Emeritus ProfessorDavidBlane

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Published

Mitchell R, Fowkes G, Blane D, Bartley M.  High rates of ischaemic heart disease in Scotland are not explained by conventional risk factors.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:565-567.

Blane D.  Cohort profile: The Boyd Orr lifegrid sub-sample – medical sociology study of life course influences on early old age.  International Journal of Epidemiology 2005.

Maynard M, Ness A, Abraham L, Blane D, Bates C, Gunnell D.  Selecting a healthy diet score: lessons from a study of diet and health in early old age (the Boyd Orr cohort).  Public Health Nutrition 2005;8:321-326.

Wiggins R, Higgs P, Hyde M, Blane D.  Quality of life in the third age: key predictors of the CASP-19 measure. Aging and Society 2004;24:693-708..

Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I, Karlsen S, Nazroo J. Influences on quality of life: a quantitative analysis of ethnic differences at older ages. Ageing and Society 2004;24:709-728.

Forthcoming

Naess O, Hernes F, Blane D.  Life course influences on mortality at older ages: evidence from the Oslo Mortality Study.  Social Science and Medicine (accepted April 2005).

Editorials

Letters and abstracts

Books

Book chapters

Nazroo J, Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I.  Ethnic inequalities in quality of life at older ages.  In: Walker A, Northmore S, eds. Growing Older in a Black and Ethnic Minority Group. London, Age Concern 2004:9-15.

Nazroo J, Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I.  Ethnic inequalities.  In: Walker A, Hennessy C, eds. Growing Older: Quality of life in old age. Maidenhead, Open University Press 2004: 35-59.

Other publications

a) Peer-reviewed journal articles.

ai) published

Grewal I, Nazroo J, Bajekal M, Blane D, Lewis J. Influences on quality of life: a qualitative investigation of ethnic differences among older people in England. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2004;30:737-761.

Gunnell D, Berney L, Holland P, Maynard M, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Frankel S.  Does the misreporting of adult body size depend upon an individual’s height and weight? Methodological debate.  International Journal of Epidemiology 2004;33:1-2.

Smythe J, Abholz H, Alves B, Blane D, Borgers D.  Social differences in outpatient care in England and Germany.  Zeitschrift fur Allgemeinmedizin 2004;80:58-62. 

Blane D, Higgs P, Hyde M, Wiggins R. Life course influences on quality of life in early old age. Social Science and Medicine 2004;58:2171-2179.

Hallqvist J, Lynch J, Bartley M, Lange T, Blane D.  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. Social Science and Medicine 2004;58:1555-1562.

Exworthy M, Blane D, Marmot M. Tackling heath inequalities in the UK: the progress and pitfalls of policy. Health Services Research 2003;38:1905-1921.

Blane D, Abraham L, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Ness A.  Background influences on dietary choices in early old age.  Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 2003;123:204-209.

Berney L, Blane D. The life grid method of collecting retrospective information from people at older ages.  Research Policy and Planning 2003;21:13-22.

Higgs P, Hyde M, Wiggins R, Blane D. Researching quality of life in early old age: the importance of the sociological dimension. Social Policy and Administration 2003;37:239-252.

Blane D. Uses of quantitative medical sociology. Sociology of Health and Illness 2003;25:115-130.

Hyde M, Wiggins R, Higgs P, Blane D. A measure of quality of life in early old age: the theory, development and properties of a needs satisfaction model (CASP-19).  Aging and Mental Health 2003;7:186-194.

Mitchell R, Blane D, Bartley M.  Elevated risk of high blood pressure: climate and the inverse housing law.  International Journal of Epidemiology 2002,31:831-838.

Blane D.  Inequality among men in standardised years of potential life lost from external causes, 1971-1991.  Journal of the Institute of Health Education 2001,17:3-5. 

Blane D, Berney L, Montgomery S.  Domestic labour, formal employment and women’s health.  Social Science and Medicine 2001;52:959-965.

Blane D, Bartley M, Mitchell R.  The ‘Inverse Housing Law’ and respiratory health.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2000;54:745-749.

Gunnell D, Berney L, Holland P, Maynard M, Blane D, Frankel S, Davey Smith G.  How accurately are height, weight and leg length reported by the elderly and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood?  International Journal of Epidemiology 2000;29:456-464.

