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| Tony A BlakelySummaryAffiliation: Wellington School of Medicine Country: New Zealand Publications
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Hepatitis B virus carrier prevalence in New Zealand: population estimates using the 1987 police and customs personnel surveyT Blakely
Communicable Disease Centre, Porirua
N Z Med J 111:142-4. 1998..To estimate the population hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier prevalence for adults in New Zealand...
No association of income inequality with adult mortality within New Zealand: a multi-level study of 1.4 million 25-64 year oldsT Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:279-84. 2003..To determine the association of regional income inequality within New Zealand with mortality among 25-64 year olds...- Unemployment and suicide. Evidence for a causal association?T A Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:594-600. 2003..To determine the independent associations of labour force status and socioeconomic position with death by suicide... - Income and mortality: the shape of the association and confounding New Zealand Census-Mortality Study, 1981-1999Tony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
Int J Epidemiol 33:874-83. 2004..To determine the shape of the income-mortality association, before and after adjusting for confounding by other socioeconomic variables... - Decades of disparity: widening ethnic mortality gaps from 1980 to 1999Tony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 117:U995. 2004..We used the New Zealand Census-Mortality Study to adjust for this bias and calculate corrected ethnic-specific mortality rates from 1980 to 1999... - Confounding by socioeconomic position remains after adjusting for neighbourhood deprivation: an example using smoking and mortalityTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1030-1. 2004 - Bias measuring mortality gradients by occupational class in New ZealandTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
N Z Med J 118:U1253. 2005..Record linkage of census and mortality data in the New Zealand Census-Mortality Study (NZCMS) allows analyses of 'linked' data that will avoid numerator-denominator bias, but may be prone to other biases... - The global distribution of risk factors by poverty levelTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Bull World Health Organ 83:118-26. 2005..To estimate the individual-level association of income poverty with being underweight, using tobacco, drinking alcohol, having access only to unsafe water and sanitation, being exposed to indoor air pollution and being obese... - Widening ethnic mortality disparities in New Zealand 1981-99Tony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, P O Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
Soc Sci Med 61:2233-51. 2005..We strongly encourage researchers and custodians of vital statistics in other countries to investigate the possibility of undercounting of deaths by ethnicity... - The contribution of smoking to inequalities in mortality by education varies over time and by sex: two national cohort studies, 1981-84 and 1996-99Tony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
Int J Epidemiol 34:1054-62. 2005..We determined how these contributions varied by sex and over time in two national New Zealand cohort studies... - Shifting dollars, saving lives: what might happen to mortality rates, and socio-economic inequalities in mortality rates, if income was redistributed?Tony Blakely
Wellington School of Medicine, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand
Soc Sci Med 62:2024-34. 2006..Nevertheless, we tentatively suggest that the gains in overall mortality will be modest (although still potentially worthwhile from a policy perspective) and the reductions in inequalities in mortality will be more substantial... - Probabilistic record linkage and a method to calculate the positive predictive valueTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
Int J Epidemiol 31:1246-52. 2002.... - Socioeconomic inequality in voting participation and self-rated healthT A Blakely
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Center for Society and Health, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Public Health 91:99-104. 2001..This study tested the hypothesis that disparities in political participation across socioeconomic status affect health. Specifically, the association of voting inequality at the state level with individual self-rated health was examined... - Ecological effects in multi-level studiesT A Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:367-74. 2000..Identification of ecological effects requires the minimisation of these sources of error, and a study design that captures sufficient variation in the ecological exposure of interest... - The 1996 pertussis epidemic in New Zealand: vaccine effectivenessT A Blakely
Epidemiology Group, ESR Kenepuru Science Centre, Porirua
N Z Med J 112:118-20. 1999..To assess if reduced vaccine effectiveness may have accounted for increased hospitalisations in the 1996 pertussis epidemic... - Metropolitan area income inequality and self-rated health--a multi-level studyTony A Blakely
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Soc Sci Med 54:65-77. 2002..Regarding the association of state-level income inequality with fair/poor health, we found the association to be considerably stronger among non-metropolitan (i.e. rural) compared to metropolitan residents... - Commentary: estimating direct and indirect effects-fallible in theory, but in the real world?Tony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
Int J Epidemiol 31:166-7. 2002 - Unlocking the numerator-denominator bias. I: Adjustments ratios by ethnicity for 1991-94 mortality data. The New Zealand Census-Mortality StudyTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
N Z Med J 115:39-43. 2002..To determine the extent of the under-reporting of Mäori and Pacific mortality among 0-74 year olds for the period 1991-94... - Unlocking the numerator-denominator bias. II: Adjustments to mortality rates by ethnicity and deprivation during 1991-94. The New Zealand Census-Mortality StudyTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
N Z Med J 115:43-8. 2002.... - Socio-economic factors and mortality among 25-64 year olds followed from 1991 to 1994: the New Zealand Census-Mortality StudyTony Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago
N Z Med J 115:93-7. 2002.... - The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in New ZealandT Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine
N Z Med J 111:471-4. 1998..To measure the incidence rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in New Zealand, by ethnicity, sex, region and age... - Anonymous linkage of New Zealand mortality and Census dataT Blakely
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Public Health 24:92-5. 2000..The New Zealand Census-Mortality Study (NZCMS) aims to investigate socio-economic mortality gradients in New Zealand, by anonymously linking Census and mortality records... - Mortality by ethnic group to 2006: is extending census-mortality linkage robust?Lavinia Tan
Health Inequalities Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
N Z Med J 125:62-75. 2012..To investigate possible bias from this extended linkage, especially for Pacific and Asian people who emigrate more frequently... 
The effect of eradicating poverty on childhood unintentional injury mortality in New Zealand: a cohort study with counterfactual modellingA J D'Souza
Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:899-904. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine the effect of household income on unintentional injury mortality in children and to model the potential impact of eradicating income poverty as an injury prevention strategy...- Could mainstream anti-smoking programs increase inequalities in tobacco use? New Zealand data from 1981-96S E Hill
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:279-84. 2005..To examine changes in the socio-economic and ethnic distribution of smoking in the New Zealand population from 1981 to 1996, and to consider the implication of these data for policies aimed at reducing tobacco consumption... - Chronic liver disease mortality attributable to hepatitis B and C in New ZealandRobert P Weir
New Zealand Health Technology Assessment, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 17:582-8. 2002..Within New Zealand, there are large differences in HBV prevalence by ethnic group, so prevalence and PAR% estimates were made separately for the three major ethnic groups... - Education does not explain association between income inequality and healthTony A Blakely
BMJ 324:1336. 2002