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Astell-Burt T, Maynard MJ, Lenguerrand E, Harding S. Racism, ethnic density and psychological well-being through adolescence: evidence from the Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-being and Health longitudinal study. Ethnicity & Health [Special Issue: Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health and Care] (in press).

Bhui K, Lenguerrand E, Maynard MJ, Stansfeld S, Harding S. Does cultural integration explain a mental health advantage for adolescents? International Journal of Epidemiology (in press).

Buston K, Parkes A, Thomson H, Wight D, Fenton C. Parenting interventions for male young offenders: a review of evidence on what works. Journal of Adolescence (in press).

Dykiert D, Der G, Starr JM, Deary IJ. Sex differences in reaction time mean and intra-individual variability across the life span. Developmental Psychology (in press).

Greenhalgh D, Lamb K, Robertson C. A mathematical model for the spread of Streptococcus pneumoniae with transmission due to sequence type. Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement 2010: Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications. (in press).

Greenhalgh D, Lamb K, Robertson C. A mathematical model for the spread of Streptococcus pneumoniae with transmission due to serotype. Journal of Biological Dynamics (in press).

Hilton S, Patterson C, Teyhan A. Escalating coverage of obesity in UK newspapers: the evolution and framing of the ‘obesity epidemic’ from 1996 to 2010. Obesity (in press).

Lamb K, Greenhalgh D, Robertson C. A Simple Mathematical Model for Genetic Effects in Pneumococcal Carriage and Transmission. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (in press).

Maclean A, Hunt K, Sweeting H. Symptoms of mental health problems: children’s and adolescents’ understanding and implications for gender differences in help-seeking. Children & Society (in press).

Maynard MJ, Rosato M, Harding S. Trends in suicide mortality among migrant in England and Wales, 1979-2003. Ethnicity & Health (in press).

McDaid LM, Hart GJ. Willingness to participate in future HIV prevention studies among gay and bisexual men in Scotland, UK: a challenge for intervention trials [Epub ahead of print]. Aids & Behavior 2011.

Phillips AC. Cardiovascular reactivity: associations with depression, obesity, and self-reported health. Biological Psychiatry (in press).

Roberts H, Petticrew M, Macintyre S, Liabo K. The Anglo-Saxon disease : a pilot study of the barriers and facilitators to the use of randomised controlled trials of social programmes in an international context. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (in press).

Smith E, Sweeting H, Wright C. "Do I care ?" Young adults' recalled experiences of early adolescent overweight and obesity - a qualitative study. International Journal of Obesity in press.

Young R. Can Neds (or Chavs) be non-delinquent, educated or even middle class? Contrasting empirical findings with cultural stereotypes. Sociology (in press).

Batty GD, Hamer M, Der G. Does somatic illness explain the association between common mental disorder and elevated mortality? findings from extended follow-up of study members in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey [Epub ahead of print]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2012.

Brown D, Benzeval M, Gayle V, Macintyre S, O'Reilly D, Leyland AH. Childhood residential mobility and health in late adolescence and adulthood: Findings from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study [Epub ahead of print]. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2012.

Brown D, O'Reilly D, Gayle V, Macintyre S, Benzeval M, Leyland AH. Socio-demographic and health characteristics of individuals left behind in deprived and declining areas in Scotland. Health & Place 2012;18:440-444.

Ellaway A, Benzeval M, Green M, Leyland AH, Macintyre s. "Getting sicker quicker": does living in a more deprived neighbourhood mean your health deteriorates faster? Health & Place 2012;18:132-7.

Gray L, Merlo J, Mindell J, Hallqvist J, Tafforeau J, O'Reilly D, Regidor E, Næss Ø, Kelleher C, Helakorpi S, Lange C, Leyland AH. International differences in self-reported health measures in 33 major metropolitan areas in Europe. European Journal of Public Health 2012;22:40-7.

