Graham Watt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5487561 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Graham Watt |
| NOMBRES | Graham |
| APELLIDO | Watt |
| FIRMA | WATT G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 211 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Novel carbon dynamics assessment framework reveals climate positive land management approaches across North America
Natural climate solutions (NCS) can foster ecosystem resiliency and mitigate climate change. However, a gap exists between carbon cycle science and decision support systems. Bridging this gap can advance climate positive land management and promote the implementation of natural climate solutions. Here, we propose a novel framework to assess carbon dynamics to reveal management approaches for land cover at a 300 m resolution within which natural c…
How do general practitioners understand health inequalities and do their professional roles offer scope for mitigation? Constructions derived from the deep end of primary care
Scotland is faced with pernicious health inequalities, which stem from inequalities in living conditions and the societal structures that create them. While action is needed to address the wider structural causes of health inequalities, the role of general practitioners (GPs) merits attention due to health care’s potential to mitigate or exacerbate health inequalities. Minimal research, however, has explored how GPs understand the fundamental cau…
Tackling and Mitigating Health Inequalities – Policymakers and Practitioners ‘Talk and Draw’ their Theories
In the context of a long‐standing academic acceptance of the socially structured nature of health inequalities, there has been a growing literature that critically examines policies that aim to reduce them. This has demonstrated inadequate policy assessment of the nature of the problem of health inequalities and correspondingly partial solutions that privilege interventions that focus on individual lifestyle solutions over more structural approac…
Comparing the impact of personal and parental risk factors, and parental lifespan on all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease
BACKGROUND: We aimed to identify which personal and parental factors best explained all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS: In 1996, data were collected on 2338 adult offspring of the participants in the 1972-1976 Renfrew and Paisley prospective cohort study. Recorded risk factors were assigned to 5 groups: mid-life biological and behavioural (BB), mid-life socioeconomic, parental BB, early-life socioeconomic and parental l…
Soft governance, restratification and the 2004 general medical services contract
In the UK National Health Service, primary care organisation (PCO) managers have traditionally relied on the soft leadership of general practitioners based on professional self-regulation rather than direct managerial control. The 2004 general medical services contract (nGMS) represented a significant break from this arrangement by introducing new performance management mechanisms for PCO managers to measure and improve general practice work. Thi…
Double trouble
PW_HRQoL decreases markedly with multimorbidity, and is exacerbated by higher deprivation and younger age. There is a need to prioritise interventions to improve the HRQoL for (especially younger) adults with multimorbidity in deprived areas. BOX 1: What Is Known?Prevalence and premature onset of multimorbidity increases as socioeconomic position worsens. Previous studies have investigated the effect of multimorbidity on Health Related Quality of…
Explaining the social patterning of lung function in adulthood at different ages
BACKGROUND: Lung function successfully predicts subsequent health. Although lung function is known to decline over age, little is known about changes in association with socioeconomic status (SES) throughout life, and whether explanatory factors for association vary with age or patterns for non smokers. METHODS: Analyses were based on data on 24 500 participants aged ≥18 years from the 1995, 1998 and 2003 Scottish Health Surveys who were invited …
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education
Sex Distribution of Offspring-Parents Obesity
This study, which is based on two cross sectional surveys’ data, aims to establish any effect of parental obesity sex distribution of offspring and to replicate the results that led to the hypothesis that obesity may be associated with sex-linked recessive lethal gene. A representative sample of 4,064 couples living in Renfrew/Paisley, Scotland was surveyed 1972–1976. A total of 2,338 offspring from 1,477 of the couples screened in 1972–1976, liv…
Sex Distribution of Offspring-Parents Obesity
This study, which is based on two cross sectional surveys' data, aims to establish any effect of parental obesity sex distribution of offspring and to replicate the results that led to the hypothesis that obesity may be associated with sex-linked recessive lethal gene. A representative sample of 4,064 couples living in Renfrew/Paisley, Scotland was surveyed 1972-1976. A total of 2,338 offspring from 1,477 of the couples screened in 1972-1976, liv…
The combined effect of smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol on cause-specific mortality
Smoking and drinking 15+ units/week was the riskiest behaviour for all causes of death
Determinants of Birthweight; Gender Based Analysis
Childhood Iq of Parents Related to Characteristics of Their Offspring
the objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between childhood iq of parents and characteristics of their adult offspring. it was a prospective family cohort study linked to a mental ability survey of the parents and set in renfrew and paisley in scotland. participants were 1921-born men and women who took part in the scottish mental survey in 1932 and the renfrew/paisley study in the 1970s, and whose offspring took part in the …
