Hilary Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7949-6819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 556 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Climate change, children and future generations
Climate change is driven by the fossil fuel consumption of past and current generations. Its effects will disproportionately fall on today’s children and those yet to be born (‘future generations’). We chart the historical contribution of high-income countries, including the UK, to their climate futures before exploring the intergenerational orientations of two key actors in climate politics: the United Nations (UN), the collective voice of sover…
A Review of Qualitative Studies of Parents’ Perspectives on Climate Change
Climate change is opening up new fields of qualitative research, including one focused on parents’ perspectives on climate change. Our scoping review identifies and describes studies in OECD countries in this emerging field. We used recommended search strategies and methods for reviews of qualitative studies. We located 19 unique studies (22 papers) published between January 2000 and June 2024 which were characterised by distinct foci, study popu…
Moments of Change” and Low‐Carbon Behaviors
Individual behavior change is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. Over the past two decades, significant attention has been given to specific instances when people's habits and routines may be more amenable to change. These instances are referred to as “moments of change” (MoCs). The recent and rapid increase in research in this area warrants a systematic review. We draw on evidence from 130 articles, identif…
Did Increased Media Coverage of Climate Change and the Covid19 Pandemic Affect Climate Change Concern and Issue Salience in the UK in 2021
Evidence from high-income countries suggests that greater media coverage of climate change is associated with greater public concern, while societal “shocks” reduce concern. Conducted in 2021, this UK study of adults (n = 6082) investigates climate change concern, its identification as among “the most important issues” and as “the single most important issue” facing the UK. It does so in the context of increased media coverage of climate change a…
The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Caring
This chapter examines what caring means and what caring entails. Caring is not something which can be neatly defined, not even by the redoubtable Oxford dictionary. Caring, although a difficult concept to define, is clearly a central one for social policy. Everyday conversations about caring are generally recognised to be conversations about feelings. Caring, in this sense of feelings, is seen as a basic human emotion. All normal people want to, …
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Providers, negotiators, and mediators
This chapter describes the informal, unpaid work which women do to protect and promote the health of others. It begins to grasp the complexities of women's hidden role as the providers, mediators, and negotiators of health within the home, and addresses three aspects of women's health work: providing for health, teaching for health, and, in times of crisis, mediating professional help. Women's health work is not exclusively private, restricted to…
Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Its Health Impacts
Climate change-related exposures such as flooding and ambient air pollution place people's health at risk. A representative UK survey of adults investigated associations between reported flooding and air pollution (in the participants' local area, by the participant personally, and/or by family and close friends) and climate change concerns (CCC) and perceptions of its health impacts (PIH). In regression analyses controlling for socio-demographic…
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
The representation of future generations in newspaper coverage of climate change
Climate change will rob future generations—today's children and those yet to be born—of the stable climate that previous generations have enjoyed. The article explores how future generations are represented in climate change coverage in the UK national press. We examine the ‘popular’ (Mail, Mirror) and ‘quality’ (Guardian, Telegraph) press from 2010 to March 2019. We found that little attention was given to future generations; young people rarely…
Older people's experiences of everyday travel in the urban environment
Compared to younger age groups, older people spend more time in their locality and rely more heavily on its pedestrian and public transport infrastructure. Qualitative studies provide unique insight into people's experiences. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis of United Kingdom-based studies of older people's experiences of travelling in the urban environment. We searched health, social science, age-related and transport-related databa…
Integrative policy development for healthier people and ecosystems
There is growing evidence of the inter‐relationships between ecosystems and public health. This creates opportunities for the development of cross‐sectoral policies and interventions that provide dual benefits to public health and to the natural environment. These benefits are increasingly articulated in strategy documents at national and regional level, yet implementation of integrative policies on the ground remains limited and fragmented. Here…
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
Flood- and Weather-Damaged Homes and Mental Health
