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Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic reviewJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104 2548, USA
Milbank Q 82:5-99. 2004....- Associations between income inequality and mortality among US states: the importance of time period and source of income dataJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1214 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1424-30. 2005..We used census data to examine associations between income inequality and mortality among US states for each decade from 1949 to 1999 and tax return income data to estimate associations for 1989... 
A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiologyJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104 2548, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 26:1-35. 2005....- Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders--where to next for the SS income inequality?John Lynch
Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:1029-36; discussion 1037-40. 2003 - Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 2. U.S. National and regional trends in income inequality and age- and cause-specific mortalityJohn Lynch
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, 1214 South University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2548, USA
Milbank Q 82:355-400. 2004.... - Periodontitis in the United States: beyond black and whiteLuisa N Borrell
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 West 168th Street, PH 18, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Public Health Dent 62:92-101. 2002.... - Relative or absolute standards for child poverty: a state-level analysis of infant and child mortalityMarianne M Hillemeier
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Public Health 93:652-7. 2003..The purpose of the present study was to compare the associations of state-referenced and federal poverty measures with states' infant and child mortality rates... - Life course socioeconomic conditions and adult psychosocial functioningSam Harper
Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2029, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:395-403. 2002..In addition to the impact of adult socioeconomic position, some aspects of poor psychosocial functioning in adulthood may also have socioeconomic roots early in life... - Self-esteem and mortality: prospective evidence from a population-based studyKatherine A Stamatakis
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA
Ann Epidemiol 14:58-65. 2004..The objective of this study was to assess whether low self-esteem was prospectively associated with increased risk of death in a population-based sample of Finnish men... - Commentary: Income inequality and health: the end of the story?John Lynch
Department of Epidemiology and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:549-51. 2002 - The trap door flap for reconstructing defects of the conchaJ Lynch
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, University College Hospital Galway, Ireland
Br J Plast Surg 56:709-11. 2003..We report six cases of conchal neoplasms where the defect was reconstructed with a Trap Door Flap based on the post auricular vessels. The flap was reliable and gave good cosmetic results... - Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health: comparisons of wealthy nationsJ Lynch
Departments of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109 2029, USA
Lancet 358:194-200. 2001.... - Is there homogeneity in periodontal health between African Americans and Mexican Americans?Luisa N Borrell
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Ethn Dis 12:97-110. 2002..This study identified and contrasted prevalence and predictors of periodontitis among African Americans, Mexican Americans, and non-Hispanic Whites in the US adult population... - The contribution of childhood and adult socioeconomic position to adult obesity and smoking behaviour: an international comparisonChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:335-44. 2005.... - Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in adult health behaviors among U.S. states, 1990-2004Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Public Health Rep 122:177-89. 2007..The purpose of this study was to measure state trends in educational inequalities in smoking, binge alcohol use, physical inactivity, obesity, and seatbelt use... - A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenonJuan Merlo
Department of Clinical Sciences Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:443-9. 2005..A link is provided, which will be comprehensible to epidemiologists, between MLRA and social epidemiological concepts, particularly between the statistical idea of clustering and the concept of contextual phenomenon... - Metropolitan income inequality and working-age mortality: a cross-sectional analysis using comparable data from five countriesNancy A Ross
Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Urban Health 82:101-10. 2005.... - Measuring socioeconomic position in health researchBruna Galobardes
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Bristol, UK
Br Med Bull 81:21-37. 2007..In this article we review different measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) and their uses in health-related research... 
Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortalityMaria Rosvall
Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
BMC Public Health 6:203. 2006..The purpose of the present study was to study the relation between socioeconomic position (SEP) and mortality using different conceptual models in the whole population of Scania...- Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approachesJohn Lynch
Department Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Canada QC H3A 1A2
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:436-41. 2006.... - A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual healthJuan Merlo
Department of Community Medicine Section of Preventive Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1022-8. 2005..Design and.. - Disentangling contextual effects on cause-specific mortality in a longitudinal 23-year follow-up study: impact of population density or socioeconomic environment?Basile Chaix
Community Medicine and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmo, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
Int J Epidemiol 35:633-43. 2006..Almost no studies have attempted to disentangle effects of population density and socioeconomic environment on mortality, beyond the effects of individual characteristics... - Income inequality and mortality: a multilevel prospective study of 521 248 individuals in 50 US statesEric Backlund
Data Integration Division, U S Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:590-6. 2007..In this study, we attempt to clarify these mixed results by analysing the relationship within age-sex groups and by applying a previously unused analytical method to a database that contains more deaths than any multilevel study to date... - Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, SwedenMaria Rosvall
Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
BMC Public Health 6:79. 2006..The aim of the present study was to determine which causes of death contribute the most to social inequalities in mortality in each age group in the whole population of Scania, Sweden... - An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 167:889-99. 2008..A suite of indicators is needed to provide a clear picture of health disparity change... - Cardiorespiratory fitness and vigorous leisure-time physical activity modify the association of small size at birth with the metabolic syndromeDavid E Laaksonen
Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
Diabetes Care 26:2156-64. 2003..We studied the association of size at birth with the metabolic syndrome... - Emergence of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity in early adulthood: the national longitudinal study of adolescent healthSeungmi Yang
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Ave West, Montreal, Quebec H3A12A, Canada
