John W Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 553 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Causal mediation approaches for understanding pathways to inequalities and policy entry points: Examples from early years health and development
The reduction of health inequalities has been a priority of researchers, decision-makers and practitioners for many years. Advances in causal mediation analysis offer great promise for identifying intervention targets and inferring how policy actions might alter health inequalities. However, these methods are sometimes presented in a manner that is not accessible to the wider community of health researchers. Causal mediation methods also have a r…
Re-envisaging child protection contacts as an early prevention opportunity to support child development and well-being: An Australian data linkage study
OBJECTIVES: To quantify developmental vulnerability at age 5 by child protection contacts before school in two Australian states. METHODS: All children with birth, child protection and/or 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA) were grouped according to child protection contact before school: no contact, child protection reports, screened-in reports, investigation…
Prevalence of maternal substance use problems during pregnancy and the first 2 years of life: A whole-population birth cohort of 970 470 Australian children born 2008–2017
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of maternal substance use problems during the first 1000 days of children's lives, to inform planning and resourcing of antenatal screening and substance use in pregnancy services, alongside antenatal and postnatal health, parenting and social support services for pregnant women/new mothers and their babies. METHOD: This whole-population cohort was assembled from birth registration, perinatal and hospital da…
Preschool attendance and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: A population-based cohort study of 100 357 Australian children
Background Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children’s participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the year before school and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Methods We used data from peri…
The impact of women’s empowerment on their children’s early development in 26 African countries
BACKGROUND: Every year more than 200 million children under-five years fail to achieve their full developmental potential in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although women ́s empowerment has been associated with improved child health and development outcomes, this is a topic little studied in LMICs. We investigated the associations between women ́s empowerment and early childhood development among a sample population of 84537 children a…
Educational activities on language and behavioural outcomes at school entry are more important for socioeconomically disadvantaged children: A prospective observational study of Australian children
Background To investigate whether time spent in educational activities at 2–3 years and developmental outcomes at school entry differ among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Methods Participants were from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (n=4253). Time spent in educational activities was collected using 24-hour time-use diaries. Income was measured using parent self-report. Receptive vocabulary was assessed using the…
The SWPER index for women's empowerment in Africa: Development and validation of an index based on survey data
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals strongly focus on equity. Goal 5 explicitly aims to empower all women and girls, reinforcing the need to have a reliable indicator to track progress. Our objective was to develop a novel women's empowerment indicator from widely available data sources, broadening opportunities for monitoring and research on women's empowerment. METHODS: We used Demographic and Health Survey data from 34 African countr…
Associations of parental food-choice control and use of food to soothe with adiposity in childhood and adolescence
Forty years of economic growth and plummeting mortality: The mortality experience of the poorly educated in South Korea
BACKGROUND: South Korea has experienced rapid economic development and a substantial increase in life expectancy in an extremely short period. Whether this rapid development has been able to adequately address inequalities in health in South Korea may have important policy implications. This paper explores long-term trends in inequalities in mortality related to education in South Korea between 1970 and 2010. METHODS: We used secondary data on po…
Do early life cognitive ability and self-regulation skills explain socio-economic inequalities in academic achievement? An effect decomposition analysis in UK and Australian cohorts
How well can poor child development be predicted from early life characteristics
Is greater improvement in early self-regulation associated with fewer behavioral problems later in childhood
The aim of this study was to determine whether the extent of improvement in self-regulation achieved between ages 4 and 6 years is associated with the level of behavioral problems later in childhood. Participants were 4-year-old children (n = 510) attending preschools in South Australia. Children's level of self-regulation was assessed using the parent-completed Devereux Early Childhood Assessment when children were aged 4, 5, and 6. Children's l…
Student-teacher relationship trajectories and mental health problems in young children
Findings suggest that early intervention and prevention strategies that focus on building stable high quality student-teacher relationships during preschool and children's transition into formal schooling, may help reduce rates of childhood mental health problems during the early school years
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
Can Items Used in 4-Year-Old Well-Child Visits Predict Children’s Health and School Outcomes
Associations of education with 30 year life course blood pressure trajectories: Framingham Offspring Study
Education was inversely associated with higher systolic blood pressure throughout a 30-year life course span, and associations may be stronger in females than males
Prenatal Prediction of Poor Maternal and Offspring Outcomes: Implications for Selection into Intensive Parent Support Programs
This study examined the predictive ability of mother's age, antenatal depression, education, financial difficulties, partner status, and smoking for a range of poor maternal and offspring outcomes assessed up to 61 months postnatally. Outcomes obtained from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) were maternal postnatal depression at 8 weeks (n = 10,070), never breastfeeding (n = 7,976), feelings of poor attachment (n = 8,253…
