David Melzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2447831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Melzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Melzer |
| SIGNATURE | MELZER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0170-3838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Personality Profile of the Children of Long-Lived Parents
Objectives. Past research has shown that parental longevity is related to offspring physical health and longevity. Preliminary studies suggest that parental longevity may be linked to the offspring’s personality traits. A comprehensive 5-factor personality model has been related to physical health, but the association with parental longevity has not yet been investigated. We used a 5-factor personality model to investigate the relationship betwee…
OP32 Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment in Socio-Economic Inequalities of Health
Background Ill health and relative poverty are connected. This study aimed to determine first whether the worse health experienced by poorer participants was matched by appropriately greater receipt of healthcare, and second whether any inequalities in receipt occurred at the stage of diagnosis or treatment. Methods The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is a cohort of participants aged 50 years or older. The relative distributions by wealth of…
Reductions in Disability Prevalence Among the Highest Income Groups of Older Brazilians
Objectives. We sought to identify the income–disability prevalence relationship among older Brazilians. Methods. Data were from 63 985 individuals 60 years and older from the 1998 and 2003 Brazilian National Household Surveys. Generalized additive logistic models with cubic regression splines were used to estimate the disability–income relationships. Results. There was a strong linear relationship between increased income and reduced disability p…
Neighborhood Deprivation, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Function in Older People
OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between cognitive function, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood deprivation (lack of local resources of all types, financial and otherwise). DESIGN: Nationally representative cross‐section. SETTING: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). PARTICIPANTS: Seven thousand one hundred twenty‐six community‐dwelling individuals aged 52 and older and resident in urban areas. MEASUREMENTS: Individual cogni…
A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity
Obesity is a serious international health problem that increases the risk of several common diseases. The genetic factors predisposing to obesity are poorly understood. A genome-wide search for type 2 diabetesâ susceptibility genes identified a common variant in the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene that predisposes to diabetes through an effect on body mass index (BMI). An additive association of the variant with BMI was replicated in 1…
Oxford handbook of public health practice
Retirement and mental health
Incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas no Brasil
OBJETIVO: Estimar as taxas de incapacidade funcional e identificar os fatores sociodemográficos associados com a prevalência de incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas. MÉTODOS: As estimativas das taxas de incapacidade funcional foram produzidas com informações da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios, de 1998, realizada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. O estudo analisou a população de mulheres idosas, num total…
Social inequalities and the common mental disorders
Prisoners with Psychosis in England and Wales
It is well established that significant numbers of prisoners have psychosis, yet little is known of what happens to them over time. One hundred and forty prisoners with probable psychosis from the National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity in Prisons were re‐interviewed at one‐year follow‐up. During the follow‐up year 10% (95% CI 2‐17) were admitted to hospitals, detox or medium secure units. At follow‐up, 65% (95% CI 52‐77) had ‘caseness’ levels o…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
Socioeconomic status and the expectation of disability in old age
OBJECTIVES: The longer life expectancy in old age of more privileged socioeconomic groups is well established, but less clear is whether the net effect of additional years of life is a lengthened, stable or reduced duration of disability. Estimates of healthy and disabled life expectancy (using definitions including dependency in activities of daily living and cognitive impairment) were made, contrasting occupational classes I and II (professiona…
The value of England and Wales congenital malformation notification scheme data for epidemiology
Data from the England and Wales national congenital malformation notification scheme were examined for associations of male genital tract malformations. For some of the malformations comparison of notification rates with the literature suggested gross undernotification. There was also evidence suggesting bias: examination of the relationships of the malformations to birth weight, maternal parity, and maternal age at delivery showed some highly si…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
Retirement and mental health
Incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas no Brasil
OBJETIVO: Estimar as taxas de incapacidade funcional e identificar os fatores sociodemográficos associados com a prevalência de incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas. MÉTODOS: As estimativas das taxas de incapacidade funcional foram produzidas com informações da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios, de 1998, realizada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. O estudo analisou a população de mulheres idosas, num total…
Socioeconomic status and the expectation of disability in old age