A chip off the old block? Lay understandings of inheritance among men and women in mid-life
Recent developments in molecular biology open up the possibility of being able to provide more precise genetic information to individuals. It is therefore important to examine lay understandings of the mechanisms of inheritance. Most studies to date have focused on the beliefs of families with single gene disorders. We explored lay understandings among respondents from “ordinary” families by conducting semi-structured interviews with 61 men and w…
Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems
Coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for over a quarter of deaths in Britain, yet few qualitative studies have explored beliefs about 'heart problems' in the general population. A previous study of lay beliefs about coronary candidacy (or 'the kind of person who gets heart trouble') paid little attention to gender. However, semi-structured interviews with 61 men and women reveal that gender plays a vital role in lay perceptions. Respondents' acc…
How accurately do adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from coronary disease
OBJECTIVES: To describe how adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from heart disease DESIGN: Two generation family study. SETTING: West of Scotland. SUBJECTS: 1040 sons and 1298 daughters aged 30-59 from 1477 families, whose fathers and mothers were aged 45-64 in 1972-76 and have been followed up for mortality over 20 years. OUTCOME: Perception of a "family weakness" attributable to heart disease. RESULTS: 26% of sons and d…
Social and gender variation in the prevalence, presentation and general practitioner provisional diagnosis of chest pain
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of Rose angina and non-exertional chest pain in men and women in socioeconomically contrasting areas; to describe the proportions of men and women who present with the symptom of chest pain and who receive a provisional general practitioner diagnosis of coronary heart disease; to assess the effects of gender and deprivation. DESIGN: Two random general population samples in socially contrasting areas were sur…
Height and risk of death among men and women
OBJECTIVES: Height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease mortality risk and has shown variable associations with cancer incidence and mortality. The interpretation of findings from previous studies has been constrained by data limitations. Associations between height and specific causes of death were investigated in a large general population cohort of men and women from the West of Scotland. DESIGN: Prospective observational study.…
Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and mortality
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of individual and area-based socioeconomic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk factors and mortality. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: The towns of Renfrew and Paisley in the west of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 6961 men and 7991 women included in a population-based cardiovascular disease screening study between 1972 and 1976. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cardiovascular disease risk factors and cardiores…
Decline of maternal blood lead concentrations in Glasgow
Eschewing Legalese When Talking Aids
Deprivation and health in Scotland
Screening for risk of coronary heart disease
This book presents the results of research carried out by a World Health Organisation study group, which included obstetricians, paediatricians, epidemiologists, community physicians, midwives, sociologists, psychologists, and economists from 12 European countries.The chapters include reports of surveys of these and other countries regarding details of definitions of vital events; methods of antenatal care; place of birth and reported frequency o…
Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and mortality
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of individual and area-based socioeconomic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk factors and mortality. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: The towns of Renfrew and Paisley in the west of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 6961 men and 7991 women included in a population-based cardiovascular disease screening study between 1972 and 1976. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cardiovascular disease risk factors and cardiores…
Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems
Coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for over a quarter of deaths in Britain, yet few qualitative studies have explored beliefs about 'heart problems' in the general population. A previous study of lay beliefs about coronary candidacy (or 'the kind of person who gets heart trouble') paid little attention to gender. However, semi-structured interviews with 61 men and women reveal that gender plays a vital role in lay perceptions. Respondents' acc…
Height and risk of death among men and women
OBJECTIVES: Height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease mortality risk and has shown variable associations with cancer incidence and mortality. The interpretation of findings from previous studies has been constrained by data limitations. Associations between height and specific causes of death were investigated in a large general population cohort of men and women from the West of Scotland. DESIGN: Prospective observational study.…
Deprivation and health in Scotland
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Social and gender variation in the prevalence, presentation and general practitioner provisional diagnosis of chest pain
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of Rose angina and non-exertional chest pain in men and women in socioeconomically contrasting areas; to describe the proportions of men and women who present with the symptom of chest pain and who receive a provisional general practitioner diagnosis of coronary heart disease; to assess the effects of gender and deprivation. DESIGN: Two random general population samples in socially contrasting areas were sur…