Hunt K, Annandale E. Gender and health volume 1: theoretical and methodological developments. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Hunt K, Annandale E. Gender and health volume 2: understanding the patterning of health by gender. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Hunt K, Annandale E. Gender and health volume 3: gender and health care. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Hunt K, Annandale E. Gender and health volume 4: gender and health behaviours. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Jackson CA, Sweeting H, Haw S. Clustering of substance use and sexual risk behaviour in adolescence: analysis of two cohort studies. BMJ Open 2012;2:e000661.

Karvonen S, Young R, West P, Rahkonen O. Value orientations among late modern youth – a cross-cultural study. Journal of Youth Studies 2012; 15(1):33-52.

Kearns A, Whitley E, Mason P, Bond L. Living the high life. Residential social and psychosocial outcomes for high-rise occupants in deprived context. Housing Studies 2012;27:97-126.

Mok PL, Kapur N, Windfhur K, Leyland AH, Appleby L, Platt S, Webb RT. Diverging trends in national suicide rates for Scotland and England & Wales, 1960-2008 [Epub ahead of print]. British Journal of Psychiatry 2012.

Young R, McDonald-Smith L. Lisbeth Salander and the ‘Truth’ about Goths. In: Rosenberg R, ed. The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dallas: Benbella Books, 2011:9-29.

Abraham C, Sheeran P, Henderson M. Extending social cognition models of health behaviour. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice 2011; 26:624-37.

Adamson J, Hunt K, Nazareth I. The influence of socio-demographic characteristics on consultation for back pain--a review of the literature. Family Practice 2011; 28:163-71.

Akinwale B, Lynch K, Wiggins R, Harding S, Bartley M, Blane D. Work, permanent sickness and mortality risk: a prospective cohort study of England and Wales, 1971-2006. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health; 65:786-92.

Astell-Burt T, Flowerdew R, Boyle PJ, Dillon JF. Does geographic access to primary healthcare influence the detection of hepatitis C? Social Science & Medicine 2011 ; 72:1472-81.

Batty GD, Bhaskar A, Emslie C, Benzeval M, Der G, Lewar H, Hunt K. Association of life course socioeconomic disadvantage with problem and heavy drinking: gender differentials in the west of Scotland [Epub ahead of print]. International Journal of Public Health 2011.

Batty GD, Shipley MJ, Gunnell D, Smith GD, Ferrie JE, Clarke R, Marmot MG, Kivimäki M. Height loss and future coronary heart disease in London: the Whitehall II study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011; 65:461-4.

Benzeval MJ, Green MJ, Leyland AH. Do social inequalities in health widen or converge with age? Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland. BMC Public Health 2011;11:947.

Benzeval MJ. What is the role of income in creating health inequalities? evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies [PhD]. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Glasgow: College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2011.

Bhopal R, Snorri B, Rafnsson CA, Fagot-Campagna A, Giampaoli S, Hammer N, Harding S, Hedlund E, Juel K, Mackenback JP, Primatesta P, Rey G, Rosato M, Wild S, Kunst AE. Mortality from circulatory diseases by specific country of birth across six European countries: test of concept [Epub ahead of print]. European Journal of Public Health 2011.

Bond L, Kearns A, Sautkina E. Mixed messages about mixed tenure: do reviews tell the real story?  Housing Studies:2011; 26:69-94.

Bond L, Nolan T. Making sense of perceptions of risk of diseases and vaccinations: a qualitative study combining models of health beliefs, decision-making and risk perception. BMC Public Health 2011;11:943.

Bonell CP, Hargreaves JR, Cousens SN, Ross DA, Hayes RJ, Petticrew M, Kirkwood B. Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions: design challenges and solutions. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011; 65:582-7.

Booker C, Harding S, Benzeval M. A systematic review of the effect of retention methods in population-based cohort studies. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:249.

Brueton V, Tierney J, Stenning S, Nazareth I, Meredith S, Darbyshire J, Harding S, Rait G. Strategies to reduce attrition from randomised trials (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011:2.