Berney L, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Holland P, Montgomery S.  Socioeconomic measures in early old age as indicators of previous lifetime exposure to environmental health hazards.  Sociology of Health and Illness 2000;22:415-430.

Montgomery S, Berney L, Blane D.  Pre-pubertal growth and blood pressure in early old age.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 2000;82:358-363.

Holland P, Berney L, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Montgomery S.  Life course accumulation of disadvantage.  Social Science and Medicine 2000;50:1285-1295.

Brunner E, Shipley M, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Marmot M.  Past and present socioeconomic circumstances and cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1999,53:757-764.

White IR, Blane D, Morris JN.  Educational attainment, deprivation-affluence and self-reported health: a cross-sectional study.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1999,53:535-541.

Blane D, Berney L, Davey Smith G, Gunnell D, Holland P.  Reconstructing the life course: a 60 year follow-up study based on the Boyd Orr cohort.  Public Health 1999, 113: 117-124.

Blane D, Davey Smith G, Hart C.  Some social and physical correlates of intergenerational social mobility: evidence from the West of Scotland Collaborative Study.  Sociology 1999, 33: 169-183.

Blane D, Harding S, Rosato M.  Does social mobility affect the size of the socioeconomic mortality differential?: evidence from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 1999, 162: 59-70.

Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Beyond the Black Report.  Sociology of Health and Illness 1998,20:563-577.

Blane D, Drever F.  Inequality among men in standardised years of potential working life lost, 1970-1993.  British Medical Journal 1998,317:255.

Hart C, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Social mobility and 21 year mortality in a cohort of Scottish men.  Social Science and Medicine 1998,47:1121-1130.

Blane D, Montgomery S, Berney L.  Social class differences in lifetime exposure to environmental hazards.  Sociology of Health and Illness 1998,20:532-536.

Davey Smith G, Hart C, Blane D, Hole D.  Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause-specific adult mortality: The Collaborative Study.  British Medical Journal 1998,316:1631-1635.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Inequalities in mortality by social class measured at three stage of the lifecourse.  American Journal of Public Health 1998,88:471-474.

Davey Smith G, Hart C, Hole D, MacKinnon P, Gillis C, Watt G, Blane D, Hawthorne V.  Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk?  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1998,52:153-160.

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G.  Disease aetiology and materialist explanations of socioeconomic mortality differentials.  European Journal of Public Health 1997,7:385-391. 

Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement.  Sociology of Health and Illness 1997,19:127-152.

Berney L, Blane D.  Collecting retrospective data: accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records.  Social Science and Medicine 1997;45:1519-1525.

Bartley M, Blane D, Montgomery S.  Health and the life course: why safety nets matter.  British Medical Journal 1997;314:1194-1196.

Davey Smith G, Hart C, Blane D, Gillis G, Hawthorne V.  Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study.  British Medical Journal 1997;314:547-552.

Blane D, Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Gillis CR, Hole DJ, Hawthorne VM.  The association of cardiovascular disease risk factors with socioeconomic position during childhood and during adulthood.  British Medical Journal 1996;313:1434-1438.

Bartley M, Blane D, Davey Smith G.  Poverty, inequality and health.  Benefits 1996;17:2-5.

Morris J, Blane D, White I.  Levels of mortality, education, and social conditions in the 107 local education authority areas of England.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1996;50:15-17.

Blane D, Power C, Bartley M.  Illness behaviour and the measurement of class differentials in morbidity.  Journal of The Royal Statistical Society 1996;159:77-92.

Blane D.  Collecting retrospective data: development of a reliable method and a pilot study of its use.  Social Science and Medicine 1996;42:751-757.

Bartley M, Power C, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Shipley M.  Birthweight and later socio-economic disadvantage: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort study.  British Medical Journal 1994;309:1475-1478.

Davey Smith G, Blane D, Bartley M.  Explanations for socio-economic differentials in mortality: evidence from Britain and elsewhere.  European Journal of Public Health 1994;4:131-144.

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Filakti H, Bethune A, Harding S.  Social patterning of medical mortality in youth and early adulthood.  Social Science and Medicine 1994;39:361-366.