There is increasing evidence that exposure to weather-related hazards like storms and floods adversely affects mental health. However, evidence of treated and untreated mental disorders based on diagnostic criteria for the general population is limited. We analysed the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, a large probability sample survey of adults in England ( n = 7525), that provides the only national data on the prevalence of mental disorders a…
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
The importance of nature in mediating social and psychological benefits associated with visits to freshwater blue space
There is increasing appreciation of the benefits associated with exposure to natural environments. However, most of the evidence relates to green space with much less on blue space. Drawing on data from a British survey of adults, we describe the characteristics of visits to blue space and investigate whether the benefits reported in studies of green space – physical activity, social interaction, and psychological benefits – are evident with resp…
The Lancet Countdown
Public health, research and rights
Public health research purports to provide the evidence base for policies, programmes and interventions to improve the health of a population. However, there is increasing awareness that the experiences of disabled people have played little part in informing this evidence base. This paper discusses one aspect of a study commissioned by England’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to review the implications for public health of theories…
Do People Favour Policies that Protect Future Generations? Evidence from a British Survey of Adults
Long-range temporal choices are built into contemporary policy-making, with policy decisions having consequences that play out across generations. Decisions are made on behalf of the public who are assumed to give much greater weight to their welfare than to the welfare of future generations. The paper investigates this assumption. It briefly discusses evidence from sociological and economic studies before reporting the findings of a British surv…
A systematic review on the clustering and co-occurrence of multiple risk behaviours
Multiple health behaviours among mothers and partners in England
Research on multiple health behaviours is increasing but little is known about parental behaviours and how they covary. Our study investigates cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption and physical activity among mothers and co-resident partners in England. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we examined (i) clustering of health behaviours using observed-expected ratios and latent class analysis (ii) socio-de…
Health and climate change
Women's smoking and family health
The Concept of Caring in Feminist Research
Over the last decade, a significant body of feminist research has developed which has home-based reproduction as its focus. Strategically placed at the interface of sociology and social policy, this literature has had a significant impact on wider debates about everyday social reproduction. Yet, it has remained largely uncritiqued. Recognising the lack of critical debate, the paper reviews the way in which the concept of caring has been theorised…
Building an inter-disciplinary science of health inequalities
Resilient Young Mothering
This paper draws on a systematic review of qualitative research to explore the resilient mothering practices that young, British, working-class mothers employ to care for their children. The synthesis of studies of UK mothers under the age of 20 demonstrates how young working-class women must mother in impoverished circumstances, at the same time as being discursively positioned outside the boundaries of 'normal' motherhood. Consequently, they ut…
Gender and class as dimensions of smoking behaviour in Britain
Smoking prevalence among women in the European Community 1950–1990
Evidence for public health policy on inequalities
Objective: To explore with UK and international policy advisors how research evidence influences public health policy making, and how its relevance and utility could be improved, with specific reference to the evidence on the production and reduction of health inequalities. Design, setting, and participants: Qualitative residential workshop involving senior policy advisors with a substantive role in policy development across a range of sectors (m…
Smoking, Stigma and Social Class
The decline in cigarette smoking in high-income countries is attributed to the increasing social unacceptability of smoking, a cultural shift in which tobacco control policies are identified as playing a major part. While seen as essential to protect public health, there is a growing appreciation that these polices may have contributed to a social climate in which smoking is stigmatised. The paper reviews this debate on smoking and stigma. It not…
Qualitative Research and the Evidence Base of Policy
Qualitative research is ambiguously placed as a source of evidence for policy. It provides a way of accessing the experiences and perspectives of those targeted by welfare interventions, yet it is routinely excluded from the evidence reviews undertaken to inform these interventions. The article explores what qualitative research - mapped and synthesised through a systematic review - can contribute to evidence and policy. Taking teenage motherhood…
Tackling Inequalities in Health in England
