Bruce Hollingsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 353681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Hollingsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollingsworth |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLINGSWORTH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4314-6523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Local government procurement costs and Community Wealth Building Initiatives in England
We examine whether procuring locally leads to higher costs. Our study is motivated by the Community Wealth Building Initiatives adopted by Preston City Council in England in which social value to the local economy is considered in the procurement process. We compare contracts awarded to local and non‐local suppliers, by Preston, a group of similar local authorities, and all lower tier local authorities in England. We find that local contracts are…
Factors associated with long-acting reversible contraceptives usage among sexually active adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe
Despite the benefits of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), they are not being utilized in Zimbabwe as much as the short-acting reversible contraceptives (SARCs). The aim of the study was to explore factors associated with LARC usage among Zimbabwean adolescent girls and young women, using data from the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey. Cross tabulations and chi-square tests were used initially to describe associations. Odd …
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt
The relationship between poverty and mental health is complex. Conditional cash transfers are seen as an important policy tool in reducing poverty and fostering social protection. Evidence on the impact of cash transfers on mental health is mixed. In this study, we assess the causal impact of Egypt's conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Takaful on the main recipients' mental health. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that recei…
Deficits and opportunities, pivots and shifts for scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision in Uganda
Despite voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) being a cost-effective intervention for preventing HIV transmission, its scale-up has faced challenges. Several interventions to address these challenges in priority countries, including Uganda, have not yielded the desired results. This cross-sectional qualitative study aimed to explore the factors that affect the demand for VMMC and identify possible solutions. Semi-structured phone interviews …
The links between parental smoking and childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is one of the most concerning public health issues globally and its implications in mortality and morbidity in adulthood are increasingly important. This study uses a unique dataset of Australian children aged 4-16 to examine the impact of parental smoking on childhood obesity. It confirms a significant link between parental smoking (stronger for mothers) and higher obesity risk in children, regardless of income, age, family siz…
Socioeconomic deprivation, health and healthcare utilisation among millennials
This study estimates and decomposes components of different measures of inequality in health and healthcare use among millennial adolescents, a sizeable cohort of individuals at a critical stage of life. Administrative data from the UK Hospital Episode Statistics are linked to Next Steps, a survey collecting information about millennials born between 1989 and 1990, providing a uniquely comprehensive source of health and socioeconomic variables. S…
Specialty economies of scope in English hospitals
Policymakers seeking to maximise the amount of healthcare provided and minimise the costs of doing so may wish to consider retaining General Surgery, General Medicine and Obstetric/Gynaecology healthcare supply alongside the provision of other clinical specialties. There is limited evidence that reconfiguring supply by centralizing other specialty groups into fewer providers would increase costs
Does caring for others affect our mental health? Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply
This paper investigates the impact of introducing universal free formal personal care on informal caregiving behaviour in Scotland – in particular, we explore the extent to which free formal care might crowd out the supply of informal care. We estimate, in a difference‐in‐differences framework, that such a reform would: reduce the probability of co‐residential informal caregiving (usually, provided by spouses) by around 18% and, conditional on co…
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all…
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019
BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…
Differential item functioning in quality of life measurement
Invisible work
BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children's non-paid child work. This paper provides quantitative evidence of how child and household-level factors affect children's involvement in both domestic and family farm work for …
The determinants of dentists' productivity and the measurement of output
The socioeconomic gradient in physical inactivity
Does social support in addition to ART make a difference? Comparison of households with Taso and MOH PLWHA in Central Uganda
Social support in addition to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been indicated to be beneficial to person living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families, but very few ART service providers go beyond ART. This study investigates whether receipt of social support in addition to ART for PLWHA makes the households that they reside in better off than households that have PLWHA but are without social support. The analysis uses data comprising of 450 ho…
Cluster randomised controlled trial of a peer-led lifestyle intervention program
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12611000262909
BMI differences in 1st and 2nd generation immigrants of Asian and European origin to Australia
Measuring Efficiency in Health Care
The Impact of Severe Obesity on Hospital Length of Stay
BACKGROUND: The excess health care costs caused by obesity are a concern in many countries, yet little is known about the additional resources required to treat obese patients in hospitals. OBJECTIVE: To estimate differences in hospital resource use, measured by length of stay, between severely obese and other patients, conditioning on a range of patient and hospital characteristics. RESEARCH DESIGN: Administrative patient-level hospital data for…
The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery
The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health service delivery has become a small industry. This is a review of 317 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement. The techniques used are mainly based on non‐parametric data envelopment analysis, but there is increasing use of parametric techniques, such as stochastic frontier analysis. Applications to hospitals and other health care organizations and areas are reviewed and summari…
Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement
Journal Article Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement Get access Bruce Hollingsworth Bruce Hollingsworth Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 114, Issue 496, June 2004, Pages F307–F311, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00224.x Published: 27 May 2004
The socioeconomic gradient in physical inactivity
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all…
Differential item functioning in quality of life measurement
Invisible work
BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children's non-paid child work. This paper provides quantitative evidence of how child and household-level factors affect children's involvement in both domestic and family farm work for …