Blane D, Davey Smith G, Bartley M.  Social selection: what does it contribute to social class differences in health?  Sociology of Health and Illness 1993;15:1-15.

Mukerjee D, Blane D.  The clinical content of pharmacists' work in areas of contrasting medical provision.  Social Science and Medicine 1990;31:1277-1280.

Blane D, Davey Smith G, Bartley M.  Social class differences in years of potential life lost: size, trends and principal causes.  British Medical Journal 1990;301:429-432.

Davey Smith G, Bartley M, Blane D.  The Black Report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on.  British Medical Journal 1990;301:373-377.

Blane D.  Real wages, the economic cycle and mortality in England and Wales 1870-1914.  International Journal of Health Services 1990;20:43-52.

Blane D.  An assessment of the Black report's explanations of health inequalities.  Sociology of Health and Illness 1985;7:423-445.

aii) forthcoming

Wiggins R, Higgs P, Hyde M, Blane D.  Quality of life in the third age: key predictors of the CASP-19 measure. Aging and Society (accepted 2003).

Maynard M, Gunnell D, Abraham L, Blane D, Bates C, Ness A.  A measure of dietary adequacy at older ages.  Public Health Nutrition (accepted 2004).

Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I, Karlsen S, Nazroo J. Influences on quality of life: a quantitative analysis of ethnic differences at older ages. Ageing and Society (accepted 2003).

Abraham L, Blane D, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Ness A. Older people’s accounts of their diet. Journal of Health Psychology (accepted 2003).

Wiggins R, Erzberger C, Blane D, Higgs P, Hyde M. Optimal matching with ideal types: life course analysis. European Journal of Sociology (submitted).

Maynard M, Gunnell D, Abraham L, Ness A, Bates C, Blane D. What influences diet at older ages?: analyses of Boyd Orr cohort and National Survey of Nutrition and Diet. European Journal of Public Health (submitted). 

Dreary I, Taylor M, Hart C, Wilson V, Hole D, Davey Smith G, Blane D, Whalley L, Starr J.  Intergenerational social mobility: influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors and education.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (submitted). 

(b) Editorials.

Blane D.  Urbanisation and the life course.  International Journal of Epidemiology 2004;33:1-2.

Blane D. Explanations of the difference in mortality risk between different educational groups. International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:355-356.

Blane D. Socio-economic health differentials. International Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 30:292-293.

Blane D.  A view from outside. International Journal of Drug Policy 2001,14:107-108.

Blane D.  Health inequality and public policy: one year on from the Acheson report. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1999,53:748.

Blane D.  Social Determinants of Health: Socioeconomic Status, Social Class and Ethnicity. American Journal of Public Health 1995;85:903-904.

Bartley M, Blane D.  Deprivation Indices.  British Medical Journal 1994;309:1479.

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G.  Injustices in the Healthcare  System: Are the wealthier healthier?  Pharmacoeconomics 1992;2:261-266.

(c) Letters & Abstracts.

Abraham L, Blane D, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Ness A. A qualitative study of healthy and unhealthy eaters in early old age.  Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 2003,11:114.

Abraham L, Blane D, Gunnell D, Maynard M, Ness A.  Influences on diet in early old age.  Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 2003,11:48. 

Blane D.  Addressing health inequalities.  Lancet 2002,360:1699.

Blane D.  The life course and early old age: health, diet and quality of life.  International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2002,61(Suppl.1):58.

Hyde M, Blane D, Higgs P, Wiggins R.  Changing parameters of Ageing in the UK: evidence for the existence of the Third Age.  Gerontology 2001,47(suppl 1):20.

Higgs P, Blane D, Wiggins R, Hyde M.  Quality of life in early old age: development of a needs satisfaction model.  Gerontology 2001,47(suppl !):677. 

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G.  Disease aetiology and materialist explanations of socioeconomic mortality differentials: a research note.  European Journal of Public Health 1998,8:259-260.

Blane D.  Explanations of socioeconomic mortality differences. European Journal of Public Health 1998,8:183-184.

Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Blane D, Hole DJ, Gillis CR, Hawthorne VM.  Inequalities in mortality by social class measured at three stages of life.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1996;50:594.

