Sally Macintyre

..We suggest a need to examine this apparent paradox in other contexts and in more detail, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches...

..Lower social class children are more likely to engage in sports and active play. We also show that although Scotland has higher rates of CVD than England, it does not have higher prevalences of all CVD risk factors...

..The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of different socio-economic classifications in relation to a range of health measures...

..This study examines the association between childhood IQ and a range of established physiological and behavioural risk factors for premature mortality in adulthood. Design,..

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..The school attended is known to affect the health behaviours of pupils while still at school. Little is known about the long-term influence of school attended on health...

..To determine the extent to which correlates of edentulism are explained by an association between tooth loss and cognitive ability...

..The aim of this study was to examine whether negative social comparisons of the worth of two common assets (homes and cars) were related to psychosocial health (i.e. lower self-esteem and mastery, higher anxiety, and depression)...

..To test the hypothesis that IQ is a fundamental cause of socioeconomic inequalities in health...

..However we argue that the attempt to measure specific chains of causation is important enough for public health for this approach to followed and improved upon...

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..Participants were 858 respondents born in the early 1930s and 852 respondents born in the early 1950s (mean age at interview 59 and 40, respectively) classified by occupational social class and area deprivation...

..These results provide support for a 'concentration' effect whereby plausible health-damaging environmental risk factors for obesity appear to be 'concentrated' in more deprived areas of England and Scotland...

..To investigate associations between measures of neighbourhood social and material environment and self rated health...

..We aim to investigate whether proximity to food retail stores is associated with dietary patterns or Body Mass Index in Glasgow, a large city in the UK...

..Gender differences in health are commonly observed by epidemiologists. Little is known about lay beliefs concerning the gender patterning of common conditions...

..Housing improvements and urban regeneration may help to reduce the health gap between housing tenures, and more generally to reduce inequalities in health...

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..To examine the association between scores on IQ tests in childhood and alcohol induced hangovers in middle aged men and women. Design, Setting, and..

..The aim of this study was to examine the distribution of alcohol outlets by area deprivation across Glasgow, Scotland...

..Wider area differences were seen for men than for women. Our findings indicate that attempts to reduce area differences in health should start young but also continue throughout the lifespan...

..However, despite the apparent advantage of deprived areas in terms of actual number of play areas, the quality of play areas in different types of areas may warrant further exploration...

..This paper explores whether gender differences in these behaviours persist or disappear among men and women occupying similar social roles: working in the same non-manual jobs in Britain...

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..Our findings do not therefore lend unequivocal support to the notion of social participation having a strong relationship with CVD risk factors at a cross-sectional level...

..These associations were equally strong for men and women. Our results suggest that work-home conflict is a problem for men as well as women...

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..Overall the findings suggested that deprived neighbourhoods within the City of Glasgow did not necessarily have fewer food retail outlets...

..We know little about the extent of agreement between self reported and directly measured proximity of the same resource...

..This study evaluated the validity of adults' reports of childhood paternal social class...

..It suggests that just as in medicine, good intentions and received wisdom are not a sufficient basis for making public policy and allocating public funds for social or health improvement...

..We conclude that generalisations about gender differences in minor psychiatric morbidity can be unhelpful, as these differences may vary depending on the context of the study...

..Participants were followed up in 1994-5, 1997-8 and in this fourth wave of the project, 1999-2000, to determine key predictors of, and associations with successful ageing...

..This epidemiological study examined whether the magnitude of blood pressure reactions to mental stress was associated with future blood pressure and whether the strength of association was affected by sex, age, and socioeconomic position...

..A postal questionnaire to all traced surviving cohort members has also been distributed...

..We argue that these approaches to understanding how place relates to health are important in order to deliver effective, 'contextually sensitive' policy interventions...

..We assessed the association of father's social class, recorded at the time of birth, with coronary heart disease and stroke in a British cohort of 11106 individuals born in the 1950s...

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..Public health professionals should seek to work alongside or within these organisations to capitalise on opportunities to improve health...

..In this paper, using national-level data, we examine the association between neighborhood deprivation and the density of McDonald's restaurants in small census areas (neighborhoods) in Scotland and England...

..To identify the early life predictors of childhood intelligence...

..CONCLUSION: Factors that influence overweight and obesity appear to differ, but aspects of the physical environment may be important. Objectively measured neighborhood environment factors warrant further investigation...