Butler H, Krelle A, Seal I, Trafford L, Drew S, Hargreaves J, Walter R, Bond L. The Critical Friend; Facilitating change and wellbeing in school communities. Melbourne: ACER Press, 2011.

Calvin CM, Batty GD, Lowe GD, Deary, I J. Childhood intelligence and midlife inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers: The National Child Development Study (1958) Cohort. Health Psychology 2011;30:710-8.

Calvin CM, Deary IJ, Fenton C, Roberts B, Der G, Leckenby N, Batty DG. Intelligence in youth and all-cause-mortality: systematic review with meta-analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 40:626-44.

Carroll D, Phillips AC, Der G, Hunt K, Benzeval M. Blood pressure reactions to acute mental stress and future blood pressure status: Data from the 12-year follow-up in the West of Scotland study. Psychosomatic Medicine 2011; 73:737-42.

Carroll D, Phillips AC, Lovallo WR. The behavioural and health corollaries of blunted physiological reactions to acute psychological stress: Revising the reactivity hypothesis. In: Wright RA, Gendolla GHE, eds. Motivation Perspectives on Cardiovascular Response. Washington, D.C.: APA Press, 2011.

Craig P, Cooper C, Gunnell D, Haw S, Lawson K, Macintyre S, Ogilvie D, Petticrew M, Reeves B, Sutton M, Thompson S. Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions. Glasgow: Medical Research Council, 2011.

Czernichow S, Kengne AP, Huxley RR, Batty GD, de Galan B, Grobbee D, Pillai A, Zoungas S, Marre M, Woodward M, Neal B, Chalmers J. Comparison of waist-to-hip ratio and other obesity indices as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk in people with type-2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study from ADVANCE. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation 2011; 18:312-9.

Czernichow S, Kengne AP, Stamatakis E, Hamer M, Batty GD. Body mass index, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio: which is the better discriminator of cardiovascular disease mortality risk? Evidence from an individual-participant meta-analysis of 82864 participants from nine cohort studies. Obesity Reviews 2011; 12:680-7.

Dibben C, Popham F. Are socio-economic groupings the most appropriate method for judging health equity between countries? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011;65:4-5.

Douglas MJ, Carver H, Katikireddi SV. How well do strategic environmental assessments in Scotland consider human health? Public Health 2011; 125:585-91.

Dujardin C, Farfan Portlet MI, Mitchell R, Popham F, Thomas I, Lorant V. Does country influence the health burden of informal care? An international comparison between Belgium and Great Britain. Social Science & Medicine 2011; 73:1123-32.

Egan M, Neary J, GoWell Team. GoWell briefing paper 15: Intolerance and adult perceptions of antisocial behaviour: Focus group evidence from disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Glasgow. Glasgow: GoWell, 2011.

Egan M, Neary J, GoWell Team. GoWell briefing paper 16: Young people's experience of intolerance, antisocial behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged areas of Glasgow. Glasgow: GoWell, 2011.

Emslie C, Hunt K, Lyons A. Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid-life [Epub ahead of print]. Sociology of Health & Illness.

Entwistle VA, France EF, Wyke S, Jepson R, Hunt K, Ziebland S, Thompson A. How information about other people's personal experiences can help with healthcare decision-making: a qualitative study. Patient Education and Counselling 2011;85:e291-8.

Fairley L, Dundas R, Leyland AH. The influence of both individual and area based socioeconomic status on temporal trends in Caesarean sections in Scotland 1980-2000. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:330.

Fergie G, Beeke S, McKenna C, Creme P. 'It’s a lonely walk': supporting postgraduate researchers through writing. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2011; 23:236–45.

France E, Wyke S, Ziebland S, Entwistle V, Hunt K. How personal experiences feature in women's accounts of use of information for decisions about antenatal diagnostic testing for foetal abnormality. Social Science & Medicine 2011; 72:755-62.

France EF, Locock L, Hunt K, Ziebland S, Field K, Wyke S. Imagined futures: how experiential knowledge of disability affects parents' decision-making about fetal abnormality [Epub ahead of print]. Health Expectations 2011.

