Peggy Mcdonough
Biographic Data
| ID | 191368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peggy Mcdonough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peggy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonough |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONOUGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 699 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age
Many countries have implemented policies to extend working lives in response to population ageing, yet there remains little understanding of what drives paid work in later life, nor how this is changing over time. This paper utilises the 1988/89 Survey of Retirement and Retirement Plans, the 1999 British Household Panel Survey and the 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, to investigate drivers of paid work in the ten years surrounding state…
Interrogating inclusion with youths who use augmentative and alternative communication
Even as the goal of social inclusion underpins health and social services for disabled youths, those with communication impairments continue to lead narrowly circumscribed lives. In this Canadian study, we combined visual methods and interviews with 13 Canadian youths who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to understand how they make 'practical sense' of discourses of inclusion. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, we sugge…
Returns to work after retirement
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. Our study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), we undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were b…
A Critical Dialogical Methodology for Conducting Research With Disabled Youth Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
In this article, we present a theoretical examination of communication difference in the context of a critical qualitative study that explored "inclusion" with disabled youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism, we articulate a novel critical dialogical methodology developed to rethink dominant understandings of voice, authenticity, and the autonomous participant. Case examples illustra…
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life
BACKGROUND: Given the acceleration of population ageing and policy changes to extend working lives, evidence is needed on the ability of older adults to work for longer. To understand more about the health impacts of work, this study examined the relationship between employment histories before retirement and trajectories of frailty thereafter. METHODS: The sample comprised 2765 women and 1621 men from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We…
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach
BACKGROUND: Given the current policy emphasis in many Western societies on extending working lives, we investigated the health effects of being in paid work beyond state pension age (SPA). Until now, work has largely focused on the health of those who exit the labour force early. METHODS: Our data come from waves 2-4 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, including the life history interview at wave 3. Using logistic and linear regression m…
Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found generally better health among those who combine employment and family responsibilities; however, most research excludes men, and relies on subjective measures of health and information on work and family activities from only 1 or 2 time points in the life course. This study investigated associations between work-family life course types (LCTs) and markers of metabolic risk in a British birth cohort study. M…
Preparedness as a technology of (in)security
Who Has the Motherlode of Health? A Comparative Study of Socio-economic Inequalities in Health among Mothers of Young Children
This study examines cross-national differences in socio-economic inequalities in mothers’ health. Inequalities are expected to be largest where social policies treat mothers as unpaid caregivers, smallest where they support mothers as paid workers, and intermediate where policies are inconsistent. Hypotheses are tested using Latent Growth Curve Models for the effects of education on mothers’ self-rated health trajectories; estimates are then comp…
Welfare regimes, population health and health inequalities
BACKGROUND: Research on the social determinants of health is increasingly using welfare regime theory. Although a key argument is that population health will be better and health inequalities lower in social democratic regimes than in others, this research has not been subjected to a systematic review. This paper identifies and assesses empirical studies that explicitly use a welfare regime typology in comparative health research. METHODS: 15 ele…
Habitus, Hysteresis and Organizational Change in the Public Sector
This paper examines the daily struggles of unionized employees whose municipal workplace was undergoing major change influenced by New Public Management. In-depth interviews with 45 front-line service providers revealed widespread frustration with working conditions and relationships with management. We interpret this response as an embodied expression of hysteresis, a term that Bourdieu used to describe the gap between changing field conditions …
Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health
BACKGROUND: This study investigates social inequalities in self-rated health dynamics for working-aged adults in four nations, representing distinct welfare regime types. The aims are to describe average national trajectories of self-rated health over a 7-year period, identify social determinants of cross-sectional and longitudinal health and compare cross-national patterns. METHODS: Data are from national household panel surveys in Britain, Germ…
Socioeconomic inequalities in health dynamics
Falling Short of the Promise
The welfare state promises to moderate the duration and concentration of poverty. The authors ask how well this promise has been fulfilled in the United States and Britain from 1993 to 2003. They examine two aspects of poverty vulnerability during this period of welfare reform: (1) its persistence and associated risk factors and (2) the efficacy of social transfers. After accounting for measurement error, sociodemographic characteristics, and the…
Re-Assessing Poverty Dynamics and State Protections in Britain and the US
Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health
Objective: We describe a series of nested life course models that correspond to the critical period, accumulation, and social mobility models and test them simultaneously, on multiple CVD risk factors in, a large cohort study.Design: Prospective birth cohort study.Setting: England
Restructuring Municipal Government
This study is a mixed-method investigation of the association between labor-management relations and employees' mental health in a municipal sector undergoing New Public Management-style restructuring. Analysis of the survey data (N = 902) demonstrates a relatively strong and persistent relationship between management practices and employee psychological health. Interviews with a subsample of 54 workers reveal that management's excessive control,…
