Roberto De Vogli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 370403 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roberto De Vogli |
| PRENOMES | Roberto |
| SOBRENOME | De Vogli |
| ASSINATURA | DE VOGLI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4708-1429 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Selective empathy and the genocide in Gaza
Genocide is one of the most extreme forms of global health crisis. The ongoing mass atrocities in Gaza have resulted in a sharp decline in life expectancy, the systematic destruction of healthcare infrastructure and the highest number of medical personnel killed in any conflict ever recorded. While multiple human rights organisations have recognised these conditions as genocide, major health and academic associations have responded inconsistently…
Beyond Neutrality, Normalization, and Complicity at Times of the Genocide
We have been witnessing the perpetuation of violent and cruel aggression against the Palestinian people by Israel. At the international level, there have been sparse individual or collective initiatives within the field of psychology to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza, yet the question of Palestine remains ambiguous, and the possible stance of psychology as a research field and scientific institution on the …
Wellbeing economy
Impact of the economic crisis on health-related behaviors in Italy
BACKGROUND: Evidence exists supporting the impact of the Great Recession on health-related behaviors internationally, though few studies are available concerning the Italian population. AIM: To assess the impact of the late 2000s economic crisis on health-related behaviors linked to population mental health in Italy. METHODS: Descriptive study. Health indicators came from the Italian Institute of Statistics database (years 2000-2015). Statistics …
Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Development
The causes and health effects of the Great Recession
In 2008, the world experienced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis is often described in relation to its proximal risk factors such as the proliferation of risky loans and mortgage-based securities, but the root causes of the Great Recession include distal risk factors such as indiscriminate capital flow, excessive financial deregulation, and high concentration of wealth in the top distribution. Ultimately, the crisi…
Progress or Collapse
Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming, polluting and growing as if there is no tomorrow. Indeed, there may not be one. In Progress or Collapse, Roberto De Vogli guides us through the multiple convergi…
Economic globalization, inequality and body mass index
This article investigates to what extent the worldwide increase in body mass index (BMI) has been affected by economic globalization and inequality. We used time-series and longitudinal cross-national analysis of 127 countries from 1980 to 2008. Data on mean adult BMI were obtained from the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group. Globalization was measured using the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) index of …
Excess suicides and attempted suicides in Italy attributable to the great recession
STING is a central protein for innate immune response to a wide range of microbial pathogens. Gain-of-function STING mutations cause systemic inflammation, lung disease and T cell cytopenia in humans and in mice, although the mechanism of disease is not known. Here, we found that SAVI mutation N154S induces chronic activation of ER stress and unfolded protein response (UPR), leading to spontaneous T cell death by apoptosis in the Sting N153S/+ mo…
Strong evidence that the economic crisis caused a rise in suicides in Europe
We are grateful for the interest our study has generated. Previous research reveals a sharp rise in suicides across Europe coinciding with the financial crisis,1 ,2 particularly in the worst-affected economies. In our recent short report we show a clear, statistically significant association of the economic crisis with the total number of suicides and suicide attempts due to economic reasons in Italy.3 One key advance of this study is that Italy'…
Organisational justice and cognitive function in middle-aged employees
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Perceived organisational justice was measured at phases 1 (1985-8) and 2 (1989-90) of the Whitehall II study when the participants were 35-55 years old. Assessment of cognitive function at the scr…
Globesization’
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the density of fast food restaurants and the prevalence of obesity by gender across affluent nations. Data on Subway's restaurants per 100,000 people and proportions of men and women aged 15 years or older with a body mass index higher or equal than 30 kg/m2 were obtained for 26 of 34 advanced economies. Countries with the highest density of Subway restaurants such as the USA (7.52…
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Neoliberal globalisation and health in a time of economic crisis
Health and human rights against the marketplace
Neighbourhood social environment and depressive symptoms in mid-life and beyond
This prospective study examines the relationship between aspects of the neighbourhood social environment and subsequent depressive symptoms in over 7,500 participants of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Neighbourhood social environment at baseline was operationalised using four items capturing social cohesion and three items capturing perceived safety and associations with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES…
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Adolescent smoking risk increases with wider income gaps between rich and poor
The G20 and the three global crises
The global economic crisis that started in 2007 in the USA plunged the entire world into a state of shock and is expected to significantly damage our future healthi.1 In the USA, some of the policy-makers that have contributed to the crisis by failing to adopt regulations of complex financial transactions2 such as Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin are now in charge of ‘cleaning up the mess’ in the Obama administration.3 So far, …
Social relationships at work and depression
There is a quite large body of evidence indicating that social relationships are important determinants of health.1 2 The benefits of social relationships have been observed in multiple settings, including the work environment,3 and they extend not only to physical health but also mental health.4 In this issue of JECH , Oksanen and colleagues show that distrustful, disrespectful and uncooperative social relationships at work are independent predi…