Can preschool improve child health outcomes? A systematic review
Inequalities in child healthy development: Some challenges for effective implementation
Life course socioeconomic position is associated with inflammatory markers: The Framingham Offspring Study
Global Variability in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: Relative an…
Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: It matters how you measure
Different methods of measuring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities may lead to different conclusions about whether relative inequalities are increasing or decreasing. Trends in ORs may overstate or understate trends in relative inequality in health when the outcome is of relatively high prevalence and that prevalence varies significantly with time
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
Consistency between education reported in health survey and recorded in death certificate
Low percentage of missing information on education in South Korean death certificate data could provide a great potential to monitor mortality inequalities. A more collapsed categorization in education would be recommended when a more definitive conclusion on educational mortality inequality is required
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1): Figure 1
This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators. The glossary is divided into two parts for journal publication but the intention is that it should be used as one piece. The second part highlights a life course approach and will be published in th…
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: The Role of Health-Risk Behaviors
Understanding How Inequality in the Distribution of Income Affects Health
Research on the determinants of health has almost exclusively focused on the individual but it seems clear we cannot understand or improve patterns of population health without engaging structural determinants at the societal level. This article traces the development of research on income distribution and health to the most recent epidemiologic studies from the USA that show how income inequality is related to age- adjusted mortality within the …
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal)
Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years: The Alameda County Study
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, marital status, number of children). We used a life-course approach to SEP with 4 measures of SEP (childhood SEP, education, occupation, income) and a cumulative measure of SEP. Methods. We used mixed models and…
Life course socioeconomic position is associated with inflammatory markers: The Framingham Offspring Study
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood: Evidence from the Alameda County Study
Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the probability of functional limitation in 1994, and the combined probability of dying or experiencing functional limitation during this period. Setting, participants and design: Data were from the Alameda County Study (California) and pertained to people aged 17–94…
Inequalities in child healthy development: Some challenges for effective implementation
The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: Relative an…
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
How well can poor child development be predicted from early life characteristics
Do early life cognitive ability and self-regulation skills explain socio-economic inequalities in academic achievement? An effect decomposition analysis in UK and Australian cohorts
Is greater improvement in early self-regulation associated with fewer behavioral problems later in childhood
The aim of this study was to determine whether the extent of improvement in self-regulation achieved between ages 4 and 6 years is associated with the level of behavioral problems later in childhood. Participants were 4-year-old children (n = 510) attending preschools in South Australia. Children's level of self-regulation was assessed using the parent-completed Devereux Early Childhood Assessment when children were aged 4, 5, and 6. Children's l…
Forty years of economic growth and plummeting mortality: The mortality experience of the poorly educated in South Korea
BACKGROUND: South Korea has experienced rapid economic development and a substantial increase in life expectancy in an extremely short period. Whether this rapid development has been able to adequately address inequalities in health in South Korea may have important policy implications. This paper explores long-term trends in inequalities in mortality related to education in South Korea between 1970 and 2010. METHODS: We used secondary data on po…
Causal mediation approaches for understanding pathways to inequalities and policy entry points: Examples from early years health and development
The reduction of health inequalities has been a priority of researchers, decision-makers and practitioners for many years. Advances in causal mediation analysis offer great promise for identifying intervention targets and inferring how policy actions might alter health inequalities. However, these methods are sometimes presented in a manner that is not accessible to the wider community of health researchers. Causal mediation methods also have a r…
Associations of parental food-choice control and use of food to soothe with adiposity in childhood and adolescence
Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: Analysis of mortality and potential pathways
Objective : To examine the relation between health outcomes and the equality with which income is distributed in the United States. Design : The degree of income inequality, defined as the percentage of total household income received by the less well off 50% of households, and changes in income inequality were calculated for the 50 states in 1980 and 1990. These measures were then examined in relation to all cause mortality adjusted for age for …
Cumulative Impact of Sustained Economic Hardship on Physical, Cognitive, Psychological, and Social Functioning
BACKGROUND: Although the relation between low income and poor health is well established, most previous research has measured income at only one time. METHODS: We used income information collected in 1965, 1974, and 1983 from a representative sample of adults in Alameda County, California, to examine the cumulative effect of economic hardship (defined as a total household income of less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level) on participan…
Understanding How Inequality in the Distribution of Income Affects Health
