Mitchell, Richard; Dujardin, Claire; Popham, Frank; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 8, pp. 1113-1122
In this paper, we develop and test a method for examining the influence of national level contextual influences on population health. Acknowledging calls for the use of experimental study designs to explore contextual influences on health, we develop a study design in which sets of local areas...