Advancing health equity in the global marketplace
The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) ascribed health disparities within and between countries to "a toxic combination of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics." This article analyzes the relevance of the international human rights framework (IHRF) to the Commission's goal of reducing health disparities with reference to both social scientific and legal scholarship. We begin with …
Organizational Justice and Sleeping Problems
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism. METHODS: Data were from the prospective Whitehall II study of white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 years at baseline). Age, employment grade, health behaviors, and depres…
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
Progress or Collapse
Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against limits of ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming, polluting and growing as if there is no tomorrow. Indeed, there may not be one. In Progress or Collapse, Roberto De Vogli guides us through multiple converging global crises…
Neoliberal globalisation and health in a time of economic crisis
Wellbeing economy
Unfairness and health
Objective: To examine the effects of unfairness on incident coronary events and health functioning. Design: Prospective cohort study. Unfairness, sociodemographics, established coronary risk factors (high serum cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption) and other psychosocial work characteristics (job strain, effort–reward imbalance and organisational justice) were measured at baseline. Associations between unf…
Advancing health equity in the global marketplace
The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) ascribed health disparities within and between countries to "a toxic combination of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics." This article analyzes the relevance of the international human rights framework (IHRF) to the Commission's goal of reducing health disparities with reference to both social scientific and legal scholarship. We begin with …
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure the association between income inequality and life ex…
Excess suicides and attempted suicides in Italy attributable to the great recession
STING is a central protein for innate immune response to a wide range of microbial pathogens. Gain-of-function STING mutations cause systemic inflammation, lung disease and T cell cytopenia in humans and in mice, although the mechanism of disease is not known. Here, we found that SAVI mutation N154S induces chronic activation of ER stress and unfolded protein response (UPR), leading to spontaneous T cell death by apoptosis in the Sting N153S/+ mo…
Neighbourhood social environment and depressive symptoms in mid-life and beyond
This prospective study examines the relationship between aspects of the neighbourhood social environment and subsequent depressive symptoms in over 7,500 participants of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Neighbourhood social environment at baseline was operationalised using four items capturing social cohesion and three items capturing perceived safety and associations with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES…
Parenting-Related Stressors and Self-Reported Mental Health of Mothers With Young Children
Objectives. We assessed whether there were associations between maternal mental health and individual and co-occurring parenting stressors related to social and financial factors and child health care access. Methods. We used cross-sectional data from the 2000 National Survey of Early Childhood Health. The 5-item Mental Health Inventory was used to measure self-reported mental health. Results. After we controlled for demographic covariates, we fo…
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Adolescent smoking risk increases with wider income gaps between rich and poor
Strong evidence that the economic crisis caused a rise in suicides in Europe
We are grateful for the interest our study has generated. Previous research reveals a sharp rise in suicides across Europe coinciding with the financial crisis,1 ,2 particularly in the worst-affected economies. In our recent short report we show a clear, statistically significant association of the economic crisis with the total number of suicides and suicide attempts due to economic reasons in Italy.3 One key advance of this study is that Italy'…
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Unemployment and smoking
Given that the data were cross sectional, firm conclusions cannot be drawn regarding the causal pathway connecting unemployment and smoking. However, this study suggests that psychosocial factors such as the inability to control and emotional isolation may be plausible mediators for the relationship
Has the relation between income inequality and life expectancy disappeared? Evidence from Italy and top industrialised countries
Objective: To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. Design and setting: Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure the association between income inequality and life ex…
Unfairness and health
Objective: To examine the effects of unfairness on incident coronary events and health functioning. Design: Prospective cohort study. Unfairness, sociodemographics, established coronary risk factors (high serum cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption) and other psychosocial work characteristics (job strain, effort–reward imbalance and organisational justice) were measured at baseline. Associations between unf…
Parenting-Related Stressors and Self-Reported Mental Health of Mothers With Young Children
Objectives. We assessed whether there were associations between maternal mental health and individual and co-occurring parenting stressors related to social and financial factors and child health care access. Methods. We used cross-sectional data from the 2000 National Survey of Early Childhood Health. The 5-item Mental Health Inventory was used to measure self-reported mental health. Results. After we controlled for demographic covariates, we fo…
Effects on Blood Pressure Do Not Explain the Association Between Organizational Justice and Coronary Heart Disease in the Whitehall II Study
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether lower BP mediates the inverse association between organizational justice and incident coronary heart disease (CHD). Previous studies suggest lower blood pressure (BP) and reduced risk of CHD among employees with high organizational justice (the perception of being treated fairly by supervisors). METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort study of 4250 men and 1812 women free of CHD and hypertension at study entry (the …