Fuller N, Green MJ, Benzeval M. The West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: the use of bioimpedance analysis for the measurement of body composition in Wave 5 Glasgow: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Working Paper no. 28, 2011.

Gartland D, Bond L, Olsson C, Buzwell S, Sawyer SM. Development of a multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents: the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:134.

Gibson M, Banas K, Thomson H, Bambra C, Bond L, McKee M, Lutje V, Fenton C. Welfare to work interventions and their effects on the health and well-being of lone parents and their children. Edinburgh: Chief Scientist's Office, 2011.

Gibson M, Petticrew M, Bambra C, Sowden AJ, Wright KE, Whitehead M. Housing and health inequalities: a synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health & Place 2011; 17:175-84.

Gibson M, Thomson H, Kearns A, Petticrew M. Understanding the psychosocial impacts of housing type: qualitative evidence from a housing and regeneration intervention. Housing Studies 2011; 26:555-73.

Ginty AT, Phillips AC, Der G, Deary IJ, Carroll D. Heart rate reactivity is associated with future cognitive ability and cognitive change in a large community sample. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2011;82:167-74.

Graham E, Findlay A, Manley D, McCollum D, Popham F, van Ham M. Scotland’s census as a research resource. Scotland's population 2010, the Registrar General's annual review of demographic trends. Edinburgh: National Records of Scotland, 2011:73-8.

Gray CM, Hunt K, Lorimer K, Anderson AS, Benzeval M, Wyke S. Words matter: a qualitative investigation of which weight status terms are acceptable and motivate weight loss when used by health professionals? BMC Public Health 2011; 11:513

Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Association of body mass index in early adulthood and middle-age with future site-specific cancer mortality: the  Harvard Alumni Health Study [Epub ahead of print]. Annals of Oncology 2011.

Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Blood pressure in early adulthood, hypertension in middle-age, and future cardiovascular disease mortality: the Harvard Alumni Health Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2011; 58:2396-403.

Gray L, Lee I-M, Sesso HD, Batty GD. Body weight in early and mid-adulthood in relation to subsequent coronary heart disease mortality: 80 years follow-up in the Harvard Alumni Study (Research Letter). Archives of Internal Medicine 2011; 171:1768-70.

Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 5: Fruit and vegetable consumption. In: Bromley C, Bradshaw P, Given L, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2010 Volume 1: Main report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2011.

Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 7: Adult and child obesity. In: Bromley C, Given L, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2010 Volume 1: Main report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2011.

Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 8: Respiratory health and lung function. In: Bromley C, Given L, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2010 Volume 1: Main report. Edinburgh, 2011.

Green M, Benzeval M. Aging, social class and common mental disorders: Longitudinal evidence from three cohorts in the West of Scotland. Psychological Medicine 2011; 41:565-74.

Hamer M, Batty GD, Marmot MG, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimaki M. Anti-depressant medication use and C-reactive protein: results from two population-based studies. Brain Behavior and Immunity 2011; 25:168-73.

Hamer M, Batty GD, Seldenrijk A, Kivimäki M. Antidepressant medication use and future risk of cardiovascular disease: the Scottish Health Survey. European Heart Journal 2011; 32:437-44.

Hamer M, Ford T, Stamatakis E, Dockray S, Batty GD. Objectively measured secondhand smoke exposure and mental health in children: evidence from the Scottish Health Survey. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2011; 165:326-31.

Hanewinkel R, Sargent JD, Karlsdottir S, Jonsson SH, Mathis F, Faggiano F, Poelen EAP, Scholte R, Florek E, Sweeting H, Hunt K, Morgenstein M. High youth access to movies that contain smoking in Europe compared with the USA [Epub ahead of print]. Tobacco Control 2011.

Hempill S, Kotevski A, Herronkohl T, Bond L, Kim M, Toumbourou J, Catalano R. Longitudinal consequences of adolescent bullying perpetration and victimisation: A study of students in Victoria, Australia. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 2011;21:107-16.

