Deaths: key references
Note: There are too many relevant publications on mortality in Scotland and the UK to list here. The following is a very small selection. Other useful papers/reports are cited in some of the documents listed below.
Note also that a number of citations listed in Health inequalities: key references are also based on relevant analyses of mortality data.
Bloor M, Gannon M, Hay G, Jackson G, Leyland AH, McKeganey N. Contribution of problem drug users' deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study. BMJ 2008;337:a478.
Campbell M, Ballas D, Dorling D, Mitchell R. Mortality inequalities: Scotland versus England and Wales. Health & Place 2013; 23: 179-86.
Carstairs V, Morris R. Deprivation: explaining differences in mortality between Scotland and England and Wales. BMJ. 1989; 299(6704):886–889.
Dorling D. Death in Britain: How local mortality rates have changed 1950s-1990s. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1997.
Hanlon P, Lawder RS, Buchanan D, Redpath A, Walsh D, Wood R, Bain M, Brewster DH, Chalmers J. Why is mortality higher in Scotland than in England & Wales? Decreasing influence of socioeconomic deprivation between 1981 and 2001 supports the existence of a 'Scottish Effect. Journal of Public Health, 2005; 27(2): 199-204.
Ho JY, Hendi AS. Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study. BMJ 2018; 362: k2562.
Changing trends in mortality: an international comparison: 2000 to 2016. Analysis of period life expectancies and mortality in selected countries globally from 2000 to 2016. London, Office for National Statistics, 2018.
Leyland AH, Dundas R, McLoone P, Boddy FA. Cause-specific inequalities in mortality in Scotland: two decades of change. A population-based study. BMC Public Health 2007; 7: 172.
McCartney G, Walsh D, Whyte B, Collins C. Has Scotland always been the 'sick man' of Europe? An observational study from 1855 to 2006. European Journal of Public Health 2012; 22(6): 756-60.
McLoone P. Increasing mortality among adults in Scotland 1981-1999. European Journal of Public Health, 2003.
Norman P, Boyle P, Exeter D, Feng Z, Popham F. Rising premature mortality in the UK's persistently deprived areas: Only a Scottish phenomenon? Social Science & Medicine 2011; 73(11): 1575-84.
Scott S, Curnock E, Mitchell R, Robinson M, Taulbut M, Tod E, McCartney G. What would it take to eradicate health inequalities? Testing the fundamental causes theory of health inequalities in Scotland. Glasgow: NHS Health Scotland; 2013.
Taulbut M, Agbato D, McCartney G. Working and hurting? Monitoring the health and health inequalities impacts of the economic downturn and changes to the social security system. Glasgow, NHS Health Scotland, 2018.
Thomas B, Dorling D, Davey Smith G. Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007. British Medical Journal 2010; 341: c3639.
Walsh D, McCartney G, Minton J, Parkinson J, Shipton D, Whyte B. Changing mortality trends in countries and cities of the UK: a population-based trend analysis. BMJ Open 2020; 10:e038135.
Walsh D, Taulbut M, Hanlon P. The aftershock of deindustrialization – trends in mortality in Scotland and other parts of post-industrial Europe. European Journal of Public Health 2010; 20(1): 58-64.
Whyte B, Ajetunmobi T. Still 'The Sick Man of Europe'? Scottish mortality in a European context 1950-2010: an analysis of comparative mortality trends. Glasgow: GCPH; 2012.
Woolf SH, Chapman DA, Buchanich JM, Bobby KJ, Zimmerman EB, Blackburn SM. Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States: systematic analysis of vital statistics. BMJ 2018; 362: k3096.