Relationship between job strain and smoking cessation
Smoking cessation may be less likely in workplaces with high strain and low control. Policies and programs addressing employee job strain and control might also contribute to the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions
Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities
Navarro, V. (ed.) Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities: consequences for health and quality of life . 2007 Amityville : Baywood Publishing 514 pp . $75 ISBN 978-0-89503-338-3 (hbk) $54 ISBN 978-0-89503-344-4 (pbk) Here is a collection of thought-provoking articles on the health effects of what is widely, wildly defined as neoliberalism or globalisation. In today's ‘better-dead-than-red’ culture, Navarro and colleagues look at our increas…
Organizational Justice and Sleeping Problems
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism. METHODS: Data were from the prospective Whitehall II study of white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 years at baseline). Age, employment grade, health behaviors, and depres…
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
Changes in income inequality and suicide rates after “shock therapy”
In the last decades, public policies at the global and national levels have been dominated by reforms aiming at international integration such as deregulation, privatisation, stabilisation and liberalisation.1 A particularly radical version of these reforms, often called economic “shock therapy”, has been implemented in Eastern Europe, on the advice of economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and institutions including the International Monetary Fund.2 T…
Physical and cognitive function in midlife
BACKGROUND: Cognitive and physical functions are closely linked in old age, but less is known about this association in midlife. Whether cognitive function predicts physical function and whether physical function predicts cognitive function were assessed in middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Data were from Whitehall II, an ongoing large-scale, prospective occupational cohort study of employees from 20 London-based white-collar Civil Service depa…
Adolescent smoking risk increases with wider income gaps between rich and poor
The G20 and the three global crises
The global economic crisis that started in 2007 in the USA plunged the entire world into a state of shock and is expected to significantly damage our future healthi.1 In the USA, some of the policy-makers that have contributed to the crisis by failing to adopt regulations of complex financial transactions2 such as Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin are now in charge of ‘cleaning up the mess’ in the Obama administration.3 So far, …
Social relationships at work and depression
There is a quite large body of evidence indicating that social relationships are important determinants of health.1 2 The benefits of social relationships have been observed in multiple settings, including the work environment,3 and they extend not only to physical health but also mental health.4 In this issue of JECH , Oksanen and colleagues show that distrustful, disrespectful and uncooperative social relationships at work are independent predi…
Advancing health equity in the global marketplace
The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) ascribed health disparities within and between countries to "a toxic combination of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics." This article analyzes the relevance of the international human rights framework (IHRF) to the Commission's goal of reducing health disparities with reference to both social scientific and legal scholarship. We begin with …
Globesization’
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the density of fast food restaurants and the prevalence of obesity by gender across affluent nations. Data on Subway's restaurants per 100,000 people and proportions of men and women aged 15 years or older with a body mass index higher or equal than 30 kg/m2 were obtained for 26 of 34 advanced economies. Countries with the highest density of Subway restaurants such as the USA (7.52…
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Neoliberal globalisation and health in a time of economic crisis
Health and human rights against the marketplace
Neighbourhood social environment and depressive symptoms in mid-life and beyond
This prospective study examines the relationship between aspects of the neighbourhood social environment and subsequent depressive symptoms in over 7,500 participants of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Neighbourhood social environment at baseline was operationalised using four items capturing social cohesion and three items capturing perceived safety and associations with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES…
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Organisational justice and cognitive function in middle-aged employees
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Perceived organisational justice was measured at phases 1 (1985-8) and 2 (1989-90) of the Whitehall II study when the participants were 35-55 years old. Assessment of cognitive function at the scr…
Progress or Collapse
Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming, polluting and growing as if there is no tomorrow. Indeed, there may not be one. In Progress or Collapse, Roberto De Vogli guides us through the multiple convergi…
Economic globalization, inequality and body mass index
This article investigates to what extent the worldwide increase in body mass index (BMI) has been affected by economic globalization and inequality. We used time-series and longitudinal cross-national analysis of 127 countries from 1980 to 2008. Data on mean adult BMI were obtained from the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group. Globalization was measured using the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) index of …
Excess suicides and attempted suicides in Italy attributable to the great recession
STING is a central protein for innate immune response to a wide range of microbial pathogens. Gain-of-function STING mutations cause systemic inflammation, lung disease and T cell cytopenia in humans and in mice, although the mechanism of disease is not known. Here, we found that SAVI mutation N154S induces chronic activation of ER stress and unfolded protein response (UPR), leading to spontaneous T cell death by apoptosis in the Sting N153S/+ mo…
Medicine (22 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (11 obras) · Psychiatry (11 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Demography (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras)