinants of smoking among parents with infantsGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:30-7. 2002..To estimate the smoking prevalence among parents of infants and examine these parents' socio-demographic characteristics... - Measuring socio-economic position in dietary research: is choice of socio-economic indicator important?Gavin Turrell
Queensland University of Technology, School of Public Health, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, 4059
Public Health Nutr 6:191-200. 2003..To examine the association between socio-economic position (SEP) and diet, by assessing the unadjusted and simultaneously adjusted (independent) contributions of education, occupation and household income to food purchasing behaviour... - The socio-economic patterning of survey participation and non-response error in a multilevel study of food purchasing behaviour: area- and individual-level characteristicsGavin Turrell
Queensland University of Technology, School of Public Health, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059
Public Health Nutr 6:181-9. 2003..To undertake an assessment of survey participation and non-response error in a population-based study that examined the relationship between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviour... - Occupation, hours worked, and leisure-time physical activityN W Burton
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, 4059, Australia
Prev Med 31:673-81. 2000..This study investigated the association between occupation, time spent in paid employment, and participation in leisure-time physical activity... - Socioeconomic differences among Australian adults in consumption of fruit and vegetables and intakes of vitamins A, C and folateK Giskes
Centre for Public Health Research, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia
J Hum Nutr Diet 15:375-85; discussion 387-90. 2002.... - Confidence to cook vegetables and the buying habits of Australian householdsElisabeth Winkler
Centre for Health Research Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059, Australia
J Am Diet Assoc 109:1759-68. 2009..86; 95% CI 0.17 to 5.55). Cooking skills may contribute to socioeconomic dietary differences, and may be a useful strategy for promoting fruit and vegetable consumption, particularly among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups... - Does area-based social capital matter for the health of Australians? A multilevel analysis of self-rated health in TasmaniaAnne M Kavanagh
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 35:607-13. 2006.... - Socioeconomic determinants of health in Australia: policy responses and intervention optionsB Oldenburg
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Med J Aust 172:489-92. 2000..Australia has yet to develop a coordinated and integrated approach to addressing health disparities; however, previously successful public health interventions addressing other health issues are good starting points... - Socioeconomic differences in takeaway food consumption and their contribution to inequalities in dietary intakesK Miura
School of Public Health Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:820-6. 2009..This study examined socioeconomic differences in takeaway consumption patterns and their contributions to dietary intake inequalities... - Childhood speech disorders: reported prevalence, comorbidity and socioeconomic profileD Keating
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 37:431-6. 2001..To describe the reported prevalence, comorbidity and socioeconomic status (SES) of children with speech disorders... - Area disadvantage, individual socio-economic position, and premature cancer mortality in Australia 1998 to 2000: a multilevel analysisRebecca Bentley
Key Center for Women s Health in Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 19:183-93. 2008..To examine associations between area and individual socio-economic characteristics and premature cancer mortality using multilevel analysis... - Making a difference to the socioeconomic determinants of health: policy responses and intervention optionsB F Oldenburg
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane QLD4059 Australia
Asia Pac J Public Health 12:S51-4. 2000.... - Socioeconomic status and infant mortality in Australia: a national study of small urban areas, 1985-89G Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Soc Sci Med 50:1209-25. 2000..The results of this study, therefore, represent an important baseline against which more contemporary national trends can be monitored... - Socioeconomic inequalities in food purchasing: the contribution of respondent-perceived and actual (objectively measured) price and availability of foodsK Giskes
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Prev Med 45:41-8. 2007..The price and availability of foods are thought to be important mediating factors between socioeconomic position and food purchasing... - Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities: issues of relevance for policyGavin Turrell
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
N S W Public Health Bull 13:47-9. 2002 - The association between objectively measured neighborhood features and walking in middle-aged adultsLee Ann M Wilson
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Am J Health Promot 25:e12-21. 2011..Explore the role of the neighborhood environment in supporting walking... - Does living in a disadvantaged area mean fewer opportunities to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables in the area? Findings from the Brisbane food studyElisabeth Winkler
Centre for Health Research, Public Health, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
Health Place 12:306-19. 2006..e. within 2.5 km), and generally found minimal or no socioeconomic differences in shopping infrastructure. Important methodological and social/economic issues may explain this contrast with overseas findings... - Does living in a disadvantaged area entail limited opportunities to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables in terms of price, availability, and variety? Findings from the Brisbane Food StudyElisabeth Winkler
Centre for Health Research, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove, Q 4060, Australia
Health Place 12:741-8. 2006..e. within 2.5 km) supermarkets, greengrocers and convenience stores were observed. Little or no differences in price and availability were found on the basis of area socioeconomic characteristics... - Participation in recreational physical activity: why do socioeconomic groups differ?Nicola W Burton
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
Health Educ Behav 30:225-44. 2003..Data suggest that efforts to increase RPA in the population should include both general and socioeconomically targeted strategies... - Socio-economic differences in fruit and vegetable consumption among Australian adolescents and adultsKatrina Giskes
Centre for Public Health Research, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059, Australia
Public Health Nutr 5:663-9. 2002..The study also examined whether socio-economic groups vary in their reported desire to increase the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed, and the perceived barriers to achieving this... - HABITAT: A longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity change in mid-aged adultsNicola W Burton
The University of Queensland School of Human Movement Studies, Brisbane, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:76. 2009.... - Socioeconomic position at different stages of the life course and its influence on body weight and weight gain in adulthood: a longitudinal study with 13-year follow-upKatrina Giskes
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1377-81. 2008..Importantly, these etiologically relevant periods differ for men and women, suggesting gender-specific pathways to socioeconomic inequalities in body weight in adulthood... - Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments?Anne M Kavanagh
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:490-5. 2006..To examine whether area level socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have different relations with women's and men's self rated health... - Geographic remoteness and risk of advanced colorectal cancer at diagnosis in Queensland: a multilevel studyP D Baade
Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Council Queensland, Spring Hill, Brisbane, QLD 4004, Australia
Br J Cancer 105:1039-41. 2011..We examine the relationships between geographic remoteness, area disadvantage and risk of advanced colorectal cancer... - Socioeconomic disadvantage and use of general practitioners in rural and remote AustraliaGavin Turrell
Med J Aust 179:325-6. 2003 - Childhood and adult socioeconomic conditions and 31-year mortality risk in womenJennifer Beebe-Dimmer
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:481-90. 2004..03, 1.63) deaths. Both early and later life indicators of socioeconomic position contribute to increased mortality risk among socioeconomically disadvantaged women, but these effects appear stronger for cardiovascular mortality... - Measuring psychological, social, and environmental influences on leisure-time physical activity among adultsNicola W Burton
School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:36-43. 2007.... - Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, AustraliaAnne M Kavanagh
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:934-40. 2005..To estimate variation between small areas in the levels of walking, cycling, jogging, and swimming and overall physical activity and the importance of area level socioeconomic disadvantage in predicting physical activity participation... - Smokers living in deprived areas are less likely to quit: a longitudinal follow-upKatrina Giskes
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tob Control 15:485-8. 2006.... - The shape of the socioeconomic-oral health gradient: implications for theoretical explanationsAnne E Sanders
Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health ARCPOH, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 34:310-9. 2006.... - A multilevel study of socio-economic inequalities in food choice behaviour and dietary intake among the Dutch population: the GLOBE studyKatrina Giskes
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Public Health Nutr 9:75-83. 2006..To examine the influence of individual- and area-level socio-economic characteristics on food choice behaviour and dietary intake...