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Simon Szreter
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 98
Citations - 6703
Simon Szreter is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fertility. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 96 publications receiving 6288 citations. Previous affiliations of Simon Szreter include St. John's College & Economic and Social Research Council.
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Health by association? Social capital, social theory, and the political economy of public health
Simon Szreter,Michael Woolcock +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that this framework helps to reconcile three perspectives on the efficacy of social capital, incorporating a broader reading of history, politics, and the empirical evidence regarding the mechanisms connecting types of network structure and state-society relations to public health outcomes.
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The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain's Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: a Re-interpretation of the Role of Public Health
TL;DR: McKeown' analysis of the empirical data has been misleading and closer attention to the crucial elements of his own quantitative evidence in fact confirms the essential spirit of Tatham' contemporary assessment as discussed by the authors.
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A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone.
Philip Setel,Sarah B. Macfarlane,Simon Szreter,Lene Mikkelsen,Prabhat Jha,Susan Stout,Carla AbouZahr +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the long-term goal of comprehensive civil registration in developing countries the expectation rather than the exception, and the international health community can assist by sharing information and methods to ensure both the quality of vital statistics and cause of death data.
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The idea of demographic transition and the study of fertility change: a critical intellectual history.
TL;DR: Demographic transition theory was both a product of a conception in social science and a means for examining predicting and guiding social change as discussed by the authors, however, it is unproductive and impedes a wider range of approaches to the field.
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Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities
Prasanta Mahapatra,Kenji Shibuya,Alan D. Lopez,Francesca Coullare,Francis C. Notzon,Chalapati Rao,Simon Szreter +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that countries and developmental partners have not recognised that civil registration systems are a priority and there is little improvement in worldwide availability of general vital statistics or cause-of-death statistics.