Staff Member Biography
Ruth Dundas
position: Investigator Scientistprogramme: Measuring HealthContact Details
phone: 0141 357 7541
Address
4 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RZ
Biography and Interests
Ruth has a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from the University of Glasgow and a MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from City University. She spent seven years in the Department of Public Health Sciences at King's College London. Ruth worked on the EC BIOMED study of stroke care, services, resource use and outcomes as well as the South London Stroke Register and European Registries of Stroke projects. Ruth then moved to Communities Scotland as the statistician on the Scottish House Condition Survey. The SHCS is the largest single housing research project in Scotland and has been conducted in 1991, 1996 and 2002.
Ruth joined the MRC in 2003 to work on the Measuring health, variations in health and the determinants of health programme. Her current interests are inequalities in mortality in Scotland, contextual and social influences on health over the lifecourse and methods to deal with missing values in large routine data sets.
Publications
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.
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 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 accessBatty GD, Shipley M, Macintyre S, Der G, Mortensen L, Dundas R, Deary IJ. Does IQ explain the socioeconomic gradient in mortality? Comparison with the explanatory power of classic risk factors in the Vietnam Experience Study. European Heart Journal 2009; 30:1903-9.
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.
Leyland 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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