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The ICLS Occasional Paper (OP) series covers ICLS work not published elsewhere and provides our policy seminar and public lecture participants with the opportunity to review again the research presented.

Work, Family  and Health

 

OP18.1
Work to Family conflict and Family to Work conflict- who is more at risk?

Tarani Chandola

Dataset: Whitehall II, Understanding Society

OP18.3
Balancing work and family over the life course and women's health in later life.

Juliet Stone

Dataset: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

OP18.2 Gender attitude concordance and relationship satisfaction.

Lauren Bird

Dataset:  Millennium Cohort Study

OP18.4
Work-family life courses and stress and inflammation in mid-life

Rebecca Lacey

Dataset: 1958 Birth Cohort study

Stress in Adolescence

 

OP17

It's so unfair! : Stress in Adolescence

Scott Montgomery
Data set: Swedish Link Register
 
Watch again.

UCL You Tube Channel
It's so unfair! : Stress in Adolescence
 

Extended working life and Health

 

 OP16.1

Working longer: paid employment beyond age 65 years.

David Blane, UCL

Datasets:Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with some English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and Decennial Census.

OP16.4

Geographic inequalities, health and exit from the work force.

Emily Murray, UCL

Dataset: Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS)

OP16.2

Who works beyond the state pension age and are there health benefits?


Giorgio Di Gessa , KCL

Dataset: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Adolescents and Health

 

OP15.1
Why are early adolescents from poor families at increased risk of overweight and obesity? (pdf)

Amanda Sacker, UCL

Dataset: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

OP15.3

Diet quality and the factors that influence nutrient intake in teenage girls (pdf)

Laura Weston, NatCen Social Research

Dataset:

OP15.2
Who are the 11 year old drinkers? (pdf)

Yvonne Kelly, UCL

Dataset: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

OP15.4

Stress resilience and inflammation in adolescence predict poor mental and physical health in middle-aged men (pdf)

Scott Montgomery, Orebro University Hospital , Sweden.

Dataset:Swedish conscripts

Work and Health

 
 OP14

Who wants to work forever (pdf)
Tarani Chandola, Manchester University and UCL

Datasets: Mappiness Survey, ELSA

See also:

You Tube
ICLS Podcast Series

Sleep and Health

 

OP 13.1

Scheduled versus demand feeding of infants:  sleeping patterns and  risk of obesity (pdf)

Maria Iacovou, University of Cambridge

Dataset: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

 

OP13.3 (not available)

Troubled Sleep: A cross-national study of the influence of age, health, social and psychosocial factors.

Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, UEL

Dataset: Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

OP13.2

Time for Bed? Sleep, health and development in the first decade of life (pdf)

Yvonne Kelly, Professor of Epidemiology,UCL

Dataset: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

OP13.4 

Sleep disturbance, sleep duration and mortality in British civil servants (pdf)

Jessica Abell, UCL

Dataset: Whitehall II study

Child Health and Development

 

OP12.1

A good start in life (pdf)

Yvonne Kelly, UCL

Dataset: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
A good start in life

See also: UCL You Tube Channel

Active Transport and Health

 

 OP11.0

Active transport and health
- Introduction

Amanda Sacker, ICLS Director

 

OP11.2

Does active commuting predict healthy weight and body composition? (pdf)

Ellen Flint, LSHTM

Dataset(s):Understanding Society

Now published - BMJ Open Access

Associations between active commuting, body fat, and body mass index: population based, cross sectional study in the United Kingdom

OP11.1
Active travel to school and the risk of obesity (pdf)

Yvonne Kelly, UCL

Dataset(s): Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

OP11.3
Bus passes, active travel and health (pdf)

Elizabeth Webb, UCL

Dataset(s):English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA); National Transport Study (NTS)

Child Health and Development

 

OP10

Breast is best? Can breast feeding really increase one's life chances? (pdf)

Amanda Sacker, UCL

Datasets: 1958 and 1970  Birth Cohort

UCL You Tube Channel

Breast is best? Can breast feeding really increase one's life chances?

Wellbeing

 

OP9.1

Mental health and wellbeing (pdf)

Sally McManus, NatCen for Social Research

Dataset: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS)

OP9.3

Do physical working conditions influence quality of life after retirement? (pdf)

Loretta Platts, ICLS PhD student, Imperial College

Dataset: Gas and Electricity Public Utilities of France (GAZEL)

OP9.2

Health related behaviours and wellbeing in adolescence (pdf)

Amanda Sacker, Essex University


Dataset:

OP9.4

Well-being within older couples: Does your partner's health affect your happiness?   (Available on request)

Jessica Abell, UCL

Dataset:English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
(ELSA)

Early Childhood Health & Development 

 

OP8.1
Health inequalities in the early years - Evidence from the Growing Up in Scotland Study.
Catherine Bromley,Scottish Centre for Social Research

OP8.3

Breastfeeding and cognitive development (pdf)

Amanda Sacker , University of Essex, and UCL

Dataset: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

OP8.2

Family structure and child health (Available on request)

Lidia Panico, LSE Gender Institute

OP8.4

Time for bed?

Yvonne Kelly, Essex University

Dataset:Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

Diet and Early Old Age

 

OP7

The Boyd Orr Cohort : Influences on diet in early old age (pdf)

David Blane, Imperial College & UCL

Dr Maria Maynard, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences
Unit

 

Work Life Balance

 

OP6.1 

Lone parents and employment: an exploration of findings from the Families and Children Study 2006 - 2008 (pdf)

Anne Conolly, NatCen

OP6.3

Combining work & family: Health effects in women and their children (pdf)

Anne McMunn, UCL
 

OP6.5

Transitions in work and family and quality of life at older ages. (Available on request)

Elizabeth Webb, UCL
 

OP6.2

To be or not to be an employed mother - what is better for children's health? (Available on request)

Jitka Pikhartova, ICLS

OP6.4

Labour market position, family circumstances and health in later life. (Available on request)

Bola Akinwale, Imperial College

Unemployment, Recession and Health

 

OP5.0

Introduction (pdf)

Mel Bartley, ICLS

OP5.2

The effects of joblessness and insecure employment on psychological well-being (available on request)

Ellen Flint, ICLS

OP5.4

The effect of the recession on work stress (pdf)

Tarani Chandola, ICLS

OP5.1

Longitudinal data, unemployment and health (pdf)

Mel Bartley, ICLS

OP5.3

Unemployment, permanent sickness and mortality risk in early old age (available on request)

Bola Akinwale, Imperial College

Education, Education, Education: A life course perspective.

 

 OP4.1

Can adult education reduce inequalities in health (pdf)

Tarani Chandola, Manchester Universtiy

 4.3 Andy Ross, NatCen

Disengagement from education among young people (pdf)

4.2 Dr Rosie Green, NatCen
Educational attainment among young people in rural England (pdf)

4.4 Dr Yvonne Kelly, ICLS
What role for the home learning environment & parenting in reducing socio-economic gradients in early child development? (pdf)
  
Professor David Blane, Imperial College, Richard D Wiggins, Institute of Education, Scott M Montgomery, Karolinska Institute, Zoe Hildon, University College London, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Imperial College

Resilience at older ages: the importance of social relations and implications for policy (pdf)

Keywords: Older ages; quality of life; resilience; policy

Professor Mel Bartley, UCL

The importance of life course research in an aging population.

Keywords:

JN Morris, Professor Emeritus, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Minimum Income for Healthy Living (MIHL) (pdf) June 2010 Transcript

Keywords: Minimum income for healthy living. Young, single men. Retired people without disability.