Doing Something Meaningful’
Research on the gendered dimensions of workplace restructuring often focuses on management strategies and their structural consequences. Less attention is paid to employees’ gendered practices. In this article, we analyse material from in‐depth interviews with front‐line public‐sector employees following a major reorganization of their jobs and workplaces. Our study makes three contributions to theory and research on gender and organizational cha…
Self-Rated Health Trajectories in the United States and the United Kingdom
Objectives. We reviewed literature on comparative social policy and life course research and compared associations between health and socioeconomic circumstances during an 11-year period in the United States and the United Kingdom. Methods. We obtained data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the British Household Panel Survey (1990–2002). We used latent transition analysis to examine change in self-rated health from one discrete state…
Habitus and the practice of public service
This article presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the public service ethos under municipal government restructuring. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, it suggests, first, that public service makes public servants through socialization in the public service habitus.This gives practice a prereflective, embodied and immediate character. Second, it links the public service habitus to field struggles over the definition of the public go…
Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health
Marital transitions and mental health
Daly Et Al. Respond
Braveman and Cubbin are correct in pointing out that the optimal indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) may vary across health outcomes and health behaviors. Indeed, we alluded to this point when we noted that “various measures of SES may summarize different components of overall health risk.” We also agree that systematic evaluation of the importance of various SES measures is required before an “optimal” set can be recommended. That said, we …
Population Health in Canada
An internationally influential model of population health was developed in Canada in the 1990s, shifting the research agenda beyond health care to the social and economic determinants of health. While agreeing that health has important social determinants, the authors believe that this model has serious shortcomings; they critique the model by focusing on its hidden assumptions. Assumptions about how knowledge is produced and an implicit interest…
Histories of Poverty and Self-Rated Health Trajectories
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between poverty histories and self-rated health trajectories. We are interested in patterns of change in individuals' health over time and the ways in which such patterns are structured by continuity and change in poverty experiences. Data, collected for adults aged 25 and older in 1984 (N = 7,258), are from the 1968-1996 annual waves of Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Individual growth curv…
Gender and health
Optimal Indicators of Socioeconomic Status for Health Research
Objectives. In this study we examined the relationship between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. Methods. The sample included 3734 individuals aged 45 and older interviewed in 1984 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. In the current study, mortality was tracked between 1984 and 1994 and is related to SES indicators of education, occupation, income, and wealth. Results. Wealth and …
Income dynamics and adult mortality in the United States, 1972 through 1989
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine relationships between income and mortality, focusing on the predictive utility of single-year and multiyear measures of income, the shape of the income gradient in mortality, trends in this gradient over time, the impact of income change on mortality, and the joint effects of income and age, race, and sex on mortality risk. METHODS: Data were taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the ye…
Marital transitions and mental health
Gender and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality
Despite considerable evidence documenting a strong and persistent relationship between socioeconomic position and mortality, recent research suggests that this association may be weaker among women. In our examination of gender differences in the socioeconomic gradient in mortality, we argue that this inconsistency arises from the failure to consider the ways in which gender is a fundamental constituent of socioeconomic position. The data used ar…
The social context of health selection
Histories of Poverty and Self-Rated Health Trajectories
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between poverty histories and self-rated health trajectories. We are interested in patterns of change in individuals' health over time and the ways in which such patterns are structured by continuity and change in poverty experiences. Data, collected for adults aged 25 and older in 1984 (N = 7,258), are from the 1968-1996 annual waves of Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Individual growth curv…
Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health
The influence of work, household structure, and social, personal and material resources on gender differences in health
Welfare regimes, population health and health inequalities
BACKGROUND: Research on the social determinants of health is increasingly using welfare regime theory. Although a key argument is that population health will be better and health inequalities lower in social democratic regimes than in others, this research has not been subjected to a systematic review. This paper identifies and assesses empirical studies that explicitly use a welfare regime typology in comparative health research. METHODS: 15 ele…
Habitus and the practice of public service
This article presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the public service ethos under municipal government restructuring. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, it suggests, first, that public service makes public servants through socialization in the public service habitus.This gives practice a prereflective, embodied and immediate character. Second, it links the public service habitus to field struggles over the definition of the public go…
A Critical Dialogical Methodology for Conducting Research With Disabled Youth Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
In this article, we present a theoretical examination of communication difference in the context of a critical qualitative study that explored "inclusion" with disabled youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism, we articulate a novel critical dialogical methodology developed to rethink dominant understandings of voice, authenticity, and the autonomous participant. Case examples illustra…
Socioeconomic inequalities in health dynamics
Population Health in Canada
