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This Programme ended in September 2001

Contact: Professor H Graham

Institution: University of Lancaster

Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/apsocsci/hvp/default.htm

Summary:

To advance understanding of why there are pre-existing differences in health between socio-economic groups.

Projects

• Social variation in women's health: work or way of life
  Professor Mel Bartley, University College London
• Income dynamics and health inequalities: an analysis of cohort and panel data
  Ms Michaela Benzeval, Queen Mary & Westfield College
• Social variations in health in early old age: an investigation of precursors in a 60-year follow-up study 
  Dr David Blane, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Comparative methods for studying socio-economic position and health in different ethnic communities
  Professor George Davey Smith, University of Bristol
• Housing wealth and community health: explanations for the spatial polarisation of life chances in Britain
  Professor Danny Dorling, University of Leeds
• Dimension of health variations over persons, time and place
  Professor Heather Joshi, Institute of Education
• Housing tenure and car ownership: why do they predict health and longevity
  Professor Sally Macintyre, University of Glasgow
• Deprivation, psychological factors and health: response and recovery from illness
  Dr Malcolm MacLeod, University of St Andrews
• Ethnic variations in health: assessing the role of class, gender and geography
  Dr James Nazroo, University College London
• Understanding health variations: the interaction between people, place and time
  Professor Jennie Popay, University of Leeds
• Social settings at home and work: early and later life influences on health variations
  Professor Chris Power, Institute of Child Health
• The role of perceptions of family history in persisting inequalities in health and lifestyle
  Professor Graham Watt, University of Glasgow
• The contribution of social welfare in addressing health inequalities
  Professor Margaret Whitehead, University of Liverpool
• Inequalities in health service utilisation at the general practice level
  Dr Sheena Asthana, University of Plymouth
• Influence of the workplace on social variations in health in early old age
  Dr David Blane, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
• The socio-economic and cultural context of children's lifestyles and the production of health variations
  Dr Kathryn Backett-Milburn, University of Edinburgh Medical School
• Psychological stress, lifestyle and socio-economic inequalities in morbidity and mortality
  Professor George Davey Smith, University of Bristol
• Understanding health variations and policy variations
  Dr Mark Exworthy, University College London
• Locality-level mortality and socio-economic change in Britain since 1920
  Dr Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
• Measuring preferences regarding equity and variations in health
  Professor Peter Smith, University of York
• Socio-economic status and obesity
  Professor Jane Wardle, University College London
• Social resources, health and disability in the population aged 55 and over
  Dr Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Determinants of social class differences in mental and physical ill-health
  Professor Stephen Stansfeld, Queen Mary & Westfield College
• The impact of urban regeneration on mental health
  Professor Peter Huxley, Institute of Psychiatry
• The contribution of job insecurity to socio-economic inequalities
  Professor Michael Marmot, University College London
• Childhood origins of social variation in mental health
  Dr Amanda Sacker, University College London   

User Fellowships

• Bringing research into practice: lessons for Health Action Zones from the Health Variations Programme
  Ms Fiona Johnstone, University of Manchester
• General Practitioners' understanding of health inequalities and its effect on professional behaviour
  Dr Satinder Kumar, University of Southampton
• Examination of the relationship between Health Variations Programme researchers and health practitioners
  Dr Kate Philip, University of Edinburgh
• Policy and Practice implications of the Health Variations Programme for Child Welfare
  Professor Helen Roberts, Institute of Child Health 
• Does social deprivation predict the use of health services following Myocardial Infarction?
  Dr Karen Smith, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School