Does caring for others affect our mental health? Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement
Journal Article Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement Get access Bruce Hollingsworth Bruce Hollingsworth Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 114, Issue 496, June 2004, Pages F307–F311, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00224.x Published: 27 May 2004
BMI differences in 1st and 2nd generation immigrants of Asian and European origin to Australia
Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement
Journal Article Non Parametric Efficiency Measurement Get access Bruce Hollingsworth Bruce Hollingsworth Monash University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 114, Issue 496, June 2004, Pages F307–F311, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00224.x Published: 27 May 2004
The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery
The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health service delivery has become a small industry. This is a review of 317 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement. The techniques used are mainly based on non‐parametric data envelopment analysis, but there is increasing use of parametric techniques, such as stochastic frontier analysis. Applications to hospitals and other health care organizations and areas are reviewed and summari…
BMI differences in 1st and 2nd generation immigrants of Asian and European origin to Australia
Measuring Efficiency in Health Care
The Impact of Severe Obesity on Hospital Length of Stay
BACKGROUND: The excess health care costs caused by obesity are a concern in many countries, yet little is known about the additional resources required to treat obese patients in hospitals. OBJECTIVE: To estimate differences in hospital resource use, measured by length of stay, between severely obese and other patients, conditioning on a range of patient and hospital characteristics. RESEARCH DESIGN: Administrative patient-level hospital data for…
Does social support in addition to ART make a difference? Comparison of households with Taso and MOH PLWHA in Central Uganda
Social support in addition to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been indicated to be beneficial to person living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families, but very few ART service providers go beyond ART. This study investigates whether receipt of social support in addition to ART for PLWHA makes the households that they reside in better off than households that have PLWHA but are without social support. The analysis uses data comprising of 450 ho…
Cluster randomised controlled trial of a peer-led lifestyle intervention program
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12611000262909
The socioeconomic gradient in physical inactivity
The determinants of dentists' productivity and the measurement of output
Differential item functioning in quality of life measurement
Invisible work
BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children's non-paid child work. This paper provides quantitative evidence of how child and household-level factors affect children's involvement in both domestic and family farm work for …
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019
BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority
The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all…
The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply
This paper investigates the impact of introducing universal free formal personal care on informal caregiving behaviour in Scotland – in particular, we explore the extent to which free formal care might crowd out the supply of informal care. We estimate, in a difference‐in‐differences framework, that such a reform would: reduce the probability of co‐residential informal caregiving (usually, provided by spouses) by around 18% and, conditional on co…
Does caring for others affect our mental health? Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Factors associated with long-acting reversible contraceptives usage among sexually active adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe
Despite the benefits of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), they are not being utilized in Zimbabwe as much as the short-acting reversible contraceptives (SARCs). The aim of the study was to explore factors associated with LARC usage among Zimbabwean adolescent girls and young women, using data from the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey. Cross tabulations and chi-square tests were used initially to describe associations. Odd …
Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt
The relationship between poverty and mental health is complex. Conditional cash transfers are seen as an important policy tool in reducing poverty and fostering social protection. Evidence on the impact of cash transfers on mental health is mixed. In this study, we assess the causal impact of Egypt's conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme Takaful on the main recipients' mental health. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that recei…
Deficits and opportunities, pivots and shifts for scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision in Uganda
Despite voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) being a cost-effective intervention for preventing HIV transmission, its scale-up has faced challenges. Several interventions to address these challenges in priority countries, including Uganda, have not yielded the desired results. This cross-sectional qualitative study aimed to explore the factors that affect the demand for VMMC and identify possible solutions. Semi-structured phone interviews …
The links between parental smoking and childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is one of the most concerning public health issues globally and its implications in mortality and morbidity in adulthood are increasingly important. This study uses a unique dataset of Australian children aged 4-16 to examine the impact of parental smoking on childhood obesity. It confirms a significant link between parental smoking (stronger for mothers) and higher obesity risk in children, regardless of income, age, family siz…
Socioeconomic deprivation, health and healthcare utilisation among millennials
This study estimates and decomposes components of different measures of inequality in health and healthcare use among millennial adolescents, a sizeable cohort of individuals at a critical stage of life. Administrative data from the UK Hospital Episode Statistics are linked to Next Steps, a survey collecting information about millennials born between 1989 and 1990, providing a uniquely comprehensive source of health and socioeconomic variables. S…
Specialty economies of scope in English hospitals
Policymakers seeking to maximise the amount of healthcare provided and minimise the costs of doing so may wish to consider retaining General Surgery, General Medicine and Obstetric/Gynaecology healthcare supply alongside the provision of other clinical specialties. There is limited evidence that reconfiguring supply by centralizing other specialty groups into fewer providers would increase costs
Local government procurement costs and Community Wealth Building Initiatives in England
We examine whether procuring locally leads to higher costs. Our study is motivated by the Community Wealth Building Initiatives adopted by Preston City Council in England in which social value to the local economy is considered in the procurement process. We compare contracts awarded to local and non‐local suppliers, by Preston, a group of similar local authorities, and all lower tier local authorities in England. We find that local contracts are…
Medicine (16 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works)