Understandings of Health and Illness

MacCalman L, Semple S, Galea KS, Van Tongeren M, Dempsey S, Hilton S, Gee I, Ayres J. The relationship between workers’ self-reported changes in health and their attitudes towards a workplace intervention: lessons from smoke-free legislation across the UK hospitality industry. BMC Public Health 2012;12:324.

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

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, Smith E. "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.

Sim JA, Ulanikaa AA, Katikireddi SV, Gorman D. 'Out of two bad choices, I took the slightly better one': Vaccination dilemmas for Scottish and Polish migrant women during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Public Health 2011; 125:505-11.

Hilton S, Smith E. Public views of the UK media and government reaction to the 2009 swine flu pandemic. BMC Public Health 2010; 10:697.

Davidson R, Mitchell R, Hunt K. Location, location, location: The role of experience of disadvantage in lay perceptions of area inequalities in health. Health & Place 2008; 14:167-81.
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Hilton S, Hunt K, Petticrew M. Gaps in parental understandings and experiences of vaccine-preventable diseases. A qualitative study. Child: Care, Health & Development 2007; 33:170-179.
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Hilton S, Hunt K, Petticrew M. MMR: marginalised, misrepresented and rejected? Autism: a focus group study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007; 92:322-327.

Hilton S, Petticrew M, Hunt K. Parents' champions vs. vested interests: who do parents believe about MMR? A qualitative study. BMC Public Health 2007; 7:42.
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Langan M. A contemporary history of the origins and development of UK Biobank, 1998-2005 [PhD]. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2007.
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Davidson R, Kitzinger J, Hunt K. The wealthy get healthy, the poor get poorly? Lay perceptions of health inequalities. Social Science and Medicine 2006; 62:2171-2182.

Emslie C, Hunt K. Genetic Susceptibility. In: Clarke A, Ticehurst F, eds. Living With The Genome. Ethical and Social Aspects of Human Genetics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006:102-7

Hilton S, Petticrew M, Hunt K. Combined vaccines are like a sudden onslaught to the body's immune system: Parental concerns about vaccine overload and immune-vulnerability. Vaccine 2006; 24:4321-4327.

Macintyre S, McKay L, Ellaway A. Lay concepts of the relative importance of different influences on health; are there major socio-demographic variations? Health Education Research: Theory and Practice 2006; 21:731-739.

Hilton S. Parental perceptions of childhood immunisation in the context of the MMR controversy [PhD]. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2005.

Macintyre S, McKay L, Ellaway A. Are rich people or poor people more likely to be ill? Lay perceptions, by social class and neighbourhood, of inequalities in health. Social Science & Medicine 2005; 60:313-317.

Macintyre S, McKay L, Ellaway A. Who is more likely to experience common disorders: men, women, or both equally? Lay perceptions in the West of Scotland. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005; 34:461-466.

Davidson RJC. Representations and Lay Perceptions of Inequalities in Health: An Analysis of Policy Documents, Press Coverage and Public Understandings [PhD]. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2003.

Emslie C, Hunt K, Watt G. A chip off the old block? Lay understandings of inheritance amongst men and women in mid-life. Public Understanding of Science 2003; 12:47-65.

Emslie C, Hunt K, Watt G. Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems. In: Nettleton S, Gustafsson U, eds. The Sociology of Health and Illness Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002:146-161.

Emslie C, Hunt K, Watt G. "I'd rather go with a heart attack than drag on". Lay images of heart disease and the problems they present for primary and secondary prevention. Coronary Health Care 2001; 5:25-32.

Emslie C, Hunt K, Watt G. Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems. Sociology of Health & Illness 2001; 23:201-231.

Hunt K, Emslie C, Watt G. Lay constructions of a 'family history' of heart disease: potential for misunderstandings in the clinical encounter? Lancet 2001; 357:1168-1171.

McConnachie A, Hunt K, Emslie C, Hart C, Watt G. 'Unwarranted survivals' and 'anomalous deaths' from coronary heart disease: prospective survey of general population. British Medical Journal 2001; 323:1487-1491.

Michael M, Carter S. The facts about fictions and vice versa: public understanding of human genetics. Science as Culture 2001; 10:5-32.

Hunt K, Davison C, Emslie C, Ford G. Are perceptions of a family history of heart disease related to health-related attitudes and behaviours? Health Education Research: Theory and Practice 2000; 15:131-143.

Hunt K, Emslie C, Watt G. Barriers rooted in biography: how interpretations of family patterns of heart disease and early life experiences may undermine behavioural change in mid-life. In: Graham H, ed. Understanding Health Inequalities. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000:113-126.