EPH PhD Project Titles

Below is list of past PhD theses from across the Res Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health.

• Determinants of sickness absence and early retirement intentions and the relationship between sickness absence and the risk of disability retirement or early retirement intentions in the Abu Dhabi Police

• The associations between risk-taking behaviours, peer influence and traumatic dental injuries among Saudi adolescents.

• Lifetime affective symptoms and mortality in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development

• Metabolically healthy obesity: Associations with physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and metabolic declinefamilies: implications for family well-being and child development

• Gender, work and domestic practices in 21st century UK families: implications for family well-being and child development

• Cognitive ageing and late-life depression across cultures

• Should I stay or should I go? A workplace perspective on older persons' labour market participation.

• Quantifying the associations between diabetes mellitus, glycated haemoglobin and incidence of and mortality from cancer: analysis of longitudinal data from England and Scotland linked to Cancer Registry and mortality data

• Political factors and oral health inequalities: a cross-national analysis

• The role of psychosocial wellbeing and biological stress processes in linking type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease

• Life course socioeconomic position, health behaviours and cognitive function in middle-aged and older persons in four Central and Eastern European populations:Findings from the HAPIEE study

• Unemployment and health in the UK: Exploring psychobiological pathways

• Deaf people in Western Region, Kenya: language, community and HIV/AIDS

• CASP, a measure of quality of life in old age: evaluation of its psychometric properties and association with mortality. The HAPIEE study

• Mental stress, socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease: integrating socioeconomic circumstances into the paradigm of psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology

• Genetic test feedback for risk of weight gain - motivational and behavioural effects

• Investigating the health of non-drinkers, the sick-quitter and sick non-starter hypotheses

• Virtual Field Trips as physically active lessons for children

• Adolescent drinking in Chile: the role of school socioeconomic environment in relation to parental and peer influences.

• Is Social Capital a Determinant of Oral health among Older Adults? An Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

• A comparative study of education and coronary heart disease risk in Great Britain: findings from three cohorts

• Using electronic health records to investigate blood biomarkers and onset of cardiovascular diseases: example of differential white cell count

• Dietary factors and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Eastern European cohorts

• The neighbourhood physical environment: Relationships with physical activity and depression in adults in the United Kingdom

• Marriage and physical capability at mid to later life

• Retirement, cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in China

• Preventing obesity by reducing soft drinks consumption among young people attending dental practices: a feasibility cluster RCT