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Frank Popham
Frank has a social science background, with a PhD in sociology and social policy from the University of Newcastle. Before joining St Andrews in July 2008, he had been a researcher at the Universities of Newcastle, Stirling and Edinburgh and had also been a lecturer at Edinburgh.
His research interests include socio-economic inequalities particularly in health. His research explores various aspects of this topic through secondary analysis of existing datasets (for example, censuses and government funded surveys). Areas of particular interest are the influence of socio-economic position measured across the life-course, socio-economic disparities in physical activity and the interrelationship between socio-economic position and employment situation.
Recent Publications
Popham F, Mitchell R 2007. Relation of employment status to socio-economic position and physical activity types, Preventive Medicine. 45: 182-8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.06.012
Popham F and Mitchell R 2007. Self-rated life expectancy and lifetimesocio-economic position: cross-sectional analysis of the British householdpanel survey, International Journal of Epidemiology. 36: 58-65.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyl241
Mitchell R, Popham F 2007. Greenspace , urbanity and health: relationships in England. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health;61:681-3.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.053553
Popham F, Walker JJ and Mitchell R 2007. Could using general health and longstanding limiting illness as a joint health outcome add to understanding in social inequalities research? Journal of Public Health, 29: 208-210.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdm017
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