Christopher W N Saville
Biographic Data
| ID | 908889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W N Saville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W N |
| FAMILY NAME | Saville |
| SIGNATURE | SAVILLE C W N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4870-7630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Close a pit, kill a community
BACKGROUND: Deaths of despair (suicide, drug poisoning, alcohol-specific mortality) have been framed either as demand-side phenomena driven by social and economic dislocation or as driven by supply-side changes in access to harmful substances. We assess these explanations in England and Wales by testing whether deaths of despair are higher in places shaped by historical coal mining and whether any association persists beyond current deprivation. …
Born in the USA? A scoping review of deaths of despair research beyond the United States
BACKGROUND: The concept of 'deaths of despair', initially developed to explain rising midlife mortality among non-Hispanic white Americans, has gained traction globally. However, its applicability and conceptual relevance beyond the United States, where it originated, remain emerging areas of research. This scoping review maps the international use of the concept, examining its geographical reach, methodological approaches, and conceptual adaptat…
Industrial legacies
BACKGROUND: Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is important to understand the health consequences of deindustrialisation to help us prevent the long-term health legacies we see in postindustrial communities. This paper presents the case of mental health on the Welsh coalfields as an example of how these health legacies can manifest. METHODS: Data on 180 462 respondents to the…
Coal to swole
Covid and the common good
Vaccination is a social act, where benefits spill-over to third parties. How we approach such social decisions is influenced by whether likely beneficiaries share salient social identities with us. This study explores these dynamics using representative survey data from two contexts: national identity groups in Wales (N = 4187) and political partisans in America (N = 4864). In both cases, those in the minority in their local area were less likely…
Covid and the coalfield
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class
The presence of a class density association with mental health for cultural capital but not economic capital suggests that symbolic signifiers of class, more than material aspects, activate class identities and drive group density phenomena. There are implications for planning policy, mental health, and political leadership
Health and Mental Health Disparities Between National Identity Groups in Wales
Despite close links with ethnic identity and other health-relevant identities, there is surprisingly little work on national identity in the context of population health. National identity is particularly important in multi-national states, where national identity is contested and where different nationalities often reflect both distinct ethnic groups and competing civic visions of national boundaries. The present study examines health disparitie…
Not belonging where others do
Background Social capital may be a social good in health terms, but it is not necessarily a universal good. Several studies have shown that while there is a positive association between ecological social capital and health in people with high individual-level social capital, this relationship is weaker or even reversed in those with low individual-level social capital. Such studies, however, have used relatively coarse levels of geography for qua…
Ecological social capital does not predict geographical variance in increases in depression following the 2008 financial crisis
Research suggests that the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath were associated with an increase in mental health problems, but there has been little research into potential protective factors. Ecological social capital is a plausible candidate given evidence of its protective status following natural disasters. Pre‐crisis area‐level estimates of generalized trust and sense of belonging were computed from the 2004 to 2006 waves of the Livin…
Dissociating Slow Responses From Slow Responding
Increased Intra-Subject Variability (ISV) is a candidate endophenotype of ADHD. ISV's relationship with response speed is highly relevant for ADHD as patients are highly variable but typically no slower than controls. This brief report addresses the relationship between variability and speed by employing dimensional analyses for differentiated performance measures, with a particular focus on the ex-Gaussian measures, across relevant ADHD studies …
Residential churn moderates the relationship between economic deprivation and psychiatric admission
Background There is a well-established link between area-level socioeconomic deprivation and psychiatric admission rates. Social capital has been proposed as a possible protective factor that may buffer economically deprived communities, but it may be disrupted in areas with high population turnover. This study aims to test whether population turnover, hereafter called churn, moderates the social gradient of psychiatric admissions. Methods Popula…
Mental health consequences of minority political positions
Estimating ecological social capital using multi-level regression with post-stratification
Mental health consequences of minority political positions
Estimating ecological social capital using multi-level regression with post-stratification
Covid and the coalfield
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
Not belonging where others do
Background Social capital may be a social good in health terms, but it is not necessarily a universal good. Several studies have shown that while there is a positive association between ecological social capital and health in people with high individual-level social capital, this relationship is weaker or even reversed in those with low individual-level social capital. Such studies, however, have used relatively coarse levels of geography for qua…
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Ecological social capital does not predict geographical variance in increases in depression following the 2008 financial crisis
Research suggests that the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath were associated with an increase in mental health problems, but there has been little research into potential protective factors. Ecological social capital is a plausible candidate given evidence of its protective status following natural disasters. Pre‐crisis area‐level estimates of generalized trust and sense of belonging were computed from the 2004 to 2006 waves of the Livin…
Industrial legacies