An internationally influential model of population health was developed in Canada in the 1990s, shifting the research agenda beyond health care to the social and economic determinants of health. While agreeing that health has important social determinants, the authors believe that this model has serious shortcomings; they critique the model by focusing on its hidden assumptions. Assumptions about how knowledge is produced and an implicit interest…
Habitus, Hysteresis and Organizational Change in the Public Sector
This paper examines the daily struggles of unionized employees whose municipal workplace was undergoing major change influenced by New Public Management. In-depth interviews with 45 front-line service providers revealed widespread frustration with working conditions and relationships with management. We interpret this response as an embodied expression of hysteresis, a term that Bourdieu used to describe the gap between changing field conditions …
Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health
BACKGROUND: This study investigates social inequalities in self-rated health dynamics for working-aged adults in four nations, representing distinct welfare regime types. The aims are to describe average national trajectories of self-rated health over a 7-year period, identify social determinants of cross-sectional and longitudinal health and compare cross-national patterns. METHODS: Data are from national household panel surveys in Britain, Germ…
Self-Rated Health Trajectories in the United States and the United Kingdom
Objectives. We reviewed literature on comparative social policy and life course research and compared associations between health and socioeconomic circumstances during an 11-year period in the United States and the United Kingdom. Methods. We obtained data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the British Household Panel Survey (1990–2002). We used latent transition analysis to examine change in self-rated health from one discrete state…
Returns to work after retirement
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. Our study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), we undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were b…
Chronic stress and the social patterning of women's health in Canada
Is being in paid work beyond state pension age beneficial for health? Evidence from England using a life-course approach
BACKGROUND: Given the current policy emphasis in many Western societies on extending working lives, we investigated the health effects of being in paid work beyond state pension age (SPA). Until now, work has largely focused on the health of those who exit the labour force early. METHODS: Our data come from waves 2-4 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, including the life history interview at wave 3. Using logistic and linear regression m…
Doing Something Meaningful’
Research on the gendered dimensions of workplace restructuring often focuses on management strategies and their structural consequences. Less attention is paid to employees’ gendered practices. In this article, we analyse material from in‐depth interviews with front‐line public‐sector employees following a major reorganization of their jobs and workplaces. Our study makes three contributions to theory and research on gender and organizational cha…
Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life
BACKGROUND: Given the acceleration of population ageing and policy changes to extend working lives, evidence is needed on the ability of older adults to work for longer. To understand more about the health impacts of work, this study examined the relationship between employment histories before retirement and trajectories of frailty thereafter. METHODS: The sample comprised 2765 women and 1621 men from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We…
Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found generally better health among those who combine employment and family responsibilities; however, most research excludes men, and relies on subjective measures of health and information on work and family activities from only 1 or 2 time points in the life course. This study investigated associations between work-family life course types (LCTs) and markers of metabolic risk in a British birth cohort study. M…
Falling Short of the Promise
The welfare state promises to moderate the duration and concentration of poverty. The authors ask how well this promise has been fulfilled in the United States and Britain from 1993 to 2003. They examine two aspects of poverty vulnerability during this period of welfare reform: (1) its persistence and associated risk factors and (2) the efficacy of social transfers. After accounting for measurement error, sociodemographic characteristics, and the…
Restructuring Municipal Government
This study is a mixed-method investigation of the association between labor-management relations and employees' mental health in a municipal sector undergoing New Public Management-style restructuring. Analysis of the survey data (N = 902) demonstrates a relatively strong and persistent relationship between management practices and employee psychological health. Interviews with a subsample of 54 workers reveal that management's excessive control,…
On Hierarchies of Conflict and the Possibility of Civil Discourse
Journal Article On Hierarchies of Conflict and the Possibility of Civil Discourse: Variations on a Theme by John Courtney Murray Get access Peter McDonough Peter McDonough professor of political science Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 36, Issue 1, Winter 1994, Pages 115–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/36.1.115 Published: 01 January 1994
The Social Patterning of Work Disability Among Women in Canada
Although work disability is widespread among women with physical or mental impairment, little is known about its gendered nature. Drawing on the disablement and women's health literatures, it is argued that labor-market resources and participation in normatively structured social roles may be important in shaping women's work disability. Using data from a Canadian probability sample of community dwellers with disabilities, the paper examines the …
Income dynamics and adult mortality in the United States, 1972 through 1989
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine relationships between income and mortality, focusing on the predictive utility of single-year and multiyear measures of income, the shape of the income gradient in mortality, trends in this gradient over time, the impact of income change on mortality, and the joint effects of income and age, race, and sex on mortality risk. METHODS: Data were taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the ye…
Gender and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality
Despite considerable evidence documenting a strong and persistent relationship between socioeconomic position and mortality, recent research suggests that this association may be weaker among women. In our examination of gender differences in the socioeconomic gradient in mortality, we argue that this inconsistency arises from the failure to consider the ways in which gender is a fundamental constituent of socioeconomic position. The data used ar…