Socioeconomic inequalities in health have moved up the policy agenda of older industrial societies. The paper turns the spotlight on this development by exploring how the goal has been represented in England's national policy documents. Rather than one approach, there appears to be a range of understandings of what it means to tackle health inequalities. These understandings can be placed on a continuum, which runs from improving the health of po…
Pathways of disadvantage and smoking careers
Objectives: To investigate in older industrialised societies (a) how social disadvantage contributes to smoking risk among women (b) the role of social and economic policies in reducing disadvantage and moderating wider inequalities in life chances and living standards. Methods: Review and analysis of (a) the effects of disadvantage in childhood and into adulthood on women’s smoking status in early adulthood (b) policy impacts on the social expos…
Evidence for public health policy on inequalities
Study objective: To garner research leaders’ perceptions and experiences of the types of evidence that influence policy on health inequalities, and their reflections on how the flow of such research evidence could be increased. Design, setting, and participants: Qualitative two day residential workshop with senior research leaders, most of whom were currently involved in evaluations of the health effects of major policies. In four in depth sessio…
Smoking in pregnancy
Lifecourse influences on women's smoking before, during and after pregnancy
Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women’s smoking status in early adulthood
Study objective: To incorporate women’s domestic trajectories and circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women’s smoking status (current and former smoking) in early adulthood. Design: Cross sectional survey Setting: Southampton, UK. Participants: 8437 women aged 25–34 recruited from 1998–2002 via patient lists of general practices Main results: Domestic lifecourse factors contributed to the odds of being a current smoker …
Effects of Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances on Persistent Smoking
Objectives. We investigated whether socioeconomic circumstances at different life stages influence persistent smoking. Methods. We followed a British birth cohort (all births between March 3 and 9, 1958) for 41 years to examine the influence of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on persistent smoking in adulthood (n = 6541). Results. Persistent smoking (19% of participants, n = 1216) showed strong social gradients with both childhood …
Cigarette Smoking
The decline in smoking prevalence in Britain has been associated with a narrowing of gender differences and a widening of class differences in cigarette smoking. The shrinking population of smokers is increasingly drawn from those occupying subordinate positions in the gender and class hierarchies. The article reviews the evidence linking social inequality and women's smoking, drawing on conventional measures of gender and socio-economic position…
Socioeconomic gradients in smoking among young women
Young mothers and smoking
Health inequalities, social determinants and public health policy
Over the past decade, new public health policies have been launched in a number of high-income countries. The policies are distinguished by an emphasis on tackling 'health inequalities' and 'social determinants'. This article considers how the two concepts are configured in national strategy documents. Noting that both concepts have a spectrum of meanings, it develops a schematic matrix through which to depict public health policies claiming an e…
The Socio-economic Patterning of Health and Smoking Behaviour among Mothers with Young Children on Income Support
The paper is set against the backdrop of the increase in the number of households in the UK in receipt of means-tested benefits. Focusing on women in households with children, it examines two issues: the limitations of conventional measures of socio-economic position and the contribution that alternative measures can make to the analysis of socio-economic variations in health in claimant households. These issues are illustrated by a British surve…
Do People Favour Policies that Protect Future Generations? Evidence from a British Survey of Adults
Long-range temporal choices are built into contemporary policy-making, with policy decisions having consequences that play out across generations. Decisions are made on behalf of the public who are assumed to give much greater weight to their welfare than to the welfare of future generations. The paper investigates this assumption. It briefly discusses evidence from sociological and economic studies before reporting the findings of a British surv…
Social divisions in caring
Diversity, inequality and official data
This paper reviews the ways in which diversity and inequality are represented in the major sources of health data in Britain. It examines how identities linked to disability, ‘race’, class and sexuality are represented in official statistics and national surveys. The paper argues that (1) the methods of data-collection and data-analysis result in the exclusion of minority group experiences and (2) the measures of social position mask and misrepre…
Older people's experiences of everyday travel in the urban environment
Compared to younger age groups, older people spend more time in their locality and rely more heavily on its pedestrian and public transport infrastructure. Qualitative studies provide unique insight into people's experiences. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis of United Kingdom-based studies of older people's experiences of travelling in the urban environment. We searched health, social science, age-related and transport-related databa…