BACKGROUND: Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is important to understand the health consequences of deindustrialisation to help us prevent the long-term health legacies we see in postindustrial communities. This paper presents the case of mental health on the Welsh coalfields as an example of how these health legacies can manifest. METHODS: Data on 180 462 respondents to the…
Coal to swole
Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class
The presence of a class density association with mental health for cultural capital but not economic capital suggests that symbolic signifiers of class, more than material aspects, activate class identities and drive group density phenomena. There are implications for planning policy, mental health, and political leadership
Estimating ecological social capital using multi-level regression with post-stratification
Dissociating Slow Responses From Slow Responding
Increased Intra-Subject Variability (ISV) is a candidate endophenotype of ADHD. ISV's relationship with response speed is highly relevant for ADHD as patients are highly variable but typically no slower than controls. This brief report addresses the relationship between variability and speed by employing dimensional analyses for differentiated performance measures, with a particular focus on the ex-Gaussian measures, across relevant ADHD studies …
Residential churn moderates the relationship between economic deprivation and psychiatric admission
Background There is a well-established link between area-level socioeconomic deprivation and psychiatric admission rates. Social capital has been proposed as a possible protective factor that may buffer economically deprived communities, but it may be disrupted in areas with high population turnover. This study aims to test whether population turnover, hereafter called churn, moderates the social gradient of psychiatric admissions. Methods Popula…
Mental health consequences of minority political positions
Health and Mental Health Disparities Between National Identity Groups in Wales
Despite close links with ethnic identity and other health-relevant identities, there is surprisingly little work on national identity in the context of population health. National identity is particularly important in multi-national states, where national identity is contested and where different nationalities often reflect both distinct ethnic groups and competing civic visions of national boundaries. The present study examines health disparitie…
Not belonging where others do
Background Social capital may be a social good in health terms, but it is not necessarily a universal good. Several studies have shown that while there is a positive association between ecological social capital and health in people with high individual-level social capital, this relationship is weaker or even reversed in those with low individual-level social capital. Such studies, however, have used relatively coarse levels of geography for qua…
Ecological social capital does not predict geographical variance in increases in depression following the 2008 financial crisis
Research suggests that the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath were associated with an increase in mental health problems, but there has been little research into potential protective factors. Ecological social capital is a plausible candidate given evidence of its protective status following natural disasters. Pre‐crisis area‐level estimates of generalized trust and sense of belonging were computed from the 2004 to 2006 waves of the Livin…
Social capital and geographical variation in the incidence of Covid-19
BACKGROUND: The new behavioural norms needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are likely scaffolded by social capital. Research on social capital and COVID-19 has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding it to be protective while others identifying it as a risk factor. We examined the association between social capital and COVID-19 at a finer spatial scale than previous research, and examined changes in the relationship over the course of…
Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class
The presence of a class density association with mental health for cultural capital but not economic capital suggests that symbolic signifiers of class, more than material aspects, activate class identities and drive group density phenomena. There are implications for planning policy, mental health, and political leadership
Covid and the coalfield
The legacy of coal-mining's decline presents barriers to public health campaigns. We show evidence of this across two historically significant coalfields. Attention is needed to avert negative public health consequences of global energy transition
Covid and the common good
Vaccination is a social act, where benefits spill-over to third parties. How we approach such social decisions is influenced by whether likely beneficiaries share salient social identities with us. This study explores these dynamics using representative survey data from two contexts: national identity groups in Wales (N = 4187) and political partisans in America (N = 4864). In both cases, those in the minority in their local area were less likely…
Coal to swole
Close a pit, kill a community
BACKGROUND: Deaths of despair (suicide, drug poisoning, alcohol-specific mortality) have been framed either as demand-side phenomena driven by social and economic dislocation or as driven by supply-side changes in access to harmful substances. We assess these explanations in England and Wales by testing whether deaths of despair are higher in places shaped by historical coal mining and whether any association persists beyond current deprivation. …
Born in the USA? A scoping review of deaths of despair research beyond the United States
BACKGROUND: The concept of 'deaths of despair', initially developed to explain rising midlife mortality among non-Hispanic white Americans, has gained traction globally. However, its applicability and conceptual relevance beyond the United States, where it originated, remain emerging areas of research. This scoping review maps the international use of the concept, examining its geographical reach, methodological approaches, and conceptual adaptat…
Industrial legacies
BACKGROUND: Future economic transitions have the potential to replicate historical patterns of deindustrialisation. It is important to understand the health consequences of deindustrialisation to help us prevent the long-term health legacies we see in postindustrial communities. This paper presents the case of mental health on the Welsh coalfields as an example of how these health legacies can manifest. METHODS: Data on 180 462 respondents to the…
Medicine (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)