Soft governance, restratification and the 2004 general medical services contract
In the UK National Health Service, primary care organisation (PCO) managers have traditionally relied on the soft leadership of general practitioners based on professional self-regulation rather than direct managerial control. The 2004 general medical services contract (nGMS) represented a significant break from this arrangement by introducing new performance management mechanisms for PCO managers to measure and improve general practice work. Thi…
How accurately do adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from coronary disease
OBJECTIVES: To describe how adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from heart disease DESIGN: Two generation family study. SETTING: West of Scotland. SUBJECTS: 1040 sons and 1298 daughters aged 30-59 from 1477 families, whose fathers and mothers were aged 45-64 in 1972-76 and have been followed up for mortality over 20 years. OUTCOME: Perception of a "family weakness" attributable to heart disease. RESULTS: 26% of sons and d…
Tackling and Mitigating Health Inequalities – Policymakers and Practitioners ‘Talk and Draw’ their Theories
In the context of a long‐standing academic acceptance of the socially structured nature of health inequalities, there has been a growing literature that critically examines policies that aim to reduce them. This has demonstrated inadequate policy assessment of the nature of the problem of health inequalities and correspondingly partial solutions that privilege interventions that focus on individual lifestyle solutions over more structural approac…
Explaining the social patterning of lung function in adulthood at different ages
BACKGROUND: Lung function successfully predicts subsequent health. Although lung function is known to decline over age, little is known about changes in association with socioeconomic status (SES) throughout life, and whether explanatory factors for association vary with age or patterns for non smokers. METHODS: Analyses were based on data on 24 500 participants aged ≥18 years from the 1995, 1998 and 2003 Scottish Health Surveys who were invited …
Screening for risk of coronary heart disease
This book presents the results of research carried out by a World Health Organisation study group, which included obstetricians, paediatricians, epidemiologists, community physicians, midwives, sociologists, psychologists, and economists from 12 European countries.The chapters include reports of surveys of these and other countries regarding details of definitions of vital events; methods of antenatal care; place of birth and reported frequency o…
Deprivation and health in Scotland
Eschewing Legalese When Talking Aids
Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and mortality
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the associations of individual and area-based socioeconomic indicators with cardiovascular disease risk factors and mortality. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: The towns of Renfrew and Paisley in the west of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: 6961 men and 7991 women included in a population-based cardiovascular disease screening study between 1972 and 1976. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cardiovascular disease risk factors and cardiores…
Decline of maternal blood lead concentrations in Glasgow
How accurately do adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from coronary disease
OBJECTIVES: To describe how adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from heart disease DESIGN: Two generation family study. SETTING: West of Scotland. SUBJECTS: 1040 sons and 1298 daughters aged 30-59 from 1477 families, whose fathers and mothers were aged 45-64 in 1972-76 and have been followed up for mortality over 20 years. OUTCOME: Perception of a "family weakness" attributable to heart disease. RESULTS: 26% of sons and d…
Social and gender variation in the prevalence, presentation and general practitioner provisional diagnosis of chest pain
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of Rose angina and non-exertional chest pain in men and women in socioeconomically contrasting areas; to describe the proportions of men and women who present with the symptom of chest pain and who receive a provisional general practitioner diagnosis of coronary heart disease; to assess the effects of gender and deprivation. DESIGN: Two random general population samples in socially contrasting areas were sur…
Height and risk of death among men and women
OBJECTIVES: Height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease mortality risk and has shown variable associations with cancer incidence and mortality. The interpretation of findings from previous studies has been constrained by data limitations. Associations between height and specific causes of death were investigated in a large general population cohort of men and women from the West of Scotland. DESIGN: Prospective observational study.…
Invisible women? The importance of gender in lay beliefs about heart problems
Coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for over a quarter of deaths in Britain, yet few qualitative studies have explored beliefs about 'heart problems' in the general population. A previous study of lay beliefs about coronary candidacy (or 'the kind of person who gets heart trouble') paid little attention to gender. However, semi-structured interviews with 61 men and women reveal that gender plays a vital role in lay perceptions. Respondents' acc…
A chip off the old block? Lay understandings of inheritance among men and women in mid-life