The social context of health selection
Gender and health
Relationship Between All-Cause Mortality and Cumulative Working Life Course Psychosocial and Physical Exposures in the United States Labor Market From 1968 to 1992
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between cumulative exposures to psychosocial and physical work conditions and mortality in a nationally representative sample. METHODS: A working cohort was created using the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Information on psychosocial and physical work conditions were imputed using the Job Characteristics Scoring System exposure matrix for the period 1968 through 1991 to construct working life courses. …
Optimal Indicators of Socioeconomic Status for Health Research
Objectives. In this study we examined the relationship between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. Methods. The sample included 3734 individuals aged 45 and older interviewed in 1984 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. In the current study, mortality was tracked between 1984 and 1994 and is related to SES indicators of education, occupation, income, and wealth. Results. Wealth and …
The influence of work, household structure, and social, personal and material resources on gender differences in health
Chronic stress and the social patterning of women's health in Canada
Daly Et Al. Respond
Braveman and Cubbin are correct in pointing out that the optimal indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) may vary across health outcomes and health behaviors. Indeed, we alluded to this point when we noted that “various measures of SES may summarize different components of overall health risk.” We also agree that systematic evaluation of the importance of various SES measures is required before an “optimal” set can be recommended. That said, we …
Population Health in Canada
An internationally influential model of population health was developed in Canada in the 1990s, shifting the research agenda beyond health care to the social and economic determinants of health. While agreeing that health has important social determinants, the authors believe that this model has serious shortcomings; they critique the model by focusing on its hidden assumptions. Assumptions about how knowledge is produced and an implicit interest…
Histories of Poverty and Self-Rated Health Trajectories
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between poverty histories and self-rated health trajectories. We are interested in patterns of change in individuals' health over time and the ways in which such patterns are structured by continuity and change in poverty experiences. Data, collected for adults aged 25 and older in 1984 (N = 7,258), are from the 1968-1996 annual waves of Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Individual growth curv…
Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health
Marital transitions and mental health
Habitus and the practice of public service
This article presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the public service ethos under municipal government restructuring. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, it suggests, first, that public service makes public servants through socialization in the public service habitus.This gives practice a prereflective, embodied and immediate character. Second, it links the public service habitus to field struggles over the definition of the public go…
Doing Something Meaningful’
Research on the gendered dimensions of workplace restructuring often focuses on management strategies and their structural consequences. Less attention is paid to employees’ gendered practices. In this article, we analyse material from in‐depth interviews with front‐line public‐sector employees following a major reorganization of their jobs and workplaces. Our study makes three contributions to theory and research on gender and organizational cha…
Self-Rated Health Trajectories in the United States and the United Kingdom
Objectives. We reviewed literature on comparative social policy and life course research and compared associations between health and socioeconomic circumstances during an 11-year period in the United States and the United Kingdom. Methods. We obtained data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the British Household Panel Survey (1990–2002). We used latent transition analysis to examine change in self-rated health from one discrete state…
Restructuring Municipal Government
This study is a mixed-method investigation of the association between labor-management relations and employees' mental health in a municipal sector undergoing New Public Management-style restructuring. Analysis of the survey data (N = 902) demonstrates a relatively strong and persistent relationship between management practices and employee psychological health. Interviews with a subsample of 54 workers reveal that management's excessive control,…
Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health
Objective: We describe a series of nested life course models that correspond to the critical period, accumulation, and social mobility models and test them simultaneously, on multiple CVD risk factors in, a large cohort study.Design: Prospective birth cohort study.Setting: England
Socioeconomic inequalities in health dynamics
Falling Short of the Promise
The welfare state promises to moderate the duration and concentration of poverty. The authors ask how well this promise has been fulfilled in the United States and Britain from 1993 to 2003. They examine two aspects of poverty vulnerability during this period of welfare reform: (1) its persistence and associated risk factors and (2) the efficacy of social transfers. After accounting for measurement error, sociodemographic characteristics, and the…
Re-Assessing Poverty Dynamics and State Protections in Britain and the US
Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health
BACKGROUND: This study investigates social inequalities in self-rated health dynamics for working-aged adults in four nations, representing distinct welfare regime types. The aims are to describe average national trajectories of self-rated health over a 7-year period, identify social determinants of cross-sectional and longitudinal health and compare cross-national patterns. METHODS: Data are from national household panel surveys in Britain, Germ…
Welfare regimes, population health and health inequalities
BACKGROUND: Research on the social determinants of health is increasingly using welfare regime theory. Although a key argument is that population health will be better and health inequalities lower in social democratic regimes than in others, this research has not been subjected to a systematic review. This paper identifies and assesses empirical studies that explicitly use a welfare regime typology in comparative health research. METHODS: 15 ele…
Medicine (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Economics (21 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (18 works) · Demography (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Population (16 works) · Gerontology (15 works)