Martin J. Shipley

TL;DR: In a civil service population in London, England, there was an association between socioeconomic position and mortality that was substantially accounted for by adjustment for health behaviors, particularly when the behaviors were assessed repeatedly.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic circumstances, in addition to the 25 × 25 factors, should be targeted by local and global health strategies and health risk surveillance to reduce mortality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of the time interval on the magnitude of regression dilution ratios for blood pressure and blood cholesterol, based on bi-annual remeasurements over 30 years for participants in the Framingham Study (Framingham, Massachusetts) and a 26-year resurvey for a sample of men in the Whitehall Study (London, England).

TL;DR: Three large sample studies, one British and two American, brought together for their complementarity in samples, measures, and design, all show similar social gradients for adult men and women in physical and mental morbidity and in psychological well-being, suggesting that indirect selection cannot account for inequalities in health.

TL;DR: There was a strong association between ill health and sickness absence, particularly for longer spells, and it is proposed that sickness absence be used as an integrated measure of physical, psychological, and social functioning in studies of working populations.