Recent developments in molecular biology open up the possibility of being able to provide more precise genetic information to individuals. It is therefore important to examine lay understandings of the mechanisms of inheritance. Most studies to date have focused on the beliefs of families with single gene disorders. We explored lay understandings among respondents from “ordinary” families by conducting semi-structured interviews with 61 men and w…
Childhood Iq of Parents Related to Characteristics of Their Offspring
the objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between childhood iq of parents and characteristics of their adult offspring. it was a prospective family cohort study linked to a mental ability survey of the parents and set in renfrew and paisley in scotland. participants were 1921-born men and women who took part in the scottish mental survey in 1932 and the renfrew/paisley study in the 1970s, and whose offspring took part in the …
Determinants of Birthweight; Gender Based Analysis
The combined effect of smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol on cause-specific mortality
Smoking and drinking 15+ units/week was the riskiest behaviour for all causes of death
Sex Distribution of Offspring-Parents Obesity
This study, which is based on two cross sectional surveys’ data, aims to establish any effect of parental obesity sex distribution of offspring and to replicate the results that led to the hypothesis that obesity may be associated with sex-linked recessive lethal gene. A representative sample of 4,064 couples living in Renfrew/Paisley, Scotland was surveyed 1972–1976. A total of 2,338 offspring from 1,477 of the couples screened in 1972–1976, liv…
Sex Distribution of Offspring-Parents Obesity
This study, which is based on two cross sectional surveys' data, aims to establish any effect of parental obesity sex distribution of offspring and to replicate the results that led to the hypothesis that obesity may be associated with sex-linked recessive lethal gene. A representative sample of 4,064 couples living in Renfrew/Paisley, Scotland was surveyed 1972-1976. A total of 2,338 offspring from 1,477 of the couples screened in 1972-1976, liv…
Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education
Double trouble
PW_HRQoL decreases markedly with multimorbidity, and is exacerbated by higher deprivation and younger age. There is a need to prioritise interventions to improve the HRQoL for (especially younger) adults with multimorbidity in deprived areas. BOX 1: What Is Known?Prevalence and premature onset of multimorbidity increases as socioeconomic position worsens. Previous studies have investigated the effect of multimorbidity on Health Related Quality of…
Explaining the social patterning of lung function in adulthood at different ages
BACKGROUND: Lung function successfully predicts subsequent health. Although lung function is known to decline over age, little is known about changes in association with socioeconomic status (SES) throughout life, and whether explanatory factors for association vary with age or patterns for non smokers. METHODS: Analyses were based on data on 24 500 participants aged ≥18 years from the 1995, 1998 and 2003 Scottish Health Surveys who were invited …
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Comparing the impact of personal and parental risk factors, and parental lifespan on all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease
BACKGROUND: We aimed to identify which personal and parental factors best explained all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS: In 1996, data were collected on 2338 adult offspring of the participants in the 1972-1976 Renfrew and Paisley prospective cohort study. Recorded risk factors were assigned to 5 groups: mid-life biological and behavioural (BB), mid-life socioeconomic, parental BB, early-life socioeconomic and parental l…
Soft governance, restratification and the 2004 general medical services contract
In the UK National Health Service, primary care organisation (PCO) managers have traditionally relied on the soft leadership of general practitioners based on professional self-regulation rather than direct managerial control. The 2004 general medical services contract (nGMS) represented a significant break from this arrangement by introducing new performance management mechanisms for PCO managers to measure and improve general practice work. Thi…
How do general practitioners understand health inequalities and do their professional roles offer scope for mitigation? Constructions derived from the deep end of primary care
Scotland is faced with pernicious health inequalities, which stem from inequalities in living conditions and the societal structures that create them. While action is needed to address the wider structural causes of health inequalities, the role of general practitioners (GPs) merits attention due to health care’s potential to mitigate or exacerbate health inequalities. Minimal research, however, has explored how GPs understand the fundamental cau…
Tackling and Mitigating Health Inequalities – Policymakers and Practitioners ‘Talk and Draw’ their Theories
In the context of a long‐standing academic acceptance of the socially structured nature of health inequalities, there has been a growing literature that critically examines policies that aim to reduce them. This has demonstrated inadequate policy assessment of the nature of the problem of health inequalities and correspondingly partial solutions that privilege interventions that focus on individual lifestyle solutions over more structural approac…
Novel carbon dynamics assessment framework reveals climate positive land management approaches across North America
Natural climate solutions (NCS) can foster ecosystem resiliency and mitigate climate change. However, a gap exists between carbon cycle science and decision support systems. Bridging this gap can advance climate positive land management and promote the implementation of natural climate solutions. Here, we propose a novel framework to assess carbon dynamics to reveal management approaches for land cover at a 300 m resolution within which natural c…
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