Britten N, Bartley M, Blane D. Proposed new deprivation index. British Medical Journal 1995;310:1067-1068.

Blane D, Bajekal M.  Stability of deprivation indices in five north London electoral wards.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1995;49(Suppl 2):S78.

Hart C, Davey Smith G, Blane D, Hole D, Gillis C, Hawthorne V.  Social mobility, health and cardiovascular mortality. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1995;49:552-553.

Davey Smith G, Bartley M, Blane D. Black on class and health. Journal of Public Health Medicine 1991;13:350-357.

Davey Smith G, Egger M, Blane D. Safety and health in the construction industry. British Medical Journal 1990;301:932.

(d) Books.

Exworthy M, Stuart M, Blane D, Marmot M. Tackling Health Inequalities since The Acheson Inquiry. Bristol, Policy Press 2003.

Bartley M, Blane D, Davey Smith G, eds. The Sociology of Health Inequalities. Oxford, Blackwell 1998.

Blane D, Brunner E, Wilkinson R, eds.  Health and Social Organisation.  London, Routledge 1996.

(e) Book Chapters.

Kuh D, Power C, Blane D, Bartley M.  Social pathways between childhood and adult health.  In: Kuh D, Ben Shlomo Y, eds.  A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology (2^nd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.

Scambler G, Blane D. Inequality and social class. In: Scambler G, ed. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (5^th Edition). London, Saunders 2003: 107-123.

Blane D.  Where have we got to - Where should we go?  In: Oliver A, Cookson R, McDaid D. The Issues Panel for Equity in Health. London, The Nuffield Trust 2001:14-16. 

Berney L, Blane D, Davey Smith G, Holland P.  Life course influences on health in early old age.  In: Graham H, ed. Understanding Health Inequalities. Buckingham: Open University Press 2000: 79-95.

Blane D.  The life course, the social gradient and health.  In: Marmot MG, Wilkinson RG, eds. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1999: 64-80.

Blane D.  Adults of working age: 16-65 years.  In: Gordon D, Shaw M, Dorling D, Davey Smith G, eds. Inequalities in Health: evidence presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, chaired by Sir Donald Acheson. Bristol, Policy Press 1999: 23-32.

Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Making sense of health inequality statistics.  In: Dorling D, Simpson S, eds. Statistics in Society. London: Edward Arnold 1999: 234-243.

Blane D, Bartley M, Davey Smith G.  Making sense of health inequalities.  In: Field D, Taylor S, eds. Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness. Oxford, Blackwell 1998: 79-95.

Kuh D, Power C, Blane D, Bartley M.  Social pathways between childhood and adult health.  In: Kuh D, Ben Shlomo Y, eds.  A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997, 169-198.

Bartley M, Blane D, Charlton J.  Socioeconomic and demographic trends 1841-1991.  In: Charlton J, Murphy M, eds. The Health of Adult Britain. London, HMSO 1997, Volume I: 74-92.

Blane D.  Health Professions.  In: Scambler G, ed.  Sociology as Applied to Medicine (4th Edition).  London, Bailliere Tindall 1997: 212-224.

Blane D.  Inequality and Social Class.  In: Scambler G, ed.  Sociology as Applied to Medicine (4th Edition).  London, Bailliere Tindall 1997: 103-120.

Blane D, White I, Morris J.  Education, social circumstances and mortality.  In: Blane D, Brunner E, Wilkinson R, eds. Health and Social Organisation. London: Routledge 1996, 171-187.

Power C, Bartley M, Davey Smith G, Blane D.  Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course.  In: Blane D, Brunner E, Wilkinson R, eds. Health and Social Organisation. London: Routledge 1996, 188-203.

Blane D, Brunner E, Wilkinson R.  The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years.  In: Blane D, Brunner E, Wilkinson R, eds. Health and Social Organisation.  London: Routledge 1996 1-17. 

Davey Smith G, Blane D, Bartley M.  Soziale Ungleichheit und Mortalitatsunterschiede: Diskussion der Erklarungsansatze in Grossbritannien.  In: Mielck A (Hrsg). Krankheit und soziale Ungleichheit. Opladen: Leske & Budrich 1994, 425-451.