Conceptions and Commissions
Smoking in pregnancy
The Social Image of Pregnancy
Typifying Demography
Prevention and Health
The Ladykillers
The Health Care Meeting
Women, Health and the Family
The Captured Womb
Women's smoking and family health
Women and smoking in the United Kingdom
This article charts the changing patterns of women's smoking in the United Kingdom over the last four decades, a period in which the smoking of cigarettes has become increasingly associated with social disadvantage. Important among these associations are the links that have emerged between cigarette smoking and women in the lower social classes. Recognizing that these links have not been thoroughly researched, the author reviews the evidence that…
The informal sector of welfare
The Concept of Caring in Feminist Research
Over the last decade, a significant body of feminist research has developed which has home-based reproduction as its focus. Strategically placed at the interface of sociology and social policy, this literature has had a significant impact on wider debates about everyday social reproduction. Yet, it has remained largely uncritiqued. Recognising the lack of critical debate, the paper reviews the way in which the concept of caring has been theorised…
Social divisions in caring
Women's smoking and measures of women's socio-economic status in the United Kingdom
Surveys of smoking in the United Kingdom point to an increasingly strong association between cigarette smoking and socio-economic status among both men and women. They have uncovered a clear class gradient in smoking prevalence, with high socio-economic status associated with low smoking prevalence. These surveys rely on a particular set of procedures to determine the socio-economic position of women. The paper enters a caveat about these procedu…
The Changing Financial Circumstances of Households with Children
The last fifteen yeas have seen rapid changes in the financial circumstances of households with children. They are increasingly found among those on the lowest incomes and are over‐represented among households dependent on income support for their survival. At the same time, changes in the social security system have left claimant families with greater financial responsibility and reduced access to additional sources of financial support from the…
Gender and class as dimensions of smoking behaviour in Britain
Hardship and Health in Women's Lives
Information on women's lives settling down finding a home being a mother caring for children working for pay finding the money making ends meet keeping going children's health concluding comments
Cigarette Smoking
The decline in smoking prevalence in Britain has been associated with a narrowing of gender differences and a widening of class differences in cigarette smoking. The shrinking population of smokers is increasingly drawn from those occupying subordinate positions in the gender and class hierarchies. The article reviews the evidence linking social inequality and women's smoking, drawing on conventional measures of gender and socio-economic position…
Smoking prevalence among women in the European Community 1950–1990
The Socio-economic Patterning of Health and Smoking Behaviour among Mothers with Young Children on Income Support
The paper is set against the backdrop of the increase in the number of households in the UK in receipt of means-tested benefits. Focusing on women in households with children, it examines two issues: the limitations of conventional measures of socio-economic position and the contribution that alternative measures can make to the analysis of socio-economic variations in health in claimant households. These issues are illustrated by a British surve…
Building an inter-disciplinary science of health inequalities
Social Determinants and Their Unequal Distribution
Public health policy in older industrialized societies is being reconfigured to improve population health and to address inequalities in the social distribution of health. The concept of social determinants is central to these policies, with tackling the social influences on health seen as a way to reduce health inequalities. But the social factors promoting and undermining the health of individuals and populations should not be confused with the…
Evidence for public health policy on inequalities
Study objective: To garner research leaders’ perceptions and experiences of the types of evidence that influence policy on health inequalities, and their reflections on how the flow of such research evidence could be increased. Design, setting, and participants: Qualitative two day residential workshop with senior research leaders, most of whom were currently involved in evaluations of the health effects of major policies. In four in depth sessio…
Evidence for public health policy on inequalities
Objective: To explore with UK and international policy advisors how research evidence influences public health policy making, and how its relevance and utility could be improved, with specific reference to the evidence on the production and reduction of health inequalities. Design, setting, and participants: Qualitative residential workshop involving senior policy advisors with a substantive role in policy development across a range of sectors (m…
Medicine (48 works) · Sociology (39 works) · Political science (35 works) · Psychology (30 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (23 works) · Demography (20 works) · Public health (20 works) · Economics (19 works) · Environmental health (19 works) · Population (17 works)