Health of the Scottish Population
The health of the Scottish population is known to be poor in comparison to many other European countries. In addition, considerable inequalities exist in Scotland between different social groups and different regions. We are trying to understand the reasons underlying Scotland's poor health and the inequalities within the country.
Publications
Mok PLH, Leyland A, Kapur N, Windfuhr K, Appleby L, Platt S, Webb RT. Why does scotland have a higher suicide rate than england? An area-level investigation of health and social factors. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health [in press].
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.
pubmedBrown 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.
pubmedGray 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.
pubmed open accessLeyland A. Alcohol, financial crisis and reform: Learning from the russian experience [editorial]. European Journal of Public Health 2012.
Mok PL, Kapur N, Windfhur K, Leyland AH, Appleby L, Platt S, Webb RT. Diverging trends in national suicide rates for Scotland and England and Wales, 1960-2008. British Journal of Psychiatry 2012;200:245-251.
pubmedFairley 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.
pubmed open accessGray 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.
open accessGray 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.
open accessGray 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.
open accessPopham F, Boyle P, O'Reilly D, Leyland AH. Selective internal migration. Does it explain Glasgow's worsening mortality record? Health & Place 2011; 17:1212-17.
pubmedBrown D, Leyland AH. Scottish mortality rates 2000-2002 by deprivation and small area population mobility. Social Science & Medicine 2010; 71:1951-7.
pubmed open accessDavies CA, Leyland AH. Trends and inequalities in short-term acute myocardial infarction case fatality in Scotland, 1988-2004. Population Health Metrics 2010; 8:33.
pubmed open accessDundas R, Leyland AH. The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: a population based study. AQMeN Applied Quantitative Methods Newsletter, 2010:(Issue 3, September).
open accessGray L, Batty GD, Craig P, Stewart C, Whyte B, Findlayson B, Leyland AH. Cohort Profile: The Scottish Health Surveys Cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39:345-50.
Gray L, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Batty GD. What is the predictive value of established risk factors for total and cardiovascular disease mortality when measured before middle-age? pooled analyses of two prospective cohort studies from Scotland. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2010; 17:106-12.
Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 5: Diet. In: Bromley C, Given L, Ormston R, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2009 Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2010.
open accessGray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 7: Adult obesity. In: Bromley C, Given L, Ormston R, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2009 Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2010.
open accessLeyland AH, Dundas R. The social patterning of deaths due to assault in Scotland, 1980-2005: population based study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2010; 64:432-9.
pubmed open accessPopham F, Boyle P, O'Reilly D, Leyland AH. Exploring the impact of selective migration on the deprivation-mortality gap within Greater Glasgow. February 2010. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2010.
Stewart CH. Multilevel modeling of event history data: comparing methods appropriate for large datasets [PhD]. Glasgow: Dept of Statistics, University of Glasgow and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 2010.
open accessBrown D, Leyland AH. Population mobility, deprivation and self-reported limiting long-term illness in small areas across Scotland. Health & Place 2009; 15:37-44.
Davies CA, Dundas R, Leyland AH. Increasing socioeconomic inequalities in first acute myocardial infarction in Scotland, 1990-92 and 2000-2. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:134.
Gray L, Leyland AH. A multilevel analysis of diet and socio-economic status in Scotland: investigating the Glasgow effect. Public Health Nutrition 2009; 12:1351-8.
Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 4: Smoking. In: Bromley C, Bradshaw P, Given L, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2008; Volume 1: Main report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2009.
Gray L, Leyland AH. Chapter 7: Obesity. In: Bromley C, Bradshaw P, Given L, eds. The Scottish Health Survey 2008; Volume 1: Main report. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2009.
Gray L, Leyland AH. Is the "Glasgow effect" of cigarette smoking explained by socio-economic status?: a multilevel analysis. BMC Public Health 2009; 9:245.
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Bloor M, Gannon M, Hay G, Jackson G, Leyland AH, McKeganey N. Contribution of problem drug users' deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study. British Medical Journal 2008; 337:a478-.
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Gray L, Leyland AH. Overweight status and psychological wellbeing in adolescent boys and girls: a multilevel analysis. European Journal of Public Health 2008; 18:616-21.
Gray L. Comparisons of health-related behaviours and health measures in Greater Glasgow with other regional areas in Europe. Glasgow: The Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2008.
open accessGray L. Comparisons of health-related behaviours and health measures between Glasgow and the rest of Scotland. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2007.
open accessLeyland A, Dundas R, McLoone P, Boddy FA. Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change. A population-based study.
BMC Public Health 2007; 7:172.
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Leyland AH, Dundas R, McLoone P, Boddy FA. Inequalities in mortality in Scotland 1981-2001. Glasgow: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Occasional Paper 16, 2007
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