OBJECTIVES: The longer life expectancy in old age of more privileged socioeconomic groups is well established, but less clear is whether the net effect of additional years of life is a lengthened, stable or reduced duration of disability. Estimates of healthy and disabled life expectancy (using definitions including dependency in activities of daily living and cognitive impairment) were made, contrasting occupational classes I and II (professiona…
The value of England and Wales congenital malformation notification scheme data for epidemiology
Data from the England and Wales national congenital malformation notification scheme were examined for associations of male genital tract malformations. For some of the malformations comparison of notification rates with the literature suggested gross undernotification. There was also evidence suggesting bias: examination of the relationships of the malformations to birth weight, maternal parity, and maternal age at delivery showed some highly si…
The value of England and Wales congenital malformation notification scheme data for epidemiology
Data from the England and Wales national congenital malformation notification scheme were examined for associations of male genital tract malformations. For some of the malformations comparison of notification rates with the literature suggested gross undernotification. There was also evidence suggesting bias: examination of the relationships of the malformations to birth weight, maternal parity, and maternal age at delivery showed some highly si…
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
Socioeconomic status and the expectation of disability in old age
OBJECTIVES: The longer life expectancy in old age of more privileged socioeconomic groups is well established, but less clear is whether the net effect of additional years of life is a lengthened, stable or reduced duration of disability. Estimates of healthy and disabled life expectancy (using definitions including dependency in activities of daily living and cognitive impairment) were made, contrasting occupational classes I and II (professiona…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Prisoners with Psychosis in England and Wales
It is well established that significant numbers of prisoners have psychosis, yet little is known of what happens to them over time. One hundred and forty prisoners with probable psychosis from the National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity in Prisons were re‐interviewed at one‐year follow‐up. During the follow‐up year 10% (95% CI 2‐17) were admitted to hospitals, detox or medium secure units. At follow‐up, 65% (95% CI 52‐77) had ‘caseness’ levels o…
Social inequalities and the common mental disorders
Incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas no Brasil
OBJETIVO: Estimar as taxas de incapacidade funcional e identificar os fatores sociodemográficos associados com a prevalência de incapacidade funcional entre as mulheres idosas. MÉTODOS: As estimativas das taxas de incapacidade funcional foram produzidas com informações da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios, de 1998, realizada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. O estudo analisou a população de mulheres idosas, num total…
Oxford handbook of public health practice
Retirement and mental health
A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity
Obesity is a serious international health problem that increases the risk of several common diseases. The genetic factors predisposing to obesity are poorly understood. A genome-wide search for type 2 diabetesâ susceptibility genes identified a common variant in the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene that predisposes to diabetes through an effect on body mass index (BMI). An additive association of the variant with BMI was replicated in 1…
Neighborhood Deprivation, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Function in Older People
OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between cognitive function, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood deprivation (lack of local resources of all types, financial and otherwise). DESIGN: Nationally representative cross‐section. SETTING: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). PARTICIPANTS: Seven thousand one hundred twenty‐six community‐dwelling individuals aged 52 and older and resident in urban areas. MEASUREMENTS: Individual cogni…
Reductions in Disability Prevalence Among the Highest Income Groups of Older Brazilians
Objectives. We sought to identify the income–disability prevalence relationship among older Brazilians. Methods. Data were from 63 985 individuals 60 years and older from the 1998 and 2003 Brazilian National Household Surveys. Generalized additive logistic models with cubic regression splines were used to estimate the disability–income relationships. Results. There was a strong linear relationship between increased income and reduced disability p…
Personality Profile of the Children of Long-Lived Parents
Objectives. Past research has shown that parental longevity is related to offspring physical health and longevity. Preliminary studies suggest that parental longevity may be linked to the offspring’s personality traits. A comprehensive 5-factor personality model has been related to physical health, but the association with parental longevity has not yet been investigated. We used a 5-factor personality model to investigate the relationship betwee…
OP32 Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment in Socio-Economic Inequalities of Health
Background Ill health and relative poverty are connected. This study aimed to determine first whether the worse health experienced by poorer participants was matched by appropriately greater receipt of healthcare, and second whether any inequalities in receipt occurred at the stage of diagnosis or treatment. Methods The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is a cohort of participants aged 50 years or older. The relative distributions by wealth of…
Medicine (12 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Socioeconomic status (4 works)