Am J Public Health 98:468-77. 2008..We examined whether socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and overweight and obesity emerged in early adulthood and the contribution of family background, adolescent smoking, and body mass index to socioeconomic inequalities... - Cynical hostility, socioeconomic position, health behaviors, and symptom load: a cross-sectional analysis in a Danish population-based studyUlla Christensen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Psychosom Med 66:572-7. 2004..To analyze the cross-sectional association between cynical hostility and high symptom load in a Danish population-based study. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate to what extent health risk behaviors mediated this association... - Measuring contextual characteristics for community healthMarianne M Hillemeier
Department of Health Policy and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802-6500, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1645-717. 2003..We suggest several guiding principles useful for understanding how aspects of contextual characteristics can affect health and health disparities... - A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of peopleJuan Merlo
Department of Community Medicine, Lund University Hospital, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:729-36. 2005..Design and.. - Influence of socioeconomic factors on survival after breast cancer--a nationwide cohort study of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark 1983-1999Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton
Department for Psychosocial Cancer Research, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Cancer 121:2524-31. 2007.... - Commentary: the contingencies of income inequality and health: reflections on the Canadian ExperienceNancy A Ross
Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 33:318-9. 2004 
Birth weight and cognitive ability in childhood among siblings and nonsiblingsSeungmi Yang
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 122:e350-8. 2008....- The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarctionMaria Rosvall
Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
BMC Public Health 8:44. 2008..In this Swedish nation-wide longitudinal study we wanted to evaluate long-term survival after AMI in relation to socioeconomic position (SEP) and use of revascularization... - Highly active antiretroviral therapy and socioeconomic inequalities in AIDS mortality in SpainSam Harper
Eur J Public Health 17:231. 2007 - Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiologySam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 36:926-8. 2007 - Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003Sam Harper
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
JAMA 297:1224-32. 2007..Since the early 1980s, the black-white gap in life expectancy at birth increased sharply and subsequently declined, but the causes of these changes have not been investigated... - Preventing coronary heart diseaseRod Jackson
BMJ 332:617-8. 2006 - Genes and race in the news: a test of competing theories of news coverageJohn Lynch
Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 1505, USA
Am J Health Behav 30:125-35. 2006..To examine newspaper coverage of race and genetics to identify patterns and possible explanations for them in extant theory in order to improve health promotion campaigns... - Population effects on individual systolic blood pressure: a multilevel analysis of the World Health Organization MONICA ProjectJuan Merlo
Department of Community Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
Am J Epidemiol 159:1168-79. 2004..This empirical evidence of a population effect on individual SBP emphasizes the importance of developing population-wide strategies to reduce individual risk of hypertension... - Re: "Sense of coherence and mortality in men and women in the EPIC-Norfolk United Kingdom prospective cohort study"John Macleod
Am J Epidemiol 159:1202-3; author reply 1203-4. 2004 - Gene therapy, fundamental rights, and the mandates of public healthJohn Lynch
Boston University School of Law, USA
J Biolaw Bus 7:32-40. 2004..This article provides an overview of gene therapy in the context of fundamental rights and the mandates of public health... - Commentary: Social capital, social epidemiology and disease aetiologyGeorge Davey Smith
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK
Int J Epidemiol 33:691-700; discussion 705-9. 2004 - Combined external beam radiotherapy and Pd-103 brachytherapy boost improves biochemical failure free survival in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer: results of a matched pair analysisAnu M Singh
Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservation Rd NW, LL Bles Bldg, Washington, DC, USA
Prostate 62:54-60. 2005..Conformal dose distributions may also be achieved with brachytherapy. Therefore, biochemical control was evaluated for patients treated with combined external radiation therapy and low dose rate brachytherapy (EBRT + LDR)... - Hurling alone? How social capital failed to save the Irish from cardiovascular disease in the United StatesC Cecily Kelleher
National Nutrition Surveillance Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland
Am J Public Health 94:2162-9. 2004..We performed a historical review of cardiovascular risk profiles of Irish immigrants to the United States, 1850-1970, in regard to lifestyle, socio-economic circumstances, and social capital... - The mediation proportion: a structural equation approach for estimating the proportion of exposure effect on outcome explained by an intermediate variableSusanne Ditlevsen
Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Epidemiology 16:114-20. 2005..Both the mediator and the response are composed of several ordered categorical variables, with confounders present. Finally, we extend the example to more than one mediator... - Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countriesPernille Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 15:128-32. 2005..There have been no large-scale international comparisons on bullying and health among adolescents. This study examined the association between bullying and physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents in 28 countries... - Mediation proportionSusanne Ditlevsen
Epidemiology 16:592. 2005 - Comparison of a spatial perspective with the multilevel analytical approach in neighborhood studies: the case of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use in Malmo, Sweden, 2001Basile Chaix
Research Unit in Epidemiology, Information Systems, and Modelisation INSERM U707, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France
Am J Epidemiol 162:171-82. 2005..In neighborhood studies, building notions of space into analytical procedures may yield more comprehensive information than heretofore has been gathered on the spatial distribution of outcomes... - Foucault on targetsJohn Lynch
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
J Health Organ Manag 18:128-35. 2004..Governmentality seeks to maintain the status quo through disciplinary processes such as national healthcare targets. The natural response of NHS organizations is therefore, to seek order and conformity rather than disorder and conflict... - Broken guide wire--a fault of design?Enrico Monaca
Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Cologne Merheim, University Witten Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Str 200, D 51109 Köln, Germany
Can J Anaesth 52:801-4. 2005..To report a potentially serious complication resulting from a faulty guide wire during central venous catheterization... - Can we disentangle life course processes of accumulation, critical period and social mobility? An analysis of disadvantaged socio-economic positions and myocardial infarction in the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology ProgramJohan Hallqvist
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 171 76, Sweden
Soc Sci Med 58:1555-62. 2004..Accordingly, the interpretation must depend on prior knowledge of more specific causal mechanisms...