Recent research suggests that emotions are a central motivation for radical right voting. One emotion has gained particular interest is nostalgia: Radical politicians use nostalgic rhetoric, and feeling associated with support. However, while nostalgia widely frequently experienced, previous work differentiates personal contents of (e.g., childhood) from group-based traditions) only the latter ...

Flying Start is an enhanced early years programme in Wales which targeted at areas where a high proportion of households with children are recipients income-related benefits or tax credits. Child protection interventions known to be concentrated more deprived areas. could have the effect reducing risk or, conversely, it result coming attention social services. Administrative data were used iden...

AIMS To test for the coexistence of social inequalities in undernutrition and obesity in preschool children. METHODS Retrospective, cross sectional, study of routinely collected data from 74 500 children aged 39-42 months in 1998/99. Main outcome measures were weight, height, sex, and age routinely recorded by health visitors. Body mass index (BMI) standardised for age and sex, relative to UK...

Material deprivation contributes to inequalities in health; areas of high deprivation have higher rates of ill-health. How deprivation is measured has a great impact on its explanatory power with respect to health. We compare previous deprivation measures used in Scotland and proposes a new deprivation measure using the 2001 and 2011 Scottish census data. We calculate the relative index of ineq...

We introduce and axiomatize a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki’s index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the part of deprivation generated by an agent’s observation that others in its reference group move on to a higher level of income than itself. The parameter reflects the relative ...

BACKGROUND Socio-economic inequalities in breast cancer survival have been reported worldwide, but whether these exist in screen detected as well as symptomatic women has not been established. Making this distinction will allow inferences about the relative contributions of pre- and post-diagnostic delay to these inequalities. METHODS Screening-eligible women diagnosed with breast cancer in S...

OBJECTIVE To compare associations between neighborhood deprivation and measures of BMI change among adults with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from the Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) survey, we estimated the association between neighborhood deprivation and two measures of BMI change over 3 years: 1) a continuous measure and 2) a cat...