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Overview

Mel Bartley is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with particular focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Education.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, birth, development, and health, early childhood education and development, occupational health and safety research, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, and health, environment, and cognitive aging.

They have coauthored multiple studies with frequent collaborators including Michelle Kelly-Irving, Laura D. Howe, Yvonne Kelly, David Blane, and Rebecca Lacey.

Mel Bartley has published in a range of academic venues, notably:

  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Significant papers include:

  • "The Clustering of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Are Gender and Poverty Important?" (2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • "Special Report: The Biology of Inequalities in Health: The Lifepath Consortium" (2020, Frontiers in Public Health)
  • "Adverse childhood experiences and early life inflammation in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children" (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • "Intergenerational Social Mobility and Allostatic Load in Midlife and Older Ages: A Diagonal Reference Modeling Approach" (2022, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)
  • "Examining the impact of different social class mechanisms on health inequalities: A cross-sectional analysis of an all-age UK household panel study" (2022, Social Science & Medicine)

Best Publications

  • Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods

    Mel Bartley

  • Unemployment and ill health: understanding the relationship.

    Mel Bartley

  • The Black report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on.

    G D Smith;M Bartley;D Blane

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries

    Anton E Kunst;Vivian Bos;Eero Lahelma;Mel Bartley

  • Psychosocial determinants of health in social epidemiology

    Pekka Martikainen;Mel Bartley;Eero Lahelma

  • Can we disentangle life course processes of accumulation, critical period and social mobility? An analysis of disadvantaged socio-economic positions and myocardial infarction in the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program.

    Johan Hallqvist;John Lynch;Mel Bartley;Thierry Lang

  • Social selection: what does it contribute to social class differences in health?

    David Blane;George Davey Smith;Mel Bartley

  • Health inequality : an introduction to theories, concepts and methods

    Mel Bartley

  • The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health: A systematic review.

    Dusan Petrovic;Carlos de Mestral;Murielle Bochud;Mel Bartley

  • Explanations for socio-economic differentials in mortality

    George Davey Smith;David Blane;Mel Bartley

  • Adverse childhood experiences and premature all-cause mortality

    Michelle Kelly-Irving;Michelle Kelly-Irving;Benoit Lepage;Dominique Dedieu;Dominique Dedieu;Mel Bartley

  • Relation between socioeconomic status, employment, and health during economic change, 1973-93.

    Mel Bartley;Charlie Owen

  • Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: prospective evidence from the British household panel survey 1991–2001

    M Bartley;A Sacker;P Clarke

  • Unemployment pre-dates symptoms of depression and anxiety resulting in medical consultation in young men.

    Scott M Montgomery;Derek G Cook;Mel J Bartley;Michael Ej Wadsworth

  • Health and the life course: why safety nets matter.

    Mel Bartley;David Blane;Scott Montgomery

  • Social inequality in educational achievement and psychosocial adjustment throughout childhood: magnitude and mechanisms.

    Amanda Sacker;Ingrid Schoon;Mel Bartley

  • Does conflict between home and work explain the effect of multiple roles on mental health? A comparative study of Finland, Japan, and the UK

    Tarani Chandola;Pekka Martikainen;Mel Bartley;Eero Lahelma

  • Socio-demographic predictors of quitting smoking: How important are household factors?

    Tarani Chandola;Jenny Head;Mel Bartley

  • Unemployment, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and body weight in young British men

    Scott M. Montgomery;Derek G. Cook;Mel J. Bartley;Michael E.J. Wadsworth

  • Health selection in the Whitehall II study, UK.

    Tarani Chandola;Mel Bartley;Amanda Sacker;Crispin Jenkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Sacker
Amanda Sacker University College London
David Blane
David Blane University College London
Yvonne Kelly
Yvonne Kelly University College London
Anne McMunn
Anne McMunn University College London
Mai Stafford
Mai Stafford University College London
Ingrid Schoon
Ingrid Schoon University College London
Tarani Chandola
Tarani Chandola University of Hong Kong
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson University of Nottingham

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