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Overview

Alastair H. Leyland is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within health professions, social sciences, and medicine, with significant contributions across 131, 92, and 84 publications in these main fields respectively. The subfields of focus include general health professions, health, economics and econometrics, clinical psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work frequently addresses the following topics:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Food security and health in diverse populations
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Homelessness and social issues
  • Global health care issues
  • Healthcare policy and management

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120 075 UK Biobank participants" (2020), published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • "Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study" (2020), published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "How do income changes impact on mental health and wellbeing for working-age adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2022), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120,075 UK Biobank participants" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: Longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Collaborations have often involved the following coauthors:

  • Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
  • Anna Pearce
  • Ruth Dundas
  • Maurício L. Barreto
  • Peter Craig

Alastair H. Leyland has also contributed to book literature, with a publication by Springer International Publishing titled "Health Systems, Health Services and Inequality in Population Health," scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120 075 UK Biobank participants.

    Miriam Mutambudzi;Claire Niedwiedz;Ewan Beaton Macdonald;Alastair Leyland

  • Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L Niedzwiedz;Michael James Green;Michaela Benzeval;Desmond Campbell

  • Multilevel Modelling of Health Statistics

    Alastair H. Leyland;Harvey Goldstein

  • Natural Experiments: An Overview of Methods, Approaches, and Contributions to Public Health Intervention Research

    Peter Craig;Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Alastair Leyland;Frank Popham

  • Socioeconomic status as an effect modifier of alcohol consumption and harm: analysis of linked cohort data.

    Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Elise Whitley;Jim Lewsey;Linsay Gray

  • Multilevel models: applications to health data.

    Nigel Rice;Alastair Leyland

  • Effects of fully-established Sure Start Local Programmes on 3-year-old children and their families living in England: a quasi-experimental observational study

    Edward Melhuish;Jay Belsky;Alastair H Leyland;Jacqueline Barnes

  • Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross sectional study

    Jay Belsky;Edward Melhuish;Jacqueline Barnes;Alastair H Leyland

  • School effects on pupils' health behaviours: evidence in support of the health promoting school

    P. West;H. Sweeting;A.H. Leyland

  • Multilevel modelling and public health policy.

    Alastair H. Leyland;Peter P. Groenewegen

  • Contribution of smoking-related and alcohol-related deaths to the gender gap in mortality: evidence from 30 European countries

    Gerry McCartney;Lamia Mahmood;Alastair H Leyland;G David Batty

  • An international study of hospital readmissions and related utilization in Europe and the USA.

    Gert P Westert;Ronald J Lagoe;Ilmo Keskimäki;Alastair Leyland

  • Factors influencing the outcome of non‐surgical periodontal treatment: a multilevel approach

    Cristiano Tomasi;Alastair H. Leyland;Jan L. Wennström

  • Severity and pattern of peri- implantitis-associated bone loss

    Christer Fransson;Cristiano Tomasi;Solveig Sundén Pikner;Kerstin Gröndahl

  • Urban/rural inequalities in suicide in Scotland, 1981-1999.

    Kate A. Levin;Alastair H. Leyland

  • Female streetworking prostitution and HIV infection in Glasgow

    N McKeganey;M Barnard;A Leyland;I Coote

  • Air pollution, social deprivation and mortality. A multilevel cohort study

    Øyvind Næss;Fredrik N. Piro;Per Nafstad;George Davey Smith

  • The contribution of risk factors to socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity across the lifecourse: a longitudinal analysis of the Twenty-07 cohort

    Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Kathryn Skivington;Alastair H. Leyland;Kate Hunt

  • Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change. A population-based study

    Alastair H Leyland;Ruth Dundas;Philip McLoone;F Andrew Boddy

  • Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health

    IH Langford;AH Leyland;Rasbash;Harvey Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Michaela Benzeval
Michaela Benzeval University of Essex
Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Peter P. Groenewegen
Peter P. Groenewegen Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Edward Melhuish
Edward Melhuish University of Oxford
Kate Hunt
Kate Hunt University of Stirling
Helen Sweeting
Helen Sweeting University of Glasgow
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Neil McKeganey
Neil McKeganey University of Glasgow

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