Bola Akinwale: Unemployment, permanent sickness and mortality risk in early old age

Professor Amanda Sacker: A multiple-process latent transition model of poverty and health

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Relevant References:

Sacker, A., McDonough, P., & Worts, D. (2012). A multiple process latent transition model of poverty and health. Methodology, under review.

Sacker, A., Wiggins, R. D., Bartley, M., & McDonough, P. (2007). Self-Rated Health Trajectories in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Study. American Journal of Public Health, 97, 812-818.

Worts, D., Sacker, A., & McDonough, P. (2010). Poverty vulnerability in the United States and Britain. American Journal of Sociology, 116(1), 232–271.

Worts, D., Sacker, A., & McDonough, P. (2010). Re-Assessing Poverty Dynamics and State Protections in Britain and the US: The Role of Measurement Error. Social Indicators Research, 97(3), 419-438. doi: 10.1007/s11205-009-9509-7

Professor James Nazroo: Ethnic inequalities in health: the role of social and economic inequalities

Relevant References:

Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I, Karlson S, Nazroo J. (2004). Ethnic Differences in Influences on Quality of Life at Older Ages: a quantitative analysis, Ageing and Society, 24, 709-728.

Bécares, L., Nazroo, J. Y., & Stafford, M. (2009). The buffering effects of ethnic density on experienced racism and health. Health & Place, 15, 670-678.

Halpern, D. & Nazroo, J. Y. (2000). The ethnic density effect: results from a national community survey of England and Wales. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 46, 34-46.

Karlsen, S. & Nazroo, J. Y. (2002). Agency and structure: the impact of ethnic identity and racism on the health of ethnic minority people. Sociology of Health and Illness, 24, 1-20.

Karlsen, S. & Nazroo, J. Y. (2002). Relation between racial discrimination, social class, and health among ethnic minority groups. American Journal of Public Health, 92, 624-631.

Karlsen, S. & Nazroo, J. Y. (2004). Fear of racism and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58, 1017-1018.

Nazroo, J. Y. (1997). The Health of Britain’s Ethnic Minorites: Findings From a National Survey. London: Policy Studies Institute.

Nazroo, J. Y. (1998). Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and mental health: The British Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 33, 145-148.

Nazroo, J. Y. (2001). Ethnicity, Class and Health. London: Policy Studies Institute.

Nazroo, J. Y. (2003). The structuring of ethnic inequalities in health: economic position, racial discrimination and racism. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 277-284.

Nazroo, J., Jackson, J., Karlsen, S., & Torres, M. (2007). The Black diaspora and health inequalities in the US and England: does where you go and how you get there make a difference? Sociology of Health & Illness, 29(6), 811 – 830.

Nazroo, J., Falaschetti, E., Pierce, M. and Primatesta, P. (2009). Ethnic inequalities in access to and outcomes of healthcare: Analysis of the Health Survey for England.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63, 1022-1027.

Stafford, M., Bécares, L., & Nazroo, J. (2009). Objective and perceived ethnic density and health: findings from a UK general population survey. American Journal of Epidemiology, 170(4), 484-493.