Bartley M, Power C, Blane D, Davey Smith G.  Birthweight and social mobility in a national cohort study.  In: Blackburn RM, ed. Social Inequality in a Changing World. Cambridge: Faculty of Social and Political Sciences 1994, 97-115.

Davey Smith G, Blane D, Bartley M.  Explanations for socio-economic differentials in mortality.  In: Mielck A, Giraldes MR, eds. Health Inequalities: Discussion in Western European Countries. Munster: Waxmann 1994, 105-146.

Blane D, Power C, Bartley M.  The measurement of morbidity in relation to social class.  In: Abel T, Geyer S, Gerhardt U, Siegrist J, van den Heuval, eds. Medical Sociology; Research on Chronic Illness. Bonn: Informationzentrum Socialwissenschafen 1993, 65-84.

Blane D.  Clinical Sociology: What it might be.  In: Payne G, Cross M, eds. Sociology in Action. London: MacMillan 1993, 57-68.

Blane D.  Health Professions.  In: Scambler G, ed. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (3^rd Edition).  London, Balliere Tindall 1991: 221-235.

Blane D.  Elderly People and Health.  In: Scambler G, ed. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (3^rd Edition). London, Balliere Tindall 1991: 160-172.

Blane D.  Inequality and Social Class.  In: Scambler G, ed. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (3^rd Edition). London, Balliere Tindall 1991: 109-128.

Blane D.  Preventive Medicine and Public Health: England and Wales 1870-1914.  In: Martin C, McQueen D, eds. Readings for a New Public Health. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 1989: 7-12.

Blane D. Labour Theory of Value and Health. In: Scambler G, ed. Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology. London, Tavistock 1988: 8-36.

Blane D.  Health Professions.  In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds.  Sociology as Applied to Medicine (2^nd Edition). London: Balliere Tindall 1986: 197-209.

Blane D. Elderly People.  In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (2^nd Edition).  London: Balliere Tindall 1986: 153-165.

Blane D.  Inequality and Social Class.  In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds. Sociology as Applied to Medicine (2^nd Edition). London: Balliere Tindall 1986: 107-129.

Blane D. Health professions. In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds. Sociology as Applied to Medicine. London: Balliere Tindall 1982: 195-207.

Blane D. Elderly people. In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds. Sociology as Applied to Medicine.  London: Balliere Tindall 1982: 151-165.

Blane D. Inequality and social class. In: Patrick D, Scambler G, eds. Sociology as Applied to Medicine. London: Balliere Tindall 1982: 105-128.

(f) Other publications.

Blane D. The social gradient. In: Wilkinson R, Marmot M, eds. Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts. 2^nd Edition. Copenhagen, World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe 2004.

Exworthy M, Stuart M, Blane D, Marmot M.  Tackling health inequalities since the Acheson Inquiry.  Findings Series, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2003.

Hyde M, Blane D, Higgs P, Wiggins R. Influences on quality of life in early old age. Findings Series, ESRC Growing Older Programme 2003.

Hyde M, Blane D, Higgs P, Wiggins R. Development of a sociological measure of quality of life in early old age. ESRC Growing Older Programme Newsletter 2001, 4: 5.

Blane D. Life course approach to health inequalities: technical report. World Health Organisation, Regional Office for Europe 2000.

Holland P, Berney L, Blane D, Davey Smith G. The lifegrid method in health inequalities research. ESRC Health Variations Programme Newsletter 1999, 3: 8-9.

Blane D.  The social gradient.  In: Wilkinson R, Marmot M, eds. Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts (translated into 17 European languages). Copenhagen, World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe 1998: 8-9.

Bobak M, Blane D, Marmot M.  Social Determinants of Health: Their Relevance in the European Context.  World Health Organisation, Regional Office for Europe 1998. 

Blane D, Bobak M, Judge K. Unity and Diversity in European Health. King's Fund Institute and International Centre for Health and Society 1996.

Benzeval M, Blane D, Judge K, Marmot M, Power C, Whitehead M. Inequalities in Health, Causes, Policy Implications. King's Fund Institute and International Centre for Health and Society 1994.

Blane D. Smoking cessation. Executive Summary series, Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour 1994.

Blane D. Stability of deprivation indices in five north London electoral wards. Enfield and Haringey Family Health Services Authority 1993.