Research on the determinants of health has almost exclusively focused on the individual but it seems clear we cannot understand or improve patterns of population health without engaging structural determinants at the societal level. This article traces the development of research on income distribution and health to the most recent epidemiologic studies from the USA that show how income inequality is related to age- adjusted mortality within the …
Macro‐to‐Micro Links in the Relation between Income Inequality and Mortality
A growing literature points to links between income inequality and mortality. Any examination of the link should distinguish, both theoretically and empirically, between shifts in inequality that result from changes in the bottom and top of the income distribution. When state‐level data from the U.S. censuses of 1980 and 1990 were used to measure differences in mortality, the results indicated that inequality measures reflecting depth of poverty …
Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood
BACKGROUND: Risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is higher among adults with limited education, and the less educated perform poorer on cognitive function tests. This study determines whether the socioeconomic environment experienced during childhood has an impact on cognitive functioning in middle age. METHODS: A population-based study of eastern Finnish men (n = 496) aged 58 and 64 for whom there were data on parent's socioeconomic position…
Ecological Analysis of Teen Birth Rates: Association with Community Income and Income Inequality
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: The Role of Health-Risk Behaviors
Epidemiologic evidence for the relation between socioeconomic status and depression, obesity, and diabetes
Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea
BACKGROUND: Economic changes can be powerful determinants of health. In the late 1990s, South Korea experienced a steep economic decline. This study examines whether the massive economic changes affected trends in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in South Korea. METHOD: Mid-year population estimates of 5 year age groups (denominators) and death certificate data (numerators) from the National Statistical Office of Korea were used to compute …
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
Race/Ethnicity, Life-Course Socioeconomic Position, and Body Weight Trajectories Over 34 years: The Alameda County Study
Objectives. We investigated whether race differences in weight gain over 34 years were because of socioeconomic position (SEP) and psychosocial and behavioral factors (physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, depression, marital status, number of children). We used a life-course approach to SEP with 4 measures of SEP (childhood SEP, education, occupation, income) and a cumulative measure of SEP. Methods. We used mixed models and…
Systematic Review of the Influence of Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances on Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in Adulthood
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1): Figure 1
This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators. The glossary is divided into two parts for journal publication but the intention is that it should be used as one piece. The second part highlights a life course approach and will be published in th…
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal)
Consistency between education reported in health survey and recorded in death certificate
Low percentage of missing information on education in South Korean death certificate data could provide a great potential to monitor mortality inequalities. A more collapsed categorization in education would be recommended when a more definitive conclusion on educational mortality inequality is required
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and across the life course and all-cause mortality and physical function in adulthood: Evidence from the Alameda County Study
Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 and 1994, the probability of functional limitation in 1994, and the combined probability of dying or experiencing functional limitation during this period. Setting, participants and design: Data were from the Alameda County Study (California) and pertained to people aged 17–94…
Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: It matters how you measure
Different methods of measuring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities may lead to different conclusions about whether relative inequalities are increasing or decreasing. Trends in ORs may overstate or understate trends in relative inequality in health when the outcome is of relatively high prevalence and that prevalence varies significantly with time
Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Gender, Adult Body Mass Index, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Over 34 Years in the Alameda County Study
Objectives. We examined the association between childhood socioeconomic position and incidence of type 2 diabetes and the effects of gender and adult body mass index (BMI). Methods. We studied 5913 participants in the Alameda County Study from 1965 to 1999 who were diabetes free at baseline (1965). Cox proportional hazards models estimated diabetes risk associated with childhood socioeconomic position and combined childhood socioeconomic position…
Global Variability in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: Relative an…
Can preschool improve child health outcomes? A systematic review
Inequalities in child healthy development: Some challenges for effective implementation
Life course socioeconomic position is associated with inflammatory markers: The Framingham Offspring Study
Associations of education with 30 year life course blood pressure trajectories: Framingham Offspring Study
Education was inversely associated with higher systolic blood pressure throughout a 30-year life course span, and associations may be stronger in females than males
Prenatal Prediction of Poor Maternal and Offspring Outcomes: Implications for Selection into Intensive Parent Support Programs
This study examined the predictive ability of mother's age, antenatal depression, education, financial difficulties, partner status, and smoking for a range of poor maternal and offspring outcomes assessed up to 61 months postnatally. Outcomes obtained from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) were maternal postnatal depression at 8 weeks (n = 10,070), never breastfeeding (n = 7,976), feelings of poor attachment (n = 8,253…
Medicine (33 works) · Demography (23 works) · Environmental health (23 works) · Population (20 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (19 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · Socioeconomic status (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works)