Henderson M, Smith D, Elliott L, Nixon C, Wight D. Vulnerable young people in alternative education settings: their sexual health needs, experience and use of sex education and sexual health services. Glasgow: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Occasional Paper no. 21, 2011.

Higgins M, Katikireddi SV, Conaglen P, Jones C, Douglas M. UK Public Accounts committee report on health inequalities [Letter]. The Lancet 2011; 377:206-7.

Hilton S, Hunt K, Bedford H, Petticrew M. School nurses' experiences of delivering the UK HPV vaccination programme in its first year. BMC Infectious Diseases 2011; 11:226.

Hilton S, Hunt K. UK newspapers representations of the 2009-2010 outbreak of swine flu: one health scare not over-hyped by the media?. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011; 65:941-6.

Hilton S. "I thought cancer was one of those random things.  I didn't know cancer could be caught…": adolescent girls' understandings and experiences of the HPV programme in the UK. Vaccine 2011; 29:4409-15.

Hotchkiss J, Davies C, Gray L, Bromley C, Capewell S, Leyland AH. Trends in adult cardiovascular disease risk factors and their socioeconomic patterning in the Scottish population 1995 to 2008: Cross-sectional Surveys. BMJ Open 2011:doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000176.

Hotchkiss J, Leyland AH. The relationship between body size and mortality in the linked Scottish Health Surveys: Cross-sectional surveys with follow-up. International Journal of Obesity 2011; 35:838-51.

Hunt K, Adamson J, Hewitt C, Nazareth I. Do women consult more than men? A review of gender and consultation for back pain and headache. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2011; 16:108-17.

Hunt K, Henderson M, Wight D, Sargent JD. Exposure to smoking in films and own smoking amongst Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Thorax 2011; 66:866-74.

Hunt K, Sweeting H, Sargent J, Lewars H, Young R, West P. An association between seeing incidents of alcohol or drug use in films and young Scottish adults' own alcohol or drug use: cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:259.

Inverarity D, Lamb K, Diggle M, Robertson C, Greenhalgh D, Mitchell T, Smith A, Jefferies J, Clarke S, McMenamin J, Edwards G. Death or survival from invasive Pneumococcal disease in Scotland: Associations with serogroups and multilocus sequence types. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2011; 60:793-802.

Jackson CA, Henderson M, Frank J, Haw S. An overview of prevention of multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Public Health (in press).

Katikireddi SV, Higgins M, Bond L, Bonell C, Macintyre S. How evidence based is English public health policy? British Medical Journal 2011; 343:d7310.

Katikireddi SV, Morling JR, Bhopal R. Is there a divergence in time trends in the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes? A systematic review in south asian populations. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011;40:1542-53.

Kivimäki M, Jokela M, Hamer M, Geddes JR, Ebmeier K, Kumari M, Singh-Manoux A, Hingorani A, Batty GD. Examining overweight and obesity as risk factors for common mental disorders using fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype-instrumented analysis: The Whitehall II Study, 1985-2004. American Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 173:421-9.

Knussen C, Flowers P, McDaid LM, Hart GJ. HIV-related sexual risk behaviour between 1996 and 2008, according to age, among men who have sex with men (Scotland). Sexually Transmited Infections 2011; 87:257-9.

Lam EK, Batty GD, Huxley RR, Martiniuk AL, Barzi F, Lam TH, Lawes CM, Giles GG, Welborn T, Ueshima H, Tamakoshi A, Woo J, Kim HC, Fang X, Czernichow S, Woodward M. Associations of diabetes mellitus with site-specific cancer mortality in the Asia-Pacific region. Annals of Oncology 2011; 22:730-8.

Levin KA, Torsheim T, Volleberg W, Richter M, Davies CA, Schnohr CW, Due P, Currie C. National income and income inequality, family affluence and life satisfaction among 13 year old boys and girls: A multilevel study in 35 countries. Social Indicators Research 2011; 104:179-94.