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This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured … by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …
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psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during … their peak level in April and chronic health conditions, housing conditions, and neighbourhood characteristics increased …
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models accounting for both cohort and lifecycle effects and use entropy … education on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in income and only small reductions in IOp in physical and mental health. …
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We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in the reporting error in BMI, while there is limited evidence of systematic associations with...
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health, estimated separately using the two SAH measures. A set of dimensions of people's physiological and biological health … be driven by mechanisms other than people's underlying health. …
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We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data-driven empirical approach. We explain health … variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related behaviours. We do this using model … partitioning does identify social groups with different expected levels of health but also unveils the heterogeneity of the …
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Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …
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Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …
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, 2020, with a final easing of the restrictions on July 4, 2020. Among the most important public health costs of lockdown … restrictions are the potential adverse effects on mental health and physical activity. Using data from the UK Household … shows that contrary to popular belief, weather conditions do not exacerbate the mental health consequences of the pandemic …
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